Detroit Adult Entertainment: Prostitution laws endanger lives of sex-trade workers, former escort says
February 10, 2010 at 2:49 am | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsWINDSOR, Ont. â Former escort Valerie Scott has a message for those who believe prostitution should be criminal on moral grounds: Get over it.
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Last fall, Scott and Bedford, represented by Young, launched a constitutional challenge of Canada’s prostitution laws, arguing that the laws deny the security and liberty of those in the sex trade.
Exchanging money for sex is not illegal in Canada. However, doing so in a fixed location is illegal â the offence of running a bawdy house. It’s also illegal to communicate in public for the purposes of prostitution.
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According to Young, criminal law is a “blunt instrument” that is too cumbersome to deal with a social issue such as prostitution. “If you want to solve problems in the sex trade, you don’t use criminal law.”
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