Pimps will traffic thousands of under-age prostitutes to Texas for Sunday's Super Bowl, hoping to do business with men arriving for the big game with money to burn, child rights advocates said.

As the country's largest sporting event, the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers will make the Dallas-Fort Worth area a magnet for ( Read more... )

The National Enquirer reported today that Todd Palin, husband of former Alaska Gov. and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, has been engaged in an illicit affair with a massage therapist-cum-madam.
The tabloid newspaper indicated it has documentary proof that the woman in question, 36-year-old Shailey Tripp, had ( Read more... )

PITTSBURGH -- Google Inc. has acknowledged that it trespassed when it took a photo of an Allegheny County house for its Street View service, but will pay only $1 in damages to a couple who sued ( Read more... )

TORONTO- Ottawa is "strongly considering" appealing a court decision that strikes down key provisions of Canada's prostitution law.

Rona Ambrose, minister for the status of women, signalled the federal government's intentions today.

The Ontario Superior Court ruled the laws are unconstitutional because they're contributing to the danger faced by sex- ( Read more... )

Sven Otto Littorin, member of the Swedish government until a few days ago, has resigned. At the press conference he stated that his reasons for quitting (6 weeks before the election) were an infected custody battle with his ex-wife, and pressure on his children by the media.

According to Aftonbladet, one of the biggest newspapers in Sweden, this ( Read more... )

Whorephobia affects all womenWomen are brought up to think of sex workers as 'bad women'. It stops them taking advantage of many freedoms ( Read more... )

Brothel owners in the Lugano area say electric shock treatment to restart customer's hearts is needed because so many elderly customers are using their services.The most recent victim was a pensioner, thought to be having fun with the help of anti-impotence medication ( Read more... )

Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings.

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She doesn't want to be identified, except by her nickname "Sze," and she has a secret past. Her father doesn't know what she did as a 16-year-old, and she hopes he never finds out. But Sze, now 19, wants young girls to hear her story so they never make the same mistake."My first customer was an ordinary man in his 40s. We skipped the dinner part ( Read more... )

Sometimes, feminist perspectives can be acquired at some of the most unlikely places and in some of the most unlikely situations. For me, a rich perspective on the sex work industry was acquired at a casino in Atlantic City a few days ago, with an escort with whom I spoke regarding her life, choices and challenges ( Read more... )