What’s worse than being associated with sex tourism? Not being associated with it. The Hilton Hotel group has finally joined the international anti-trafficking community, promising to sign a code of conduct against sexual exploitation in the tourism industry. Signatories of the ECPAT Code of Conduct for the Protection of Children from Sexual Exploitation in Travel ...
A police child-sex sting operation has caught a health food CEO in its net. Michael C. Gilliland, the founder of Sunflower Farmers Market, has resigned from his position as CEO after after being arrested in Phoenix on suspicion of felony child prostitution. According to the police, Gilliland went to a hotel hoping to pay for ...
Sex slaves and child soldiers are common in Afghanistan and the government has acknowledged this problem to the United Nations. The government is going to sign an agreement with the UN’s special representative for children and armed conflict on an “action plan to combat the problem.” This will be the first time they “officially acknowledge ...
The ethics of America are Wikileaking all over the internet. The site has revealed that US government contractor DynCorp allegedly threw bacha bazi parties in Afghanistan. Translated as “boy play” this traditional practice involves young boys forced to perform singing and dancing routines dressed in women’s clothes so that the adult male audience can choose ...
A mother has been jailed for prostituting her daughter, forcing her to take illegal drugs, and subjecting her to physical and mental abuse. The girl was only 16 when she started working in a brothel and the mother forged her birth certificate to say she was 18-years-old. The mother will ”serve at least 18 months jail ...
Neither are known for tackling the weightiest of subjects on screen, but Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher have joined forced to launch the “Real Men Don’t Buy Girls” campaign. “Not many people are aware that yesterday was the anniversary of the Lincoln’s signing of the Emancipation Proclamation,” said Kutcher. “The assumption is that slavery is ...
Craigslist has come under fire, or been under a constant barrage of bullets, because of their adult services section. Critics claim that the site’s lack of supervision mean that it is being used to sell the sexual services of trafficked people and children. Two weeks ago, 17 state attorneys in the United States asked the ...
So, we’re having this baby. It’s due in a few weeks and we’re trying to get organized with all...
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Dear Madame X, My boyfriend needs to look at porn while we have sex. It bothers me because I...
Mrs. Dalloway is yet another feminist classic that I had to grow into. Wrapped up in Woolf’s instantly recognizable...
Last week saw a Big Thing come to our soggy little island. Well, it was a Big Thing for...
Last weekend I was entertaining a guest, you know, the sort I was planning to have lots and lots...
All little girls want to be princesses… right?! It’s bad enough that toy aisles are separated out by what...
