Repealing bill c 36
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50 years.
Doug Ford is premier partially because he promised to stop telling kids that the PeePee could go in the BumBum
There is a large puritanical/religious bloc that votes actively. If Carney said "we're gonna make prostitution legal, Polievre would make the next election about that, and probably win.
Now, all these people making their living from (and spending their money on) Onlyfans are growing up with a different moral compass around pornography and sex work. By the time they're in power, they may chose to do something about it.
Ahh you forgot about the feminists. Many feminist groups are pushing against prostitution. Bill C-36 is a sexist feminist law btw. The feminists demonize the men for wanting sex and hate the patriarch. They say men paying for sex are exploiting women. This feminist movement will only get stronger, I see stronger anti-prostitution laws in the future.
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Why would you want to repeal it?
Every legal business in North America is regulated (actually over regulated).
If there was ever decriminalization with no regulations it wouldn’t last a week. Can you imagine two enterprising college college freshman girls putting on the bulletin board $100 pussy in Room 504. Text for an appointment. The parents visiting their daughters would have a shit hemorrhage. Or the news report that Sally and Sunshine can legally sell sex in Apt. 2C but Gertrude and Maude can’t bake and sell cookies from Apt. 1D.
As much as many of us love Libertarian ideas, and would like to stop by and get fresh baked cookies from Gertrude after fucking Sally, it ain’t going to ever happen. We all play the discretion game when going to a condo since not only is buying sex illegal, but running a business out of that condo is against the condo association rules.
They can’t regulate an illegal or half-illegal business. And if the statute is unenforced, and there are no regulations, it is as close to Libertarian wonderland as you can get.
In theory the situation is slightly improved for men, I suppose, if you do the Portugal (and a few other Western Europe) model of legal to buy and sell sex, but pimping, pandering, and operating a brothel being illegal, but there is actually less open advertising in some of those places compared to Canada because they are more concerned about violating pimping laws than Canadian escorts who are legally selling.
Every legal business in North America is regulated (actually over regulated).
If there was ever decriminalization with no regulations it wouldn’t last a week. Can you imagine two enterprising college college freshman girls putting on the bulletin board $100 pussy in Room 504. Text for an appointment. The parents visiting their daughters would have a shit hemorrhage. Or the news report that Sally and Sunshine can legally sell sex in Apt. 2C but Gertrude and Maude can’t bake and sell cookies from Apt. 1D.
As much as many of us love Libertarian ideas, and would like to stop by and get fresh baked cookies from Gertrude after fucking Sally, it ain’t going to ever happen. We all play the discretion game when going to a condo since not only is buying sex illegal, but running a business out of that condo is against the condo association rules.
They can’t regulate an illegal or half-illegal business. And if the statute is unenforced, and there are no regulations, it is as close to Libertarian wonderland as you can get.
In theory the situation is slightly improved for men, I suppose, if you do the Portugal (and a few other Western Europe) model of legal to buy and sell sex, but pimping, pandering, and operating a brothel being illegal, but there is actually less open advertising in some of those places compared to Canada because they are more concerned about violating pimping laws than Canadian escorts who are legally selling.
Doesn’t it still require someone to look the other way? Outcall is legal but incall is technically illegal but rarely enforced under the British system.. The suburban neighbors of the famed Ms. Bedford of C-36 complained and the police chose not to look the other way, and now the police look the other way when it comes to Johns instead of a lady doing incall due to c-36. I suspect the sex workers prefer that, even if we don’t. In the United Kingdom they try not to have more than one lady at an incall at once to avoid the illegal brothel rule (it is occasionally enforced when many ladies are there at once) but sex workers complain that reduces safety. There are never any perfect systems.
Well in the British system prostitution is legal just the activities surrounding it were illegal. So yes an incall can be considered a brothel, hence why before we used to see mostly outcalls. Living off the avails of a prostitute were illegal, and openly advertising sexual services. But it was so much better for johns because we had protection from scammers. If a girl try to scam you could call the cops. But now with Bill C-36 that is ancient history, the amount of scams skyrocketed since Bill C-36. Before getting a 4hr siesta in a motel was easy and can be done at anytime. Since Bill C-36 many motels started removing siestas or limiting it to day hours.
The only way this law will be reversed is the same way the last one was, by a court challenge, and I’m not even sure there is a basis for one (tho if your asked me pre Bedford, I wouldn’t have seen a possible route there either, im not a lawyer. Lol). As others have said above, here is no political gain whatsoever to legalizing/ decriminalizing the purchase of sexual services. I suspect we will be stuck with the current “selling is legal, buying is illegal” mindfuck/ paradox for quite a while. At least most law enforcement has taken a hands off approach, letting consenting adults do what they want, while focusing energies on the damaging parts of the industry, ie exploitation of underage individuals and trafficking.
It's not a terrible guess.
The equilibrium under the law is fairly stable and no one wants to risk the fallout from the people who do prioritize it if they take it away.
So unless something dramatic shifts in the culture, it can just tick along for a very long time.
Maybe.
But even then they would need a reason to.
