Comments on: The Week In Links—February 21 https://titsandsass.com/the-week-in-links-february-21/ By and about sex workers Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:45:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Celine Bisette https://titsandsass.com/the-week-in-links-february-21/#comment-21089 Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:45:40 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=15927#comment-21089 In reply to Chester Brown.

It’s likely the public consultation is a big sham. The government has already started drafting new legislation. I don’t know if they’ve consulted sex workers and sex worker organizations in that process. I certainly haven’t seen anything on any of our discussion boards or review boards asking for our input. Surely they know that’s one of the best ways to reach us.

I suppose they might have contacted SPOC, WISH, Maggie’s, PEERS, etcetera for their input. I would love to know if sex workers have been consulted.

Frankly, I don’t see why the government should be consulting the general public. Who cares what Molly Housewife thinks? I think they should be talking primarily to people who are affected by prostitution legislation, and people who are experts on the sex trade. So sex workers, clients, researchers, lawyers, and so on.

I’m sure we’ll see the Nordic model introduced sometime this year. Sigh.

]]> By: Chester Brown https://titsandsass.com/the-week-in-links-february-21/#comment-21071 Sat, 22 Feb 2014 13:45:51 +0000 https://titsandsass.com/?p=15927#comment-21071 Regarding the second item, I just want to emphasize that apparently you don’t need to be Canadian to let the Canadian government know what you think about sex-work. Despite the fact that the Canadian Supreme Court recently struck down Canada’s prostitution laws, the government seems to want to bring in legislation that’s based on the Swedish Model laws, so it might be good if the lawmakers heard from people who are opposed to those laws.

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