Utah is making all the headlines today. But this time, it is particularly gruesome. A mother from Salt Lake City, UT has been charged with two counts of aggravated sex abuse and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor for trying to sell her 11-year-old daughter’s virginity for $10,000. Felicia Rea McClure’s negotiation was ...
Hundreds of sex workers and pimps took to the streets of Seoul’s red light district yesterday to protest the police crackdown of brothels. The crowd of 400, mostly women, came out wearing baseball caps, masks and sunglasses, chanted slogans like, “Guarantee the right to live!” during a four-hour rally. They were protesting police stationing patrol ...
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 ...
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 ...
The window display shows a variety of women, listing their age, weight, dimensions and country of birth. Price tags were attached to them as they stood under a sign which read, “Women for sale according to personal taste.” Is this a vision of a dystopic future? No. This was Tel Aviv, yesterday. It was part ...
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 ...
Sex trafficking is one of the most profitable businesses in the world — it also causes some of the most misery. Dana Popa spent the summer of 2006 in Moldova, where she spent time with survivors of sexual slavery. The pictures are beautiful, and heart-breaking. Not Natasha, named so because that is the name that the ...
Dubai gets a lot of attention for its staggering displays of wealth, as it positions itself as a London-meets-Disneyland on crack. But that wasn’t the experience for one British couple, who face a 30-day jail sentence for kissing. Back in November, the two defendants were casually strolling through a beachfront shopping mall when the offending ...
An article was published examining why men use prostitutes based on a study of over 700 men in six countries. This article was sensationalist, citing worn out old stereotypes about how all men are potential rapists and how normal women won’t do the things they want them to do, and did nothing to answer the question ...
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