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Sex Work in Canada Flashcards

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Purpose of Federal Laws Impacting Sex Work

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intent to decrease demand

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Bill C-36 enacts new prostitution offences

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  • purchasing
  • advertising
  • material benefit offense
  • procuring
  • communicating
  • link to trafficking in persons
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Purchasing Offence

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This offence criminalizes purchasing sexual services, or communicating in any place for that purpose, for the first time in Canadian criminal law. Since prostitution is a transaction that involves both the purchase and the sale of sexual services, the new purchasing offence makes prostitution illegal; every time the prostitution transaction takes place, an offence is committed by the purchaser.

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Advertising offence

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  • knowingly advertising an offer to provide sexual services for consideration
  • those who sell their own sexual services are protected from criminal liability for committing this offence if they advertise their own sexual services, or for participating in the commission of this offence if the offence relates to their own sexual services
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Material Benefit Offence

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  • receiving a financial or other material benefit obtained by or derived from the commission of the purchasing offence
  • those who sell their own sexual services are protected from criminal liability for committing this offence if the offence relates to their own sexual services
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Procuring Offence

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  • procuring a person to offer or provide sexual services for consideration
  • for the purpose of facilitating the purchasing offence, recruiting, holding, concealing or harbouring a person who offers or provides sexual services for consideration, or exercising control, direction or influence over the movements of that person
  • those who sell their own sexual services are protected from criminal liability for participating in the commission of this offence if the offence relates to their own sexual services
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Would a “classic pimp” be guilty of both the procuring and material benefit offence?

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yes, because the pimp both induces another person to sell sexual services and receives money form the sale of those services

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Communicating Offence

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  • communicating for the purposes of offering or providing sexual services for consideration in public places that are or are next to school grounds, playgrounds or daycare centers
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Trafficking in Persons Offences

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Bill C-36 harmonized the penalties imposed for human trafficking and prostitution-related conduct to ensure a consistent response to practices that are linked to main trafficking offences, material benefit offence and documents offence

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Main Trafficking Offence

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Recruiting, transporting, transferring, receiving, holding, concealing or harbouring a person, or exercising control direction or influence over the movements of a person, for the purpose of exploiting them or facilitating their exploitation

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Documents Offence

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Concealing, removing, withholding or destroying travel or identity documents for the purpose of facilitating a human trafficking offence

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Why has conceptualizing sexual services been contested?

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  • growth of precarious jobs (tends to be marginalized people)
  • often “dirty”
  • bottom of care economy
  • Uncertainty/ instability in housing, poverty, health, etc.
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What is the most significant cause of burnout?

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stigma

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Sex worker’s experience in Job satisfaction

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  • 79%
  • provide valuable service, help people, feel respected by clients, making people feel happy through provision of services
  • autonomy (own business)
  • not as hard as other work: less stress, physically easier
  • but for some, emotionally taxing; providing service to people you don’t want to serve
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Sex worker’s experience in Money

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  • 67%
  • better than other jobs (is fast and easy)
  • especially important if low education level
  • “not paid below what I’m worth” (i.e., min wage jobs)
  • but low job security -can’t work/no clients = no money
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Sex worker’s experience in work control

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  • 49%
  • freedom to schedule the work/services
  • can be hard to run your own business
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Sex workers experience in social status

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  • 34%
  • is low status employment
  • heavy psychological and emotional burden
  • stigma internalized
  • stress of having constantly hide your work
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Other topics related to sex work that were not mentioned in Benoit study

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  • safety/violence
    -discrimination [disproportionate # women and Indigenous]
  • physical health (STI risk)
  • different locations/risk associated with each
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What is Edmonton’s approach to licensing body rub centers?

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  • harm reduction approach
  • business licensing of “non-accredited massage” business
  • 2 city of edmonton liason officers to enforce regulations and monitor safety
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Licensing requirements for body rub centers

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  • police record checks for owners and practitioners
  • practitioners must have city license
  • businesses must submit an operational plan/security plan
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Why research on body rub centers?

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concerns raised about Edmonton’s licensing
- supports exploitation and human sex trafficking
- illegal under Bill c-36
- contradicts Edmonton’s gender-based violence strategy

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Goals for research into Body Rub centres

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to identify:
- merits and challenges of withdrawing from licensing
- strategies used by other municipalities in Canada
- evidence-based practices to reduce buyer demand

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Research findings on Safety in body rub centres

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  • safety is the primary concern
  • body rub centres are safer
  • stakeholders: licensing suggests violence is ok
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Research findings on health and health supports in body rub centres

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  • compared to working in another space, centres provide better support for physical, sexual and mental health
  • centres provide infrastructure to support hygiene, hub for health, safety and other info and provide social support systems of BRP’s
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Research findings on quality of life

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  • BRC’s provide: financial stability, way for BRP’s to support families, better working conditions, more protection for BRP identities, sense of a regular routine and stable work life
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Research Impacts

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  • edmonton voted to continue licensing BRC’s
  • sex workers continued to meet and engage in collective organization
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Non-profit association: ANSWERS

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  • advocacy normalizing sex work through education and resources society
  • continue to engage in education and advocacy: health outcomes, effects of criminality of purchasing sexual services, delinking sex and work and sex trafficking, privacy

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