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I n the plush surroundings of the Ritz Carlton in downtown Toronto, Delight raised a cool, crisp glass of Sauvignon Blanc to her lips. It was not an act of celebration β more an attempt to drown her despair.
Delight had gathered with a group of fellow sex workers to mark the moment when, for the first time in Canadian history, buying sex became illegal. Just 12 months earlier, the scene could not have been more different. Sex workers across the nation hailed a new dawn, believing their profession would be decriminalised. They hoped that any new law introduced would allow women to use their homes or rented spaces to sell sex and employ a maid or bodyguard while working, thus making what remains an undeniably dangerous profession a little safer.
Instead, this week, a controversial bill following the so-called Nordic model β which makes it illegal to buy sex, though not to sell it β became law. The battle over prostitution has divided the nation. But the court failed to offer guidance on setting new laws, leaving the matter up to parliament. Women will die because of this new law.
Sex workers worry that the new legislation will leave them more vulnerable to attack, with less time and opportunity to vet clients and less ability to share information about violent punters. Another unintended consequence of the measure could see prostitutes pushed towards criminality. The government says it will target the johns who pay for sex, not those who sell it, but there is nothing in the law that specifically protects prostitutes against criminal charges, said Daniel Brown, a criminal defence lawyer in Toronto.
But in a statement , the human rights group acknowledged that the law could be detrimental to sex workers. Equality Now, alongside a coalition of conservative and religious groups who joined with feminist organisations, insists the law is necessary and will curtail an industry which it argues is fundamentally exploitative and dangerous.