Updates to the site as of June 29, 2010

Upcoming Events, Bad Client List & Undesirable Client List pages

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Status on our Constitutional Challenge for Decriminalization, May 2010

The final arguments for the Ontario Superior Court level of our legal  challenge finished on October 26, 2009.  We have received word from the court that it will have our decision by September 30, 2010. If this Court rules in our favour, it's all but certain that the Attorneys General of Canada and Ontario will appeal. If the ruling is against us, we will appeal, assuming we can raise the funds.  (Please see donation info at the bottom of this page.) At that point, we go to Appeal Court, aka, the Supreme Court of  Ontario where we request leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. This is a battle well worth fighting.  Our safety and for some of us  our very lives depend on it. We are available for interviews regarding our current constitutional challenge to the Canadian Criminal Code (CCC) sections, 210 (bawdy house), 212(1)(j) (living on the avails) and 213(1)(c) (communicating for the purpose of prostitution) We are happy to provide you with: The reasons why we are challenging the above laws. How these laws have affected sex workers. How these sections of the CCC have directly resulted in the robberies, beatings, rapes and murders of our colleagues. Analysis of this challenge. Our contact information can be found HERE

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Mission & Principles:

1. SPOC operates on the principle that all forms of consensual adult sex work are legitimate and valid. We provide a public voice that promotes the validity of our occupation.

2. We believe that one’s decision to be a sex worker is equally and unequivocally as valid of a choice as is the decision to be in any other legal occupation.

3. We believe that sex workers deserve genuine labour rights, with industry-wide standards defined by sex workers themselves.

4. Our members, supporting members and our allies oppose those who seek to rescue sex workers via court imposed or otherwise forced or coerced re-education/exit programs, jails or camps.

5. SPOC does not affiliate itself with any political party. If an individual politician truly and publicly endorses the above four principles, SPOC will consider supporting that particular politician, but not the party as a whole.

6. We are not a social service organization.

7. We respect the privacy of all members, and no SPOC member may disclose any ‘personal’ or ‘professional’ information about any other member without expressed {written} consent from that particular member.

8. We are a volunteer run, social and political group.

Goals:

We stand for the decriminalization of all forms of sex work in Canada. We oppose legalization because it is always exploitive toward sex workers.

Decrease the isolation experienced by many sex workers by organizing sex worker-friendly social events and functions.

Publishing a bad date list so that our colleagues can communicate information about violent and dangerous clients with each other.

Media and Public Awareness:

SPOC members are available for interviews with media and students. We are also available to speak at universities, colleges and conferences. Click here to contact us.

Membership:

If you are a current or former sex worker, or an ally interested working toward the decriminalization of sex work while having fun and connecting with others, please do not hesitate to contact us. We encourage membership from all communities, sexual orientations and genders.

Donations:

As an entirely volunteer run organization, we rely on the generous support of our community and supporters. SPOC gratefully accepts donations to assist us in our work.