The Electric New Paper
Recall
Her acts enthralled a nation
Her sex-capades almost brought down a government and made her a media star. It was 1989. The New Paper was a year old.
26 August 2008
IT was 1989. The New Paper was a year old. http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,174411,00.html
The Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States was on [...]
Prostitutes tell of gang rapes
5:34pm Thursday 28th August 2008
By John Davies »
A Slovakian miner has gone on trial accused of being part of a rape gang which was responsible for five attacks on Bradford prostitutes.
A jury at the city’s crown court heard today that while one of the sex workers was being subjected to a series of [...]
Taliban slays women for “prostitution”
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Viewer discretion is advised.
http://womenagainstshariah.blogspot.com/2008/08/taliban-slays-women-for-prostitution.html
Pa. town sued after rejecting pole-dancing studio
It’s not Porn, but the idiots who run this town think it is….
PITTSBURGH – A suburban Pittsburgh woman has sued a town that refused to allow her to open a pole-dancing studio on the grounds it was a sexually oriented business.
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday in Pittsburgh by the American Civil Liberties Union claims Adams [...]
Cambodia: Sex workers, 100% condom use and human rights
August 27, 2008
Juliana Rincón Parra
From: Global Voices Online
Cambodian sex workers have taken to the internet to make their plight and fight for human rights better known. In Cambodia, a 100% condom use law which states that sexual exchanges with clients have to take place with condoms on sounds like a good idea, but [...]
UK: Stigmatisation of prostitutes
From The Times
August 29, 2008
A precedent for singling out one identifiable group has already been set
Sir, Carol Sarler says in her article (“Paedophiles may be mad or bad”, Aug 21) that it would create a precedent to single out one identifiable group and exclude it from the principles of law that apply to all others. [...]
Yet Another Obscenity Trial? We Should Be Ashamed
By Dr. Marty Klein, AlterNet
Posted on August 29, 2008, Printed on August 29, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/96366/
Last week I traveled 14 hours to Staunton, Va., to testify in an obscenity trial. A guy was accused of selling DVDs in his shop that showed adults having sex with each other — which, of course, he had.
Staunton is the kind [...]
Sex Worker Rights Are Human Rights
By Juhu Thukral, On The Issues Magazine
Posted on August 28, 2008, Printed on August 29, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/96875/
The idea of sex workers fighting for their human rights is a foreign concept to most people, even those who identify politically as progressives or feminists. Sex workers have lived on the margins of society through most of human history, [...]
Taking On the Traffickers
August 23, 2008
NYT Editorial
The Federal Trafficking and Victims Protection Act of 2000 was an ambitious attempt to rescue women and children who are smuggled into the country as sex slaves and to step up prosecution of the pimps and traffickers who drive this ghastly business. It has fallen short on both counts.
The law is now [...]
NC: Fighting prostitution takes community effort, expert says
Anderson officials say they are working on the problem
By Liz Carey , Charmaine Smith-Miles
Monday, August 25, 2008
ANDERSON COUNTY — The toll prostitution takes on communities and people can be seen on some streets in south Anderson.
Drugs, crime, violence, vandalism and blight permeate the area, the cousins of the world’s oldest profession. Experts and community leaders [...]
