CITATION: v. COURT FILE NO.: DATE: ONTARIO SUPERIOR COURT OF JUSTICE

The philosophy seems to have been that the male population was entitled, without sanction, to seek the services of prostitutes, but insofar as the morality or health of the community might be compromised by such activity, the target of the law was properly the purveyors and not the customers of the business. [...] In the late 19th and early 20th century, the emergence of a more paternalistic concern on the part of the legislators with the protection of girls and young women from the ravages of vice, often associated with the alleged scourge of 'white slavery', led to the addition of a series of provisions which had the protection of 'virtuous womanhood' as their objective. [...] and the Court of Appeal that the security of the person of the applicants was engaged. [...] and the Court of Appeal that the negative effect of the bawdy house provisions on the security of the person was grossly disproportionate to the objective. [...] The objective of the provision was the deterrence of community nuisance and disruption.17 The harm, however, was the displacement of sex workers to street and outcall sex work.