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Harper has already been elected twice. The one's who are too lazy to get of their coutch on election day deserve what they get. If Harper's first years at the Parlement was not a sufficiant motivation for those who take democracy for granted to take 30 minutes of their time to vote, it means that people are as fatuous as he is. Furthermore, him and his troup are doing harm every day to our civil and fundamental rights but very few seem to care or even get it. Surveys show he is still very popular and it is impossible to know yet if he will be reelected or not.
Rickoshadows, you are claiming that a significant number of cerb members believe in statu quo regarding the law? What are their arguments? Girls who don't wish paying income taxe and clients who are scared of seing a price boum? Are people that selfish and insouciant or there is something else? I don't get it.
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I am totally with you on that Erin, dividing us based on "class" or whatever other reasons is pointless. We are all offering sexual services in exchange of a remuneration. What I appreciate about the New Zealand Prostitution Act is that street prostitutes are not criminalized. Instead, the act encourage police, health services, social organizations and municipalities to collaborate in order to provide effective supports to these women often facing personnal struggles such as drug addictions, roaming and mental health.
As The San Francisco Exotic Dancers Alliance
was saying: "United We Stand, Divided We Bend Over."
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Sorry to contradict you Lindsay but my understanding of what is happening is not exactly how you portrait it.
The new Regulations prescribing certain offences to be serious offences is of federal jurisdiction, not provincial, which means it applies all over Canada. By classifying of serious offencethe keeping of a common bawdy-house (subsection 210(1) and paragraph 210(2)(c)), keeping a bawdy-house, when suspected of being kept by 3 individuals, now falls under crimes regulated by the dispositions regarding organized crime. This means that keeping a bawdy-house can now be punished of a minimum five years sentence and plus, that people suspected of these activities can be wiretap, found guilty of organized crime, etc.
Now, if you look through some court decisions, a woman who was working from her apartment on a regular basis was convicted of keeping a bawdy-house (1972), etc. This means, as an exemple, that if you, me and another lady decide to share a flat for incalls, we could be convicted of being a "criminal organization" perpetrating an "organized crime" because we are 3 individuals practicing a lucrative activity that is prohibited and now qualified of serious offence - which are the criteria used by justices to determine if an act qualify of organized crime.
Of course discreet independent escorts are not authorities number one priority. Nevertheless, I have no doubt this new regulation can hit in places where it should not. In my humble opinion, it is also a way to enforce all laws surrounding prostitution. Our right wing minority government dislike all kind of prostitution and makes no discrimination when it comes to define who is a prostitute or not, whatever you define yourself as (street hooker, courtisane, escort...). Their douchebags jesus freak supporters all over Canada think the same way and lots of them are elected or powerful policeman with too much time on their hands.
To what I know, sex workers groups are, in part, fighting to abolish the existing disposition regarding bawdy-house in order for us to be able to work as groups in safe environments, share fees... while sparing us facing criminal charge.
I find this news quite depressing. However, I still have hope that the constitutional challenges in Ontario and Vancouver will put an end to that nonsense.
FYI: This new regulation does not need to be vote. Since 2002, right after september 11, the Chamber voted in favor of permetting the elected government to pass new regulations concerning criminal offences without having them debate and voted by the majority.
http://canadagazette.gc.ca/rp-pr/p2/2010/2010-08-04/html/sor-dors161-eng.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Canada#197_Bawdy_house_definition
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Sorry, i guess i was replying at the same time than you both.
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Kyra, ever watched Peaches covering Alanis covering the Balck Eyed Peas?
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Old Dog, thanks for Devo covering the Stones, had totally forgot about it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlddwLtuJds
Misstress Barbara covering Leonard Cohen- Dance Me Till The End Of Love
Too drunk to fuck - original Dead Kennedys - covered by Nouvelle Vague
Somewhere over the rainbow by Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole
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Merci Erin, very sweet!
I like those 2 for their simplicity:
Lou
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Hello,
I don't know where you are located but I know that Stella (http://www.chezstella.org - 514 285 8889) in Montreal have an sp friendly accountant. If you are far, maybe she can give you phone advices.
Lou
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Thanks earlybird for letting me know about that!
Regards.
Lou
On CL for Halifax December 21 there is someone advertising as a busty brunette offering xmas specials and being 23 years old and 135 pounds. The photo this person is using is of LOU SIMONE from Montreal who advertises as being 37 and 190 pounds. Do your research & be careful.Posted via Mobile Device
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Hooooo, so you are going to have a very gay night 2!!!
I will be at the Bell Center dancing all night in a couple of hours!!!
Lou
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Yes, it is a great song but the Jessica cover didn't do it for me!
I also like these performers in boots:
When she gets out at 2 minutes, wow, those boots are hot!!!
And her, no doubt a sex beast, I am sure she could kiss all our ass good with these kewl boots!!!
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The best tribute to boots ever (tho I still wonder why they are not all wearing boots?!?!?!).
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We all say that any man could be a client. Well, when I am in a public space, I may find 5% of the guys attractive. So if we mean here strictly physique and look, it's the same thing for the men I encounter as an escort. That said, if you are clean and respectful, you will all be treated equally, I am not in the business to treat myself (tho I have a lot of great times), I am here primarily to treat my clientele. And after all, the man I met that fitted my taste the most in regards to look and physique smelled so bad that it was not much exciting as you can all imagine...
And just like you littlelady, I find women way more attractive than men. But such as men, if the woman is superficial, arrogant and not much interesting and fun, it wont do it for me.
In my opinion, charm is the key and it comes from a mix of personality, brain, kindness and the way a person is capable of making me feel desirable.
Finally, I have to admit that escorting as permitted me to open myself way more to people to whom a priori I would not be attracted to. Look and physique are now without any doubts secondary when i am looking for personal fun.
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Abolitionist (or anti-prostitution groups I should say) started to organize themselves when the international movement for the rights of sex workers got stronger, which happened at the end of the 90's. They have been using trafficking as their main argument to keep prostitution illegal - statu quo - or to criminalize only clients since, in their book, all women are victims and are raped every time they have a sexual relation with a client. I have been interested in the topic of trafficking for years, I have interviewed police corps in Canada and Asia, visited rescued organizations while I was on vacation in Asia (that are all empty, I swear I saw them), and a lot more. I know for sure that trafficking of women as presented by these organizations is a big myth and they know it also. Important police officers also told me that they believe it's a big myth and that money and energies should be put elsewhere. People who cross borders illegally do it for work but rarely for sex work... They get jobs with horrible conditions in sweatshops, restaurants and stuff like that, rarely, rarely they travel for sex work since it is not the biggest demand and not all women are capable of working as a prostitue neither. The women who travel legally or illegally for prostitution do it in most case voluntary even tho sometimes they are victims of abuse.
South East Asia Unesco did a study because they were wondering where these absurd numbers where coming from. They also told me they believe it is a big lie that pleases the American governement and others. I have all this on tape, not only in my head!!! And I promise it wont stay in my drawer for very long:)
Anyway, I could go on for ever, but what is sad and should be said here is that the abolitionist movement wan on some points. We can now be arrested (us, drivers, associate...) in Canada when we travel from a province to another for sex work because it is now consider trafficking.
Here is a great article (in French sorry) about the Mondial of Foot Ball (soccer) in 2006 where 40 000 prostitutes were expected to be trafficked for the big game. This article recounts where the lie came from, how it evoluated and then explains the reality (no victim of trafficking!!!!). If I can find it in english, I'll post it.
You should fallow the link to read it since it is too long to be posted.
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!. A lot more free time for school and my loved ones
2. Since I started escorting, I kept my day job but only the clients that I love so, each time I work, i have fun!!!
3. I met people that I would not have met otherwise and some that I found particulary extraordinary and are now more than precious to me.
4. Don't need student loans anymore, I only take the grants:)
5. I am now more confident than ever with myself and my body. I wish I could tell all these girls who hate themself that a lot of men worship chubby women and women of all kind.
6. I got to know men differently and I appreciate it.
7. Travelling is also a big plus.
8. By managing my biz, I developped new skills
9. Being an escort, you have to be intimate with people that you would not have otherwise. Superficial parts of yourelf go into the drain. For exemple, I would not have been intimate with men that are 30 years older than myself before.
10. I have a good excuse to buy more shoes and nice lingerie:)
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Surprised of the result?
I am not!
Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/government-trafficking-enquiry-fails
The Guardian, 20-10-09
The UK's biggest ever investigation of sex trafficking failed to find a single person who had forced anybody into prostitution in spite of hundreds of raids on sex workers in a six-month campaign by government departments, specialist agencies and every police force in the country.
The failure has been disclosed by a Guardian investigation which also suggests that the scale of and nature of sex trafficking into the UK has been exaggerated by politicians and media.
Current and former ministers have claimed that thousands of women have been imported into the UK and forced to work as sex slaves, but most of these statements were either based on distortions of quoted sources or fabrications without any source at all.
While some prosecutions have been made, the Guardian investigation suggests the number of people who have been brought into the UK and forced against their will into prostitution is much smaller than claimed; and that the problem of trafficking is one of a cluster of factors which expose sex workers to coercion and exploitation.
Acting on the distorted information, the government has produced a bill, now moving through its final parliamentary phase, which itself has provoked an outcry from sex workers who complain that, instead of protecting them, it will expose them to extra danger.
When police in July last year announced the results of Operation Pentameter Two, Jacqui Smith, then home secretary, hailed it as "a great success". Its operational head, Tim Brain, said it had seriously disrupted organised crime networks responsible for human trafficking. "The figures show how successful we have been in achieving our goals," he said.
Those figures credited Pentameter with "arresting 528 criminals associated with one of the worst crimes threatening our society". But an internal police analysis of Pentameter, obtained by the Guardian after a lengthy legal struggle, paints a very different picture.
The analysis, produced by the police Human Trafficking Centre in Sheffield and marked "restricted", suggests there was a striking shortage of sex traffickers to be found in spite of six months of effort by all 55 police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland together with the UK Border Agency, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the Foreign Office, the Northern Ireland Office, the Scottish government, the Crown Prosecution Service and various NGOs in what was trumpeted as "the largest ever police crackdown on human trafficking".
The analysis reveals that 10 of the 55 police forces never found anyone to arrest. And 122 of the 528 arrests announced by police never happened: they were wrongly recorded either through honest bureaucratic error or apparent deceit by forces trying to chalk up arrests which they had not made. Among the 406 real arrests, more than half of those arrested (230) were women, and most were never implicated in trafficking at all.
Of the 406 real arrests, 153 had been released weeks before the police announced the success of the operation: 106 of them without any charge at all and 47 after being cautioned for minor offences. Most of the remaining 253 were not accused of trafficking: 73 were charged with immigration breaches; 76 were eventually convicted of non-trafficking offences involving drugs, driving or management of a brothel; others died, absconded or disappeared off police records.
Although police described the operation as "the culmination of months of planning and intelligence-gathering from all those stakeholders involved", the reality was that, during six months of national effort, they found only 96 people to arrest for trafficking, of whom 67 were charged. Forty-seven of those never made it to court.
Only 22 people were finally prosecuted for trafficking, including two women who had originally been "rescued" as supposed victims. Seven of them were acquitted. The end result was that, after raiding 822 brothels, flats and massage parlours all over the UK, Pentameter finally convicted of trafficking a grand total of only 15 men and women.
Police claimed that Pentameter used the international definition of sex trafficking contained in the UN's Palermo protocol, which involves the use of coercion or deceit to transport an unwilling man or woman into prostitution. But, in reality, Pentameter used a very different definition, from the UK's 2003 Sexual Offences Act, which makes it an offence to transport a man or woman into prostitution even if this involves assisting a willing sex worker.
Internal police documents reveal that 10 of Pentameter's 15 convictions were of men and women who were jailed on the basis that there was no evidence of their coercing the prostitutes they had worked with. There were just five men who were convicted of importing women and forcing them to work as prostitutes. These genuinely were traffickers, but none of them was detected by Pentameter, although its investigations are still continuing.
Two of them ? Zhen Xu and Fei Zhang ? had been in custody since March 2007, a clear seven months before Pentameter started work in October 2007.
The other three, Ali Arslan, Edward Facuna and Roman Pacan, were arrested and charged as a result of an operation which began when a female victim went to police in April 2006, well over a year before Pentameter Two began, although the arrests were made while Pentameter was running.
The head of the UK Human Trafficking Centre, Grahame Maxwell, who is chief constable of North Yorkshire, acknowledged the importance of the figures: "The facts speak for themselves. I'm not trying to argue with them in any shape or form," he said.
He said he had commissioned fresh research from regional intelligence units to try to get a clearer picture of the scale of sex trafficking. "What we're trying to do is to get it gently back to some reality here," he said.
"It's not where you go down on every street corner in every street in Britain, and there's a trafficked individual.
"There are more people trafficked for labour exploitation than there are for sexual exploitation. We need to redress the balance here. People just seem to grab figures from the air."
Groups who work with trafficked women declined to comment on the figures from the Pentameter Two police operation but said that the problem of trafficking was real.
Ruth Breslin, research and development manager for Eaves which runs the Poppy project for victims of trafficking, said: "I don't know the ins and outs of the police operation. It is incredibly difficult to establish prevalence because of the undercover and potentially criminal nature of trafficking and also, we feel, because of the fear that many women have in coming forward."
The internal analysis of Pentameter notes that some records could not be found and Brain, who is chief constable of Gloucestershire, argued that some genuine traffickers may have been charged with non-trafficking offences because of the availability of evidence but he conceded that he could point to no case where this had happened.
He said the Sexual Offences Act was "not user friendly" although he said he could not recall whether he had pointed this out to government since the end of Pentameter Two.
Parliament is in the final stages of passing the policing and crime bill which contains a proposal to clamp down on trafficking by penalising any man who has sex with a woman who is "controlled for gain" even if the man is genuinely ignorant of the control. Although the definition of "controlled" has been tightened, sex workers' groups complain that the clause will encourage women to prove that they are not being controlled by working alone on the streets or in a flat without a maid, thus making them more vulnerable to attack.
There are also fears that if the new legislation deters a significant proportion of customers, prostitutes will be pressurised to have sex without condoms in order to bring them back.
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Women
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- Peaches and Joan Jett as a duo
- Sofia Loren (if she wispers to me in Italian while I please her)
- Courtney Love when she is drunk and high, that must be fun:)
- Louise Arbourg (maybe if i fuck her, I'll get a bit of her brain)
- Beatrice Dalle (she looks so dirty)
- The William Sisters as a duo
MEN
(in no particular order and I know it makes more than 5)
- Iggy Pop at anytime!!!
- Christian Walken, mysterious kewl guy
- Roger Federer and Nadal, oui encore!
- Nike Cave and Leonard Cohen together, they could take turn signing for me
- Jimy Hendrix, black and american indian, what a beautiful blend!
- Al Pacino, I don't know why but I always had fantasies about him while my chilhood girlfriends wanted Cruise and Rob Low, I wanted that older italian guy.
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For all of you who like women with some meat around their bones, here is a cool blogue with artsy erotic pics of chubby to very curvy women. Thank you Rob for sending me this link, it was a great way to start my day, very refreshing!
[email=http://fuckyeahchubbygirls.tumblr.com/]http://fuckyeahchubbygirls.tumblr.com/[/email]
Lou
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Merci!
Why dont you visit Montreal the weekend of our next event? You will be able to get a Hot Dog after, it is not too far from the Pool Room!!!
A live performance with the Dead Dolls and their guests.
A night for the survival of alternatives arts and shows on the Main.
September 4th
8pm
At the Medley
1170 St-Denis
http://www.cafecleo.blogspot.com/
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Thanks to all of you who took 2 minutes of your time to sign our online petition to save the Montreal strip club Cleo and what is left of the famoust Montreal Red Light district. We wan!!! It was worth the effort!
http://www.nationalpost.com/story.html?id=1867285
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/actualites...-promoteur.php
http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/M...-rapport.shtml
Lou Simone
Coalition pour la sauvegarde du Cleo
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Primus! Long time I havent seen those guys. Lately, i only listen to their music if I get lucky enough to fell on South Park episode in a hotel. They rocked my world a lot such as these guys did at the same period.
Intense - simplicity is again the key here. A lot of passion.
Beautiful. One camera, one shot.
I had never seen the Fat Boy Slim clip. It was a pleasure to see one of my all time favorite actor groove like that. I always had a thing for Christopher Walken. In high school, the other girls dreamed about Tom Cruise, I wanted Christopher and Al Pacino - and still do, they are hotties in my book:)
Thanks for sharing.
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Bonjour,
Cumquat, I agree with you about Daft Punk's video, its a great one (as impressive as their last tour, strikly genius!). Michel Gondry is an amazing director who knows how to create beautiful images out of simplicity. He also did great jobs with the White Stripes, Beck, Cibo Matto, Bjork and many others.
NIN also made a lot of great clips, remember the short one that brought us into a toilet? It was very unique and impressive when it came out in the 90's!
Do I always loved Rob Zombie (I am more familiar with his White Zombie period), I have to disagree with you for that choice, whats great about it comes from the imaginary of Kubrick so i would not include it in a list of best videos ever.
I had totally forgot about Petty's Alice in Wonderland clip, it reminded me of that one
If we are only talking about visual aspects here - not music - i really enjoy those two who were produced in the last couple of years:
video and Justice D.A.N.C.E., simple but so great.I could go on for ever, they are so many...
Ciao
Lou
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OPP Make Additions To "Serious Crimes" List
in Legal discussion, cases & questions
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As we all testified yesterday, with the present laws, they can allready manage to be more severe. If the Supreme Court determines that the actual laws are unconstitutionnal, there are no ways the legislative will be able to make striker laws. More power might be given to the cities in order for them to create zones for specific activities but not necessarly to all activitites that involved sex in exchange of money.
Such as they did in progressive New Zealand, the key to a decent change that corresponds to the needs of the industry is to have sex workers consulted and listened to when the bylaws, the regulations and the laws will be rethink and rewrote.