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On Martha Stewart and the Psychology of Prostitution

Rick Smith | Posted 03.19.2009 | Style

Read More: Bill Clinton Monica Lewinsky, Martha Stewart Insider Trading, Dieter Kleiber, Prostitution, Martha Stewart Jail, Sex, Corporate Greed, Safe Sex, Unprotected Sex, Jim Collins, Martha Stewart, Psychology, Prostitutes, Style News
Rick Smith

Things do change. Past success does not guarantee a prosperous future. Those who believe they're invincible may one day surprisingly awaken to a cycle of penicillin and a divorce attorney.

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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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NYC Madam: Wall Street Johns Paid For Sex With Corporate Cards

ABC News | Anna Schecter, Rhonda Schwartz and Brian Ross | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Prostitution, Credit Cards, Sex Scandal, Scandal, Sex, Business News

Wall street lawyers, investment bankers, CEOs and media executives often used corporate credit cards to pay for $2,000 an hour prostitutes, according ...

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My Friend Went to Cuba and All She Brought Back Was... This Lousy Husband!

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: Casanova, Communism, Tourism, Prostitution, Jose Marti, Fidel, Cuba, Havana, Jinetera, Jinetero, World News
Yoani Sanchez

I don't know if it's my pale skin, but my passport is just as blue and Cuban as the one he has. If not for his false impression that I'm a foreigner, he'd never come close to me.

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DC Prostitutes, Coke Dealers Expect Inauguration Spike

New York Magazine | Ray LeMoine and Ravi Somaiya | Posted 02.19.2009 | Business

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A brief phone survey yesterday of D.C.-area hookers found on Craigslist revealed that Barack Obama's inauguration is inspiring great hopes -- for thei...

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A Balanced Media Diet? Include Mugshots, Hookers, and Reality TV

Phil Bronstein | Posted 02.15.2009 | Media

Read More: The Biggest Loser, Prostitution, Crime, Phil Bronstein, Journalism, The Slammer, Media, Media News
Phil Bronstein

I know I should be getting tingly about next week's inauguration, but I'm not going and anyway there's other news that needs dissecting.

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Second Life Hookers Way Less Interesting Than Real Life Hookers

Disgrasian | Posted 02.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Hookers, Prostitution, Virtual Reality, Sex, Second Life, Virtual Sex, Virtual Hookers, Linden Dollars, Second Life Escorts, Avatars, Prostitutes, Second Life Hookers, Virtual Prostitutes, Style News
Disgrasian

If this is as good and imaginative and kinky as hookers get in Second Life, then life must be just as dull, pedestrian and predictable as it is in the First.

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2007 -- The Year that Time Forgot

Matt Stewart | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living

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Matt Stewart

It's only natural that after our most recent 12-month carnival, 2007 would seem relatively blah. Every now and then, history lays an egg. What happened in 1957? 1910? 1887-1897?

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Best Sex Writing 2009 Interview: Susannah Breslin on Eliot Spitzer and prostitution

Rachel Kramer Bussel | Posted 01.30.2009 | Style

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Rachel Kramer Bussel

Breslin discusses why men hire sex workers, the media reaction to the Spitzer scandal, and why the personal stories of sex workers and their customers are important.

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Malaysia's New Trafficking Law Leads To First Conviction Over Prostitution Case

Ndtv.com | Posted 01.23.2009 | World

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An Indian woman has been sentenced to eight years in jail by a Malaysian court in Kuala Lumpur for forcing her 33-year-old compatriot into prostitutio...

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Holiday Reflections: The Exquisite Nature of Faith: The Constrasts and Challenges of Reality

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 01.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Prostitution, Reality, Suffering, Hope, Holiday Season, Health, Death, The Power of Prayer and Community, Living News
SaraKay Smullens

Holiday Reflections: The Exquisite Nature of Faith: The Contrasts and Challenges of Reality "Silent Night" Bloodshed all over the world: bomb...

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Financial Crisis Tames Demand For Prague Brothels

New York Times | DAN BILEFSKY | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

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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

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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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Is Patriarchy The Root of All Evil?

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 01.06.2009 | Style

Read More: Marriage, Prostitution, Nuclear Family, Politics, Style, Unicef, Twisty, Robin Morgan, Discrimination, Wordpress, Feminism, Barack Obama, Gay Marriage, Patriarchy, Style News
Stephen C. Rose

By Stephen C. Rose I moved my blog to WordPress recently and, in the process of building a list of sources and links, found I Blame The Patriarchy w...

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

David Henry Sterry | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

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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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How I Became an Expert on High-Class Hookers

Vicky Ward | Posted 11.22.2008 | Style

Read More: The D.C. Madam, D.C. Madam, Prostitution, High-Class Hookers, Jeane Palfrey, Style News
Vicky Ward

I was interviewed for a documentary on high-class prostitution, airing November 11 -- a date when hopefully we will no longer be worried about politics and our minds will be back on the important stuff: illegal sex.

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Call Girl Or Courtesan? Between The Sheets With Debauchette

Refinery29.com | Christene Barberich | Posted 10.16.2008 | Style

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Ashley Alexandra DuPree. The "Hipster Hooker" "Secret Diaries of a Call Girl." Working girls sure ain't what they used to be--or, at least, what they ...

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Inside The World Of Hipster Hookers

Radar Online | Jessica Pilot | Posted 09.20.2008 | Style

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I meet my madam for the first time at a vegan restaurant in New York's East Village. Heather, a friend who has worked for her for more than a year, is...

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The People vs. Heidi Fleiss

Juli Weiner | Posted 07.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Prostitution, HBO Documentaries, Nevada, Movies, Heidi Fleiss, Entertainment News
Juli Weiner

Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss has emerged from prison with renewed entrepreneurial zest; she hopes to open what will become the first brothel that caters to female clientele. She's christened the the project "Stud Farm."

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Jason Linkins

U.S. Military Contractor 'Used Armored Cars To Transport Prostitutes'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Prostitution, Iraq Contractors, Iraq, Iraq War Contractors, Private Security Contractors, Dyncorp, Warwire, Politics News

Over at Muckraked, we get news that "a panel of whistleblowers" testifying before a Senate committee yesterday dropped a dime on their employer, milit...

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One-On-One With A New York Madame

Huffington Post | Posted 04.24.2008 | Living

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Yesterday's New York Observer had a candid and confidential one-on-one interview with a high-end New York madame. "It's like Babel," she said of New ...

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For Sale: Teenage Virgin

Telegraph | Sue Ryan | Posted 04.23.2008 | Living

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Thirty miles west of the Taj Mahal, on the road to the pink city of Jaipur, tourists on buses pass a sight that the guide books rarely mention. A mil...

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Why Do Men Cheat?

Newsweek | Mary Carmichael | Posted 08.14.2008 | Living

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Since time immemorial, men have cheated. They cheat on beautiful women, they cheat on smart women, they just plain, old cheat. And yes, women cheat t...

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