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'Fighting For A World Where Girls Are Not for Sale'

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 04.28.2012 | Impact
Read More: Rachel Lloyd, Unicef, Race and Class, Stockholm Syndrome, Sexual Exploitation, Girls Like US, Human Trafficking, Impact, Lawrence Taylor, New York City, Ptsd, Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Impact News, Elizabeth Smart, Pimp, Gems, Trauma Bond, Anti-Trafficking Activism, Children, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

The first time I heard Rachel Lloyd speak was in 2005, the year of the 70th Annual Academy Awards. "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" had won for the b...

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Cop Suspected Of Moonlighting As Pimp

Posted 01.13.2012 | New York
Read More: Nypd Scandals, Monty Green, Nypd Internal Affiars, Nypd, New York News, Ny News, Brooklyn, Pimp, New York News

A seven-year NYPD veteran is suspected of moonlighting as a pimp. Officer Monty Green was taped "discussing prostitution-related activities" accord...

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The Modern Abolitionist Movement: Putting An End To Sex Slavery In America

Tom Matlack | Posted 07.18.2011 | Impact
Read More: Prostitution, Sex Slavery, Emancipation Proclamation, Pimp, Slavery, Sex Trafficking, Sexual Abuse, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Impact News
Tom Matlack

Sex trafficking exists within the broader commercial sex trade, often at much higher rates than most people realize or understand.

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At A.C.T., The Family That Plays Together Doesn't Always Stay Together

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Liliana Duque-Pineiro, Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall, June Is Bustin? Out All Over, Adam O?Byrne, Mark Rucker, Pratt Family Singers, The Jackson Five, Patrick Lane, Litter, Rodgers and Hammerstein, 19 Kids and Counting, The King Family Show, Nadya Suleman, Shirley Jones, The Sound of Music, Julie Andrews, CAREY PERLOFF, Anthony Fusco, Carol Burnett, Harold Pinter, Ashley Wickett, René Augesen, Framingham Dodecatuplets, Dan Clegg, Black Widow Spider, Minnesota Opera, Mrs. Lovett, Carousel, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, The Partridge Family, The Brady Bunch, Barrymore, Duggar Family, American Conservatory Theater, Andrew Polk, Alexander v. Nichols, Daniel Ostling, Lulu, Brian Clark Jansen, The Osmonds, Jack Willis, Maria Duchowny, Dionne Quintuplets, Donny and Marie, Trapp Family Singers, Pimp, The Andrews Sisters, Kenneth Welsh, The Homecoming, Cougar, Fart Jokes, Richardson Jones, Wesley Balk, Octomom, Redgrave, Arts News
George Heymont

"Home" is a loaded word. For many people it evokes memories of warmth, nostalgia, safety, and security. For others, the home in which they grew up may...

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Underage Prostitution in New York City

Tasha Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Law Enforcement, Shabazz Center, Very Young Girls, Pimps, Malcolm X Center, 81st Precinct, Sisterhood, Pimp, Gems, United Nile, Sexual Exploitation, Self Love, New York City, Underage Prostitution, Human Rights, New York News
Tasha Mitchell

Very Young Girls (2007) documents the lives of underage prostitutes, as young as 12, residing in NYC. Looking for a "daddy" or someone to "love" them, these very young callgirls turned to pimps.

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Weekly Pulse: Did Wiretappers Target Landrieu Over Health Care Deal?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: The American Prospect, Rush Limbaugh, RH Reality Check, James O'keefe, Washington Monthly, Videographer, Democrat, Medicaid, Mary Landrieu, Acorn, Health, Pimp, Washington In, Glenn Beck, Talking Points Memo, Healthcare Reform, Health Care, Budget Reconciliation, David Vitter, Home News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger The conservative videographer who donned a pimp suit to embarrass the anti-poverty group ACORN was arr...

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Judge Blocks Government's Move To Cut ACORN Funding

AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Embezzlement, Fraud, Census, Prostitution, Center for Constitutional Rights, Acorn, Pimp, Bill Quigley, Community Organizing, ACORN Funding, Nina Gershon, Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, Politics News

NEW YORK — The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the emba...

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The Whore Wars

David Henry Sterry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Georgina Spelvin, Ashley Dupree, Rent Boys, Sex Workers, David Henry Sterry, Abolition, Whore, Decriminalization, Sex Trafficking, Prostitution, Hookers, Violence Aganist Women, Pimp, Elliot Spitzer, Call Girls, Hos, Annie Sprinkle, Books News
David Henry Sterry

If this book helps people see that men and women who have sex for money are mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, I will be happy. If it shines a compassionate light into the sex ghetto, it'll be worth all the slings and arrows.

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Before Subprime There Was ACORN

Jerry Chautin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Foreclosures, Atlanta, Lending, Liberals, Independent Auditor, Progressives, Subprime, Public Trust, Underwriting, African-American, Acorn, Independents, Conservatives, Pimp, Georgia, Homeownership, Banks, Video Tape, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bertha Lewis, Low Income, Community Organizations, Prostitute, Politics News
Jerry Chautin

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein.

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Report: Still Hard Out Here For A Pimp

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz, Pimp, University of Minnesota, Satire, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

The study, commissioned by the University of Minnesota's Pimp Research Institute, is the result of interviews with the pimps themselves, who paint a bleak picture of the state of pimping in 2009 America.

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How to Fix the Economic Meltdown and Stop Terrorism: Legalize Heroin and Whores

David Henry Sterry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Master of Ceremonies, Law Enforcement, Serial Killer, Marijuana, Economy, Sex Trafficking, South America, Drugs, Asia, War on Drugs, Prohibition, Economic Recovery, Prostitution, Chicken, Ecstasy, Cigarettes, Alcohol, Sex Worker, Abraham Lincoln, Empowerment of Women, Willie Nelson, Sexual Predators, Al Capone, Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, Pimp My Ride, Bloomingdale's, Pimp My Crib, Victimization, Free Enterprise, Gangsters, Exploitation, Pimp, Economic Meltdown, Taliban, Afghanistan, Harry Potter, Afghan Taliban, Whores, Politics News
David Henry Sterry

The bottom line, economically, is that there is a big beautiful sexy cash cow to be milked here.

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James Lipton Reveals He Once Worked As A Pimp In Paris

ABC Action News | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Inside the Actor's Studio, Paris, James Lipton, Rue Pigalle, Pimp, Entertainment News

James Lipton, the host of U.S. talk show, Inside the Actors' Studio, once worked as a pimp in Paris, France. The revered TV presenter, who has sat do...

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