Tri-State Prostitution Ring Busted In August
POSTED: 11:28 pm MDT September 23, 2008
UPDATED: 5:59 pm MDT September 25, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Court documents filed Tuesday reveal new details about Desert Divas New Mexico. It was part of an alleged tri-state prostitution ring police busted in August.
Now, three men reportedly connected to the New Mexico operation [...]
September 26, 2008
Categories: "Prostitution Rings", Academic, Agency Busts, Arrests and Persecution, Clients, Economics, Escorting, Internet, Labor, National, Online escorting, Police, Stings, Students & Sex Work . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Tijuana in the Shadow of HIV
El Mensajero, News Report, Erika Cebreros, Translated by Elena Shore, Posted: Sep 25, 2008
Editor’s Note: The price of health cards required for sex workers in Tijuana has increased in what observers say is a “scandalous” and “immoral” setback in the fight against HIV.
TIJUANA, Mexico – Like thousands of women, Veronica [...]
September 25, 2008
Categories: Activism, Economics, Exotic Dance, Health, Human Rights, Idiot Authorities, International, Labor, Latin America, Organizing, Policy, STIs, Street-based work, Stripping, outreach . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Though the number of red-light districts has decreased, the number of prostitution-related crimes is increasing
» On September 22, the group Dandelion Pilgrimage, whose members consist of women forced into prostitution and civic activists, holds a memorial ceremony in the Seogbuk district of Seoul for victims of a fire that broke out at a house of [...]
September 23, 2008
Categories: "Dirty Whores", Agency Busts, Agents, Arrests and Persecution, Brothels, East Asia, International, Labor, Legalize Decriminalize Prohibit, Police, Policy, Prohibitionism, Raids/Crackdowns, pimps . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24348679-5005961,00.html
SYDNEY prostitutes enjoy the best health and welfare and Melbourne sex workers fare the worst.
But their colleagues in Perth will get the “rawest deal” if the new Liberal state government stands by its pledge to regulate the industry, experts have warned.
A new report to be presented at a major sexual health conference found that all [...]
September 23, 2008
Categories: Academic, Australia and New Zealand, HIV/AIDS, Harm/Risk Reduction, Health, International, Labor, Laws, Legalize Decriminalize Prohibit, Policy, Publications, Research, STIs, Safer sex, outreach . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
The World Today – Tuesday, 16 September , 2008 12:45:00
Reporter: Michael Edwards
ELEANOR HALL: A sexual health expert is calling for the decriminalisation of prostitution across Australia, saying it will help prevent the spread of sexually transmitted diseases.
Basil Donovan from the National Centre in HIV is using a study of sex workers in New South Wales, where [...]
September 23, 2008
Categories: Academic, Australia and New Zealand, HIV/AIDS, Harm/Risk Reduction, Health, International, Labor, Legalize Decriminalize Prohibit, Publications, Research, Safer sex . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Sun, 21 Sep 2008 5:13p.m.The Teachers’ Council may be asked to decide whether any action should be taken against an Auckland primary school teacher moonlighting as a prostitute.
The new teacher, a mother in her 30s with two children, has been working as a prostitute to supplement her income.
The newspaper, which did not name the teacher [...]
September 23, 2008
Categories: Australia and New Zealand, International, Labor, Personal stories, Philosophy and Discourse, Policy, Students & Sex Work . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
By JEFF KINGSTON
GOODBYE MADAME BUTTERFLY: Sex, Marriage and the Modern Japanese Woman, by Sumie Kawakami. Chin Music Press, 2007, 219 pp., $20 (cloth)
Who wants to be a woman in Japan? Misery can’t get much worse than the sexless relationships, dreary marriages, loneliness, patriarchal blues and stressed out women portrayed in these riveting interviews. These ordinary [...]
September 23, 2008
Categories: Book Reviews, East Asia, International, Labor, Male Sex Work, Older Stories, Publications, Sex . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
Op-Ed | September 21, 2008
Editorial
Crusading Ethics and Integrity Minister Nsaba Buturo has come up with an inspired method to rid Uganda of prostitution. He wants to name and shame sex workers and their clients.
“We want to shame the public officials who even use government vehicles to buy prostitutes,” Dr Buturo thundered piously to reporters. “We [...]
September 23, 2008
Categories: "Dirty Whores", Africa, Clients, Editorials, Humiliation tactics, Hypocrisy, International, Policy, Shaming and Stigma, Zealotry . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
THE ZEIT GIST
The Japan Times: Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003
Voracious sex market and lax laws encourage abuse
By DAVID McNEILL
It could be a scene from most neighborhoods in urban Japan but it happened to be mine in Hashimoto, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Weary male commuters file through the ticket barriers of the JR Yokohama Line greeted by half a dozen [...]
September 23, 2008
Categories: Agents, Child Abuse, Conflation of trafficking and prostitution, East Asia, Economics, Fraud and Coercion, IOM, International, Labor, Migration/Travel, Older Stories, Organized Crime, Prostitutes as "Victims", Trafficking, UN, Underage Prostitution, Violence Against Sex Workers, pimps . . Author: swoplv . Comments: Leave a Comment
THE OLDEST TRADE
Sex industry endures thanks to demand, commercialization and legal loopholes
By HIROSHI MATSUBARA
First of two parts on prostitution, beginning in Japan, where the act is illegal, then in the Netherlands, where it is legal Staff writer
Megu Kano, 24, spends all nine hours on the job in a small room less than six tatami mats [...]
September 23, 2008
Categories: Brothels, East Asia, Feminism, History, International, Labor, Laws, Older Stories, Policy, The Life . . Author: swoplv . Comments: 1 Comment
