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Diary of an Escaped Sex Slave

Abigail Pesta | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Somaly Mam, Slavery, Cambodia, Sreypov, Brothels, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Marie Claire, World News
Abigail Pesta

You think slavery went out with Abraham Lincoln? Ask my friend Sreypov Chan about that. When she was seven years old, her mom sold her into sexual slavery.

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Eco-Friendly Prostitution: Berlin Brothel Offers Discounts For Cyclists

Yahoo! News | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Cyclists, German Brothel Cyclist Discount, Prostitution, Wtf, Brothels, Prostitution Discounts for Cyclists, Sex, Bicyclists, Eco-Friendly Prostitution, Green News

BERLIN (Reuters) -- A Berlin brothel has come up with a novel way to negate the impact of the global economic crisis and target a new group of custome...

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Sex Selling For Less During Downturn

AP | MARY LANE | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Brothels, Europe, Economic Crisis, Germany, Prositution, Recession, Berlin, Business News

BERLIN — It's past midnight in downtown Berlin, and the prostitutes pace in front of the Hackescher Markt's stores. Signs of a slow economy are ...

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Brothel Watch

Scott Diel | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Soviet, Estonia, Brothel, Third World Countries, Prostitution, Women's Rights, Brothels, Tallinn, World News
Scott Diel

Sure, the girls make too much noise, and maybe they do drive down the property value. But if the prostitutes were driven out, they might be replaced with worse. Like a family with teenagers.

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Prostitutes, the Internet, and Regulation, Part I

Jane Minogue | Posted 04.25.2009 | Media

Read More: The Internet, Women, Homosexuality, Prostitution, Women's Issues, Sex, Brothels, Gay, Internet, Media News
Jane Minogue

Prostitution, whether illegal, tolerated and regulated, institutionalized, or on the Internet, is part the fabric of society.

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Heidi Fleiss: Renewable Energy Business Better Than Sex

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Prostitution, Sex, Economy, Renewable Energy, Brothels, Green Business, Green Energy, Heidi Fleiss Renewable Energy, Heidi Fleiss, Fleiss Green, Heidi Fleiss Renewable, Green News

Heidi Fleiss, best known as the Hollywood Madam, had always had plans of opening up an above-board brothel in the Las Vegas area. But the economy has ...

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Obama, Please Ignore Kristof For Now

Melissa Gira Grant | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

Read More: Execution, Rape, Violence Against Women, World, Women's Issues, Sex Workers, Violence, Obama Administration, Hiv, Brothels, Nick Kristoff, Barack Obama, HIV/AIDS, Prostitution, Bush Administration, Human Rights, Women's Health, Sex, Cambodia, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Asia, World News
Melissa Gira Grant

The Bush administration has supported the raids of Cambodian brothels for at least as long as Kristof has been demanding they step up a fight they are already in -- and losing.

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Chinese Brothel Ad Accidently Ends Up On Cover Of Academic Journal

The Independent/UPenn | Posted 01.10.2009 | World

Read More: Huff Fluff, Brothels, Germany, Hot Housewives in Action, China, Max Planck Institute, World News

From The Independent: A respected research institute wanted Chinese classical texts to adorn its journal, something beautiful and elegant, to illust...

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Financial Crisis Tames Demand For Prague Brothels

New York Times | DAN BILEFSKY | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Economy Prostitution, Prostitution, Demand for Sex, Sex Prague, Economic Crisis, Prague Brothels, Sex, Financial Crisis, Demand for Brothels, Brothels, Economy, World News

PRAGUE -- On a recent night at Big Sister, which calls itself the world's biggest Internet brothel, a middle-aged man selected a prostitute by pressin...

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Vietnamese Brothel 'Kept Women In Dog Cages'

Telegraph | Thomas Bell, South East Asia Correspondent | Posted 01.08.2009 | World

Read More: Vietnam Brothels, Prostitution, Vietnam, Brothels, Women Kept in Dog Cages, World News

According to the Thanh Nien newspaper 130 women were held as prisoners at the brothel and forced to work from nine in the morning until 3 a.m he follo...

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AIDS Health Workers and Anti-Trafficking Activists -- Is There a Conflict?

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 01.02.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Presidency, HIV/AIDS, Doctors Without Borders, Prostitution, Violence Against Women, Ngos, Brothels, Condoms, U.S.State Department, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, World News
Marcia G. Yerman

In March of 2008, I interviewed a senior State Department Official who discussed efforts to highlight awareness of the link between sex trafficking and HIV/AIDS.

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Trade Cards, Not People

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 12.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Ashley Judd, Matisyahu, Stephen Colbert, Cornel West, Slavery, Rockumentary, Sweat Shops, Brothels, Child Prostitution, Justice, Forced Labor, Call Response, Spirituality, Sexual Slavery, Politics News
Cathleen Falsani

Call Response weaves raw footage shot undercover in brothels and sweatshops in the developing world with talking heads such as Cornel West.

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In This Economy, Even Sex Doesn't Sell

Los Angeles Times | Ashley Powers | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business

Read More: Brothel Business Down, Finance, Sex, Economy, Financial Crisis, Brothels, Brothels Losing Business, Recession, Business News

Reporting from Wells, Nev. -- The women at Donna's Ranch are crowded around the kitchen table on a warm summer night, dining on stir fry, tugging at t...

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Sex Industry Spreads Around London: "It's Like Going For a Drink"

guardian.co.uk | Julie Bindel | Posted 10.12.2008 | Style

Read More: Sex Trade, Prostituion, Brothels, London, Sex, Style News

When Frank rang a brothel in Enfield, he could hear a baby crying in the background. When Alan called one in Southwark, he could make out the sound of...

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