Sex workers from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside will be representing the interests of Canada's prostitutes as they get a hearing from the Supreme Court on the ambiguity of the law....
The law certainly needs some clarity..and the women deserve some protection under the law. Many countries have accepted the vocation as a social vice not unlike gambling etc. Better to have some health control and regulation rather than moral indignity that leaves women to the anarchy of the dark and mean streets of the night!
I don't deny it is a hard way to make a living and fraught with perils. Perhaps a return to the "old days" of cathouses and Madams (ala Steinbeck's Cannery Row etc) would be better than plying their trade in alleys and dark streetcorners?
That's got to be the hardest way possible to earn a living. Surely the bright lights can come up with a zoning solution that everyone can live with. Noise, parking etc, seem like easy fixes to get the men and women off those really dangerous streets.
I remember doing the Coal mining play in Nanaimo in 1982 based on Lynne Bowen's "Boss Whistle" book. We had a lovely song called "Fraser Street" that sang of the 5 or 6 cathouses that existed there to help ease the sore muscles of many a single (or married?) miner in the early years of the last century?
"Here on Fraser Street you've started your shift Here on Fraser Street we've a shift of our own.
Some toil in the darkness Some live in the light You toil in your beds of coal and we? On sheets of white!"
Well Writen...Prostitution, beleived to be the oldest profession on earth till date is viewed as a sullied and the sex workers looked down upon..it's time we give these people a life of dignity..at least a safe place to earn thier livelihood....RATED UP.
Prostitutes are such interesting people to have a conversation with. They see the world from so many angles that we never do. I think they also do a great job in protecting the more protected of us by having the courage to satisfy the peculiar needs of many who would never suggest such things to their mates. Rated up - article and comments.
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This covers it all.
Well said.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannery_Row_(novel)
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/predators/robert_pickton/1.html
"Here on Fraser Street you've started your shift
Here on Fraser Street we've a shift of our own.
Some toil in the darkness
Some live in the light
You toil in your beds of coal
and we? On sheets of white!"
Here on Fraser Street..etc
Great song
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Rated up - article and comments.