Advocates say non-payment is just one reason why sex workers have been fighting to decriminalize sex work
A Halifax sex worker is fighting for her right to be paid in what her advocates say is the first case of its kind to be tested before a Canadian court and highlights the need to decriminalize sex work in this country.
Mr. Samuelson argues in his statement of defence that a contract for sexual services is not enforceable in law because it’s an illegal contract. Alternatively, if the court finds the contract is legal, Mr. Samuelson said he will argue that the services Ms. Sheehan agreed to were not performed. Mr. Samuelson directed a request for comment to his lawyer, who did not respond to The Globe.
But Ms. Sheehan’s lawyer and other advocates for decriminalizing sex work say it unjustly frames sex workers as being either criminals that need to be charged and brought to account in the criminal justice system, or as victims that need to be protected by criminal law. Ms. Sheehan grew up in suburban Halifax in a middle-class household. Her parents separated when she was in the second grade. Since then, she says, she has constantly worried about money. There were times she went hungry and had no money to buy food.
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