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Good. Solicitation threatens girls and women simply walking in their own neighborhoods.
by parfe 13y ago
Good. Solicitation threatens girls and women simply walking in their own neighborhoods.
- derefr 13y agoI think the GP meant, if a prostitute went up and offered her services to a john, and the john said yes, that would be considered "solicitation" on the part of the john. Which is to say, prostitution was legal for the prostitute, but illegal for the john.
- parfe 13y agoJohns don't passively sit in coffee shops or stand in line at Best Buy while beset by offers of sex for money. They roll up on girls and women walking down the street in an attempt to purchase sex.
- derefr 13y agoI don't know if you've ever walked down a street where there are desperate streetwalkers (usually drug-addicts; e.g. crack addicts on Hastings here in Vancouver) but even if you say nothing to them, they'll follow you for blocks trying to get you to pay them.
- redthrowaway 13y agoHell, I was walking through the red light district in Buenos Aires and they followed behind me grabbing my crotch.
- dyno12345 13y agoI have never been a John, and I have been chased down the street by prostitutes with varying degrees of aggressiveness. In one instance two of them grabbed my arms and tried to drag me
- EGreg 13y agoIsn't that assault?
- electromagnetic 13y agoI've been approached a couple times for sitting in a parking lot waiting for my wife to get off work. I've been approached a few times whilst doing a job in a poor area of town. You've got a very naive view of the world, you clearly have never lived in the situation and areas that you seem to claim expertise in. These women need money more than a lot of their patrons are looking for sex.
- simoncion 13y agoI often get asked if I'm "looking for company", or "want to party" by scantily-clad young (and old) women (and men passing as women) on my evening walks around my neighborhood here in SF. Not all cities are alike. :)
- stan_rogers 13y agoJut to clarify: "solicitation" (which is not, in fact, the offense; more properly, it is "communicating in a public place for the purposes of prostitution") applies to both parties, and the actual transaction is legal for both parties (according to existing Canadian law). Any of the "middle man" activities are generally illegal (procurement, operating a common bawdy-house, transportation, and "living on the avails" where exploitation is involved) are illegal.