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Canadian Sex Workers Are Speaking Out Against The Conservatives’ Prostitution Law

By Ishmael N. Daro

Half a year after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the country’s prostitution laws as unconstitutional for failing to protect sex workers, the Conservative government is set to pass new legislation that will probably make the problem worse.

The previous laws allowed sex work but criminalized brothels, communicating in public with clients, and “living on the avails” of prostitution—a clause targeting pimps and other third parties. The court ruled that such restrictions jeopardized the safety of sex workers by denying them the ability to work indoors, properly vet their clients, and hire drivers and bodyguards.

And so we have Bill C-36, wrapping up marathon hearings at the House of Commons justice committee this week. The proposed legislation makes it legal to sell but not to buy sex, and is broadly based on the “Nordic model” pioneered in Sweden, which many view as a compromise that respects sex workers while still recognizing prostitution as an inherently exploitative industry that harms women.

The problem, though, is that many sex workers hate the bill. In addition to targeting purchasers of sex, C-36 also bans most advertising for sexual services and working anywhere “where persons under the age of 18 can reasonably be expected to be present.” That effectively forces prostitution into less populated, isolated parts of town where sex workers are more at risk.

Jean McDonald, executive director of the Toronto sex workers advocacy group Maggie’s, says the government’s approach is one that “sees all prostitutes as damaged, as victims, and all sex work as ‘violence against women.’”

“Social inequalities abound in all industries, but we don’t (attempt to) abolish those industries—we need to address the social inequalities at their root,” McDonald told VICE in an email this week, shortly after speaking to the justice committee.

Maggie’s is an organization comprising sex workers of all stripes, from strippers and massage workers, to porn actors, escorts, and street-based sex workers. McDonald says that in her experience, there is nothing inherently violent about prostitution, but other social ills like sexism, racism, transphobia, and poverty lead to violence against people in the industry who are marginalized and stigmatized for their work. Being treated only as victims further increases that stigma, she said.

To be fair, there have been gut-wrenching stories from former prostitutes this week in Ottawa from women who were trafficked, beaten, tortured, and raped for years before finding a way out. But from a practical standpoint, those are already crimes, and it’s unclear what Bill C-36 would do to prevent such exploitation.

In fact, by pushing street-based sex workers further to the margins, the law would probably increase the likelihood of violence and coercion. Those were the findings of a recent study in Vancouver, where police have been following a Nordic approach to prostitution for almost two years.

"The general public doesn't really understand how sex workers screen clients and how important it is,” a Toronto sex worker who goes by Andrea told VICE in a phone interview this week.

Andrea, like many sex workers, advertises her services online and does significant groundwork before anything sexual ever happens. She asks for references from other sex workers to learn if the experience was safe and whether that previous provider would see the client again. And if it’s someone’s first time, Andrea asks for a real name, work information, and a cellphone number, taking the time to meet in a public location like a coffee shop or hotel lobby, just to suss things out.

But she calls Bill C-36 “a gift to predators” because many safe clients would be scared away by the new law.

"If clients are worried about being criminalized then they're not going to give me any information,” she said. “They won't give me a reference because that's admitting to committing a crime, and they won't want to give me their real names."

The proposed law would also make her less likely to call police if anything goes wrong, she said.

“Because my indoor location is where I work, so if I suddenly reveal my working location to the police they'll be able to stake it out and find out all my clients and just arrest them,” she said. "People don't realize the way sex workers operate so it's hard for the general public to understand how these laws will affect the work."

Now in her late 20s, Andrea has been a sex worker for five years and says the stereotypes about her line of work are maddening. She says most of the time she's sitting at home in her pyjamas responding to emails, doing laundry or other mundane tasks. She enjoys her job but it’s just that: a job.

Another young woman in Toronto, who goes by Olivia, echoed that sentiment. She worked with an agency and later at massage parlours before “going indie” and doing her own advertising.

“I got started [doing sex work] after I had worked a square job which paid me slave wages. $300 was considered a good weekly salary,” Olivia wrote in an email to VICE. “Now I make that in an hour.”

She, too, was shocked by the government’s restrictive prostitution bill, especially since many people expected the Supreme Court decision to be followed by decriminalization of the sex industry. Instead, the Conservatives are hell-bent on trying to end prostitution, as Justice Minister Peter MacKay has said, even though historically that’s been a losing battle for anyone who’s attempted it.

Both women said they were not out as sex workers, although close friends and family know and are fine with it.

“I don't really want to out myself because I have a school life, I have a personal life,” Olivia said. “Otherwise I would readily have stood up before Parliament as #notyourrescueproject.”

The Supreme Court gave the federal government a year to replace the old prostitution laws, and the Conservatives have taken up that challenge with gusto. Unfortunately, they are relying on cheap moralism rather than the advice of legal experts and current sex workers, most of whom prefer decriminalization of the sex industry based on New Zealand’s example.

It’s also not clear the general public will agree with the government’s approach. The government commissioned a public opinion poll earlier this year that costed $175,000, but the results won’t be made available until the end of July, a Justice Canada spokesperson told VICE. By then, C-36 could already be the law of the land, even if most Canadians told the government they disagreed with the legislation’s aims.

Jean Mcdonald of Maggie’s says the government’s urgency to pass a flawed bill is political.

“In my opinion, the Conservative government wants to push through this bill in order to secure support from their Evangelical base and their social conservative supporters prior to the next election,” she said. “They are doing this at the cost of sex workers lives and well-being. This bill will not protect sex workers, nor does it recognize their humanity.”

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/bill-c-3 ... saster-300

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Gunilla Ekberg, eine der Hauptschudigen am schwedischen Kundenbestrafungsgesetz, spricht sich gegen den kanadischen Gesetzentwurf aus: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/prostit ... -1.2700922

Natürlich nicht weil sie Sexarbeit etwa entkriminalisieren wollte, weit gefehlt...

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Sexworkers left Out of Canadian Govements C-36 Discussions

SexarbeiterInnen würde aus der Diskussion über das Neue Prostitutionsgesetz C-36 ausgeschlossen.

http://www.nswp.org/news-story/sex-work ... iscussions

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/terri-j ... -1.2761325



Terri-Jean Bedford kicked out of prostitution bill meeting

Sex worker who won Supreme Court challenge claims to know of federal politicians who use prostitutes

By Kady O'Malley, CBC News Posted: Sep 10, 2014 7:58 AM ET| Last Updated: Sep 10, 2014 3:38 PM ET





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Retired dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford has been escorted by security out of a Senate committee meeting after refusing to heed the chair's warning that her allotted speaking time had run out.

The woman who won a Supreme Court challenge to Canada's prostitution laws issued a threat on her way out the door.

"If you pass this bill, I'm going to make you forget about Mike Duffy," she said.




Bedford was supposed to share her thoughts on the Conservative government's response to last spring's landmark Supreme Court decision.

But, less than halfway through the hour-long panel, Bedford was ejected from the meeting.

Outside East Block, surrounded by reporters, she repeated her pledge, and reiterated her opposition to the government's proposed prostitution bill rewrite.

"They're on the attack against strong, independent women who can think for themselves," she said.

Asked whether she knew of any current MPs or senators who use sex workers, Bedford said, "What do you think?"

"I'm not going to answer any more stupid questions."

'Fundamentally flawed bill'

Bedford, one of the three applicants behind the legal challenge that brought down Canada's prostitution laws last December, was testifying before the Senate legal and constitutional affairs committee on Wednesday afternoon.

Her co-appellant, Valerie Scott, also appeared before the committee on Wednesday, although not as part of the same witness panel. Scott is the legal co-ordinator for Sex Professionals of Canada.

Although Scott and Amy Lebovitch, who was also part of the challenge, testified before the House justice committee in July, Bedford did not.

She did, however, follow those hearings closely, according to her blog, and predicts that the proposed law will ultimately fail in court, even after it was amended to narrow the ban on public communications to cover only areas in the vicinity of schoolyards, daycares and playgrounds.

"Changes to or removal of clauses from a fundamentally flawed bill are irrelevant," she wrote in July.

"It is flawed in its intent. It will be flawed in its implementation. It is flawed as to whether it is itself legal or constitutional. It is flawed in that it will make things worse for women. Its passage will be a victory for human traffickers and organized crime."

Another court challenge could take years

It could take up to a decade to get a final Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the government's prostitution bill, according to criminal defence lawyer Graeme Hamilton.

Hamilton was one of several lawyers to testify before the Senate committee Wednesday morning.


■Tuesday's testimony: Peter MacKay insists new prostitution bill will protect sex workers
■Male escort among witnesses as Senate begins review
■Tories agree to narrow ban on 'public communication'

He pointed out that the Bedford case required 25,000 pages of evidence, and predicted that it could take several years to collect a similar dossier to challenge the new law, if passed.

The estimate came during an exchange with Liberal Senator George Baker, who also quizzed justice officials about the constitutionality of the bill.

Senators heard from a panel of former sex workers turned anti-prostitution activists, several of whom shared their personal stories of what, by their accounts, amounted to under-age sex slavery.

Although strongly supportive of the bill, the "survivors," as they call themselves, have also called for further amendments to remove all provisions that would criminalize sex workers themselves.

The hearings are scheduled to wrap up on Thursday afternoon.

The bill is currently awaiting final House approval, and is expected to be officially referred to the Senate later this fall.

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http://globalnews.ca/news/1556287/bedfo ... ution-law/

Canada’s ‘most famous dominatrix’ booted from prostitution-law hearings

By Stephanie Levitz The Canadian Press


Dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford prepares to testify at the Senate committee looking into the Conservative government's prostitution bill, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday September 10, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand

Dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford prepares to testify at the Senate committee looking into the Conservative government's prostitution bill, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday September 10, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Fred Chartrand



OTTAWA – The controversial, leather-clad woman at the heart of the effort to rewrite Canada’s prostitution laws delivered an unexpected whip-crack of drama Wednesday among the buttoned-down senators examining Bill C-36.


Terri-Jean Bedford, who calls herself “the most famous dominatrix in Canada,” was tossed out of Senate hearings on the legislation after exhausting the patience of Conservative committee chair Sen. Bob Runciman.

Bedford was one of three sex workers who successfully challenged the original law before the Supreme Court on the grounds that it violated their Charter right to security of the person.

The high court gave the government a year to come up with an alternative.That alternative is Bill C-36, which treats prostitutes as victims, seeking to protect them from almost all criminal prosecution except in circumstances where they are selling sex near a daycare, playground or school.

The bill instead targets pimps and johns, as well as other who profit or trade in sex on an exploitative basis.

Supporters of the bill agree with that narrative, arguing that those in the sex trade are forced into it by systematic issues of poverty, racism and sexism and deserve protection from the law.

And they agree that going after those who are the instigators of the sex trade is a way to better protect those women.

Bedford, however, is not among them – and she made that abundantly clear Wednesday.

It’s not the purview of the government to tell women when or how they can or cannot sell sex, she argued, whip in hand, as she threatened to expose politicians who supposedly avail themselves of the world’s oldest profession.

“If this law passes I’m going to make you guys forget about Mike Duffy, because I’ve got more information and more proof on politicians in this country than you can shake a stick at, I promise,” she said.

When asked by Liberal Sen. Serge Joyal how the new law might affect her work, Bedford appeared to opt for a show of force.

She cracked her whip on the desk and said the new law would ensure she was back before government in 10 years, arguing the issue anew.

It’s a point of view echoed by other opponents of the bill, who say that as written, C-36 does little other than create greater dangers for women.

Provisions in the bill against advertising sexual services and any element of criminalization of the sex trade will further push women down back alleys, they argue.

Throughout committee hearings by both the House of Commons and the Senate, some have complained that the concerns of those opposed
to the bill have received short shrift compared to those who support it.

Bedford said as much Wednesday as she tried to describe how much the court challenge has cost her personally. At one point, with her
allotted time running down, Runciman tried to remind her that she needed to wrap up.

“You have given lots of other people lots of time,” she complained.

“I have 30 years of your abusive laws, so I should be allowed at least an extra five minutes to talk about it. You pet everybody else on the back but when you know I’ve got a bombshell to deliver, you want to try and avoid me at all costs.”

Runciman asked Bedford to respect the rules of the committee, saying if she didn’t, he’d suspend the meeting and have her escorted out.

Bedford pressed on, so Runciman banged the gavel to end the hearing. Bedford was escorted out by security.

Later, speaking to reporters outside, she said the government feels threatened by the demise of the old law, which she said was “custom-designed to hurt, maim and kill women who don’t want to have sex for free.”

“They want to do it again and they want to make matters worse. So, yes – they are on the attack against strong, independent women who can think for themselves.”

The incident was the latest in a series of emotional days before both the Senate and the Commons committee studying the bill.

The issue has show a deep divide among advocates in the sex trade about whether it is work taken on by choice or by circumstance and what the role of the government ought to be in either situation.

France Mahon, who was a law student working with Bedford at the time of the case but is now a lawyer, urged the Senate to see it as an issue of workers’ rights, not women’s rights.

The debate is about the human rights of women facing extreme desperation, Megan Walker, the executive director of the London Abused Women’s centre, said during earlier testimony.

“It is their human rights that need protecting it has always been the human rights of those who are forgotten, those who are silenced that need protecting,” she testified.

“Human rights are not granted exclusively to those who have the loudest voice in the room.”

A third and final day of hearings is scheduled for Thursday.

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Dominatrix expelled from Senate hearing after mentioning ‘proof on politicians’

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014 ... noRedirect

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Eine Domina macht Politik

Von Alexander U. Mathé

Die Überarbeitung des kanadischen Prostitutionsgesetzes sorgt für Wirbel.

Terri-Jean Bedford peitschte Menschen und demütigte sie. Das war ihr Job. Denn die 55-Jährige war eine Domina - die "berühmteste von Kanada", wie sie sich gerne apostrophiert. Inzwischen hat sie sich aus dem Beruf zurückgezogen. Doch dass sie nach wie vor ordentlich austeilen kann, hat sie erst vor kurzem wieder bewiesen. Denn die von der konservativen Regierung vorgeschlagene Änderung des Prostitutionsgesetzes gefällt ihr gar nicht. Als Expertin wurde sie vor den zuständigen Senatsausschuss geladen, um zu dem Regelwerk Stellung zu beziehen. Sie erschien in Lederkluft und mit Reitgerte und sagte: "Sollte dieses Gesetz durchgehen, werde ich dafür sorgen, dass das, was dann kommt, Mike Duffy in den Schatten stellt." Duffy ist ein Skandal-Senator, der suspendiert wurde und wegen dutzender Straftaten angeklagt ist. Wie sie das anstellen will, sagte sie auch gleich: "Ich habe Unmengen an Informationen und Beweisen über Politiker in diesem Land", feixte Bedford, bevor sie von der Wache aus dem Saal eskortiert wurde. Mit Spannung wartet die Öffentlichkeit nun auf das, was als Nächstes passiert. Denn Bedford ist in Sachen Prostitutionsgesetz nicht nur eine verbissene Kämpferin, sondern auch so eine Art Koryphäe. Sie war es nämlich, die in erster Linie dafür gesorgt hat, dass die geltende Regelung überhaupt überarbeitet werden muss.



Prostitution ist in Kanada grundsätzlich erlaubt. Allerdings sind bestimmte damit in Verbindung stehende Tätigkeiten verboten: Ein Bordellverbot soll sicherstellen, dass Prostituierte nicht von einem festen Ort aus ihre Dienste anbieten. Um Zuhälterei zu verhindern, ist es verboten, seinen Unterhalt mit Prostitution zu verdienen. Und überhaupt ist die öffentliche Kommunikation zur Anbahnung von Prostitution verboten, damit Prostituierte ihre Dienste nicht auf der Straße anbieten. Bedford fand, dass das gegen die kanadischen Grundrechte verstößt. Sie beschloss, mit zwei Arbeitskolleginnen gegen das Gesetz zu klagen - mit Erfolg. Der Oberste Gerichtshof entschied im Dezember 2013 einstimmig, dass das Prostitutionsgesetz verfassungswidrig ist. Es verletze das Recht auf Sicherheit der Liebesdienerinnen, da es sie zwingt, im Verborgenen zu arbeiten. Die Höchstrichter setzten dem Parlament eine Frist von einem Jahr, das Regelwerk zu reparieren. Der Vorschlag ist nun, an der anderen Seite anzusetzen und Freier zu kriminalisieren. Doch das war es nicht, was Bedford im Sinne hatte, als sie gegen das Gesetz klagte: "Änderungen oder Streichungen von Klauseln eines grundsätzlich fehlerhaften Gesetzes sind irrelevant." Sie fordert vielmehr eine weit ausgelegte Legalisierung und ein fundamental neues Gesetz. Und wer weiß: Vielleicht hilft ihr ja so mancher Ex-Kunde dabei, das zu erreichen, was sie will.


http://www.wienerzeitung.at/meinungen/k ... litik.html

Mein allergrößte Respekt vor Terri-Jean Bedford.
Trotz ihre kurze Rededauer, den man ihr auch noch abwürgen wollte, hat sie in paar Sätzen es genaue auf den Punkt gebracht. Wo andere (ich verfolge die Debatte seit Monaten in der Life -Übertragung, nur rum lamentiert haben.

Mit Außnahme der canadische Sexworker Anwältin Katrina Pacey. Wo ich mir in Deutschland eine solche Juristin wünsche, die uns unterstützt im Kampf um unsere Rechte.

http://www.pivotlegal.org/canada_v_bedf ... ada_ruling

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The Dominatrix and the Ghastly Con Senators

http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca/2014/0 ... ators.html

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Bedford lawyer Alan Young, police brief senators on prostitution bill
Canadian Police Association also slated to testify as Senate pre-study wraps up



http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bedford ... -1.2769152


Alan Young, one of the main lawyers behind retired dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford's decade-long battle to overturn Canada's prostitution laws, will get the chance to tell a Senate committee what he thinks of the government's proposed rewrite this afternoon.

Watch the hearing live at the top of this page and follow Kady O'Malley's live blog coverage of the hearing.

In an interview with CBC News last month, Young warned opponents of the proposed new law that they may have to be patient in waiting for the right moment to launch a legal challenge.

"It's a lot trickier than people think," he told CBC News.

"There are a lot of people jumping up and down, and saying that it's unconstitutional, and will lead to worse results, but the government was fairly tricky in terms of how they designed it, by at least nominally addressing the Supreme Court concerns, and then grafting on an advocacy concern from a certain abolitionist group."
Terri-Jean Bedford and Alan Young

Osgoode Hall law professor Alan Young, who helped Terri-Jean Bedford, left, steer her legal challenge through the Supreme Court, will testify at the Senate legal and constitutional affairs committee Wednesday afternoon. (Aaron Vincent Elkaim/Canadian Press)

The reality, he said, "is that what they were left with is basically incoherent — but people who think you're just going to run back to the Supreme Court and get this invalidated don't understand the process."

Like other witnesses who testified before the Senate committee last week, Young predicted that it could take years to successfully shepherd a new challenge through the courts, something he'll almost certainly be asked about during today's hearing.
Police association president also set to testify

His former client made a brief, but memorable appearance during last week's hearings as well.

Midway through her one-hour speaking slot, Bedford was ejected from the committee room after she refused to stop talking on the order of the chair.

Even so, she managed to deliver a not so veiled threat to politicians.

Terri-Jean Bedford kicked out of prostitution bill hearing
Read CBC's interview with escort Maxime Durocher here
MacKay's justice roundtables didn't set a place for sex workers

"If this law passes, I'm going to make you guys forget about (suspended senator) Mike Duffy," she told senators before being removed by security.

"Because I got more information and proof on politicians in this country than you can shake a stick at. I promise."

The committee will also hear from Canadian Police Association President Tom Stamatakis and lawyer Georgialee Lang, who both appeared before the House committee in July.

The Senate committee is scheduled to wrap up its pre-study after hearing from Wednesday's final panel of witnesses.

The bill is currently awaiting final approval of the House, which will likely happen early next week.

Senators have already suggested that they'll hold more hearings once the legislation is officially referred to the committee.

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http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/201 ... law-video/

Drei gute gründe warum c36 nicht funktionieren wird.

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HUREN LAUFEN STURM
Neue Sex-Gesetz für Kanada: Ist Prostitution bald illegal?

Prostitution könnte einem Gesetzentwurf nach in Kanada schon bald illegal sein.

Ist gekaufter Sex in Kanada bald verboten?

Das kanadische Parlament diskutiert derzeit über ein neues Gesetz, das zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte des Landes die Prostitution verbieten soll.

Eine Entscheidung muss auf Weisung des Obersten Gerichtshofes des Landes noch vor Weihnachten fallen. Bestraft werden sollen nach dem Gesetzesvorschlag nur die Freier, nicht die Prostituierten.

Der Gesetzesvorschlag wird durchaus kontrovers diskutiert, gerade die Prostituierten laufen Sturm: „Kanada wird zur Lachnummer der Welt! Wo kann man etwas legalerweise verkaufen, aber nicht legal kaufen?“, hatte Ex-Domina Terri-Jean Bedford, Kanadas bekannteste Prostituierte, bereits im September bei einer Anhörung in einem Senatsausschuss gesagt.

Terri Jean Bedford zeigt sich kritisch gegenüber dem angestrebten Sex-Gesetz in Kanada.
Terri Jean Bedford zeigt sich kritisch gegenüber dem angestrebten Sex-Gesetz in Kanada.
Foto: dpa
Ex-Prostituierte droht mit Politiker-Enthüllung

Und sie ging noch weiter und sorgte für einen Eklat im Parlament: Bedford drohte, eine Liste der Politiker zu veröffentlichen, die alle ihre Dienste in Anspruch genommen hätten.

So wolle sie die Scheinheiligkeit der Parlamentarier entlarven, die mit der Abstimmung für das Gesetz für die eigene Kriminalisierung votierten. Dabei überschritt die Ex-Domina ihre Redezeit und musste schließlich von Sicherheitsleuten aus dem Saal eskortiert werden.

Den kanadischen Konservativen zufolge soll das Gesetz die Prostitution eindämmen. „Wenn der kleine Anteil von Leuten, die behaupten, aus freier Entscheidung Prostitution als ihren Beruf zu wählen, dies durch das Gesetz nicht mehr tun können, ist das die notwendige Folge davon, dass die übergroße Mehrheit geschützt wird, die durch Prostitution ausgebeutet werden“, sagte die konservative Senatorin Denise Batters.

Julie Grant von der Prostituierten-Organisation Sex Professionals of Canada (SPOC) will diesen ihrer Ansicht nach aufgedrängten Schutz nicht. „Wir sind 100 Prozent gegen einen Gesetzesvorschlag, der Sexarbeiter in die Opferrolle drängt, und unsere Klienten, zu denen insbesondere behinderte und ältere Menschen gehören, kriminalisiert“, sagte sie. Dieses Modell provoziere Stereotypen über Prostituierte, die so nicht stimmten.

http://www.mopo.de/politik---wirtschaft ... 58076.html

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HUREN LAUFEN STURM
Neue Sex-Gesetz für Kanada: Ist Prostitution bald illegal?

Prostitution könnte einem Gesetzentwurf nach in Kanada schon bald illegal sein.

Ist gekaufter Sex in Kanada bald verboten?

Das kanadische Parlament diskutiert derzeit über ein neues Gesetz, das zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte des Landes die Prostitution verbieten soll.

Eine Entscheidung muss auf Weisung des Obersten Gerichtshofes des Landes noch vor Weihnachten fallen. Bestraft werden sollen nach dem Gesetzesvorschlag nur die Freier, nicht die Prostituierten.

Der Gesetzesvorschlag wird durchaus kontrovers diskutiert, gerade die Prostituierten laufen Sturm: „Kanada wird zur Lachnummer der Welt! Wo kann man etwas legalerweise verkaufen, aber nicht legal kaufen?“, hatte Ex-Domina Terri-Jean Bedford, Kanadas bekannteste Prostituierte, bereits im September bei einer Anhörung in einem Senatsausschuss gesagt.

Terri Jean Bedford zeigt sich kritisch gegenüber dem angestrebten Sex-Gesetz in Kanada.
Terri Jean Bedford zeigt sich kritisch gegenüber dem angestrebten Sex-Gesetz in Kanada.
Foto: dpa
Ex-Prostituierte droht mit Politiker-Enthüllung

Und sie ging noch weiter und sorgte für einen Eklat im Parlament: Bedford drohte, eine Liste der Politiker zu veröffentlichen, die alle ihre Dienste in Anspruch genommen hätten.

So wolle sie die Scheinheiligkeit der Parlamentarier entlarven, die mit der Abstimmung für das Gesetz für die eigene Kriminalisierung votierten. Dabei überschritt die Ex-Domina ihre Redezeit und musste schließlich von Sicherheitsleuten aus dem Saal eskortiert werden.

Den kanadischen Konservativen zufolge soll das Gesetz die Prostitution eindämmen. „Wenn der kleine Anteil von Leuten, die behaupten, aus freier Entscheidung Prostitution als ihren Beruf zu wählen, dies durch das Gesetz nicht mehr tun können, ist das die notwendige Folge davon, dass die übergroße Mehrheit geschützt wird, die durch Prostitution ausgebeutet werden“, sagte die konservative Senatorin Denise Batters.

Julie Grant von der Prostituierten-Organisation Sex Professionals of Canada (SPOC) will diesen ihrer Ansicht nach aufgedrängten Schutz nicht. „Wir sind 100 Prozent gegen einen Gesetzesvorschlag, der Sexarbeiter in die Opferrolle drängt, und unsere Klienten, zu denen insbesondere behinderte und ältere Menschen gehören, kriminalisiert“, sagte sie. Dieses Modell provoziere Stereotypen über Prostituierte, die so nicht stimmten.

http://www.mopo.de/politik---wirtschaft ... 58076.html

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Bitte um Unterstützung für unsere kanadische KollegInnen.

Auch weiter verbreiten und unterschreiben.

https://www.change.org/p/sex-worker-rig ... lang=en-GB

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Great documentary [34'41"] on how the bill C-36 has changed sex work in Canada

Ein gute Dokunetation, wie Bill C-36 die Sexarbeit verändert hat

http://www.vice.com/en_ca/video/the-new ... etwitterca

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Vancouver Police Department releases progressive video on sex-work enforcement guidelines

The Vancouver Police Department has extended an olive branch to sex workers.

In a new video, it explains that its focus is on safety, respect, and building relationships with people in the industry.

"The Vancouver police don't believe you are a bad person and won't judge you just because you do sex work," the video states. "In fact, sex work between consenting adults is not an enforcement priority for us."

Instead, its enforcement guidelines zero in on the sex trade when it involves children and youth, violence, gangs, criminal exploitation, and organized crime.

The video also acknowledges that "sex workers have not felt safe to trust the police".

The VPD is hoping that its guidelines will change that and lead to greater mutual respect.

"Sex workers' safety is our priority," the video emphasizes.

http://www.straight.com/blogra/600041/v ... guidelines

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2014 wurde in Kanada die Unrechtsgesetzgebung des Schwedischen Modells durchgedrückt und seitdem führen die ProhibitionistInnen das Land stolz auf ihrer "Trophäenliste".

Jetzt gibt es Hoffnung:
Die Liberale Partei (die die Mehrheit im Unterhaus und mit Justin Trudeau den Premierminister stellt) hat auf ihrem Parteitag eine Resolution verabschieded, die die Entkriminalisierung der Sexarbeit zum Ziel erklärt. Ich bin mit den Gepflogenheiten nicht vertraut; wenn ich es richtig verstehe, wird sie damit zu einem der 15 wichtigsten programmatischen Ziele der Partei.

Hier findet sich die Resolution im Wortlaut:
https://2018.liberal.ca/policy/decrimin ... sex-trade/

Kurz und knackig:

Decriminalization of Consensual Sex Work and Sex Trade

WHEREAS:
-the current Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, which prohibits the purchasing of sex, does little to protect sex workers and instead pushes them to work underground and in dangerous conditions;
- the current prohibition of buying consensual sex work does not address the underlying issues that make sex work dangerous, but rather creates a climate that makes sex workers unlikely to work with the police and be involved with more serious crimes;

"BE IT RESOLVED the Liberal Party of Canada repeal the 2014 Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, begin a consultation period with those in the sex work industry and advocacy groups, and move to decriminalize consensual sex work, and the purchase of said sex work, for those over the age of 18;

BE IT RESOLVED the Liberal Party of Canada consult not just with those involved in the sex work, but with surrounding communities to ensure that these changes ensure the safety and wellbeing of these surrounding communities and their families;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that along with decriminalization the Liberal Party of Canada should look to address the true problems facing sex workers by working to increase their access to sexual health clinics, counseling and improve their relationship with local authorities."

Als Quelle, dass die Resolution angenommen wurde, finde ich aktuell nur diese unappetitliche Seite aus dem feministischen Spektrum in französischer Sprache.
Aber wenn sich die sich so aufregen, wird wohl was dran sein: http://sisyphe.org/spip.php?article5463

[Boris Büche]

Ja, der Parteikongress war am vergangenen Wochenende.

"Adoptée sans aucune discussion et classée dans les 15 priorités des membres, cette résolution a de quoi inquiéter les survivantes
de la prostitution et les femmes qui tentent d'en sortir."

KEINE Diskussion? Interessant. Heißt wohl: Kein Diskussionsbedarf!
Die Liberale Partei sprach sich schon 2014 für Dekriminalisierung aus, bloß ohne ausdrücklichen Parteibeschluss.
Diesmal hat die Parteijugend darauf bestanden:
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/04/1 ... _23413749/

"Sans consulter les survivantes de la prostitution ni les organismes qui documentent les effets de la banalisation voire de la légalisation
de la prostitution, bref, sans données probantes, le Parti libéral du Canada s'engage sur la voie de la légalisation."

Den "Überlebenden" kein Ohr geschenkt - aha!
Dabei hat Ingeborg Kraus 2016 erst von der "Hölle auf Erden" (Deutschland) berichtet:
http://www.trauma-and-prostitution.eu/e ... -on-earth/

Vancouver boykottiert seit 15 Jahren die nationale Prostitutionspolitik, und macht liberale, eigene:
"By 2013, when the Conservative government called for input into new prostitution laws, Vancouver's council was urging full legalization
(with the exception of the purchase of sexual services from minors)."
http://vancouversun.com/opinion/columni ... g-sex-work

[Boris Büche]

Sehr gutes Argumentationspapier von 2012:
http://maggiestoronto.ca/uploads/File/10reasons.pdf

Autorinnen:
http://professeurs.uqam.ca/component/sa ... 96FqDiUFeI_
http://web5.uottawa.ca/www2/mcs-smc/med ... 67640.html

[Tilopa]

Auf der Internationalen Aids-Konferenz in Amsterdam wurden zwei Studien (eine aus Kanada und eine aus Frankreich) vorgestellt, die die negativen Auswirkungen der neuen Verbote auf die Gesundheit und Sicherheit von SexarbeiterInnen aufzeigen. Die Autorinnen befürworten stattdessen die vollständige Entkriminalisierung der Sexarbeit:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/ ... -research/

[deernhh]

@ Tilopa

Danke fuer die Einstellung deines Artikels!
Mir standen meine Haare (und ich habe lange Haare) zu Berge! Und ich habe vor Wut meine Faust auf den Tisch geknallt! Um es mal dialektisch zu sagen: "Boah, so geit ditt joar gar net!"

Die Forscher aus Kanada und Frankreich fanden also heraus, dass die Strafverfolgung von Maennern, die Sex anstelle von SexarbeiterInnen kaufen, bekannt als das nordische Modell oder "end-demand", das Leben fuer SW sich verschlimmerte.

Durch Strafverfolgung von Maennern, die sich Sex kaufen, werden SW in den Schatten getrieben. Folge: Verschlimmerung bei Verhandlungen ueber Preise (Dumping-Billig-Preise, bald kostet eine gute Flasche Wein mehr als Sex) und Kondomnutzung (alles ohne) und kein Zugang zu Gesundheitsdiensten.

Alles ist schlimmer geworden fuer SW, da das Ziel des "end-demand" (Strafverfolgung von Maennern) auf die Kunden der SW uebertragen werden.
(Also, es ist erlaubt, Sex zu verkaufen, aber nicht Sex zu kaufen.)

Beide Laender (Kanada und Frankreich) haben durch die Verschaerfung der Gesetze die gleichen Probleme: "Es spielt keine Rolle, wen sie kriminalisieren, es schafft Stigmatisierung."

Ausserdem: "Die Kunden gehen jetzt Gefahr, strafrechtlich verfolgt zu werden, deshalb glauben sie, dass sie mehr Macht haben, unsichere Sexpraktiken zu verlangen."

Hammer auch: "Sexworker*innen werden immer noch eher verhaftet und bestraft als ihre Kunden."

Seit der Gesetzgebung in Frankreich gab es Anstieg sexuell uebertragbarer Infektionen unter SW."

Fehler auch der neuen Gesetzgebung: "SW seien Opfer, und Sexarbeit verschmelze zu sehr mit Menschenhandel."

An die Gesetzgebung, die schon bei "A" stoppen und nicht weiterdenken bis nach "B": DENKT MAL NACH. Hach .... Grrr ....

ENTSCHEIDEND FUER DEN SCHUTZ DER SEXWORKER*INNEN IST DIE VOLLSTAENDIGE ENTKRIMINALISIERUNG !!!!