Seniors snared in Lethbridge prostitution crackdown

I think the laws in Canada for this need a serious reexamination.

Oh and kudos to the old guys, there is hope for us.

Legalize it.
This is a waste of taxpayers money.

I agree, legalize it, regulate it, tax it. Prostitution will NEVER go away, there will ALWAYS be those willing to sell their bodies and others willing to buy them.

...and for men in their 80s, a waste of an erection.


What I mean is that you don't stop a man in his 80s when he's ready.

"They were silly buggers. Anybody that age is silly to go out on the street looking for a prostitute, let me tell you," she said.


Just a tad jealous, me thinks!

On a more serious note, I agree that prostitution should be legalized, given their own quarter and monitored. Health checks, etc. Before I moved out here, and part of the reason I did so, I lived in a neighborhood rife with hookers and junkies. I like the older neighborhoods, and the city had decided to 'clean up' the area. Never happened. Only got worse. The other day when I was in Edmonton I drove around the old neighborhood. Still the same! Unless you have actually caught people fucking in your back yard, and pissing in your driveway, in the middle of the day , you just can't appreciate the true nature of street prostitution. The only way it is ever going to change, in any community, is such activity were to start happening in the local Pols neighborhoods.

So what does the population need to be to avoid naming names?

Well, if you think your community is that small then word would get around anyway.

Prostitution is not unlike any other supply & demand industry. Legalize it and allow it to run like any other legitimate business.

Hell, this should be included in their pension plan. Like that guy on welfare who got the German govt to pay (I hink) for 4 hookers a month because his wife was out of action.

But, Amsterdam has just drastically cut back it's red light district, primarily, I understand, because of all the human trafficking. Seems that even where it's legal, those scum get involved. OTOH, there seem to be a lot of independent women doing it even here in Canada, no pimps involved, and done discreetly from home or thru an escort service. Problems with the street hookers come from them mostly being junkies, and as long as drugs are illegal, we'll probably have this sort of shit going on.

Too bad, if women were as slutty as men, prostitution wouldn't exist.

It's already practically legalized in Edmonton.

Most prostitutes work in 'massage parlours' and do so with little police interference. When I volunteered in the past with a group that helps prostitutes get off the street, almost everyone of them told me that the police only care about street prostitution. Those in the massage places only have to worry about health inspectors coming in and closing them down for not having 'escort' licenses ($1500) or having dirty premises, etc.

Frankly, I ave little problem with that, although I know that most of that income is still untaxed, because parlours charge the girls a fee for the room and whatever else she gets is hers to keep tax free.

Well, strictly speaking, prostitution legal in Canada. You're just not allowed to talk (communicate) about it, can't employ anybody for anything to do with it (living off the avails) and can't have more than one person working from a location (keeping common bawdy house). For the street stuff they have to entrap them to bust them, but mostly I think they just push them to out of the way places where they are less safe.

Good on ya for your work tho - street hooking isn't a fate I would wish on anybody. And if you look at most of them, I don't see how anybody could be sexually attracted to them - most are in terrible shape from all the drugs.

Boots, do you perhaps know Mike Walters?

Is this the worse thing they have to worry about?