So what is the provinces current position - law wise - in regards to lap dancing

[canadian scoundrel]

Like the title asks, what is is the provinces current view on lap dances. are they being enforced or are they legal. i have a few ideas i want to try out but need to know what that minor detail is all about.

And please don't tell me to search for the answer. just answer the question. if you can take the time to reply you might as well give me the answer.

Thanks

 

[fuji]

Like the title asks, what is is the provinces current view on lap dances. are they being enforced or are they legal. i have a few ideas i want to try out but need to know what that minor detail is all about.

And please don't tell me to search for the answer. just answer the question. if you can take the time to reply you might as well give me the answer.

Thanks

What the provinces think doesn't matter. The provinces can't make it criminal. They could potentially regulate the businesses and slap fines on establishments, but they can't put a criminal charge down.

 

[canadian scoundrel]

Thanks. That helps a lot. Much appreciated

 

[canadian scoundrel]

however, that brings about another question. if lap dancing isn't illegal, then why are some joints busted for common bawdy house?

the only way i can see circumventing that is to sell private memberships to each joint. - thus making them private clubs such as swinger clubs. those are now legal.

and before anyone asks there is a way to get around calling the cost for a lap dance.

But let me know what is wrong with this idea? it's just a thought.

 

[mandrill]

Well, first of all, the provinces cannot constitutionally regulate criminal law in this country. The Feds are the only people who can do that.

The city can regulate licensing and by-law enforcement for all manner of establishments within their boundaries. So they can make rules for conduct in strip clubs which are licenced and for dancers who are licenced. This might include restrictions on the amount of touching. Breaking those by-laws will make the perp subject to being fined or losing the licence, but cannot generate a criminal record or jail time.

There are existing federal criminal laws about public obscenity and bawdy house. If an establishment is kept for the doing of bawdy acts (like giving bj's and hj's), the owners and found-ins can be arrested and charged with criminal offences. Unlikely to generate jail time if you're a girl or a customer, it will create embarrassment and a criminal record if you are convicted.

 

[fuji]

the only way i can see circumventing that is to sell private memberships to each joint. - thus making them private clubs such as swinger clubs. those are now legal.

Swinger clubs are legal because they don't involve prostitution. People have sex with each other for fun, not for money. The venue charges a fee for admission, but that fee has nothing to do with what people do once inside. No acts of prostitution occur (or if they do, the venue is entirely unaware that they do.)

What you are proposing is different. Strippers sell a service to the customer and if that service includes blowjobs and intercourse then it's deemed to be prostitution. In and of itself prostitution is not illegal, but keeping a premise for the purpose of prostitution IS illegal.

For your plan to work there would have to be no exchange of money between the dancers and the customers, nor would the dancers be paid any money by the club. They'd have to fuck the customers for the sheer love of it, without any financial compensation, the way swingers fuck one another just for the fun of it in their swinger clubs.