There’s a WORLD of difference between brothel owners and pimps.

Pimps can be (and usually are) vile, evil fuckers who use drugs to control their prostitutes. They can be violent, manipulative, and do not pay well, constantly causing the women who work under them to remain victims because they need to maintain their power over the women to keep them on their leashes. The women are paid only enough to live on, usually, which tends to perpetuate the poverty and need that keeps them as the lowest-paid workers in the sex trade.

That’s when you have the fake “illegal” prostitution most places in North America have. It’s a lie because there are escorts working newspapers and advertising on the net. No one’s stupid enough to think they’re all just arm-bound eye-candy. It’s a joke! Yet you have disenfranchised hookers and addicts working for ridiculous rates on seedy, dangerous streets where crime and drugs are rampant. Yet people think this is taking the moral HIGH ROAD in our society? Come on! Remove the blinders.

Brothel owners, however, are legal employers and are bound by laws that govern offices, retail businesses, and even the brothel’s employer-employee relations.

Many, probably all, provide health and medical, something your average prostitute probably only dreams of. They also enforce safe practices in a healthy environs, thereby protecting the women that work there.

And you’re jumping to conclusions that it’s all male owners. Truth is, there’s probably a lot of female owners too. Why do you think it’s always women getting busted as the heads of escort rings?

Anyhow, yeah, I strongly disagree with that statement.

In a city that has been just butchered by murders of prostitutes, with dozens and dozens having been killed, and many more missing, in the past three decades, I LONG TO HAVE BROTHELS AND LEGALIZED PROSTITUTION IN MY PROVINCE.

It would save many lives, and it’d get some of the hardest hit women a safe place to get out of the cycles they’ve found themselves in while making, by most standards, a pretty sweet living.

Unfortunately, a lot of people reach the same conclusion as you because they just don’t know enough about how much better the legal sex trade is run compared to the pseudo-illicit one, and it’s for that reason that women will probably keep dying in my city.

And that’s just not right. That got heavier for me than I expected it to but hey. It’s a big issue ’round these parts.