Are prostitution laws in Canada federal or provincial?
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federal\nCanadian law on prostitution has changed little since our first Criminal Code outlawed "bawdy houses," procuring and living on the avails of prostitution; then as now, the Criminal Code did not prohibit the buying and selling of sexual services. But these longstanding laws against prostitution are largely unenforced, as anyone consulting the yellow pages under "escort services" will realize. In fact, most municipalities gave up on enforcement long ago, turning instead to regulation, licensing and, as for all commercial establishments, taxation. As citizens we all live off the avails.
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You can find the laws for asylum here:\nhttp://re.trick.ca/en/AsylumLaws_2fInGermany\n(pdf files in english)
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to legalize and regulate for example a 'red-light' district which would put the pimps out of work and provide health care for the gals BUT morality steps in and says its wrong to pay for sex, to encourage extramarital sex and to allow this behavior in society.  However, they don't call it the world's oldest profession for nothing.
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Technically, it never was.\n\nWhile the law criminalising abortion in Canada was struck down in the Morgentaller case by the Supreme Court in 1988, there has never been any law put back in its place declaring abortion legal. (The Supreme Court also recognised that abortion is a Federal Criminal matter, meaning the Provinces have little individual say.)\n\nIn the latter years of the Mulroney gov't (1988-1993) there were attempts made to formalise in law the status of abortion in Canada, but these all failed due to the divisiveness of the issue, and with no side being comfortable supporting a moderate compromise condition.
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By law, you can, even though it really isn't right.\n\nIf I am standing on a corner selling pencils, and someone beats me up and takes my pencils without paying, I was not raped, right?  I was robbed.\n\nA whore is standing on the corner selling sex.  Someone beats her up and takes sex without paying for it.  She was robbed.\n\nBesides, it's not like someone who has sex with anyone at all, and would have sex with the ugliest, skankiest person for cash, can claim "trauma".\n\nAnother way to look at at.  Can a fireman complain about the dangers of running into a burning building?  No, because he knew that would be a likely possibility when he took the job. So, how can a whore complain when she knows getting beat up is a possibility of prostitution?
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both sexes can be prostitutes
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You don't mention where you are... Best bet is to check with your local jurisdiction. In Canada, it would be the provincial federation - they establish and enforce the rules for all recognized equestrian competition.
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in some states, if they are topless in a place where people can view them, for instance in their back yard and you can see them, they can be charged with public indecency.  unless of course you live in Canada where either sex is legally entitled to be topless ;o)
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No I don't think prostitution should be "banned" at all.  It has been around for a long long time and will be around for a long long time.  Criminalizing it is just plain senseless if both are consenting adults... leave them alone for goodness sake!
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Here's your answer:\nhttp://canadaonline.about.com/cs/provinces/g/bc.htm
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Prostitution is legal in Nevada.  Some argue that prostitution should be legalized everywhere because the way the laws stand now, it denies some men and women the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, in other words, it denies some a right to work in a job that is suited for them.  \n\nMost Americans believe that prostitution is morally wrong, but at the same time, the most prevalent users of prostitutes are middle-class, middle-aged American men.\n\nProstitues in Nevada have an obligation to get regular medical care in order to assure that they are disease free.  Legalized prostitution would eliminate 'pimps' that feed on 'working women' and also deny those women their right to pursue their occupation in freedom.  \n\nPolitically, prostitution will probably not be legalized in the near future because it's a political hot potato and any legislator proposing the legalization of prostitution outside of Nevada would be looked upon with scorn and be ridiculed.
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I'm guessing if you mean Victoria in Canada Yes. If you mean like some other Victoria, like South Africa or Australia I'll go with No.
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Canada, like the US, operates in a federal system so you really need to specify if you are referring to national, provincial, local or what.....Canada uses proportional represenation which means coalition government under a Prime Minister.  You should be able to find more information at this link
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It depends on the jurisdiction (what laws are being applied), but where I'm at, the legal definition is given by Kansas Statutes Annotated (KSA) 21-3512\n\n(a) Prostitution is performing for hire, or offering or agreeing to perform for hire where there is an exchange of value, any of the following acts: (1) Sexual intercourse; (2) sodomy; or (3) manual or other bodily contact stimulation of the genitals of any person with the intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desires of the offender or another.\n\nSo in Kansas, assuming that providing room and board would be considered "an exchange of value"; then yes, it could be prosecuted as prostitution. In this case, it would be a class B, non-person misdemeanor, so long as the people are both 16 years of age or older.
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Depends on how you define crime. \nI think prostitution should be legal. If it were legal, the state could collect taxes and require the registered prostitutes to take health checks and those taxes could pay for it. It'd make the world a safer place. So long as there's a demand, there will be a supply and keeping it illegal won't change the fact that there's a demand for sex.\nThe conservative religious right thinks it would lead to the moral corruption of young women which, as can be seen in western countries where it is legal, is simply wrong.\nI bet my shorts that rape would decrease quite a bit if sex were available legally... but hey ho.. let's just continue to let the police waste their time and resources to lock up hookers and release them the next day to continue business as usual.
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Sex is LEGAL worldwide between two consenting adults. The MORAL ideas differ in every part of every country.
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Many different areas have different programs to help reduce prostitution.  Some jurisdiction will show the faces of the johns on TV and newspapers.  Others will offer diversion program for the prostitute that include counselling and work training.\n\nIt is all about education and drug addiction.  If the prostitutes have no education and has to support their habits, they will do things for the money.