{"id":1291,"date":"2018-06-19T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/defenddignity.ca\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2018-06-19T15:10:07","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T19:10:07","slug":"myth-busting-about-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defenddignity.ca\/myth-busting-about-prostitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Myth busting about Prostitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

In March, staff from Defend Dignity attended the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights. We heard some things, caught a sniff as to which way the wind is blowing and in response here are some myths we\u2019d like to break:<\/p>\n

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  1. \u201cCanada\u2019s current prostitution laws make sex-workers unsafe.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    In Canada, Bill C-36 has revamped prostitution laws, making it illegal to purchase sexual services but legal to sell them. It follows the \u201cNordic Model\u201d of justice.<\/p>\n

    In hundreds of conversations with survivors, Defend Dignity staff and volunteers have been told: \u201cthe guys buying sex\u201d make situations unsafe.<\/p>\n

    Modern pornography (the violence, denigrating nature of it and unlimited digital access to it),\u00a0 access to erectile dysfunction drugs* and a growing populace struggling with mental health and drug addictions** could all contribute to how unsafe sex work has become.<\/p>\n

    *https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/theobserver\/2008\/feb\/24\/controversiesinscience<\/p>\n

    **http:\/\/www.statcan.gc.ca\/pub\/82-624-x\/2013001\/article\/11855-eng.htm<\/p>\n

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    1. \u201cPolice don\u2019t have the resources to shut down buy sex sites.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Further to point 1. above, it is illegal to purchase sexual services. Recently BackPage.com<\/a> was shut down. That site linked buyer and seller.\u00a0 The site was illegal \u2014 as third parties were using it to advertise. (Individual sex workers can advertise while brothels, \u2018massage\u2019 parlours and pimps can not.)<\/p>\n

      Of the site shut down, Canadian law enforcement officers were heard saying: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter how many buy sex websites get shut down. They are like the head of Medusa, another three will spring up for each one cut off.\u201d\u00a0 And\/or: \u201cShutting down Backpage results in driving sex work underground.\u201d<\/p>\n

      Like any other industry, buyers have to be able to easily find the product, in this case: sex. It\u2019s not that far \u201cunderground.\u201d A quick search reveals other sites doing the same work of selling sex. Here\u2019s the thing: the same technology and investigatory processes used in I.C.E. investigations can be used to find and aid government in shutting down sex-for-sale sites.<\/p>\n

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      1. \u201cGermany legalized prostitution. It\u2019s going so well.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        No. No, it is not. Germany\u2019s Der Spiegl<\/em> newspaper did a six part series on Germany\u2019s prostitution trade after legalization and found that sex workers weren\u2019t registering and (generally) were not making viable living wages, human traffickers were very ept at using the system to make millions and disappear more victims and sex workers were more unsafe as competition in the industry goes unregulated and they are pushed to do more (read: demeaning and unsafe acts) to draw business.<\/p>\n

        \u201cHas Germany’s prostitution law improved the situation\u2026Five years after it was introduced, the Family Ministry evaluated what the new legislation had achieved. The report states that the objectives were “only partially achieved,” and that deregulation had “not brought about any measurable actual improvement in the social coverage of prostitutes.” Neither working conditions nor the ability to exit the profession had improved. Finally, there was “no solid proof to date” that the law had reduced crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

        Source: http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/human-trafficking-persists-despite-legality-of-prostitution-in-germany-a-902533-2.html<\/a><\/p>\n

        This isn\u2019t moralizing. This is what we know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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