In what sounds more like the central conceit of a Philip K. Dick novel, the San Fernando Valley City Council has requested that the City Attorney’s Office investigate the merit of a bizarre approach to fighting prostitution.
The Los Angeles City Council voted Wednesday on a controversial proposal to send anonymous “john letters” to the owners of vehicles that have been seen spending time in areas known for prostitution in order to discourage solicitation.
A Shelby County, Tennessee, high school teacher has resigned after police accused him of running a sex club as well as other offenses.
Houston vice officers have arrested and charged a man with prostituting a 4-year-old girl. The arrest came about following a prostitution sting operation where police have been hunting human traffickers.
A two week prostitution sting operation landed sixty people in jail as Houston brings focus to human trafficking in the Bayou City. The arrests occurred during the first two weeks of October and have recently been revealed as part of an ongoing statewide anti-human trafficking push by Texas law enforcement officials.
Comedian Margaret Cho revealed this week she used to work as a prostitute, and says she supports the legality of prostitution, as it’s “honest work.”
As part of its weekly series called “Sex Work,” Cosmo profiles women who have careers in the sex industry. Recently, the magazine’s website featured an article narrated by a woman who works as a prostitute in a legal brothel in Nevada.
An anti-sex trafficking advocate who worked for an Austin, Texas, organization aimed at helping victims of human trafficking was arrested in Austin, Texas, during a week-long prostitution sting. Austin cops arrested him during an operation that landed 41 people in the Travis County jail.
Minors caught up in sex trafficking will not longer be counted as suspects, but as victims in cases handled through the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Last Sunday, Manuel Gonzales, a 24-year-old social communicator competing under the nom-de-guerre of Argenis Gonzalez, was crowned Miss Gay Venezuela.
Amnesty International’s proposal to legalize prostitution has generated a fierce rebuttal from groups opposed to the exploitation of vulnerable women, who warn that such wrong-headed programs just perpetuate cycles of abuse and mistreatment of women.
Peru has been gripped by a massive crisis of law and order, with trust for ineffectual police and courts dropping to fearfully low levels. Vigilante justice is now being meted out on the streets—and, of course, uploaded to Facebook.
An US-born imam turned-Al Qaeda recruiter fled to the UK because he discovered the FBI knew that he was addicted to prostitutes, a new book claims. The author wrote that the terrorist’s use of escorts “had become a habit he could not, or
Chrissie Hynde refuses to apologize to feminists over August 30 comments, in which she said women who dress provocatively and then get drunk should take some responsibility if they are sexually assaulted.
China faces a crisis of at least 24 million boys that will never find a mate due to tens of millions of female infanticides during China’s 34 years of one-child “policy” to restrict population growth. With at least 10 percent of China’s young men never being able find a spouse, these “bare branches” may direct their anger at the authorities.
A judge has ordered embattled ‘Django’ actress Daniele Watts and her chef boyfriend Brian James Lucas to 15 days of community labor and two years of probation after finding both letters of apology she was ordered to write to LAPD Sgt. Jim Parker “insincere and passive aggressive.”
On Tuesday, federal agents raided the Manhattan offices of RentBoy.com as part of a prostitution and money laundering investigation, authorities reported.
Central Texas police said that a San Antonio man spent the past six months leading college women into prostitution until Monday, when he was taken into custody. The women were located in cities across Texas.
The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an investigation after a company placed an advertisement on Instagram looking to solicit models into a prostitution ring.
Amnesty International has sparked a glitzy Hollywood backlash from its usual left wing fan-base by submitting a draft policy calling for prostitution to be legalised in order to promote the human rights of prostitutes. Hollywood actresses Lena Dunham, Emma Thompson, Kate
On July 25, an escort in Charleston, West Virginia, shot and killed Neal Falls, a man she met via a website and whom she claims was determined to kill her from the moment she answered the door. Police now believe the man may be linked to as many as six deaths in the last 14 months.
A hotel in Hull has apologised to a Romanian graduate after staff turned her away because they thought she was a prostitute. Alecsandra Puflea had already booked online, but reception staff at the Holiday Inn Express refused her a room
A man who alleges he engaged in group sex with billionaire media figure David Geffen for money, says he feared discussing his relationship with the media mogul because he feared for his safety.
Japan has finally lifted a 67-year-old ban on dancing in bars and clubs after midnight. The now-nullified law prohibited dancing in public spaces, unless the venue had a license. Even then, bars and clubs had to stop dancing at midnight.
Apparently he’s back. The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) disgraced former head who was forced to step down and had to relinquish his candidacy for the French presidency against fellow socialist Francois Hollande, has joined Twitter.
According to police, two missing teenagers in Stuart, Florida, Kiera Medina and Destiny Souza, were held hostage by a man who lured them to a hotel, had sex with them in exchange for drugs, posted them on the classified advertising website Backpage as prostitutes, then ran over one in his car when he was robbed by a man at gunpoint.
As the owner of Nevada’s most famous legal brothel, the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Dennis Hof knows a lot about sex, business, taxes, and the changing demographics of those who pay for intimacy.
A teacher at an elementary school near Brownsville, Texas is one of four men behind bars on charges of luring a 16-year-old girl into a life of prostitution and drug dealing with social media.
Several former sex workers who participated in an A&E reality show claim the show’s producers lied to them after they failed to provide promised financial assistance to help them leave the sex industry.
Prostitutes from Dennis Hof’s Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Mound, Nevada have officially endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. With a new campaign called “Hookers for Hillary,” Hof says his girls will do anything they can to support Hillary. “I’m reaching out
In case they were not clear on the concept, Attorney General Eric Holder is warning Justice Department employees against soliciting prostitutes.
The Washington Post has published a memo sent from Attorney General Eric Holder reminding all Justice Department employees not to solicit prostitutes, even if the practice is legal where they may be inclined to do so.
Journalist Murat Saka with Turkey’s Hürriyet Daily News decided to spend a year on the streets in Istanbul in the Aksaray and Kumkapi with African sex workers. He put together a photo essay in the publication.
A report from the Justice Department alleges that agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency had “sex parties” with prostitutes in the employ of drug cartels.
Valerie Fairman, a one-time star of MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, was arrested for prostitution on Friday after police found her allegedly soliciting a sex act in New Castle, Delaware.
An ex-prostitute told a court in Lille, France, 138 miles north of Paris, the former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss-Kahn forced her to have brutal anal sex at an orgy even though she specifically told him she did not want to.
The former dean of the South Methodist Law School (SMU), John Attanasio, 60, was arrested early Sunday morning, February 1, on prostitution charges. Currently, he serves as Judge William Hawley Atwell Chair of Constitutional Law and he is a Professor of Law.
Human trafficking, especially of females, is a major problem in Asia. The latest incident in India proves the situation is only getting worse.
lleged gang members from California, Arizona and Texas were recently indicted for manipulating approximately 100 girls, ranging in age from 12 to mid-20s, into a life of prostitution. The case is the third prosecuted under the federal RICO racketeering statute
