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		<title>Dog Days Turn Deadly in America&#8217;s Prisons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Ridgeway &#124; Tue September 1, 2009 4:27 AM PST
The summer of 2009 hadn&#8217;t even begun when Marcia Powell, a 48-year old inmate at Arizona’s Perryville Prison, was baked to death. Powell, whom court records show had a history of schizophrenia, substance abuse, and mild mental retardation, was serving a 27-month sentence for prostitution. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&blog=1741456&post=1740&subd=swoplv&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Navy officer Timothy Davis found not guilty of raping prostitute in Sydney brothel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AAP
November 23, 2009 4:26PM 
A US sailor cleared today of raping a prostitute in a Sydney brothel is &#8220;looking forward&#8221; to returning to California.
While Petty Officer Timothy Davis had admitted using a &#8220;lockdown manoeuvre&#8221; to pin the woman to the bed, he denied forcing himself on her, saying he had only wanted his money back.
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		<title>A Few Questions for Belle de Jour, Call Girl and Scientist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&blog=1741456&post=1736&subd=swoplv&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sex and Soccer: The World Cup vice trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 16, 2009 &#8212; Updated 1701 GMT (0101 HKT)
By Chris Murphy
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(CNN) &#8212; The beginning of the World Cup in South Africa next June kicks-off a festival of football on the pitch, but there are a wealth of issues for the host country to tackle off the field too.
Up to half-a-million fans are expected to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&blog=1741456&post=1734&subd=swoplv&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RI: Full House OKs ban on indoor prostitution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:39:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[11:29 AM EDT on Thursday, October 29, 2009
Lynn Arditi, Journal Staff Writer
PROVIDENCE — The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a bill to outlaw indoor prostitution Wednesday night, paving the way for a final debate on the Senate floor Thursday. 
 The bill’s passage followed an hour of impassioned debate from both sides of the issue. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&blog=1741456&post=1731&subd=swoplv&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ignored by society, Afghan dancing boys suffer centuries-old tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Atia Abawi, CNN
October 27, 2009 &#8212; Updated 1721 GMT (0121 HKT)
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) &#8212; A young boy dressed in women&#8217;s clothing, his face caked in make-up, dances the night away for a crowd of men.
The bells on his feet chime away, mimicking the entertainment and sexual appeal of female dancers. But there is no [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&blog=1741456&post=1729&subd=swoplv&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Runaways, Sex Buys Survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Running in the Shadows
October 27, 2009
By IAN URBINA
ASHLAND, Ore. — She ran away from her group home in Medford, Ore., and spent weeks sleeping in parks and under bridges. Finally, Nicole Clark, 14 years old, grew so desperate that she accepted a young man’s offer of a place to stay. The price would come later.
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		<title>Prostitution in Georgian London: Harlot&#8217;s progress</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct 15th 2009
From The Economist print edition
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital. By Dan Cruickshank. Random House: 688 pages; £25. Buy from Amazon.co.uk
AS MANY as one in five young women were prostitutes in 18th-century London. The Covent Garden that tourists frequent today was the centre of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&blog=1741456&post=1725&subd=swoplv&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Press Release: More Than 50 Children Rescued During Operation Cross Country IV</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Immediate Release
October 26, 2009
Washington D.C., FBI National Press Office (202) 324-3691
Over the past 72 hours, the FBI, its local and state law enforcement partners, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) concluded Operation Cross Country IV, a three-day national enforcement action as part of the Innocence Lost National Initiative. The operation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&blog=1741456&post=1723&subd=swoplv&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Internet fuels virtual subculture for sex trade, study finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=swoplv.wordpress.com&blog=1741456&post=1720&subd=swoplv&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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