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There might be a better place to post this. But since this is the highest traffic area of the website, and it affects everyone here...
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canadas-new-prostitution-laws-everything-you-need-to-know/article19610318/?click=sf_globefb#dashboard/follows/
Key Points:
* The bill criminalizes the buying of sex – or “obtain[ing] for consideration… the sexual services of a person.” The penalties include jail time – up to five years in some cases – and minimum cash fines that go up after a first offence.
* What's a "sexual service" ? The bill doesn’t say, meaning it would likely be up to a court to decide where the line was drawn. A government legal brief, submitted to the committee as it considered the bill, says the courts have found lap-dancing and masturbation in a massage parlour count as a "sexual service" or prostitution, but not stripping or the production of pornography.
* Why is the government doing this ? They’re doing it now because the court forced their hand – without a new law, Canada would simply not have any laws on the books against prostitution by December. Some witnesses have called for that, but that’s not what government is doing. Conservative MP Stella Ambler, who is on the Justice Committee considering the bill, has flatly called the bill an “anti-prostitution law,” and the Justice Minister has said it’s the government’s aim to limit the sex trade as much as possible.
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发表于 2014-9-9 23:48:36
