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This report on sex workers with HIV, though scary on the surface, just re-confirms that sex work isn't the issue, drug addiction is. And anyone can be a drug addict.

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Mumbai's red light district being sold to real estate developers. (Thanks for the link to a BnG poster.)

"Shell said that he has been surprised by the response he receives from college students. "They don't care about condom usage or about their partners," he said, adding, "There is a blatant disregard that anything is going to happen to them." I think I'm including this here simply to contrast it with most sex workers' hyper-awareness of disease risk, yet sex workers are considered major disease vectors when statistics don't bear this out.

Possible legal advisor for the US State Department, Harold Hongju Koh, is roundly reviled in this article for having "European" views on many things. This includes the radical notion that sex work should be decrminalized as part of ending discrimination against women (a UN convention in 1979). Just someone I think it would be good to get to know.

This has nothing to do with anything...

The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 even regulated how often burlesque dancers could be required to strip. Just thought it was interesting that burlesque was once considered a real job at the federal level. (This link goes more in-depth into the bill, but it has many pop-ups!)

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Somehow that Madoff may've visited massage parlors or escorts has something to do with him running a Ponzi scheme. Someone please connect the dots for me.

South Carolina goes after CraigsList Erotic Services ads because...well, crime is at an all-time low and there really isn't anything else to do.

(Thanks to a friend for both links.)