News Bits (Tuesday)

A film about the new trend for Japanese women to spend time with host boys.

Fighting AIDS in India with condom vending machines. Less embarrassing than a store.

PEPFAR really needs to add family planning services to its menu. Ya think?

Somehow I completely missed this site, but for those who want to know how the decrim battle is going in Hawaii, this is the place to go.

I'm beginning to like this guy: a prostitution pledge for American politicans, especially the moralizing ones.

Sex trafficking conference in Scotland.

Sex trafficking in Dubai (again).

And, of course, the whole Eliot Spizter thing. It started last week with the Emperors Club bust (reported here) and has filtered out. The best coverage right now is over at Bound, not Gagged.

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News Bits (Monday)

A Budapest policewoman was fired after using some of her equipment in a porn film.

A postcard for an anti- sexual trafficking campaign uses sex to attract attention. Big surprise there.

Really sick testimony in a Canadian murderer's trial. He is accused of murdering two sex workers.

A different take on radical feminists and sex trafficking. (Not saying I completely agree with everything here.)

Results of a Ugandan sex report, one of the places using the ABC program. Lots of non-abstinence and a higher amount of condom use than I expected, though mostly to ward off pregnancy instead of protect against disease.

More on PEPFAR as it goes through the system. The anti-prostitution pledge is still there, however.

Woman on dating show possibly an Internet escort. How is this a surprise?

An online photo exhibit of Guatemalan sex workers.

Using the idea of sex workers to make money (can't find the original news source for this, though). Funny!

A photographic book on German brothel work.

A photographic book on sex work in the UK.

Paintings of Parisian street life, including some street workers.

Okay, we need some sex workers to produce art books. There are a few, but they're pretty much outnumbered by the men doing it.

Thanks to a pen-pal for some of these links, particularly the art ones.

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News Bits (Sunday)

Federal judge may've used a Denver escort service. Now they're questioning his judgement in a number of cases, seemingly because of this sexual connection.

Mike Jones now doing a one-man show.

Given the choice between being arrested for embezzlement or prostitution, most people chose embezzlement because they all associate prostitution with STDs. We've got a LOT of PR work cut out for us.

Donna Hughes to speak on sexual trafficking at the College of St. Benedict.

Should I sic Farley or Hughes on this guy?

Australian brothels look forward to the Rugby Cup, though the World Council of Churches meeting in 1994 really set a high-water mark for business.

The Daily Planet, an Australian brothel, goes public (on the stock exchange). It's the first brothel in history to do so.

The very sticky problems of legal brothels, immigrant workers and possible sex trafficking in Australia's brothels.

IUSW voted yesterday whether or not to join a British trade union.

Polish and Czech sex workers win the right to work in Amsterdam.

Legal brothels back in Italy?

Change in German law regarding sex workers and state benefits seems to benefit indoor workers the most.

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