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Violence Against Women and National Day of Remembrance

National Day of Remembrance: The day referenced is December 6th, the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre and the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, according to Rabble. This is, of course, part of the problem with the term sex worker. It is intentionally vague. Technically, a sex worker could be someone who runs a brothel i.e. a pimp which is, in fact, the impetus behind both Scott and Terri Jean Bedford desire to decriminalize the sex industry so they can continue to make a living off of prostitution despite the fact that men no longer will buy sex from them those johns are total sweethearts though it just they only want teenage pussy, nbd . A sex worker doesn t necessarily mean a woman who is prostituted, but a sex worker, apparently, can speak on behalf of all prostituted women and The Canadian Press published a weird little story today by reporter, Stephanie Levitz, claiming that sex workers feel it is sick and twisted that Canada controversial new prostitution bill comes into force on a day dedicated to eradicating violence against women. Levitz only interviewed one self-described sex worker, Valerie Scott, who is one of the women Alan Young brought on as an applicant in his court challenge Bedford v. Canada and who is most likely no longer actually working as a prostitute, having aged out of the biz johns like the young uns . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.