A Few Questions for Belle de Jour, Call Girl and Scientist

November 20, 2009, 1:30 pm
By RYAN HAGEN
In 2003, a young American woman in London studying for her PhD. ran into money trouble. To support herself while writing her thesis, she joined an escort service. Under the assumed name Belle de Jour, she started to blog her experiences. That blog led to a series of successful, [...]

Internet fuels virtual subculture for sex trade, study finds

Published: Oct. 21, 2009 E-mail Editor
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The Internet has spawned a virtual subculture of “johns” who share information electronically about prostitution, potentially making them harder to catch, according to a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University criminologist.
The research by MSU’s Thomas Holt and Kristie Blevins of the University of North [...]

UK: Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic

Nick Davies
The Guardian, Tuesday 20 October 2009
There is something familiar about the tide of misinformation which has swept through the subject of sex trafficking in the UK: it flows through exactly the same channels as the now notorious torrent about Saddam Hussein’s weapons.
In the story of UK sex trafficking, the conclusions of academics who [...]

UK: Man held in fire murder inquiry

Page last updated at 10:59 GMT, Sunday, 18 October 2009 11:59 UK
Police investigating the murder of a woman whose body was found strangled after a fire at her flat in Brighton have arrested a 42-year-old man.
The body of Andrea Waddell, 29, who had a masters degree and worked as a prostitute, was found just before [...]

UK: Sex-change graduate working as a prostitute strangled before killer set fire to her flat

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 12:23 PM on 18th October 2009
A murdered student who had been working as a prostitute had once been a man, her family has revealed.
Andrea Waddell’s body was discovered by firefighters called to tackle a blaze at the address.
The 29-year-old had been strangled.
As detectives hunted her killer, her grieving relatives [...]

UK: Man arrested after the murder of a Brighton prostitute

9:10am Sunday 18th October 2009
A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Brighton prostitute.
Police arrested the 42-year-old last night following the death of Andrea Waddell, who was found strangled in her flat following a fire.
The man, who is from Brighton, is currently in police custody and will be interviewed by detectives [...]

UK: A sex worker found dead after a flat fire had been strangled.

Andrea Joanne Waddell, 29, was found at her home in Upper Lewes Road, Brighton, by firefighters late on Thursday night.
Today Sussex Police said the clean-living masters student had been leading a secret life as a sex worker in the city.
A post mortem examination carried out yesterday revealed Ms Waddell was strangled.
Speaking at a press conference [...]

Older Stories: Nairobi: Prostitutes from the slum may hold key to Aids cure

David Orr- Nairobi
Thursday, 23 January 1997
Monica Marwa is a 25-year-old prostitute living in the notorious Majengo slum on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. She charges between 30 and 50 Kenyan shillings (between 33 and 55 pence) for sex. There is nothing extraordinary about her line of work nor about her fees – it [...]

Congressman Attacks NIH Funding for Study on Prostitutes

July 24, 2009
Studies of sex workers and drug abusers are an easy target, and today a conservative member of Congress took pot shots at three such overseas projects—all part of the U.S.-funded effort to understand and halt the spread of HIV/AIDS. Representative Darrell Issa (R–CA) was successful in stripping the relevant grant money from the [...]

CA: REAL Women refused standing in prostitution law trial

Blog post
From Canadian Women’s Issues
Friday, July 3, 2009
The July 3 Globe and Mail has a story by Kirk Makin saying “An Ontario judge has turned down a request from two religious groups and a conservative women’s group to take part in a constitutional challenge of the country’s prostitution laws.” According to this story, the judge, [...]