Did you know that Noel Biderman of Ashley Madison is married with children?

A slogan behind Biderman's desk promoting his company reads, "Life is short. Have an affair." As the public face of the company, the former lawyer and sports agent has said he is a happily-married father of two and does not cheat himself. Biderman says that his Web site does not promote infidelity when responding to critics, by saying, "We're just a platform. No website or 30-second ad is going to convince anyone to cheat. People cheat because their lives aren't working for them."
He has said that he writes the commercials for his company (which have featured two attractive people in the throes of passion, and then the sign: "This couple is married...but not to each other"), which the LA Times called "hilarious."
Biderman designed Ashley Madison to focus on married women, instead of married men. "I was very confident that men would gravitate towards a service to conduct these otherwise anonymous affairs. They were seemingly doing it already," Biderman told BusinessWeek. "I was much less confident that women would behave that way."

It has been fourteen years since Bill Clinton was president. What has changed?

In 2000, there were about 400 massage parlours evenly spread throughout the city. There were a hundred Asian spas and almost as many parlours with Russian and Romanian women. Steeles Royal was a small spa owned by a Czech woman. A few days a week, Joy drove in from small town Ontario to work. Hands From Heaven was in Woodbridge and featured Cameron, Jennifer and porn star Voilet Marcel. Allure was exactly the same. Platinum and Alphacare haven't changed much either. Other prominent spas from ten years ago are still open: Utopia, Silhouette, Studio 34, Starlight, Oasis, Elite Retreat. Many have closed: Sun and Moon, Barbaras, Invisible Touch, Saher Spa, T&T.
In 2013, there are about 400 massage parlours in the GTA - The same amount as a decade ago. They are much more luxurious now. Brampton was a hotbed for massage parlours in the 1990s and has become further entrenched since the 2002 court ruling. The Asian scene has changed dramatically. Chinese spas are more prevalent but are more concentrated in Scarborough where there are dozens of holistic spas. All the massage parlours on East Beaver Creek have closed.
To conclude this essay: not very much has changed in the last decade.

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Toronto's Rub and Tug Movie was No Masterpiece.

It has been ten years since the release of theToronto Rub and Tug movie. Who even remembers that it existed? It starred Don McKellar who was a pretty big name at the time
Wanting more free time for himself, Lawrence, the owner of a full body massage parlor, hires a new manager for the store. The person he hires for the job is Conrad, a seemingly nice but feckless man. Conrad's main responsibility as manager is to ensure that the three masseuses working there are not doing full service jobs, i.e. having sex with the clients, otherwise the police could shut the store down. Lawrence is sure the three are performing full service jobs so that they can make more money. Those three are cynical and acerbic tongued Betty who has a longer term financial plan for her life beyond her current work, nipple fetishist. Lea who is hiding her profession from her boyfriend Henry, and Asian Cindy, a naive woman who is working in Canada illegally. Cindy is hoping to find a Canadian husband - even one in a marriage of convenience - so that she can stay in Canada and make a decent living to support her family back home.

Ontario's Appeals court rules in favour of Prostitutes on March 26th, 2012.

This may pave the way for 1) massage parlours offering full-service 2) large brothels like they have in Europe 3)complete reworking of bodyrub and holistic licensing
A ban on brothels puts prostitutes at risk and is therefore unconstitutional, Ontario's top court ruled Monday.
However, the Ontario Court of Appeal upheld the ban on soliciting as a reasonable way to protect communities.
It also "read in" wording to the criminalization of living on the avails of prostitution to make it clear that exploitation of prostitutes should be illegal.
"Prostitution is a controversial topic, one that provokes heated and heartfelt debate about morality, equality, personal autonomy and safety," the court wrote in a split decision stretching to 132 pages.
"It is not the court's role to engage in that debate. Our role is to decide whether or not the challenged laws accord with the constitution."
The ruling came in an appeal by the government of a lower court ruling that found the three provisions unconstitutional in that they contributed to the dangers faced by prostitutes.
The five-panel judge only agreed fully with the lower court in finding that the law against brothels was too broad because "it captures conduct that is unlikely to lead to the problems Parliament seeks to curtail."
The court also found the impact is "grossly disproportionate" to the law's intent because "the safest way to sell sex is for a prostitute to work indoors in a location under her control."
At the same time, it suspended its declaration for 12 months to give Parliament an opportunity to draft a new law if it so chooses.
At the same time, the court said the effective ban on street prostitution makes sense because harm to the community is real.
"While street prostitution poses real and grave dangers to the prostitutes themselves, it also has a profound impact on the members of the surrounding community," the justices wrote.
As such, the court found, the ban on communicating publicly for the purposes of prostitution is reasonable.
In addition, by allowing prostitutes to move indoors given the decriminalization of brothels, any harm caused by the ban on solicitation would be mitigated, the court said.
In a dissenting opinion on that score, two justices said they agreed with the trial judge's finding that the danger posed to street prostitutes by the ban on communicating should override the goal of combating social nuisance.
"The world in which street prostitutes actually operate is a world of dark streets and barren, isolated, silent places," the dissenters wrote.
"It is a dangerous world, with always the risk of violence and even death."
When it comes to living on the avails of prostitution, the court said the law could be reworded to specifically exclude the exploitation of prostitutes.
"This offence aims to protect vulnerable persons from being coerced, pressured or emotionally manipulated into prostitution," the court said.
The objective is to prevent "pimps from exploiting prostitutes and from profiting from the prostitution of others" but it also captures others such as a prostitute's bodyguards, accountant or receptionist.
"It captures conduct that is no way exploitative," the justices wrote.
However, the justices "read" words of limitation into the law so that it bars living on the avails "in circumstances of exploitation."
"This aligns the language of the provision with the vital legislative goal that animates it and cures the constitutional defect," they said.
"It introduces the requirement that the accused has unfairly taken advantage of the prostitute in his dealings with her."
They stayed that part of the ruling for 30 days.

Story about BackPage in New York City .

Alissa, her street name, escaped that life and is now a 24-year-old college senior planning to become a lawyer - but she will always have a scar on her cheek where a pimp gouged her with a potato peeler as a warning not to escape. "Like cattle owners brand their cattle," she said, fingering her cheek, "he wanted to brand me in a way that I would never forget." After Alissa testified against her pimps, six of them went to prison for up to 25 years. Yet these days, she reserves her greatest anger not at pimps but at companies that enable them. She is particularly scathing about Backpage.com, a classified advertising Web site that is used to sell auto parts, furniture, boats - and girls. Alissa says pimps routinely peddled her on Backpage. "You can't buy a child at Wal-Mart, can you?" she asked me. "No, but you can go to Backpage and buy me on Backpage."
Backpage accounts for about 70 percent of prostitution advertising among five Web sites that carry such ads in the United States, earning more than $22 million annually from prostitution ads, according to AIM Group, a media research and consulting company. It is now the premier Web site for human trafficking in the United States, according to the National Association of Attorneys General. And it's not a fly-by-night operation. Backpage is owned by Village Voice Media, which also owns the estimable Village Voice newspaper. Attorneys general from 48 states have written a joint letter to Village Voice Media, pleading with it to get out of the flesh trade. An online petition at Change.org has gathered 94,000 signatures asking Village Voice Media to stop taking prostitution advertising. Instead, the company has used The Village Voice to mock its critics. Alissa thought about using her real name for this article but decided not to for fear that Village Voice would retaliate. Court records and public officials back Alissa's account, and there is plenty of evidence that under-age girls are marketed on Backpage. Arrests in such cases have been reported in at least 22 states. Just this month, prosecutors in New York City filed charges in a case involving a gang that allegedly locked a 15-year-old Long Island girl in an empty house, drugged her, tied her up, raped her, and advertised her on Backpage. After a week of being sold for sex, prosecutors in Queens said, the girl escaped.

Liz McDougall, general counsel of Village Voice Media, told me that it is "shortsighted, ill-informed and counterproductive" to focus on Backpage when many other Web sites are also involved, particularly because Backpage tries to screen out ads for minors and reports possible trafficking cases to the authorities. McDougall denied that Backpage dominates the field and said that the Long Island girl was marketed on 13 other Web sites as well. But if street pimps go to jail for profiteering on under-age girls, should their media partners like Village Voice Media really get a pass? Paradoxically, Village Voice began as an alternative newspaper to speak truth to power. It publishes some superb journalism. So it's sad to see it accept business from pimps in the greediest and most depraved kind of exploitation. True, many prostitution ads on Backpage are placed by adult women acting on their own without coercion; they're not my concern. Other ads are placed by pimps: the Brooklyn district attorney's office says that the great majority of the sex trafficking cases it prosecutes involve girls marketed on Backpage. Alissa, who grew up in a troubled household in Boston, has a story that is fairly typical. She says that one night when she was 16 - and this matches the account she gave federal prosecutors - a young man approached her and told her she was attractive. She thought that he was a rapper, and she was flattered. He told her that he wanted her to be his girlfriend, she recalls wistfully. Within a few weeks, he was prostituting her - even as she continued to study as a high school sophomore. Alissa didn't run away partly because of a feeling that there was a romantic bond, partly because of Stockholm syndrome, and partly because of raw fear. She says violence was common if she tried connecting to the outside world or if she didn't meet her daily quota for cash. "He would get aggressive and strangle me and physically assault me and threaten to sell me to someone that was more violent than him, which he eventually did," Alissa recalled. She said she was sold from one pimp to another several times, for roughly $10,000 each time. She was sold to johns seven days a week, 365 days a year. After a couple of years, she fled, but a pimp tracked her down and - with the women he controlled - beat and stomped Alissa, breaking her jaw and several ribs, she said. That led her to cooperate with the police.

There are no simple solutions to end sex trafficking, but it would help to have public pressure on Village Voice Media to stop carrying prostitution advertising. The Film Forum has already announced that it will stop buying ads in The Village Voice. About 100 advertisers have dropped Rush Limbaugh's radio show because of his demeaning remarks about women. Isn't it infinitely more insulting to provide a forum for the sale of women and girls? Let's be honest: Backpage's exit from prostitution advertising wouldn't solve the problem, for smaller Web sites would take on some of the ads. But it would be a setback for pimps to lose a major online marketplace. When Craigslist stopped taking such ads in 2010, many did not migrate to new sites: online prostitution advertising plummeted by more than 50 percent, according to AIM Group.

A1lissa, who now balances her college study with part-time work at a restaurant and at Fair Girls, an antitrafficking organization, deserves the last word. "For a Web site like Backpage to make $22 million off our backs," she said, "it's like going back to slave times."
Written by Nicholas D. Kristof