By Natalie Clarke
Last updated at 9:37 AM on 29th July 2008
The two ladies of the Women’s Institute arrived promptly for their appointment at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada. They were greeted by the ranch owner, Dennis Hof, wearing a sharp suit, a fat cigar in his mouth and two nubile blondes at his side.
Jean [...]
Tea and sex: Women’s Institute members tour brothels in campaign to legalise prostitution
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 11:24 AM on 28th July 2008
It’s a long way from jam-making and knitting.
Two members of the Women’s Institute have just returned from a tour searching for the world’s best brothel.
Grandmother Jean Johnson, 62, and her friend Shirley Landells, 73, members of the Hampshire WI, met Amsterdam’s shop-window call girls, [...]
INDONESIA: Poverty at root of commercial sex work
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Photo: A. Mirza/ILO
Although Indonesian NGOs run concerted campaigns to rescue girls working the streets, most of them want to continue being sex workers because, they say, they and their families need the money
JAKARTA, 24 July 2008 (IRIN) – In a district of the northeastern part of West Java, commercial sex workers are touting [...]
UK: WI turns brothel creepers
WI meets hookers … Jean and Shirley with Nevada prostitutes
By DEREK ROBINS
Published: 7/24/08
WI members will go on a whirlwind tour of some of the world’s brothels in a new Channel 4 documentary.
Hampshire WI members Jean Johnson and Shirley Landels met the working girls in a licensed Bunny Ranch brothel in Nevada and visited a upmarket [...]
“On the Issues Magazine” on Sex Work
“NEW YORK: Prostitution penetrated the news in a major way in recent
months — from ex-governor Eliot Spitzer of New York and his paid
binges with women to the suicide of DC madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey
and the Showtime fluff of “Secret Diary of A Call Girl”
But the media, politicians and feminists have not grappled with the
real complexities [...]
Religious Repugnance Obscures Need for
by Rita Nakashima Brock
In the mid-1990s, Asian feminists concerned about the sexual exploitation of children and women and the growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS urged Susan Thistlethwaite and me to write a book about the sex industry. We traveled to six Asian countries and to major cities in the U.S., interviewing sex workers, anti-prostitution activists, government [...]
Legal Momentum Applauds Senators Biden and Brownback on the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
Last update: 3:41 p.m. EDT July 21, 2008
NEW YORK, July 21, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — As the oldest legal advocacy organization dedicated to advancing and defending the rights of women and girls, Legal Momentum stands with our allies who work every day with trafficking victims to support the Senate version of the William Wilberforce [...]
Petitioners Want San Francisco To Decriminalize Prostitution
Posted Jul 20, 2008 by Dave G. (TruthMan)
San Francisco, CA Golden Gate Bridge
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If the measure is passed by voters on November 4, it would ban the San Francisco Police Department from allocating any funds to investigate and prosecute sex workers on prostitution charges. ”Section four of the ballot measure-under the heading ”Prostitution Shall [...]
India: Sex worker dies after being kicked by customer
KOLKATA, July 6: A 35-year-old sex worker, who was kicked in the stomach allegedly by one of her customers at Premchand Boral Street on Friday night, died at Calcutta Medical College and Hospital this morning.
The accused, Raja Roy, a resident of Santosh Mitra Square, was arrested this afternoon. Police said, Roy had allegedly gone [...]
UK: Women’s Institute hit squad tour brothels
WI hit squad tour brothels
A HIT squad of Women’s Institute members scoured Hampshire’s streets and brothels on a campaign to legalise brothels in the county.
Women from Hampshire WI group “kerb-crawled” through Southampton streets as well as visiting some of the county’s estimated 600 brothels to see the “horrendous” working conditions for prostitutes.
The women were so [...]
