Reflections: Sex, Deviance and Guest Speak Julie Grant

*PLEASE MAKE SURE ONLY USE THE MATERIAL I PROVIDED AS SOURCES AND MAKE SURE TO WRITE SOME REFLECTIONS ABOUT JULIE GRANT'S TALK. NO ORTHER SOURCES ARE ALLOWED* *USE (Bergman, 2012) for the material i provided and (Grant, 2012) for Julie Grant's talk* *You can leave the References to me.* Requirements: Reflections: Sex, Deviance and Guest Speaker Julie Grant This assignment is a reflective piece. You are required to reflect on your personal views regarding sex, sexual deviance, the various readings and module content on sexual deviance from weeks 6 & 7, and the virtual class with guest speaker Julie Grant. How-to write a reflective piece: 1. I recommend taking a few minutes before you begin your readings on sexual deviance and jot down a few notes about what sexuality, sex, and sexual deviance mean to you. Consider how you define the concepts of sex, sexuality, prostitution, and deviance. 2. Then I recommend making some notes after you have completed the readings. 3. Then repeat the above process before our virtual class with Julie Grant, a professional escort. (Virtual attendance is required) 4. Finally compile all your observations, reflections and readings commentary into a reflective essay. 5. There are no right or wrong answers as reflective pieces are personal! However you are required to refer to at least 1 required reading from weeks 6 & 7, module content and Julie's talk. MATERIAL: Prostitution: Definitions & Facts According to the OPTIONAL Hanger & Maloney reading The Chall enge of Change: A S tudy of Canada's Criminal Prostitution Laws (2006) prostitution is defined as sexual acts exchanged for money or other material goods, where the nature of the relationship between the provider & recipient involves neither love nor affection. Prostitution generally falls into 1 of 2 categories, higher status call girls / boys, & lower status street prostitutes which account for 5-20% of prostitutes in Canada. Demographically in Canada 75-80% of prostitutes are women & of those a disproportionately large number are Aboriginal women. Males, transvestites & transgendered persons make up about 20% of those involved in street prostitution. Prostitution: The Current Canadian Law Sections 210 to 213 of the Criminal Code set out Canada's prostitution laws, covering offences related to keeping or using common bawdy houses, transporting a person to a bawdy house, procuring, & prostitution. Sections 210 & 211 of the Criminal Code contain the bawdy house offence that remains substantially similar in aim to the original law established more than a century ago. Bawdy houses are defined as a place kept or occupied for the purpose of prostitution or the practice of acts of indecency; penalty is 2 years &/or unlimited fine; regarded as an enterprise crime so property can be seized and bank accounts frozen. In layman's terms this means that if a sex worker allots a portion of his / her home to sex work (for example the basement) the government could step in and seize the entire home. This happened to Terri-Jean Bedford, a Toronto dominatrix. “On 9 October 1998, Judge Roy Bogusky delivered two significant rulings in the Terri-Jean Bedford case. Bedford, a dominatrix was charged for keeping a common bawdy house, in September of 1994” (Ordonez, 2000/2001: 58). The offence of procurement is contained in section 212, & carries the toughest penalty for prostitution - related offences under the Criminal Code. A person committing such crimes is guilty of an indictable offence & liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years. Section 212 states procurement encompasses the following situations: Employers who require or attempt to require an employee to have sexual intercourse with a client; Enticing someone who is not a prostitute into becoming a prostitute or into a bawdy-house for the purposes of illicit sexual intercourse or prostitution; Procuring a person to enter or leave Canada for the purposes of prostitution; Controlling or influencing another person for gain in order to facilitate prostitution; Intoxicating a person for the purpose of enabling anyone to have sexual intercourse with the intoxicated person; and Living on the avails of prostitution. Section 213, forbids communication for the purposes of prostitution in a public space. This restriction encompasses stopping or attempting to stop a motor vehicle & communicating or attempting to communicate for the purpose of engaging in prostitution or of obtaining sexual services. The communicating law is a summary offence, meaning that the penalty cannot exceed a $2,000 fine or six months imprisonment, or both.Prostitution and Minors Solicitation of the sexual services of a minor is always ill egal. Under section 212 (2), a person who lives on the avails of prostitution of a minor is guilty of an indictable offence & liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years. Section 212(2.1) provides a further offence punishable with imprisonment of up to 14 years, but not less than 5 years, for a person who lives on the avails of prostitution of a minor, for the purposes of profit, aids, abets, counsels or compels the minor to engage in prostitution, & uses, threatens to use or attempts to use violence, intimidation or coercion against the minor. Finally, section 212(4) states that every person who obtains for consideration, or communicates with anyone for the purpose of obtaining for consideration, the sexual services of a minor, is guilty of an indictable offence & liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. **The link of Julie Grant's Talk**: https://sas(dot)elluminate(dot)com/p.jnlp?psid=2012-02-15.1542.M.2010C50B60E22D844BF9A25D03AC3E.vcr&sid=793