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    VeryWellMax Rivlin-Nadler
    12/21/13 12:37pm

    Regardless of the issues around the torrents of disgusting bodily fluids and human forms sweatily flopping around on each other, in a sickening ritual that doesn't do anything to thwart inevitable cold, sweet death: what should this market's regulation look like?

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      ceruleandragonVeryWell
      12/21/13 12:40pm

      Wait, when did the subject turn to football?

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      benjaminalloverVeryWell
      12/21/13 12:49pm

      They need some anti-trafficking rules. Allowing whorehouses and body guards will make prostitution safer, but it doesn`t address the growing problem of trafficking.

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    Rod Strickland PropaneMax Rivlin-Nadler
    12/21/13 12:30pm

    who face hurtles receiving healthcare and working safely.

    How are these prostitutes supposed to move away from government-dependency when you're insisting on giving them privileges such as healthcare and workplace safety?!?

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      Búho se PierdeRod Strickland Propane
      12/21/13 12:36pm

      Seriously! Next thing you know they'll train them as safer sex educators just like in Brazil. I hope Canada realizes it's a slippery slope from there to socialized medicine.

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      It was a Mud Shark, not a Red SnapperRod Strickland Propane
      12/21/13 12:56pm

      i couldn't get past "hurtles"

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    ObliteratiMax Rivlin-Nadler
    12/21/13 12:39pm

    I'll just get the ball rolling here...

    GIF
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      ManchuCandidateMax Rivlin-Nadler
      12/21/13 12:30pm

      Charlie Sheen immigrates to Canada City?

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        Rod Strickland PropaneManchuCandidate
        12/21/13 12:37pm

        ...he's still waiting in line for Hugh Grant to finish his visa application.

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        inProductionRod Strickland Propane
        12/21/13 2:58pm

        Hugh Grant is a member of the Commonwealth. They always get priority.

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      foreigndutchmanMax Rivlin-Nadler
      12/21/13 12:28pm

      As someone dutch, welcome to the club!

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        gougeawayforeigndutchman
        12/21/13 12:51pm

        Sorry buddy. In the Netherlands, prostitution is legalised, not decriminalised. It's a fairly important distinction.

        The only countries in the full decrim club are New Zealand, and now Canada.

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        sportzzzgirlforeigndutchman
        12/21/13 2:04pm

        *Waves* Ditto from Australia. Well, bits of it anyway.

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      MataroMax Rivlin-Nadler
      12/21/13 12:32pm

      In the U.S. not only would this never happen, but also that woman wouldn't be allowed in Court with that weapon.

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        Rod Strickland PropaneMataro
        12/21/13 12:41pm

        ...are you sure that's woman?

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        MataroRod Strickland Propane
        12/21/13 12:50pm

        She's Terri-Jean Bradford, a dominatrix and former prostitute, and one of the three women who brought the challenge to the Court.

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      BaconVonMapleBarMax Rivlin-Nadler
      12/21/13 12:27pm

      Quit embarrassing us Canada with your judges and laws that make sense.

      Oh wait, Rob Ford.

      For record, I guess I wouldn't care if my mayor smoked rocks as long as he was able to shape good policies. Half of DC staff is buzzed by noon, wasted by 6 before catching the train home. I've seen it.

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        Strider2BaconVonMapleBar
        12/21/13 12:50pm

        What's more embarrassing is the fact that a crackhead like Rob Ford is more fiscally responsible than most US politicians.

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      SteeveDoorsMax Rivlin-Nadler
      12/21/13 1:05pm

      To be clear: Prostitution was never illegal in Canada. As in it was always legal to sex or buy sex for money.

      However, there were a series of laws around prostitution which made it a) illegal to proposition someone for sex (ie it was legal to pay for sex, but not legal to offer someone money for sex) and b) illegal to make a living off of money you earned from sex (essentially, you couldn't set up a business structure around your sex work).

      The argument basically was that those two caveats (especially the second one) meant that sex work was forced out of (relatively) safe brothels and onto the street.

      The people arguing the case basically said: If this shit is legal, why are there all these laws that make it so dangerous? The court agreed with them.

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        superImposedMax Rivlin-Nadler
        12/21/13 3:57pm

        From US perspective, at this point, with its universal healthcare, lax marijuana laws, strict gun laws, general population liberal attitudes toward abortion and same-sex marriage, stable banking system and best hockey... Canada is essentially a rogue, subversive country.

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          PipeSmokingGalMax Rivlin-Nadler
          12/21/13 1:00pm

          Canadians, mount up!

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            VeryWellPipeSmokingGal
            12/21/13 2:37pm

            Oh the Yelp reviews...the Yelp reviews...

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            Sniper GillespiePipeSmokingGal
            12/22/13 5:53am

            Man, for a minute there I thought you said "Regulators, Mount up."

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