Police are still undecided on the details of the crime, which saw a man and a woman dead in a residence on Nov. Journalists have since reported the woman was a sex worker, and that her alleged killer was a client known to be violent.
A customer black-list is one way sex workers protect themselves from danger. There are other ways, too. May, a sex worker herself and member of Montreal's Sex Work Autonomous Committee, asks for references and application forms from new customers.
She says sex workers need to protect themselves. Despite being at a greater risk, sex workers face significant barriers when it comes to getting help from police, advocates say. Its most influential provision, advocates say, is that while it did not make sex work illegal, it made it impossible to legally pay for it or advertise it.
Advocates say those limitations mean sex workers are forced to use underground channels to communicate, organize, and protect themselves. Researchers also found Indigenous sex workers were twice as likely to report not being able to call The result is a patchwork safety net of individual precaution and black lists keeping to keep sex workers out of violent situations.
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