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Cruel, degrading scenes `normalized’ for generation brought up in dot-com world
January 26, 2008
Antonia Zerbisias
Living Columnist
The hottest place on Earth this month was Las Vegas.
That was the site of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo where thousands of, um, exhibitors and fans of pornography came together [...]
By PHILIP MESSING
January 25, 2008 — The masseuse who discovered actor Heath Ledger’s body does not hold a state license to do massage therapy, officials said yesterday.As a result, Diane Lee Wolo zin , 45, may face charges that could put her behind bars for four years. The state Education Department, which licenses massage [...]
Posted on Friday, 25-01-2008
Ghana - IOM has been asked to lend support to the Ghanaian government in providing care and assistance to a group of minors rescued from a brothel in Ghana on 19th January following a police raid.More than 160 women and girls were taken to an initial shelter for preliminary screening following the raid [...]
Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker today reinforced the government’s commitment to stamping out sex trafficking at a conference organised by CHASTE – Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking Across Europe.
He told a packed conference hall – at the International Salvation Army headquarters in London - that the time had come for a major cultural shift in [...]
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From The Times
January 25, 2008
Sean O’Neill, Crime Editor
A nationwide clampdown on human-trafficking has led to police raids on more than 500 brothels, most of them in residential areas.
Operation Pentameter 2 has detected a significant shift in the nature of the sex trade in Britain.
Once dominated by red-light areas and massage parlours, [...]
newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-un-human-trafficking,0,5857382.story Newsday.co
By VERONIKA OLEKSYN
Associated Press Writer
5:22 PM EST, January 22, 2008
VIENNA, Austria
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Tension Hits Soja Bar
General News – Wed, 23 Jan 2008
‘SOLDIER BAR’, an Accra-based popular brothel has suddenly become a ghost town, two days after it was raided by armed policemen and 160 prostitutes arrested.
The notorious Accra brothel at Kwame Nkrumah Circle was raided by policemen last Saturday night when business was at its peak for [...]
Jan. 17, 2008
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
To the editor:
I was extremely disappointed to read Benjamin Spillman’s one-dimensional and cliched coverage of the Adult Entertainment Expo (Jan. 12). If Mr. Spillman had done his homework he would have known — and perhaps chosen to write about — facets of the expo that are about much [...]
Says a Las Vegas Review Journal story was ‘too cliched’
By Eddie Adams
Posted: 3:39 PM PST Jan 17, 2008
LAS VEGAS – In her letter to the editors at The Las Vegas Review Journal, Lynn Comella, an Assistant Professor in UNLV’s Women’s Studies Program, criticized staff writer Benjamin Spillman’s coverage of last week’s AVN Adult Entertainment [...]
SAVE THE DATE: The 2008 Sex Worker Convergence is hitting Chi-Town!
Posted on January 24, 2008 by Melissa Gira
On July 16-20 of 2008, hundreds of sex workers and sex worker activists will converge on Chicago at the Desiree Alliance Conference:
“Pulling Back the Sheets: Sex, Work, and Social Justice”
The Desiree Alliance is a diverse, volunteer-based, sex worker-led network [...]
