The state re-enters the bedroom with new legislation on prostitution

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[B][U]The state re-enters the bedroom with new legislation on prostitution[/U][/B]
Jesse Klein

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Pierre Trudeau had many deeply flawed ideas, but he was right about one thing: â??Thereâ??s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.â?

The way this country deals with prostitution has traditionally followed the idea that the government has no business interfering in Canadiansâ?? private sex lives, so long as economic transactions for sexual services are conducted in private. Before the Supreme Court stuck down many of Canadaâ??s prostitution laws late last year, selling sex was perfectly legal, but practices that took place in public â?? such as negotiating on the street and running a brothel â?? were illegal.

This was better than criminalizing prostitution completely, because it gave sex workers and johns a legal way to engage in a voluntary economic transaction. But it also made life much more dangerous for those who worked in the sex trade.

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