News Bits

Look for And Thereafter II at the 11th Annual Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. This films takes a frank look into the life of a Korean sex worker (whether the film is true or not, I don't know).

The story of Indian sex workers make up part of a film focusing on AIDS victims in Mumbai.

A short opinion on how the Internet has allowed freedom of speech and given community to the marginalized sex workers in Hong Kong.

Bolivian prostitutes sew their lips shut during a hunger strike.

Writer John Burdett discusses his research: living in Bangkok and studying the sex workers there. He's a very popular author, though I haven't read any of his books. (I guess this makes him an authority on Bangkok sex work.)

Opinion piece: Desperate Housewives is really about prostitution.

Edmonton police ramping up program to tow the cars of street prostitutes' clients.

Why HIV testing in the US is well behind testing rates of other countries.

Sex workers aren't the only at-risk group in Thailand. Young people seem to be most at risk for AIDS, mostly due to ignorance.

This has nothing to do with anything: an attorney is arrested for trying to get in the pants of the daughter of one of his employees.