Following a recent Ontario Superior Court decision striking down Canada’s prostitution laws, Post City Magazines takes a statistical look at the sex trade in Toronto.

28

The date, this past September, on which Canada’s prostitution laws were struck down in an Ontario Superior Court, making it legal, potentially, for prostitutes to communicate with clients, work indoors and hire bodyguards, among other things

10,000

Approximate number of prostitutes in the city of Toronto (Toronto Star, 1997)

$80

The going rate for a “full service” experience in downtown Toronto (Toronto Star, 2009)

1892

The year the Criminal Code enacted provisions against prostitution, whereas the actual act of prostitution remains legal — to this day

63

The number of prostitutes murdered in Canada between 1991 and 1995 (Statistics Canada)

924

The number of listings in the “erotic services” section of Craigslist Toronto advertising prostitution — a service the Ontario government plans to eliminate