You didnt educate us first on what were even talking about. Legalized, decriminalized-who are you talking to? Now the community is divided. As a sex worker, I feel ashamed to have an opinion, because the other opinions are louder and have been given your centre stage. At no time does she wonder about morality, for in the mind of the young girl, this notion is meaningless. If many men and women workers still consider honesty important, and try, by dint of blows and insults, to inculcate the word in their childrens minds, they have a hard time explaining to them how such honesty is useful, for it is in their own eyes an abstract concept et autres services de santé mentale du système judiciaire. 26 Pour ce quil ma été donné den voir, cétait des scènes reprenant des clichés de racolage de rue 11Commençons par observer les liens entre le libertinage et lune des bornes du continuum de léchange économico-sexuel : les situations dans lesquelles les hommes accèdent au corps des femmes par une rémunération directe. Please understand, we do want some change in the law. People in my community support increased security for sex trade workers to reduce abuse, greater focus on resources aimed at helping them get off the street, greater focus on resources aimed at helping high-risk youth, more effective prosecution of pimps; greater focus on the johns to ensur that it continues to be illegal for them to pick up prostitutes in residential areas, and greater support for alternatives, such as a prostitute offender program. I actually dont agree with a lot of what you say. I find your position very rigid. But there are some things you say that I do agree with. I certainly agree that prostitution is a class issue; its an issue of race; its an issue of discrimination and of violence. I think that kind of analysis can be brought to bear on a whole number of questions in different areas of work in our society. So I certainly agree that its not only this issue; its a whole number of issues. Genre, pouvoir et sexe dans le réseau urbain mondial Ms. Melissa Farley: My understanding is that you are not approaching the issue of prostitution from a moral perspective. I also do not..I am not speaking from a moral perspective; Im speaking from a harm-based perspective and-like you, I believe-a desire to reduce violence against women in all its forms, including prostitution. I believe focusing on the demand is where we need to go if we want to reduce violence against women. Sergeant Matt Kelly Vice Unit, Vancouver Police Department Mrs. Patricia Barnes Executive Director, Hastings North Business Improvement Association: Good morning Hon. Hedy Fry: Do you see that as exploitative? I think 50 is a lot. As a physician, when I had a locum, the locum got 40 because the 60 went directly to rent and overhead and the tools with which the locum worked. So I could know what that overhead went to. But if all youre doing is providing a phone service, basically, and advertising, do you feel 50 is exploitative? Tu nas pas besoin dêtre une femme pour être anti-machiste, tout comme tu nas pas besoin dêtre noir pour être anti-raciste Mr. Dennis St. Aubin: If I might suggest, Id like to bring back the idea of looking at projects such as the safe injection site and the heroin trials. You dont have to legalize prostitution per se in order to experiment with ways in which it could be more effectively regulated to everyones benefit. There are alternatives available, I believe. Included in our package is data published in the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2004, Attitude Change Following a Diversion Program for Men who Solicit Sex, which shows the effectiveness of the Vancouver program in changing the perception that prostitution is a victimless crime. Revue dédiée à la géographie politique et la géopolitique But my reference to trafficking was.. I dont have any statistics on it, unfortunately, and I think there needs to be a lot more work done on that. Unfortunately, because of the criminalization of the sex trade, we cant get..