You're Completely Safe Sharla - The Scoop:
Thanks for telling us about this guy hon. He really does sound like an asshole. But I'd like to give my two cents on this matter.
The laws concerning prostitution in Canada have been a bit of a personal interest of mine ever since I started, so let me remind you (and everyone) of a few things.
First of all, prostitution itself isn't illegal. It's a well-known fact that here in Canada, paying money for sex (or accepting money in exchange for sex, since this appears to be a mostly-SP thread, lol) is *not* illegal and never has been. That's unique to the puritanical United States.
As far as laws concerning activities associated with prostitution go, there are three of them. Sharla, you correctly mentioned one of them - you can't solicit sex for money (or money for sex) in public, but private communication is fine, and emails are considered private.
You can't give any portion of your earnings to *anyone*, or else they are now "living on the avails of prostitution", and could go to prison for 10 years. But this law is so retardedly broad-based that an older escort couldn't put her 18 and 19 year old kids through university because her son and daughter would now become her "pimps", "living on the avails" of her work, and technically could be arrested and charged. You have nothing to worry about this one either, since you're not giving anyone a part of your money, or even if you are this dipshit client doesn't know about it.
You did miss one though, and that's the one that says you can't keep a residence for the purposes of prostitution. Since you're hosting incalls, then technically you're keeping a "common bawdy house". (Now *there's* a 19th-century law for you ... The term "bawdy house", or even the word "bawdy" has disappeared from modern English usage, and yet that law is still on the books with those words ... *groan*.)
But you have two reasons not to worry about this idiot, and here's why.
Historically, the police in Canada have never enforced these three laws, instead figuring that what consenting adults do in private is their business. Well okay, they've arrested streetwalkers for soliciting in public, but that's because them stopping traffic is considered a "public nuisance", but the cops simply don't enforce living on the avails or bawdy house because it's a private matter between adults. The *only* time that bawdy house/avails charges ever get laid is if:
1) There are escorts under the age of 18 working.
2) Escorts, regardless of their age, are being forced, beaten, or otherwise abused into doing it against their will.
Or both. But if everybody is 18 years of age or over, and everybody is doing it of their own free will, the police simply don't bother enforcing the bawdy/avails laws. They just don't.
It gets better. As you probably heard, the three laws were challenged by a group of working girls, and on September 28th the court case was decided in our favour - all three laws were struck down, or in legal parlance, were made to be "of no force or effect". Now, it's true that this ruling has been stayed until April 29th 2011, or until the appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeals is heard, whichever comes first. BUT ... in the meantime, the police here in Ontario are refusing to lay *any* new charges under bawdy/avails/soliciting until the appeal is heard, as they want to find out whether or not there will *be* any laws still standing a few months from now.
So ... If this idiot were even to *try* to call the police, he'd politely be told that 1) since you're over 18, 2) are doing what you're doing willingly, and 3) are conducting all of your business behind closed doors and privately over emails, that there is nothing that they could do about it. If he were to be well-informed enough actually to *press* them on it, and quote Section 210 to them (Bawdy House), they would reply that with that law in a state of flux with the pending appeal, they are declining to investigate any allegations under that law.
He would politely be told to bugger off and stop wasting their time. You wouldn't even so much as get a phone call. Neither would anybody else living in the address where you host your clients. It's as simple as that.
So ... Don't worry about this guy. He's full of hot air, and he can't do a damned thing to you, no way, no how. Tell him to go sniff a blizzard. If it were me, I'd actually *dare* him to call the police, and give him their number to help him do it. But that's just me ... So you can handle this situation any way you want Sharla, but just remember: He is absolutely, totally powerless to affect you in *any* way by running to the police and squealing to them.
I hope that helps hon.
P.S. I don't post my lengthy rants that often anymore, at least not lately, but I feel so strongly on *this* topic that this idiot actually managed to arouse the fury and get me to put up another one of my posts ... Damn, I hope he emails *me* next, he's gonna hear it from me if he does, lol! ;-)
