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CHRIS MIDDENDORP March 16, 2010 NO DOUBT there are some readers who don’t much care about the welfare of women who engage in street sex work in our cities. Street prostitution is a reality that middle Australia prefers to ignore, or just to condemn outright. And that’s where the trouble begins. If the subject is raised at all, [...]

Last Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 | 6:05 PM CT CBC News The Manitoba government and the provincial hotel industry are teaming up in an effort to crack down on child sexual exploitation. Wednesday, the province said staff at hotels will be trained to spot situations where a child might be at risk of being exploited by a [...]

By Paul Schwartzman Friday, Mar 12, 2010 To hear Quansa Thompson talk of her life as an exotic dancer, to listen to her describe how men offer cash as she sashays, gyrates and jiggles the night away, is to evoke a thousand titillating thoughts, not a single one having anything to do with the Federal Fair Labor [...]

Dancing for Their Lives Making an undercover visit to an Iraqi expat nightclub in Syria, where the refugee crisis’s illicit economy is on full display. BY DEBORAH AMOS | MARCH 9, 2010 Um Nour checked her watch. It was close to midnight and my guide to the Iraqi refugee underworld in Damascus wanted to get to the nightclub [...]

By Edward Ortiz eortiz@sacbee.com Published: Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010 – 12:00 am | Page 1I Last Modified: Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 – 9:59 am As she walks across the bare stage of the Community Center Theater during a photo shoot, soprano Karen Slack exudes unwavering confidence and regal sensuality. Those are two attributes Slack will bring to the Sacramento Opera [...]

By David Burt Contributing Reporter Published Monday, February 15, 2010 Despite receiving an anonymous threat before his visit, Buck Angel, a female-to-male transgender porn star, spoke at a Master’s Tea as part of Sex Week at Yale on Saturday. Angel shared his life story with an audience of about 50 students at the Pierson College master’s house. He emphasized [...]

A review of Red Lights, The Lives of Sex Workers in Postsocialist China by Tiantian Zheng, Patpong Sisters, An American Woman’s View of the Bangkok Sex World by Cleo Odzer, China, Sex and Prostitution by Elaine Jeffreys and Sex Trafficking by Siddharth Kara. Academic writers self-identify particular personal experiences in their non-fictional writing, for the purposes [...]

VANCOUVER COURIER Friday, February 26, 2010 Sandra Thomas An exotic dancer who works in Vancouver says a group protesting the sex industry during the 2010 Olympic Games is putting dancers at risk and interfering with their ability to make a living. Trina Ricketts, a Surrey resident, accused local group REED, “Resist Exploitation, Embrace Dignity,” of using the Games to [...]

25th February 2010 Following orders from the new Pattaya Police Chief, Police Colonel Nantawoot, a team of Pattaya Police Officers assisted by civil volunteers, known in Thai as “O-Po-Po-Lor”, conducted a late night operation on Wednesday to clear Pattaya Beach of Prostitutes and others suspected of loitering with intent to engage in anti-social or criminal activity. [...]

Figures relating to sex work and trafficking have been fudged by mainstream media, conservative feminists and career politicians. The numbers of people who are victims of sex slavery and trafficking are far lower than what is generally reported, writes Elena Jeffreys. A startling report by investigative journalist Nick Davies for The Guardian last October, Inquiry fails [...]

20 comments by Michael Ferraresi – Feb. 9, 2010 03:58 PM The Arizona Republic The founder of a Web site known for its reviews of prostitutes pleaded guilty to two felonies in a case in which he was accused of hiring an undercover Phoenix police officer to assault a business rival, according to the Maricopa County [...]

Two former employees have accused Blackwater Worldwide of defrauding the government for years with phony billing, including charging for a prostitute, alcohol and spa trips. February 11, 2010 | The world’s oldest profession may have been subsidized by the US government during the war on terror. “Two former employees of Blackwater Worldwide have accused the [...]

14:56 AEST Fri Feb 12 2010 A Catholic school student has been “dealt with” after he set up a Facebook page that appeared to advocate killing prostitutes. The page, called “Killing your hooker so you don’t have to pay her”, has now been removed by Facebook but not before almost 18,000 people joined the site. The principal of [...]

Wednesday, 10 February 2010 A man should not have been prosecuted for asking a woman for sex in a Nottingham red light district, a High Court judge has ruled. The man was arrested for a public nuisance offence by an undercover police officer, in Mapperley Road. The case, from July 2008, had been thrown out by magistrates previously, [...]

Search of 600 establishments turns up 100 women from West Africa Last Updated: Wednesday, February 3, 2010 | 11:30 AM ET CBC News German authorities say they have searched around 600 brothels across the country in an effort to track down women who may have been smuggled from West Africa as part of an international human trafficking ring. The [...]

By: Jordan Flaherty, Contributing Writer Posted: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:43 am (Special to The Louisiana Weekly from ColorLines Magazine) Tabitha has been working as a prostitute in New Orleans since she was 13. Now 30 years old, she can often be found working on a corner just outside of the French Quarter. A small and slight [...]

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 PHUKET TOWN: A team of provincial civil defense officials and volunteer police on Sunday night raided three well-known entertainment venues, in the heart of Phuket Town, suspected of serving as fronts for prostitution. A spokesperson from the Phuket Provincial Office Public Relations Bureau said the raids were ordered by Phuket Governor Wichai Phraisa-ngop [...]

Former Marine “Markus” auditioned at Nevada’s Shady Lady Ranch for a chance to sell his body. He got the job, but at what price? By Ian Daly January 13, 2010 Today, a 25 year old from Los Angeles (by way of Alabama) will become the first legal male prostitute in this country’s history. “Markus” (his working name) [...]

By Oskar Garcia Associated Press Writer / January 22, 2010 BEATTY, Nev.—A brothel in a Nevada desert town has hired the state’s first male prostitute, a muscular college dropout who abandoned a brief stint as a porn actor in Los Angeles to become the only legal gigolo in the United States. The Shady Lady Ranch successfully won [...]

PATTAYA: — Informed sources from several police divisions have told the Pattaya Times that a very serious crackdown will begin next month to catch foreign business people who are financial backers of gay bars, beer bars and a go-gos where there is sex for sale in Pattaya. These bars charge a “bar fine” to the customer [...]