Much of the media in Canada, and therefore general public, still believe the baseless fabrications and hugely exaggerated nonsense from the prohibitionists telling us that almost all sex workers are victims forced into an inherently harmful business. For example, Heather Mallick of the Toronto Star knows sex work is "soul-destroying", apparently after seeing the invisible "damage to their heart`s core" that "can be seen on the faces and bodies of prostitution`s victims", though she fails to state how many of these faces she assessed.
Yet real surveys in Australia and New Zealand indicate otherwise.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/64277.php
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?236039-The-Ask-A-Hooker-Thread/page36
Maybe it could be done simultaneously in different cities, and hopefully get at least as many responses as the 247 mentioned in the article about the Queensland Australia survey.
Yet real surveys in Australia and New Zealand indicate otherwise.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/64277.php
http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/act-helps-health-and-safety-sex-workers-report-saysQueensland`s female sex workers have similar levels of job satisfaction, physical health and mental well-being as women in the general population...
... Queensland University of Technology PhD researcher Charrlotte Seib... from the School of Public Health, surveyed 247 female sex workers aged between 18 and 57 years located throughout Queensland.
I can`t find any similar ones done in Canada.The reasons people joined and stayed in the sex industry are complex, however money was the main reason.
Fewer than 17 per cent said they are working to support drug or alcohol use, although when broken down by sector street-based sex workers are more likely to report needing to pay for drugs or alcohol (45 per cent)...
Much of the reporting on the numbers of sex workers and underage involvement in prostitution has been exaggerated. There is no link in New Zealand between the sex industry and human trafficking.
https://terb.cc/vbulletin/showthread.php?236039-The-Ask-A-Hooker-Thread/page36
Surely there could be some way to allow sex workers to anonymously take part in a survey by a university or other non-law enforcement organization, online or through mail? Would it really be that difficult to leave a bunch of questionnaires and postage prepaid envelopes at massage parlours and escort agencies that sex workers could complete and drop in a mailbox if they chose to participate? It might not meet the strictest academic standards for establishing reliable statistics, but it would be better than nothing, and may inform much of the general public about reality instead of the fictional nonsense from prohibitionists and the likes of Heather Mallick.... Accurate statistics have never been obtained.
Now perhaps if the workers were free from prosecution then they would come forward to answer academic surveys and then one would be able to gather accurate data on the industry as a whole ...
Maybe it could be done simultaneously in different cities, and hopefully get at least as many responses as the 247 mentioned in the article about the Queensland Australia survey.