Tag: 2005

Jana G. Pruden, Leader-Post Saturday, November 19, 2005 Part 6: SELLING SEX ON THE STREET For more than a decade, William Davison has led efforts to help those involved in all sides of the sex trade– devoting himself to helping

First published Nov 16. 2005 on Pulse 24 Wendy Babcock doesn’t work the streets for the Homicide Squad — she’s a sex trade worker — but when she hears the disturbing particulars regarding an unidentified woman’s dismembered body being scattered

Site tracks violent clientsIn some cases, pictures posted Aug. 4, 2005 DEBRA BLACK STAFF REPORTER Wendy Babcock became a prostitute when she was 15 years old. She left the business about two years ago after her best friend met with a client

“I wanted to be a saloon girl” – by Todd Klinck for fab magazine fab’s Trade columnist sits down with Valerie Scott, the woman leading the fight to decriminalize the sex trade. This prostitutes’ rights activist started her career in a

Eye Weekly Letters NO GOVERNMENT PIMPS Re: “Responsible Hooking,” Editorial, Mar. 10. Your proposal for the legalization of sex work would be beneficial for the glorified pimps (the government and brothel owners) and harmful for sex workers. The procedures you

PAUL CARLUCCI — Eye Magazine Call them sex entrepreneurs OLD CITY HALL — In a perfect world, it would be like a sauna out here. But March is still young, and Old Man Winter can’t get his mercury up. A

By MIKE STROBEL — For the Toronto Sun Bay and Queen. Windchill, oh, minus 15. Colder than a hooker’s heart? Whoever coined that phrase is nowhere in sight. A bitter gale bellows up the steps to Old City Hall. Many

By MIKE STROBEL — For the Toronto Sun “In the morning!?” says Valerie Scott. (What was I thinking?) “You expect a hooker to meet you IN THE MORNING?!” So we meet in the afternoon, at her haunt, the cool Jet