August 31, 2010 – 8:58am By DANIEL WOOLLS Associated Press Writer MADRID (AP) – Spanish police say that for the first time they have broken up a human-trafficking gang that brought men to the country to work as prostitutes, providing them with Viagra, cocaine and other stimulant drugs to be available for sex with other [...]

A STUDY of lap dancers has found that one in four has a university DEGREE. The majority of women in the industry were attracted by the money after finishing school and gaining qualifications, according to the research. An average stripper takes home £232 per shift — or £48,000 a year — after paying commission and [...]

James Temple, Chronicle Staff Writer Sunday, August 29, 2010 CEO Jim Buckmaster, above, faces criticism from politicia… CEO Jim Buckmaster faces criticism from politicians such … Attorneys general in 18 states demanded that Craigslist remove its adult services section last week, the latest clash in a long-running conflict over online sexual ads that is likely [...]

Church Has Protested Strip Club For 4 Years POSTED: 9:34 am EDT August 9, 2010 UPDATED: 10:03 pm EDT August 9, 2010 WARSAW, Ohio – The owner of an Ohio strip club and some of his dancers have been protesting at a church that has done the same to them for four years. Women in [...]

The new Prohibition Steve Bosch/Postmedia News The federal government announced new measures to combat organized crime like prostitution, illegal gambling and drug trafficking on Aug. 4, 2010. Terence Corcoran, National Post · Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010 The Harper government, fresh from botching its alleged pander to the libertarian wing of the Conservative party with its [...]

Officials Should Investigate and Close Government Centers Where Abuses Occur July 20, 2010 (Phnom Penh) – The Cambodian government should act quickly to end violence against sex workers and permanently close the government centers where these workers have been unlawfully detained and abused, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. Human Rights [...]

Please read and forward widely! The full statement is published here. Please read, link, tweet, circulate: http://www.harlots-parlour.com/2010/07/false-arrests-happen-to-us-too.html Summary: Sometimes prostitution laws are used against people who are not engaged in prostitution. This has been happening in gay porn shops around New York, and we applaud the lawsuit regarding these false arrests. However, we hope the [...]

Jul 10, 2010 2:23 PM | By Sapa-dpa A sex scandal is rocking the Swedish government in the run-up to general elections, with the Aftonbladet newspaper reporting – three days after his resignation – that labour minister Sven Otto Littorin once hired a prostitute. Paying for sex has been a crime in Sweden since 1999. [...]

by Anders Kelto July 6, 2010 In South Africa, many feared there would be a huge influx of sex workers to profit off the tourists gathered for the soccer fest. But for the most part the fears seem to have been unfounded. MELISSA BLOCK, host: From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. Im Melissa [...]

Jun 30 2010 By Annie Brown AN inquiry into sex trafficking in Scotland is asking punters who use prostitutes to talk to them – in secret. Baroness Helena Kennedy, who is heading the probe, said men who buy sex can help build a realistic picture of the extent of the trade. Kennedy said: “I want [...]

Posted Jun 29th, 2010 06:07 PM by Mark Kernes LOS ANGELES—Those who showed up at the Cal/OSHA Advisory Meeting on Bloodborne Pathogens in the Adult Film Industry today expecting a discussion of whether condoms should be mandated in adult movies were in for a surprise: According to both Cal/OSHA inspector Deborah Gold and agency attorney [...]

Thursday, 17 June 2010 Prostitution will always be around and it is impossible to police a blanket ban, Attorney General tells community forum By Anthony Barich WA Attorney General Christian Porter has turned the debate on legalising brothels on its head, challenging anti-prostitution advocates to come up with a better solution than his planned legislation [...]

Soccer/Football Legends Revealed #4 This is the fourth in a series of examinations of soccer/football-related legends and whether they are true or false. Let’s begin! SOCCER/FOOTBALL LEGEND: 40,000 prostitutes enter the country hosting the FIFA World Cup. STATUS: False Let me know if this sounds familiar to you. A country is worried about “the invasion [...]

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Jun 21 2010 16:22 Claims exaggerating the danger of human trafficking during the Soccer World Cup have resulted in the sidelining of other important social issues, the University of the Witwatersrand’s forced migration studies programme has found. Programme director Professor Loren Landau said that despite “alarming” radio and television advertisements, there had [...]

By Ben Gilbert – GlobalPost Published: June 17, 2010 10:21 ET in Middle East BEIRUT, Lebanon — Twenty minutes north of Beirut, in the Christian heartland of Lebanon is Jounieh, the country’s little Las Vegas, where dozens of “super nightclubs,” Lebanon’s equivalent of strip clubs, line the main street. Inside one club, called Excalibur, a [...]

From The Other Swedish Model Gender, sex and culture, by Laura Agustín Much of my work revolves around prostitution law, sex worker rights and the cultural study of commercial sex: see Border Thinking, where I blog several times a week. I wrote the following piece after some people in Sweden welcomed a parliamentarian’s suggestion that [...]

By Les Carpenter, Yahoo! Sports jun 10, 15:34 EDT JOHANNESBURG – Of all the wild, fantastic stories that blossomed in the months before the World Cup, there was the rumor that South Africa would soon be flooded with 40,000 prostitutes. They would come streaming across the border from places like Zimbabwe and Mozambique, all of [...]

From Laura Agustin’s Border Thinking Men and football: the assumption that these make a super-volatile combination that will lead to violence against women is everywhere, yet there is no real research backing it up. It feels intuitive, something like Oh my god, they get so worked up and nationalistic at those matches, they scream and [...]

May 28 2010 at 02:56PM A Cape Town sex worker claiming unfair dismissal has won a ruling from the Labour Appeal Court that she is entitled to protection under South African labour law. Court president Dennis Davis said in a judgment handed down on Friday that the ruling did not sanction sex work. However, he [...]

Thursday May 13, 2010 Decriminalisation of New Zealand’s sex industry has resulted in safer, healthier sex workers, a new book by University of Otago, Christchurch, researcher Gillian Abel shows. Since decriminalisation seven years ago sex workers are more empowered to insist on safe sex, Abel’s book “Taking the crime out of sex work – New [...]