Loved Ones Fear Truck Driver May Be Linked To California Missing

CUE Center For Missing Persons
PO Box 12714
Wilmington, NC 28405
Contact:
Monica Caison
(910) 343-1131
(910) 232-1687
cuecenter@aol.com
www.ncmissingpersons.org
For immediate release:
April 23, 2009
Note left behind reveals that a body can be found on the “15”
Wilmington, NC: April Pitzer vanished on June 28, 2004 and despite multiple searchers, public awareness campaigns, national coverage and pleas to the Newberry community; she remains missing. “It has been [...]

Older Stories: Who’s Counting: Sexonomics — Prostitutes’ Incomes

A Look at the Economics Behind the World’s Oldest Profession
By JOHN ALLEN PAULOS
May 7, 2006 –
The best-selling book “Freakonomics” examines the economics of some ordinary life situations. If these situations involve sex, the analysis might be better termed Sexonomics.
One of the first practitioners of sexonomics was Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker, whose 1970s paper “A [...]

Pimps tend to be like prostitutes: abused as children, once sold their own bodies: study

Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation conference on sex trafficking at DePaul finds interesting conclusions
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April 16, 2009
BY ANNIE SWEENEY Crime Reporter asweeney@suntimes.com
In television, movies and music, they exude cool and confidence.
But a new study has found out something else about some Chicago pimps — like the women they often peddle on the sex [...]

Hooking Without Crooking

Prostitution is nice work if you can get it decriminalized
by Juliet November
I’m buzzed into the storefront, which is marked only by a street number, and walk through the empty lounge to a garish pink staff room, where about eight women sit around chatting in a cloud of smoke and hairspray. There’s Genevieve, the fortyish French-Greek [...]

Two Taiwan soldiers arrested for killing Vietnamese prostitute

Asia-Pacific News
Apr 11, 2009, 2:32 GMT
- Monsters and Critics -
Taipei – Two Taiwan naval personnel have been arrested for armed robbery which left one Vietnamese prostitute dead and another injured, Taiwan press said Saturday.
Tseng Shao-tzu and Liang Poh-yu, both 20, committed the armed burglary and murder Friday in Kaohsiung City, south Taiwan, near the Tsoying [...]

The hidden hell of a Houston sex slave

11:37 AM CDT on Friday, April 10, 2009
By Rucks Russell / 11 News
HOUSTON—It’s easy to pass by Houston’s hot-sheet motels without giving them much thought.
Houston’s dark secret: Inside the life of a prostitute
April 9, 2009
But many of them are harboring a dark secret behind their closed doors.
It’s a secret world a young woman who calls [...]

Zimbabwe: The Curse of Child Prostitution

Vimbai Komani
10 April 2009
Harare — THERE is a saying that politics is the second oldest profession in the world and it is just as sordid as the oldest.
Of course, this is not a very flattering thing to say about the practitioners of the profession called politics because the world has seen its fair share of [...]

Oshkosh mom accused of working at home as prostitute

April 10, 2009
By Amie Jo Schaenzer and Jennifer K. Woldt
Gannett Wisconsin Media
OSHKOSH — Authorities arrested a 33-year-old Oshkosh woman on Wednesday for running a prostitution service in her home while her husband was gone and her child was at school.
The arrest marks the second undercover investigation by the Oshkosh Police Department of local women who [...]

Ecuador Sex Workers Target HIV-AIDS Prevention

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April 11, 2009
Run Date: 04/10/09
By Dominique Soguel
WeNews correspondent
Sex workers in Ecuador are building a national labor network and trying to curb HIV-AIDS, while dealing with the growing presence of minors and undocumented workers in brothels. The first of six stories on Ecuador’s sex industry.
ESMERALDAS, Ecuador (WOMENSENEWS)–Elizabeth Molina does not walk. She [...]

Keeping Up With Being Kept

By RUTH PADAWER
Published: April 10, 2009
AT FIRST GLANCE, the Web site SeekingArrangement.com seems like any other dating site. Most of the men are looking for fit, sexy women, and most of the women want nice guys who can make them smile and laugh. But if eHarmony or Match.com is a chatty social mixer, Seeking Arrangement [...]