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BBC News: The women seeking rich older men to pay their university fees "It's been euphemistically referred to as "mutually beneficial, transactional dating" but is the growing world of "sugar daddy" relationships just a sanitised term for sex work? Freya is 22 and wearing jogging bottoms and...

And Arizona for the umpteenth time proves how backwards and depraved it is as it tries to resolve its "problems" with prostitution. There's more...much more...and much worse, in the article. I think it's time we took a star off our flag at this rate if this is how Arizona treats the human...

This isn't something I believe, it's a quote from journalist/photographer former Wall Streeter Chris Arnade in "The people who challenged my atheism most were drug addicts and prostitutes": This may be one of the most extreme examples of "I'm an atheist, but most people, especially poor...

...of Canada, that is. I was completely surprised by this news. Somehow I missed any brewing controversy in Canadian current affairs. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/20/canada-anti-prostitution-law_n_4480105.html ETA: Better link from BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25468587

Story. Thankfully it appears they were bad at it and got caught quickly.

DSK back in the news Dominique Strauss-Kahn questioned as 'pimp' suspect He couldn't have possibly known that these women were prostitutes because they were "naked all the time"! :dl: He has a very loyal wife it seems. I guess it's safe to say that they have an open marriage. At least he does.

First of all, I don't think that prostitution should be illegal in the first place, but it is. However, in America we have pretty strong freedom of religion, which is so strong a principle that it often allows a way around laws that would otherwise apply. For example, it is legal to use the...

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100928/national/bawdy_law_challenge

in another thread a report about sex traffiking showed problems with Switzerland and its combat against it. one of the critique point was " The government did not make any discernible efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex " has anyone in their coutnry such campaigns? how do they...

Should prostitution be legal? and when yes, from what age on? In my country it is totally legal to work as a prostitute when you are 16 or older. There are since a long time debates about that. Prostitution is seen as a economic sector and from on 16 you don't have to go to school anymore and...

http://lifestyle.msn.com/relationships/article.aspx?cp-documentid=24682698&gt1=32023 I wonder if this will catch on in the states or europe? Japanese women hire hookers to seduce their husbands so thaey can get a better divorce settlement.

What's the more ethical profession? Becoming a prostitute or becoming a soldier? ETA: To add some context: an acquaintance thinks that prostitution is an immoral way to make money. I then noted that joining the military is too because both prostitutes and soldiers sell their bodies.

Just read this about a man in Melbourne. Seems that he went to a prostitute and she had his kid. He was paying about $100 a week on an informal agreement to her but his circumstances had changed and the matter is in court because he stopped paying her. However the possibility does exist for...

Here's a creepy article about a fortune-teller who exercised a lot of power over a female client. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/03/117_41042.html

I'm kinda of curious to find some anti-prostitution arguments. I'm having a hard time understanding the basis for prostitution being illegal. I am sure there are some decent arguments out there. Any opinions?

The recent Eliot Spitzer case highlights something that has been wrong with the American legal system for about 110 years; Prostitution should not be illegal. In the 19th century, it WAS legal. Making it illegal was part of the wonderful Temperance Movement that we can thank for alcohol...

There have been a few threads on here recently dealing with pornography and / or prostitution, and they got me thinking.* In most jurisdictions in the US, and in the UK, the exchange of money for sex is illegal if contextualised as prostitution, but legal if contextualised as pornography. The...

I'm not writing this as a joke. I'm really not. Because something had occurred to me. Brothels are cash cows. Prostitution is the sort of thing that just can't not drag in money. Sex sells and many are willing to pay for it. Those who have a lot to spend are often willing to spend it on...

I am rather curious on this issue & so I am asking for your opinion.May be some people may find my question strange,but still I ask--exactly which factors force a woman to be a prostitute?Is it always hunger,poverty or the effects of environment or 'they' were always there,still are & will...

The city supported buying out a large part of the infamous red light district: It's all a part of the city's new tourism strategy. The problem with a lot of the people who go to Amsterdam -- or at least the young Americans I know who go, and the ones recounting their experiences on the...

So did Penn and Teller's BS episode lie? They portrayed these brothels as being nice, and the prostitutes as happy. Is prostitution the selling of humans? Or is it a legal contract between individuals? I mean, technically I would really see no problem with it. But in practice, if it only...

Prostitutes must have a special place in Heaven. Prostitutes. male or female, are products of abuse by our societies. These young people come out of homes where physical, mental and sexual abuse has occurred. They are basically forced from their environment to the streets. The societal...

Need a nasty massage bad? This Kansas newspaper just gave them free advertising! I'm surprised they didn't publish the phone numbers and hours of business. ;) C'mon, you know you read the rest of the article at the link, didn't you? ;)

very simple question.... pros [lol] ; outreach possible with some of the most vulnerable members of society - re drug addiction, abuse, counselling, job help, benefits etc. Removing women from the street where they're most vulnerable regulation of trade can prevent the spread of STDs -...

A town near where I live is about to start posting the faces fo the "Johns" they arrest for soliciting prostitution. Link:http://www.pjstar.com/stories/070805/PHI_B6U0PAB3.033.shtml Not convicted, mind...just arrested. Is this an invasion of privacy? If you were innocent, and were declared...

Careful what you wish for, I guess. 'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits' Nice work if you can get it... :p

Just in from Sweden, prostitution has nothing to do with sex!! From the September 2nd Economist: Sorry, the Economist is not available online except to Subscribers. The article is entitled "Swedish Message." Here are the first two paragraphs CBL

... you might start your life as a nun and end up a call-girl. And I though that Denmark is a strange country :) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3561231.stm

So I was reading about the Red Light District in Amsterdam and was wondering if the Netherlands government requires STD tests for the prostitutes? I've been reading conflicting reports, anyone got a link?

In reading the thread about child pornography I noticed that prostitution and adult pornography were brought up in a negative light, and I was wondering what the general consensus is here. When I was in college I took a human sexuality course that changed the way I thought about certain...