Caution: In this story, there are detail of sexual violence and sexual violence. This may affect those who have lived or affected sexual violence.
Rental advertisement in Craigslist offers a bedroom with a “hot bed”. However, instead of a price tag, it comes with a description of those who choose to sleep – “young petite woman” to escape the cold.
When a Marketplace The journalist responded as a student in need of housing, responded to the list, and met with the man behind him, revealed his true cost.
“We walk around here and there there.” “If you don’t really have sex, we can do other things,” he said, “he said, calling special sexual acts he expected in return in his house.
One Marketplace The investigation is not only common on popular lease sites, which offered sexual interchangers, but also target young women and international students. When some ads are open to their requirements, others are more subtle, gives you careless response, under risk, lawyers for women.
Sex of sex for housing in Canada is illegal, but according to Brampton regional number, this is a growing trend. Rowena Santos, especially as an apartment crisis, it becomes increasingly difficult to find a suitable place to live.
Santos began to draw attention to Santos after a list offered a free lease in exchange for the “benefits of benefits”. However, there was some doubt about the authenticity of the ad. When a local newspaper asked, the director of Ontario’s minor property owners, probably fake, he said.
“I have difficulty believeing that,” Kevin Kostain said that everyone from any country could place it.
Thus Marketplace What happens when similar proposals are real and see what happened when someone responds, when looking at 20 such ads on online platforms like Craigslist and Facebook market. Half of the advertisements, using expressions such as “benefits” and “live lovers”, were completely reliable than expressing sex expectations in exchange for sex. The other half was more hidden by pointing to alternative settlements without clearing sexual arrangements.
Each request for 10 outdoor advertising confirmed that they expect sexual intercourse such as eight responsible responsibilities.
In one case, the person who leased houses only wanted “naked picture and age” to apply.
Another answer: “I’m not looking for a girlfriend. I’m having a little fun from time to time when the need arises.”
None of the people behind the ads did not identify themselves and most prefer to give up a telephone number, to contact anonymous through the rental platform.
An CBC Marketplace investigation is the trend of using the Canadian housing crisis, targeting young women and even international students, ‘rent’ offers.
One of the ads Marketplace ruminate
While some ads clarify the expected, others use more delicate, deliberately uncertain.
10 hidden advertising market, “open-minded” young women and “leading to the apartment” for young women and students “” leading to housing “, lists offer favorable opportunities or support acts.
Janine Benedet, a lawyer and professor at the University of Britain Columbia University, lawyers and professors, young women wanted to do so, because the advertiser’s intention is not always open.
“Maybe the woman who answers the announcement is not exactly sure what is offered,” he said. “It is hopeful that this may be a real offer and then you know, it agrees to arrange.”
Half of the secret advertisers, once contacted the actual expectations once contacted – sexual intercourse in exchange for housing – by sending open messages after several exchanges.
A craigslist advertiser offered a free room for “Young Student who struggles with the apartment” responded to a journalist’s request: “You will be forced to be free in my place and only to suck my penis to take into account you.”
Another advertiser – “Cheap rent or help” was looking for a woman looking for a woman – in private messages with free rent for “ongoing sex”. Then he followed a picture of a penis: “I was experienced and intend to feel good.”
Secret meeting
In one case, hidden Marketplace The journalist met with the Craigslist Advertiser on this list: “Hot bed for young petite women … get out of the cold, become a hot girl.”
The meeting will be shared with him a bit of the field “silly around” and he imagined as the forms of payment, such as sex and “finger game” and “finger game”.
By describing this as a regulation “with benefits with friends”, “I don’t help you to help you even if you help me.”
Benedet, this calls a dynamic like “abuse of power” and rejects allegations that such regulations are harmless in the consent of both parties.
“(When) the ability to live in this place of residence, you have sexual services, and then the predator – and I think children who placed these ads know this.”
This Marketplace The team followed two of the two advertisers behind the secret lists: the man we met the other person who sends a secret camera and an open photo.
When I asked why he added such conditions to his apartment, he claimed that he liked “to help people” before hanging out before the first list. Then he ignored a tracking email.
The second advertiser, in his statement, wrote that “no idea” and his actions believe that he was illegal and harmless, and there was no idea between adults, “he said. He took the announcement he promised to never send another another and admitted that he was “foolish.”
Power Immersion
Santos says sex can put sensitive young women with the risk of being forced to be forced into human trafficking for rented situations. He said that the fear of demolition – or international students, in the position of deportation, he said.
“This is one of the biggest problems for international student girls, especially for international student daughters,” he said. “They are afraid of living on the streets and have no family and no support system. There are no other choices.”
A power imbalance can be used in the event of payment of rent rent in accordance with the traditional lease of tenants; Marketplace While the landlord rejected sexual advances, he heard that he said he was threatened with the expulsion.
A student in 2017, whose identity is Marketplace The former host, the former host, said that the former landlords came to the toronto apartment and felt that he felt the trap after cutting the utilities. He said the host lived in the underweight and he believes that he taught his financial weakness, because he knew he was a student who lived alone.
“In the big scheme of the work, I was a very sensitive person in that sense,” he said.
Mya, despite the help of his family, fell from the school to avoid the situation and said he was stretching from trauma.
“I hide when someone knocked on the door so far,” he said, adding that he was grateful and received his parents’ support to help him get out of the situation.
Benedet, for women who continue to sell for sex, are critical for women who are trumbling, “Therefore, it is safe to find a safe, clean, affordable place to live and continue to learn from being torn in such an activity.”
Santos tried to support young women in the municipality with a mother International Student CharterOffering a certain protection for international students and a Residential rental pilot program Last year, it started for better vet homeowners. He also presented a petition to fight human trafficking in Brampton. Now calls platforms like Facebook and Craigslist.
This type of advertisement carried out by platforms hopes to see a more followed and serious reporting system.
Marketplace Reached both Facebook and Craigslist for comment. META, Facebook’s company, said that such ads violated the policy and encouraged users to inform them. Craigslist did not answer.
Marketplace After sharing his findings with solo, the organization condemned sex for advertisements called “immoral, ethical, ethical and probably criminals.” Avoid listening lists to be careful in the intensive rental market of promising tenants, to be truthful and abuse or signs of fraud.
Avoid listening lists to be careful in the intensive rental market of promising tenants, to be truthful and abuse or signs of fraud. The statement also made it to the local authorities to inform local authorities, and everyone who faces the mandatory or threats of prey.
Benedal thinks that you need a police raid to expose the ones behind these lists.
“It’s as simple as to send a secret officer to meet these ads,” he said. “We know that the most common obstacles for such behavior – it is a threat of public and true results.”
How to protect yourself
Marketplace Canadian Police Chiefs (CACP) also reached the leadership. In the statement, the experience is called “the form of the Internet, which is involved in potential prostitution and human trafficking.”
“Anyone who offers sex to rent is sinners for the crime and is exposed to the prosecutor’s office,” said CACP statement. “We … We take a strong position of exploitation in any form.”
The association called for the withdrawal of victims and witnesses, when the police are aware of the leasing schemes for sex, there is a task of fully investigating, protecting and catching offenders.
“Those responsible for the exploitation, prey, coercion and human trafficking related to sex trade should be responsible for the victims and the loss of individual and community damage.”
Vancouver advises lawyers of rape relief and female shelter and female shelter and Barbra Schlifer’s rights, or receive legal assistance or independent legal advice or receiving independent legal advice.
They also recommend that women achieve the helplessness or call 911 in emergencies.
Mya hopes to help women trapped in dangerous housing and help them help real change.
“They are not alone.” “If we all talk together, maybe we can make a difference.”
If you are afraid for your immediate danger or safety, or call 911 because of others around you. You can search for crisis lines and local services for support in your area End of the Canadian Database Violence Union.
