Thanks for sharing. Thatās definitely traumatic and they definitely profile Asian and certain other women travelling alone for being sex workers if you canāt tell them what your job is or salient details about your travel. The funny thing is, this is why women get trafficked. To cross borders without being harassed.
@Josephine long post
Here is a more right leaning whore perspective on the Bill. Girls reading it will not like it
I think thereās very little thatās wrong with Bill C-36. It still fully retains all the protections sex workers got before in Supreme Court, and the changes to problematic language in Bill C-49.
Nothing changed for the worse with this Bill. We can still work safely and legally.
I might even argue it cares
more about women, than what existed before it.
Yes they limited places of sex work ā there have always been laws in Toronto about not having places of sex work near schools, and laws about signage in residential neighborhoods. I donāt think thatās oppressive to SWs.That is just sensible.
Do you know why we have so many one way streets downtown? It was so Johns couldnāt cruise around as easily for street hookers

. Street hookers are considered a nuisance. That shouldnāt offend anyone. And, itās not safe for them anyway. Nobody wants to walk through a track full of prostitutes. Itās scary and indecent. They shouldnāt be out there.
As long as the bill doesnāt push women into unsafe places (like the street) then itās doing its job to protect our safety. That was the point of changing the laws before. To get them safe, and off the street.
Do you support complete decriminalization? There is only
one aspect of that I like, which is the government not having a say in how or why or who I fuck, and just the privacy of it.
But, I donāt think itās necessary nor is it responsible, and itās been shown to have poor outcomes now that itās been some time after they did it in NZ and somewhat in Finland.
Thereās always going to be people who think decriminalization is just so women can just peddle pussy unfettered anywhere they want. Fuck
no. Nobody wants to live in some weird dystopian sex tourism capital.
Besides, it is still largely decriminalized in this bill regardless,
for SWs. Bill C-36 is about public nuisance issues mainly, protection of children/family secondly, and encouraging women not to do this job and helping them exit the industry.
Do our rights to do sex work out in the open matter more than public nuisance and kids? I think they absolutely do not. Sex is a private adult thing, it doesnāt belong out in the public domain IMO. That doesnāt endanger SWs at all, itās just asking for us to respect other members of our society. We have civic duties too.
Many women get trapped in this job just from having no work experience, skills, network of normal people etc. so whatās wrong with the bill helping them exit? Itās often not a good thing when this is your only option.
The talking point I come across the most with hoes, is that this kind wording āstigmatizesā sex work as a terrible path for women, but I am fine with that personally. Sex work is
not ideal usually, and I donāt think it should be normalized as some legitimate option, as if it is perfectly unproblematic. We all know thatās a lie.
Iām fine with sex work remaining an underbelly industry, and somewhat clandestine. If we keep it private, stigma shouldnāt even matter. Stigmatization is what keeps it a bit suppressed. Thatās how we organically morally regulate things.
And whatās wrong with the light stigmatization introduced in Bill C-36 anyway? Itās hardly a condemnation. Is it so people donāt judge us for being sluts

?
We canāt reduce political discourse on rights to ādonāt judge me!ā ā that is juvenile.
I donāt fully buy the āstigmatization = more violenceā argument Iāve always heard, either. This is only true with certain stipulations. Another questionable talking point from hoe scholars.
I also think SW should be stigmatized on some level because frankly, I am tired of every public discourse being about sex and sexual orientation. Itās just sex stuff being constantly discussed, ad infinitum. Talking about who fucks who, or why, or how. Like you go on a dating app now, and people have all these weird BDSM acronyms and stuff. Why not just put your hobbies and interests? Itās gross and uncivilized. Same goes for LGBT123 stuff.
And yeah, as with
places of sex work, I donāt want any of
that stuff discussed around kids either. So itās the same principle. Thatās not sexual education. If anything it retards their natural sexual education and development. It confuses them. They donāt need to hear about all that.
I am not sure what sex worker rights are being lost with this bill at
all.
I donāt believe you can answer me either, because I asked you. Three times.
Oh and, last thing, it also criminalized men to buy sex from us, but thatās a GOOD thing for us. It keeps us safe, bc they know we have the upper hand legally if something happens and they donāt act up while alone with us. This is a great protection for us.
It looks to me like they made this bill FOR women. Not to hurt us. I just canāt see it that way. I mean, if you arenāt exactly sure how it hurts you, then at least consider how it helps potentially? And if you canāt see that, there probably is no issue worth discussing at all about Bill C-36.
I obviously havenāt been doing this since 2014, but I think sex worker rights are perfectly preserved, and they arenāt going to just throw out our Supreme Court decisions now because of a change to a Conservative government. You shouldnāt be voting with whoredom as your hinge issue anyway, you should vote for who is best government for all of us, tbh.
A cover for what?