Council backs away from plan to force body rub clients to show ID

City hall will not force clients of Edmonton’s body rub centres to show identification before going into a room with a woman.
The measure was proposed to protect female workers, who advocates said are being choked, bitten and slapped during their time with male clients.
But when city officials surveyed women working in the centres, 92 per cent said that would make their lives more dangerous. It would drive men from the centres to informal settings with unlicensed women and sex-traffic