Canada’s Laws Designed to Deter Prostitution, Not Keep Sex Workers Safe
Canada (Conversation) – Are Canada’s current prostitution laws, enacted in 2014, achieving their goals? How you answer that question will depend on what you identify those goals to be. News reports frequently claim that Canada’s criminal prostitution laws are failing to achieve their goals. These articles often suggest that the laws were implemented to make sex work safer, healthier and less risky for those who engage in it. Despite these consistent assertions, these outcomes are not what the laws aim to achieve. Canada’s criminal laws applicable to prostitution were enacted…
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