This week, E.U. lawmakers will consider following the lead of some European nations and criminalizing the purchase of sex …
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China Launches Anti-Vice Campaign, Putting Sex Workers at Risk
The latest crackdown will hurt prostitutes, but will not change the system
In China, Police Raid on Notorious ‘Sin City’ Greeted With Ridicule
The latest “crackdown” is about shaming sex workers, not stopping the trade
Canada Court Strikes Down Anti-Prostitution Laws
Gives legislature one year to rewrite laws or prostitution will become fully legalized
Brazil’s World Cup Raises Fear of Rampant Child Prostitution
The world’s most popular sporting event—to be held in Brazil next year—may be a magnet for sex tourists seeking underage prostitutes
An Underworld of Male Slaves Comes to Light in the U.K.
After Darrell Simester, then 30, went missing on vacation at a south Wales seaside resort in Aug. 2000, his family didn’t see him again for almost 13 years. They never gave up trying to find the “vulnerable” and “timid” Simester — and their perseverance eventually paid off. In March 2013, an anonymous tip-off led Simester’s …
Bali’s ‘Gigolos,’ Carefree Sex Industry Lead to HIV Crisis
Reports of 100 new HIV cases every month on this Indonesian island mar its carefree image
The Mexican Drug Cartels’ Other Business: Sex Trafficking
Narco gangs, including the Zetas, have diversified their portfolio to include buying and selling women as slaves
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A business boom in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif also fuels the area’s sex trade, Japan asks why young judo practitioners are dying and the E.U. is set to lift all sanctions on Burma
Can Burma Avoid the Curse of Sex Tourism?
On a recent evening at a popular beer hall in Rangoon, two dozen women wearing skimpy dresses and hair extensions swayed mechanically on a stage and took turns mumbling lines of high-energy pop songs into the microphone. The …
The Endless Pathos and Hubris of L’Affaire DSK
When Dominique Strauss-Kahn awoke in a French detention cell Wednesday morning, he probably wasn’t experiencing the sort of déjà vu one might expect. Because in contrast to his incarceration last May in New York on suspicion of …
DSK Is Done: Latest Scandal Nixes Prospect of a Return to French Public Life
At this point, writing an update on the continuing travails of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn seems a bit like flogging a deader than dead horse. But because unfolding developments appear to be delivering the coup de grace to any hopes Strauss-Kahn had of returning to public life–and reportedly …
In France, A Risky Business May Get Riskier
Given French society’s reputation of unbridled sexual attitudes and libertine habits, it’s probably not surprising that a new proposal to combat prostitution is provoking considerable push-back. On the face of it, the initiative appears to be generating heat by sending two pillars of French life clashing in conflict: France’s …