Brothels legalized in Ontario

Ontario Court has legalized prostitution laws for sex trade workers in brothels in Canada. Much controversy has been raised about the legalization of prostitution in brothels.  These laws allow sex trade workers have the right to work out of their homes and also are allowed to hire security to help promote and ensure the safety of these workers. Although this has been a large movement in society for these sex trade workers, law makers say the reasoning behind legalizing brothels is because working on the street is much more dangerous than prostitution out of brothels or their homes. There are three rules these workers have to abide by for this law,  they must work out of  these brothels or their homes,  and can hire security to ensure their safety. Although, pimping is not legal, and they also can’t advertise their sex work to the public. 

These new laws raise many issues and concerns for both workers and the community. The community fears that this will have a bad influence on their children and society seeing how they are making prostitution legal, meaning it is okay to perform sex as work anywhere’s inside Ontario. Many people are scared that because the unemployment rate is so high in Ontario then this will then promote people to engage in sex work as an occupation. Workers have argued because it is legal all over Canada to buy and sell sex for example “Porn,” then it is in fact okay to perform it and sell it as an occupation as well. Law makers have argued against the concerned community that “The record is clear the safest way to sell sex is for a prostitute to work indoors in a location under their control.” This in my opinion is true but it can also be very dangerous for workers also because although you are off the streets these allows more lead way behind closed doors. 

Law makers allowing this sex work to take place in brothels and in homes, allows more room for potential crime and drug dealing and usage to occur. In contrast, I feel everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect no matter what profession they choose. Moreover, because the law is allowing sex work to occur in these brothels doesn’t necessarily mean that this sexwork will en don the streets. In addition this can create issues with class because these sex workers are now divided into two classes, street sex workers and brothel sex workers.

Sex work shouldn’t be promoted in Canada I feel because their is alot of crime and drug use that isn’t beneficial to our society. The use of Brothels isn’t goignt o stop the crime, in fact I feel it will promote the use of crime because they are legally allowed to sell their bodies now. Furthermore, I would like to bring to attention that the laws may be beneficial in law makers minds to protect these sex works, but in reality their is still going to be criminal and deviant behaviour that occurs with this type of work and security and the use of brothel in my opinion wont stop this.