For more on historical whores, please visit www.laphamsquarterly.org. 2009: Bestselling author and call-girl Belle du Jour, whose web diary about the...
AP | Posted 11.16.2009 | Books
LONDON — A British scientist says she is Belle de Jour, the anonymous blogger whose accounts of life as a call girl were turned into books and a...
AP | Posted 11.04.2009 | World
GENEVA — China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country's economi...
Catie Lazarus | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment
The Good Wife deftly hints at how even the most well meaning of us, men and women, aren't always well doing.
Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
Talk about taking one for the team. Police say that Susan Finkelstein was so desperate to see her beloved Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series t...
Posted 10.27.2009 | Denver
During a three-day FBI-led crack down on child prostitution nationwide, 27 people in the Denver area were arrested late last week and over the weekend...
David Segal | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Rhode Island is one of two states without blanket prostitution bans. It's only sanctioned in a few counties in Nevada, but in the Ocean State it's legal everywhere -- just not for much longer.
CNN | Jeanne Meserve | Posted 10.22.2009 | World
NEWTOWN, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Semion Mogilevich may be the most powerful man you've never heard of. Mogilevich's alleged brutality, financial savvy ...
AP | Posted 10.20.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — A prosecutor-turned-defense lawyer won't go to jail for running a Manhattan brothel but remains behind bars as he awaits trial on cha...
AP | WAYNE PARRY | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The note inside the manila envelope said the accompanying DVD showed an Atlantic City Councilman having sex with an undera...
Huffington Post | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
The Miami Herald reports that the global recession has boosted Costa Rica's sex trade as more women from countries throughout Latin America travel to ...
Jilly Gagnon | Posted 10.02.2009 | Comedy
I told you not to lie to me about your family's history of kidney disease! Why you gotta play me that way? Probably have a history of cardiac incidents at a young age, too, huh?
Reuters | Posted 09.30.2009 | Technology
A British government minister asked California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday to shut down a U.S. website that allows men to rate prostit...
Wall Street Journal | JAMES R. HAGERTY | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Already facing the loss of federal government funding, the community-organizing group Acorn also has run afoul of one of its big corporate partners, B...
Posted 09.24.2009 | Style
Five women from the 'Grab-N-Go' espresso stand in Everett, Wash., now face prostitution charges. Watch below to see the undercover video: ...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.17.2009 | Entertainment
A new documentary examines the various facets of human trafficking. The film, four years in the making, follows the stories of five people -- three women and two men.
Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York
NEW YORK (AP) - Two employees of the advocacy group ACORN are shown on a hidden-camera video released Monday, apparently advising a couple posing as a...
John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Even the most well-cared-for children can fall prey to sex trafficking and become global sexual commodities.
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
One need not be an old fashioned moralist to be surprised by the sophomoric nature of the New York Times' book review of Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 08.19.2009 | Comedy
Among reform opponents, a full 64% said they would approve of a plan only if it included free semiautomatic weapons for all Americans.
Michael Leoni | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
Every minute in America, 1 kid will run away. Every day, 13 of those same kids will die on our streets. At this very moment, almost 2 million kids are living on our streets and of those 2 million, 650,000 of them are under the age of 15. These statistics are staggering but what's more shocking is the number of Americans who are unaware of this crisis.
Dale Buscher | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
It is time to implement interventions that are tailored to the local context, that build on the refugees' existing skills, and that match local market demand.
Huffington Post | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
In a survey published by Insight China Magazine that queried 3,376 Chinese citizens, more respondents trust prostitutes and sex-workers than politicia...
RH Reality Check | Posted 08.22.2009 | World
During a press briefing at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto in 2006, a young Bangladeshi woman invited by the organization for which I was...
New York Times | Posted 08.17.2009 | World
It was only after her trafficker sealed her mouth with electrical tape, drugged her and threatened to kill her family that the childlike woman, now 27...
Lapham's Quarterly | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living