Pimps are necessary in arranging safe and efficient transactions between sex workers and clients, according to a University of Ottawa professor who says their work should be decriminalized in Canada. "The sex industry, like mainstream businesses, rarely depends exclusively on clients and workers to operate efficiently and safely," professor Chris Bruckert told CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning Tuesday. Chris Bruckert is a University of Ottawa professor whose team carried out dozens of interviews with pimps — including some in Ottawa — for a new book that explores those workers' roles in the country's sex industry. The laws also prosecute those who advertise sex work and make money off sex workers. "Many of the third-parties we interviewed were current or former sex workers, [which] kind of makes sense.

Source: CBC News March 18, 2018 09:00 UTC