Spain's Brothel Tourism Boom
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...
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...
Posted 03.22.2012
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...
AP | Posted 03.21.2012
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 ...
Bethany St. James | Posted 04.20.2012
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.
Frank Browning | Posted 04.07.2012
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.
Posted 01.27.2012
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...
Posted 03.27.2012
Faceless bodies, dingy spaces and ambiguous dark marks pervade Hirosuke Kitamura's photographs. The Japanese-Brazilian artist captures anonymous image...
HuffingtonPost.com | David Moye | Posted 01.20.2012
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...
Tony Perrottet | Posted 03.06.2012
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 11.30.2011
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 ...
Bethany St. James | Posted 01.07.2012
Legalize regulated brothels and focus on shutting down these illegal operations. Combating illegal prostitution is futile unless a viable alternative is available.
AOL Travel News | Posted 07.17.2011
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...
Vicky Collins | Posted 05.30.2011
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.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
AP | SANDRA CHEREB | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Chelsea-Lyn Rudder | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
TORONTO — Canada's justice minister says the federal government will appeal an Ontario court ruling that struck down key provisions in Canada's ...
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011
Police have said a number of "potential victims of human trafficking" have been rescued in raids on suspected brothels in Belfast. ...
GlobalPost | Nicholas Dynan | Posted 05.25.2011
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Near one of the busiest streets in Istanbul, a row of nondescript houses holds a secret unknown to most foreigners here. The house...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Cambodian Parliament Member Mu Sochua received a standing ovation from the sold-out, standing room-only crowd at the red carpet world premier of REDLI...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Not often does a filmmaker present both an untenable social problem - and its solution. Not often is its filmmaker an artist as well as a banker and ...
GlobalPost | Conor O'Clery | Posted 05.25.2011
A founder of the Irish Republic, Eamon de Valera, famously idealized Ireland 70 years ago as an innocent land of saints and scholars, whose villages w...
Posted 05.25.2011
Chantal Brunel, a French MP and member of Nicolas Sarkozy's party, has called for a return to a system of licensed brothels in the country. "Women se...
AP | KEN RITTER | Posted 05.25.2011
LAS VEGAS — The owner of a brothel more than two hours' drive from Las Vegas said she hopes to hire Nevada's first legal male prostitutes within...
New York Times | Posted 04.08.2012