Over the years, I have had the occasion of speaking to diverse reporters about my work and sex work in general, as an activist for sex worker rights and as a professional.
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September 11, 2014
OTTAWA — Gigolo. Escort. Prostitute. Sex worker. Whatever you call Maxime Durocher, don’t call him a “victim.”
“I don’t need to be saved, and all my friends who are in the sex work industry don’t need to be saved,” Durocher, 40, told a Senate committee hearing into Bill C-36, the Conservative government’s anti-prostitution bill.
Senators wrap up their third day of pre-study hearings on the federal government’s prostitution bill (C-36).
Male escort Maxime Durocher testifies, along with Tyler Megarry from RÉZO, an organization that offers services specifically for male sex workers, researcher Chris Atchison, and Konstadia Spooner with the Coalition Of Body Rub Parlours of the Greater Toronto Area.
A Montreal escort who bills himself as a "quality companion for ladies" will be the first male sex worker to testify on the government's bill to revamp Canada's prostitution laws when he appears before the Senate legal and constitutional affairs committee this week.