Quote Originally Posted by popeye96 View Post
As the charge is "found in or leaving after having been in a place, that provides unlawful prostitution", technically that's the only thing they need to prove. You don't need to be busted in the act. If you were then they could throw another charge at you for "partaking in illegal prostitution".

In saying all that, the question I was answering asked if it was illegal just to be in a shop and if you can be arrested for just being there. Mud sticks, so depending on your employer, if they found out you had to go to court for this, it could potentially do damage to your working career, whether you were found guilty or not.
It's kinda difficult to properly discuss complicated legal issues in a forum like this.

For a place to be found to provide 'unlawful' prostitution, it must basically be proven that the owner/manager was in on it. An individual ML giving you a HJ or even FS does not automatically make a case for 'unlawful prostitution'.
And ultimately they would need to prove that the venue could be 'reasonably suspected' to be an illegal brothel, and that you knew that.

A few years ago I had some issues with backpain, and went to see a very good ML in a shop in the Redcliffe/NL area on a regular basis. Back then I could have sworn that the place was legit. Only when I found this forum, did I realize that it was not that legit.... lol.
So if you are afraid of a getting-caught-in-a-bust scenario, you basically can't go to ANY massage shop, except for strictly remedial/physiotherapy type of places with licenced therapists.

But you're right, mud does stick.....and depending on career/family/social environment, some people are more vulnerable than others.
I, myself, fortunately don't need to care about any of this anymore - and I would fight any BS charges with full force.