With the Supreme Court of Canada's decision to strike down all prostitution laws, the government has one year to come up with any law that will meet the standards by the Supreme Court decision.
So, what is sex or, more specifically, what constitutes a sex act?
Aside from the can’t-print-it-here obvious, that is.
That’s just one of the not so hoary questions Toronto dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, who made history last month by leading the constitutional charge on the Supreme Court of Canada to decriminalize prostitution, wants to ask Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
She has a 2,000 word-long list of questions she feels needs answering before the Conservative government proposes any new legislation that will result in making transactional sex, which has always been legal in Canada, illegal.
Is helping a man who identifies as straight get prettied up in women’s clothes and cosmetics for sexual kicks prostitution?
Is tying up consenting adults and spanking them a sex act?
What type of restraints may be used?
Can restraints be used? How hard may they be used?
Does a therapeutic massage performed by a registered massage therapist that ends up with a sexual response count?
“Harper’s government is planning to regulate and enforce what goes on in the privacy of our homes and this concerns me,” she told the Star in a conference call interview yesterday. “Just because one red cent changes hands doesn’t mean that a sex worker is a criminal. They’re consenting adults engaged in private behaviour. It’s not the government’s business. It’s nobody’s business. It’s only their business if somebody is getting hurt.”
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2014...en_harper.html
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