The old problem of prostitution - Canada

[AmyStrange]

The old problem of prostitution - Canada

How old? Well, it surfaced on B.C.'s coast with the European fur trade of the late 1700s. It boomed with the gold rushes of the 1800s. Colonial Victoria licensed the sex trade, largely for economic reasons. Here we are in the 21st century, still failing to come to grips with the issue. Perhaps it's time for a new approach

Stephen Hume
Vancouver Sun

September 18, 2004

FROM: (subscription) http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=242ba155-fe04-41af-a374-33a7b989472e
(mirror copy) http://NEWS.OneMissingPerson.org/CANADA-BC-SEP-18-2004-The-old-problem-of-prostitution.html
Should authorities license sex trade workers? Should such transactions be decriminalized? Should municipalities zone "red- light" districts where prostitution is legal, workers are safer and public health concerns can be addressed?

These questions come and go from decade to decade. More than a century ago, British Columbia's town councils were wrestling with the problem of how -- and whether -- to regulate a vigorous sex trade from which polite society often averted its eyes while availing itself of the services it decried.

And in an eerie foreshadowing of recent urban conversations, residents in Mount Pleasant complained almost 100 years ago that police crackdowns elsewhere caused prostitutes to relocate to their neighbourhood.

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© The Vancouver Sun 2004



What is the point of my post, you may ask, since it so clearly seems not to be political, and thus not really DU material in any way, shape, or form?

What is the point of ANY post, but to inform and/ or create discussion. Missing persons deserve as much democratic consideration and justice as any other person.

Personally, I think they deserve it more so, because their voices (unless they are a young white college kid or white clean-cut mostly female rich person - for example, Smart, Sjodin, Levy, Peterson, Hacking etc.) are rarely heard from or written about or acknowledged in any way shape or form.

Do you know how many persons went missing in California at about the same time as Laci Peterson? Two that I know of specifically. One was hispanic (and also pregnant and also found murdered not too long AFTER Laci) and another was a prostitute, but guess which was talked about incessantly by the media?

And finally, missing persons and serial killers are an example of why the budgets of LE (both here in the U.S and abroad) should be raised (and NOT just for homeland security) which is A VERY POLITICAL subject - in my opinion,

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[medeak]

1. is this a continuation of the alcohol poisoning site?

hey...prostitution is legal in my town...in fact the brothels are right in the middle of downtown.

edited to say apologies...I see that missing persons are a passion with you.

Lori Hacking however was not a white caucasion....but she was photogenic and I get what you mean.

Don't understand the whole prostitution thing however...

[AmyStrange]

2. True...

I've been following Lori on the periphery and was under the impression she was white. I apologize also.

Yes it is a passion with me and apology accepted.

Prostitutes go missing all the time and not too many people care and that's why serial killers tend to gravitate towards them as victims. Not too many people seem to care when they don't show up for a few weeks. Sad to say,

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[medeak]

3. that's why legalization is good

the girls here are not allowed out without chaperones...very protected and have weekly physician checkups required by law.

The sad thing to me..is that have come across a few in medical field and have not met one yet that can read or write.

[AmyStrange]

4. That is sad...

which province do you live in?

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[medeak]

5. I'm in US

Nevada...where almost everything is legal.

edited to say...in my dementia...didn't even realize I was on Canada thread....as answered your post under "latest" :-)

Apologies to you indeed!