A group of Vancouver prostitutes wants to open a "coop" brothel in time for the Winter Olympics, saying it would help sex-trade workers by providing a safer working environment when the world comes to visit in 2010. Susan Davis, a prostitute, said she envisions as many as five co-operative brothels opening if the BC Coalition of Experiential Communities, which includes men, women and trans-gendered sex-trade workers, convinces the federal government to permit the first brothel on an experimental basis. The group
has support from Vancouver East MP Libby Davies and Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan, who believe a brothel owned and run by sex-trade workers would help reduce violence against them. Ms. Davis said the group is weeks away from incorporating a co-operative corporation and is looking for a possible location. But she said the group won't open the facility, complete with "quickie rooms" equipped with sinks and a bench, unless it has Ottawa's support.
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