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, [...]

French culture minister denies paying for underage sex in Thailand

Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 8 October 2009 01.46 BST
Frederic Mitterrand
Frédéric Mitterrand, France’s culture minister, last night denied paying underage boys for sex in Thailand, and sought to calm a storm over his support for the film director Roman Polanski.
Both the extreme right and the Socialist party have called for his resignation over his 2005 [...]

Mommy does Dallas

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 14:09 PDT
From Salon’s Broadsheet
Here’s a knotty — and partly NSFW — saga from the city by the bay. Back in April, Matt Smith of the San Francisco Weekly revealed that California state government funding designed to make businesses more competitive had (long story short) gone to subsidize job training in [...]

Rejected gravestone for Germany’s most famous prostitute deemed “too slutty”

J.S. Mael
Santa Monica City Buzz Examiner
July 3, 1:58 AM

HAMBURG — Domenica Niehoff, a former prostitute known across Germany for her campaigning to have the profession legalized and regulated, died at age 63, back on February 13, 2009 . The story was reported by almost every mainstream news source and the story made its way [...]

PA: Police: Ex-Nova Dean Customer of Prostitution Ring

By TAMARA VOSTOK
Updated 3:30 PM EDT, Fri, Jul 3, 2009
Police investigating a prostitution ring in Chester County relied on two customers for information, one of whom was Mark A. Sargent—dean of Villanova University School of Law, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Police raided the Kennett Township home on November 25, 2008 after a six-week surveillance [...]

UK: Judge suspended over male prostitute allegations

Judge Gerald Price unable to work while tabloid claims about private life are investigated
Steven Morris
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 30 June 2009 13.46 BST
A senior judge has been suspended while allegations printed about his private life in a tabloid newspaper are investigated, it emerged today.
The Office for Judicial Complaints (OJC) said Judge Gerald Price QC would not [...]

Ex-Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss to marry Nevada’s brothel king

Sun, Jun 28 11:45 AM
London, June 28 (ANI): Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss is set to tie the knot with the owner of the world’s most famous brothel, Nevada’s Moonlite Bunny Ranch.
After recently claiming that a stint on reality TV show Celebrity Rehab helped her kick her drug addictions, Fleiss is planning to make Dennis [...]

‘Cheri’ borders on being sweet

Friday, June 26, 2009
Tom Long: Film Review: ‘Cheri’ — GRADE: C
Tom Long / Detroit News Film Critic
That the sum of “Cheri” isn’t nearly as impressive as it parts becomes apparent halfway through the movie, when it has been well-established that an aging prostitute (Michelle Pfeiffer) is going to be forced to give up her longtime [...]

Escort mission

Adult film star Sasha Grey on pushing the envelope in porn, her evolving creativity and working with Steven Soderbergh for his new film The Girlfriend Experience
by MARK SLUTSKY
At the tender age of 21, Sasha Grey has already made quite a name for herself in her chosen industry. Arriving in Hollywood after turning 18 with the [...]

Male teacher turns prostitute in HBO comedy ‘Hung’

… or are you just happy to see me?
By Mark A. Perigard / Review
Thursday, June 25, 2009
HBO, the premium cable network responsible for such groundbreaking series as “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City,” pegs its future on a show built around a man trying to make his fortune off of what God put [...]