Posted on 07/13/2022 6:22:51 PM PDT by Loyalist
A sex worker in Nova Scotia is pursuing a claim for non-payment of services in small claims court, in a case she and her advocates hope will help shift the conversation about sex work in Canada.
The woman at the centre of the case said she spent an evening with a client in January 2022. Afterwards, she realized she wasn't going to be paid when the PIN for the bank card he'd given her to withdraw money didn't work.
"It feels pretty humiliating to not get paid after providing so much for someone. And it's also frustrating that we don't have more protection," said Brogan, whom CBC News is only identifying by her first name for safety reasons, including that she is a survivor of human trafficking. While non-payment for services was something she'd experienced before, Brogan said she saw this incident as an opportunity to fight for sex work to be treated the same as other forms of employment.
"I'm very passionate about sex workers' rights as it is," she said.
"And so when something happened to myself, not being paid, I saw an opportunity to do something about it, to show other people that they can also they have rights as sex workers."
'Sex workers need economic stability'
In Canada, sex workers are allowed to sell their services, but the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act, passed in 2014, criminalizes aspects of that work — advertisement of sexual services or communicating about services in a public place, are offences, as well as the purchase of services.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Size does not matter,so they say.
Cash only, if the goods cannot be repossessed.
Congratulations, Sex Worker ... you won your case in court!
You know what that means?
It means you’re a whore!
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