Brothels

WATCH: A Tour Of Heidi Fleiss' Swanky New Brothel

OWN | Posted 04.25.2013 | OWN

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In 1993, "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was busted for running a high-class prostitution ring that catered to an elite but undisclosed clientele. Near...

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Ft. Greene Dad Indicted For Running High-End Brothels

| Posted 02.13.2013 | New York

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By Murray Weiss, DNAinfo Columnist / Criminal Justice Editor NEW YORK CITY — A Brooklyn father accused of running several high-end Manhattan brot...

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Employment Office Sends Teen To Work At Brothel

Reuters | Posted 02.06.2013 | Business

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A German teenager looking for a job was told to report for duty in a brothel by the local labor office, the Augsburger Allgemeine Z...

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Brothels Rescue Cash-Strapped Team

AP | DEREK GATOPOULOS | Posted 12.17.2012 | Sports

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LARISSA, Greece -- The world's oldest profession is giving a whole new meaning to love of the game. Players on a cash-strapped Greek soccer team now ...

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German Teen Sells Mom's Jewels For Brothel Visit

Reuters | Posted 12.10.2012 | Weird News

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BERLIN (Reuters) - A 14-year-old German teenager took his mother's jewellery worth between 2,000 and 3,000 euros ($2,500-$3,800) and pawned it for 300...

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How I Escaped the Brothel in Cambodia: One Young Vietnamese Woman's Story

Andrew Lam | Posted 10.03.2012 | Impact

Read More: Mekong, Women, Slaves, Sex, Southeast Asia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Human Trafficking, Brothels, Impact News

ADAPT leads the counter-trafficking efforts at the frontiers of Vietnam. They provide shelter for victims of human trafficking. Below is an interview I conducted with one of those victims who managed to return from a brothel in Cambodia.

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Police Raid Brothels And Pimps' Homes

AP | Posted 05.30.2012 | World

DUBLIN -- Police say several hundred officers in both parts of Ireland are mounting a crackdown on prostitution, raiding 140 suspected brothels and pi...

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Spain's Brothel Tourism Boom

New York Times | Posted 04.08.2012 | World

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LA JONQUERA, Spain — She had expected a job in a hotel. But when Valentina arrived here two months ago from Romania, the man who helped her get here...

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Meet The Bizarre, And Growing, Cast Of The 'Madam Millionaire' Case

Posted 03.22.2012 | New York

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Accused madam Anna Gristina might have hoped her sexy tabloid-friendly case was going to go away, but this whole Millionaire Madam circus is showing n...

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Husband-Shooting, Tax-Evading Madam Dies

AP | Posted 03.21.2012 | Business

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BUTTE, Mont. -- Ruby Garrett ran the last brothel standing in this mining town's once-lively red-light district with a reputation for kindness toward ...

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Flawed Inspiration

Daphne Daly | Posted 04.20.2012 | Style

Read More: Body Type, Prostitution, Self Esteem, Brothels, Women's Issues, Self Image, Empowerment, Body Image, Women-Authentic-Beauty, Style News

The fact is that we are, more often than not, much harder on ourselves than anyone else is. In my experience, men and women often believe that being attractive on the outside has something to do with being attractive on the inside.

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Marcel Proust: In Search of Lost Vase-ectomies

Frank Browning | Posted 04.07.2012 | Arts

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Masturbation is seldom far from the chatter that bubbles up among devotees and scholars of Marcel Proust. This week in Paris another conclave of hyper-Proustians is gathering sponsored by the very crusty INHA, or the French National Institute on the History of Art and their German analogues based in Berlin.

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The Week In Art: Brothels, Naked Poets And Crochets Gone Wild!

Posted 01.27.2012 | Arts

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Things got a little hot and heavy at HuffPost Arts this week. There were some photos of some brothels and some women throwing themselves at men ... we...

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Brothels, Beaches and Blood

Posted 03.27.2012 | Arts

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Faceless bodies, dingy spaces and ambiguous dark marks pervade Hirosuke Kitamura's photographs. The Japanese-Brazilian artist captures anonymous image...

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WATCH: Mustang Ranch Brothel Seeks To Become 'Ritz-Carlton Of Whorehouses'

HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 01.20.2012 | Weird News

If you build it, they will come. We're not talking about a baseball diamond in the middle of an Iowa cornfield, we're talking about a legal brothel...

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PHOTOS: The Five Artiest Brothels In France

Tony Perrottet | Posted 03.06.2012 | Travel

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By the early 1900s, the so-called "fantasy brothels," which offered Disney-style themed rooms along the lines of Versailles, Venice and the Orient, had opened themselves up to tourists by day.

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Sex Trafficking Survivor Risks Life To Fight Slavery, Spread Of HIV/AIDS

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 11.30.2011 | Impact

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This story is part of a series celebrating HIV/AIDS activists in honor of Thursday's World AIDS Day. Her house has been burned down. She's had her ...

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Sex Spa Cover-Up Is a Joke

Daphne Daly | Posted 01.07.2012 | Crime

Read More: Paying for Sex, Prostitution, Brothels, Prostitutes, Sex, Legalized Prostitution, Crime News

Legalize regulated brothels and focus on shutting down these illegal operations. Combating illegal prostitution is futile unless a viable alternative is available.

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Australia's Largest Brothel Set To Open

AOL Travel News | Posted 07.17.2011 | Travel

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Sydney is expecting to soon be the home of Australia's largest brothel, a three-story complex featuring an entire floor of double king suites each wit...

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Prostitution in Perspective

Vicky Collins | Posted 05.30.2011 | Politics

Read More: Donna's Ranch, Nevada, Prostitution, Brothels, Senator Harry Reid, Mustang Ranch, Brooke Taylor, Moonlite Bunny Ranch, Politics News

The ladies we met in the brothels were attractive, smart, friendly, savvy, confident and defied stereotypes. Most were not fallen women without other options. Many were educated and had goals.

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Ensign Breaks With Reid On Call To End Legal Prostitution

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

Earlier this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said that it was time to have an "adult conversation about Nevada's legal sex trade," wh...

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Reid: Time To Ban Brothels

AP | SANDRA CHEREB | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics

CARSON CITY, Nev. — U.S. Sen. Harry Reid took aim at the world's oldest profession Tuesday, telling state lawmakers the time has come to have an...

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Was Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' inspired by visits to brothels and bathhouses?

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts

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Michelangelo's fresco "The Last Judgment" resides in one of the holiest places in the Christian world -- the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. Now a rese...

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Sex for Sale: Legalized Prostitution Hurts Human Trafficking Victims

Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 05.25.2011 | World

Whether or not anyone would willingly choose to prostitute themselves is a separate debate. To the extent that legitimized prostitution increases the demand for human trafficking, a contemporary form of slavery, it must be condemned.

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