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A Plea to Travellers: Stop Buying Sex in Thailand

Jeffrey Bernstein | Posted 11.06.2012 | Canada
Jeffrey Bernstein

The volume of sex tourism in Thailand is suggestive of an epidemic. Perhaps the men who participate in it are unlucky in love. Perhaps they're just misunderstood. Or, perhaps they just fetishize the exotic "other." Sex tourism would not exist -- nay, thrive -- without the demand-pull provided by men unable to check at the airport, or to fulfill elsewhere, their hormonal desires. So, fellow travellers, young and old, fat and thin, Caucasian and Asian (because lewdness is colourblind), please, I implore you: Stop bringing your unrequited sexual fantasies to Thailand (and to Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar). It's demeaning. It's perpetuating. And it's embarrassing.

Safe Drugs -- But Not Safe Sex?

Daniel Alexandre Portoraro | Posted 09.08.2012 | Canada Politics
Daniel Alexandre Portoraro

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney recently announced that the federal government would no longer offer work visas to immigrants applying for positions in the sex trade. While this is certainly a step in the right direction in terms of moderating the oldest profession in the world, it's not enough.

Hey Sailor! What Canada Can Teach the U.S. About Prostitution

Alison Bass | Posted 08.12.2012 | Canada Politics
Alison Bass

Just as Canada has provided us with a model for affordable health care, our neighbors to the north may also be leading the way on another key issue: prostitution and reducing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.

What Exactly Does Legalizing Brothels Mean?

CBC | Posted 05.28.2012 | Canada Living

The Ontario Court of Appeal has struck down a ban on brothels. The judges ruled that prostitutes should not be forced to work solely in da...

Does Police Repression Make Prostitution More Dangerous?

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.02.2012 | Canada

MONTREAL - It wasn't so long ago that prostitutes were a common sight on Montreal's historic lower Main, standing on street corners in high-heeled boo...

Expert: Police Strategy Made It Easier For Pickton

CP | James Keller, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.13.2011 | Canada Politics

VANCOUVER - A combination of the law, police tactics and bad attitudes among officers has forced street-level sex workers out of sight where they are ...

Prostitutes Are People Too, Group's Ads Argue

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 09.11.2011 | Canada

Stepping Stone, a sex-workers advocacy group in Nova Scotia, has released a series of ads that remind people that sex workers are also someone's mothe...