@ Cristy:
Blame the media, and public ignorance for the uneven application of the law.
Anytime a National television network airs a story about 'the sex trade', they ALWAYS couple that with 'guerilla video' of a 'street walker' in a run down section of some small town, or a bunch of young Asian women wearing only bed sheets, while a couple of people with sports coats over their heads are marched into a paddy wagon.
To 'Mr and Mrs Porch Person', who believe EVERYTHING they read in The Globe and Mail, or what they see on "The News", 100% of all sex trade work is street action, and exploitation of minors. This 'pairing' of news story and 'stock footage' is intentional; it influences public opinion among voters to support a specific political agenda, with the full cooperation of both the media source and the author/ reader.
For a very clear indication of exactly what I mean, watch the CTV 11:00 News sometime, when Sandy Rinaldo is the talking head; at least once or twice in every story, she will use the word 'victim', regardless of what the story is about. People who are not susceptible to this kind of manipulation rarely, if ever, watch the CTV News, unless they were watching a simulcast American 10:00 show, and hadn't changed the channel yet.
Street prostitution, however, is a MAJOR problem in big cities these days, but most people don't see it, because they're not out after sunset anymore; they're at home playing 'twitter troll, or watching the CTV News, depending on their age demographic. I see this first hand, in the neighborhood where I'm living. Young women from 'broken homes' in small towns with high unemployment flock to the 'big city', with only a napsack, containing enough essential items to last a couple of days. They're 'the modern hippies'. With naive optimism, they'll 'make it after all', just like Mary Tyler Moore, in the opening credits of her show, back in the day.
Invarably, their lack of street smarts will get them robbed of all of their money and their personal identification, and some guy their own age that they met the same day will offer to 'protect them', at a price, of course. His role models will be Rap musicians, and he will dress just like them, and learn from their lyrics. I see a hundred guys like that every day; I refer to them as 'swag-fag welfare pimps'. These guys are not unlike the lions on the Serengeti savanna, the lionesses do all the hunting, but the dominant male eats first, copulates with his pride, and repels the advances of other males, who wish to supplant him, or who are perceived to be threats to the established order.
Any time I see a taxi or a privately owned vehicle drop some young lady off in the middle of a street, then drive away quickly, it's pretty obvious what had just occurred. Lots of men are buying cheap sex from street people, before going to work, or in the middle of the night. Those same guys are probably asking for, and getting, services that NO reputable Escort would offer, and no board would allow to be discussed. This is the dark side of "The Industry" and of "The Nanny State", where young people get free new clothes whenever their old clothes are dirty, because they never learned how to do their own laundry, they can't afford to do laundry at a public laundry mat, and the education system, like The Wizard of Oz, gave them a diploma, instead of a brain. This world is what Rebecca Richardson's Hassle Free Clinic thread is all about.
