The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. This article was published more than 10 years ago. Some information in it may no longer be current. Although there's no law against advertising legitimate escort services in the Yellow Pages, police say 90 per cent of the ads are fronts for illegal prostitution agencies, where the clients' fingers do the walking rather than the women on the streets. Ellis said. The act of prostitution in Canada is not illegal, said Sgt.
Ellis, but communicating in public for the purpose of prostitution is illegal for customers and prostitutes, as is living off the avails of prostitution.
Toronto police arrested 12 people on April 4 and charged them with living off the avails of prostitution. A "john with a conscience" alerted police to the ring after realizing he had had sex with a year-old girl.
They make the girls sign a waiver to not prostitute themselves, but it's thinly veiled," Sgt. A former prostitute who has worked for several escort agencies says that is how her employers operated. The woman, who would not give her name, now works with young women at the children's advocacy organization Save the Children Canada. She also said her employers wouldn't let receptionists discuss sex over the phone with clients, but they could respond to code words from someone looking for more than a dinner companion.
If a client requests a "friendly" escort, for instance, he's looking for someone who will kiss and cuddle. A request for an "open-minded" escort means he's looking for sex. Catherine Hudon, spokeswoman for Bell ActiMedia, which publishes telephone directories mainly for Ontario and Quebec, said her company has strict standards on what is acceptable in advertisements.
