Maggie's Toronto Website:
Maggies is currently undergoing yet another face lift. Please feel free to make use of the information and resources provided, and don't forget to check back at the end of October, 2008 for our unveiling. Until that time we will try to keep this page as up to date as possible.
About Maggie's Toronto:
Maggie's is an organization run for and by sex workers. Our mission is to assist sex workers in our efforts to live and work with safety and dignity. We are founded on the belief that in order to improve our circumstances, sex workers must control our own lives and destinies.
Maggie's advocates that we should all have the right to choose or reject sex work, just as we have the right to choose or reject any other kind of work.
Consensual sex work is legitimate and socially valuable work. All sex work is equally valid; this includes exotic/erotic dancing, prostitution, phone sex, porn acting, pro Doms and subs, internet porn, escorts, massage, hustling, and more.
Maggie's Offers:
- Legal advocacy
- Health information
- Safer drug use supplies
- HIV & STI education and materials
- Informal counselling and support
Maggie's Demands:
- Total decriminalization
- Human rights
- Labour rights
Decriminalization refers to the complete removal of all prostitution-related offences from the Criminal Code for consenting adults. Sex work activities would be subject to the same labour, zoning and criminal laws that govern other people and industries. Decriminalization removes the social stigma attached to sex work and recognizes it as legitimate work. With decriminalization, sex workers can work freely without the menace of criminal charges, and police harassment. Like other workers, those in the sex trade must have the right to work for third parties and from non-residential work sites as well as the right to work from home. Decriminalization effectively respects the privacy of sex workers and allows us to enter and exit the industry over different times in our lives, as we choose to or need to, without state intervention or documentation.
Maggie's Schedule and Events:
Maggie’s Resource Centre is currently closed and will reopen late spring 2009. Please phone for more information.
416-964-0150