Thai Sex Workers: APNSW Press Release for French Press

APNSW responds to the Mitterand story:
It has come to our attention that there is still continuing debate around the issue of the French Culture Minister,
Frédéric Mitterrand, and his admission that he paid for sex with male sex workers in Thailand. We have seen attacks on him from both the left and the right of French [...]

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 [...]

R.I. police charities solicit donations from “spas”

06:12 PM EDT on Friday, September 18, 2009
By Lynn Arditi
Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — Raising money for charity can be tough, but Rhode Island police organizations have found one business that’s always willing to contribute.
Asian massage parlors or “spas” in Providence which police and local watch-dog groups maintain are often fronts for brothels, have [...]

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 [...]

WA: Request to move judge’s prostitution, harassment trial refused

ADAM LYNN, The News Tribune
Published: 07/01/09 5:21 pm | Updated: 07/02/09 6:22 am
It looks as though Superior Court Judge Michael A. Hecht’s trial on charges of felony harassment and patronizing a prostitute will take place in Pierce County.
The judge presiding over the case rejected Hecht’s request for [...]

Secrets of Sexual Forced Labour in Nazi Concentration Camps

Tuesday, 30 June 2009
by Kathryn Hadley
I have vivid memories of a school trip to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, 35 kilometres north of Berlin: the crematories, the so-called ‘Station Z’ built for the extermination of prisoners in 1942, the infirmary… I have no recollection, however, of the camp brothel.
Robert Sommer’s latest book The Concentration Camp [...]

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 [...]

Ashley Dupré Exclusive: ‘My Side of the Story’

Escort at Center of Eliot Spitzer Scandal Talks to Diane Sawyer
By KIMBERLY LAUNIER and KATIE ESCHERICH
Nov. 19, 2008—
 
The young woman at the center of the historic downfall of the governor of New York is finally speaking out.
Ashley Dupré, the 23-year-old former escort who was the target of intense media scrutiny in the days after Gov. [...]

Ex-Call Girl Ashley Dupré: I’m a ‘Normal Girl’

By Mark Dagostino
Originally posted Wednesday November 19, 2008 08:00 AM EST
She was the tabloid sensation at the center of the sex scandal that brought down New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. But in her very first interview, Ashley Alexandra Dupré tells PEOPLE, “I am a normal girl.”
“Everyone knows me as ‘that girl,’ but I’m not [...]

India: Hijras face further harassment

http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/13/stories/2008111361820400.htm
Staff Reporter

‘It is wrong to target the whole community’

Bangalore: Hijras residing at Dasarahalli, who have been under pressure to vacate their houses following notices served by the police, were allegedly subjected to further abuse on Wednesday morning.
Soummya, a hirjra from the area, said the police arrived on Wednesday night and announced on loudspeakers that [...]