Twitter, iPhones Let Sex Workers Spread Their Gospel

By Regina Lynn 03.28.08
When the Eliot Spitzer sex scandal heated up headlines earlier this month, every media outlet in the country suddenly began scrambling to talk to a sex worker.
The downfall of Spitzer, the New York governor who resigned after his private sex life unexpectedly became public, generated an enormous amount of [...]

NY: HOW CO-ED BEGAN REIGN AT EMPERORS

By KATI CORNELL 
March 27, 2008 — A pal of the petite madam who ran the Emperors Club VIP has offered intimate details of how the pretty 23-year-old allegedly hooked up with her much older boyfriend to launch the high-end escort service that brought down the state’s governor. It was the summer of 2003 when Cecil [...]

NY: AND THERE HE HO’S AGAIN

 NY POST

AND THERE HE HO’S AGAIN By JAMIE SCHRAM, LAURA ITALIANO, KATI CORNELL and CHUCK BENNETT

March 27, 2008 — Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned.
The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial [...]

NY: $2 Million Bail Set for Woman in Brothel Case

March 27, 2008

By COLIN MOYNIHAN
A prosecutor accused a Manhattan woman on Wednesday of controlling a ring of several dozen high-priced prostitutes and said that she tried to dismantle the operation when she sensed the authorities closing in.
The woman, Kristin Davis, 32, was ordered held in $2 million bail after her arraignment in Criminal Court in [...]

NY: Woman Accused of Running Prostitution Ring on East Side

 
March 26, 2008

By ANDY NEWMAN
A woman was arrested Tuesday afternoon and accused of running a large prostitution ring on the East Side, the police said.
The woman, Kristen Davis, 32, operated four Web sites and had her employees, who charged up to $1,200 an hour, meet clients in apartments she kept in the neighborhood, law enforcement [...]

ACLU questions legality of APD prostitution web page

CITIZEN-TIMES.com

Josh Boatwright
March 21, 2008 10:28 am

The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina recently sent a letter to the City of Asheville questioning whether posting photos of prostitution suspects on the police department’s web site is unconstitutional.
ACLU legal director Katie Parker said the web page could violate people’s due process rights since police said the [...]

Assault on call girl nets 18 months’ probation

 Daryl Slade
Calgary Herald
Tuesday » March 25 » 2008
Thursday, March 20, 2008
CALGARY – A 51-year-old man will not have to spend any more time in jail, but will have a short leash on him for 18 months, after pleading guilty to his fifth assault on a sex trade worker over the past decade.Provincial court Judge Anne Brown sentenced Udhay Chandra [...]

Hong Kong police arrest second man over sex worker murders

The Associated Press
Thursday, March 20, 2008
HONG KONG: Police arrested a second man early Thursday in connection with the recent slayings of sex workers in Hong Kong.
Police believe the man, 32, is linked to the death of a woman found dead Monday in an apartment in a residential district on Hong Kong island, police spokeswoman [...]

Third man arrested over prostitute murders

Sunday, March 23, 2008
AFP
HONG KONG — A 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a prostitute, police said, the third arrest in a week in Hong Kong over the killings of sex workers here.Four women have been found murdered in this southern Chinese city this month, prompting fears about violent crime [...]

Debate On Prostitution Good for the Future

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 Uganda
New Vision (Kampala)
EDITORIAL
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 25 March 2008
Kampala
THE Government has banned a planned workshop for prostitutes because prostitution is illegal. Ethics minister Nsaba Buturo says prostitution is immoral, indecent, dehumanising and exploits people, and as such should remain illegal. Many agree, but others [...]