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Any position on the Weiner epic seems to play best off the past performance of those now acutely hypocritical.
I hope you like it.Any position on the Weiner epic seems to play best off the past performance of those... more
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A random roundup of humorous, odd, weird and WTF articles. This week: The Japanese are back, naked guy shoots a SWAT robot, Toronto's Slut Walk, gay cavemen, guy torches his girlfriend's apartment in a "fecal rampage", big boobs too scary for French mayor, a taco shootout, and a wayward javelin through the hip and out the ass...that'll leave a mark.A random roundup of humorous, odd, weird and WTF articles. This week: The Japanese are... more
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Helen Mirren plays a sexy older woman in "Love Ranch," but her movie history reveals that she's well-versed in seduction. The Rotten Tomatoes Show looks back at her role in "Age of Consent," where Helen Mirren, age 24, portrayed an alluring wild child prone to petty theft and nudity.
The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a movie review show that airs on Thursday nights at 10:30 e/p on Current TV. From reviews of the newest releases to commentary on cult favorites and movie trends, each episode of The Rotten Tomatoes Show is a fast-paced, comedic journey through the week in cinema.
For more from the Rotten Tomatoes Show: http://rottentomatoesshow.comHelen Mirren plays a sexy older woman in "Love Ranch," but her movie history... more
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http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-55586-Lexington-Courts-Examiner~y2010m6d27-Fast-Women-and-Beautiful-Horses-Lexingtons-Legacy-of-Lies-Continues#
Lexington's legacy of corruption and vice has a long history and continues to this day. Lexington's ties to prostitution and corruption can be traced all the way back to it's founding. While Lexington cleaned up, at least on the surface, for years, these issues have found their way into the headlines steadily for the past 20 years. Most recently popping up in the KLC, Airport Board, local elections and the city's auditing scandals. The characters and organizations may change over time but the one constant remains the connection to vice and specifically prostitution and the adult industry.
More at the link plus video:
Christopher Hignite
Lexington Courts Examiner
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PARIS, France — A French lawmaker wants to reopen brothels, outlawed in France since 1946, in order to protect prostitutes from predatory pimps and exploitation. But the sex workers say no thanks.
“All of the prostitutes are against the reopening of the brothels,” said Janine Mossuz-Lavau, a sociologist and expert on sexuality and prostitution.
A 2003 law introduced by then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, which made passive public solicitation a punishable crime, is partly to blame for the impasse. Criminalizing activities around prostitution, which itself is legal for anyone over 18, sent workers underground to massage parlors and bars, but also away from the city centers, to peripheral areas, the woods and the internet. It “rendered exercising this profession much more dangerous” since workers found themselves isolated, Mossuz-Lavau said.
Almost seven years to the day that parliament adopted that law in March 2003, Chantal Brunel, a member of Sarkozy’s UMP party who had voted for it, announced she wants to change the government’s response to prostitution. She envisions reopening the brothels as spaces where workers would be safe from human trafficking and violence, treated with dignity and would even receive medical care. An estimated 59 percent of French citizens support the idea, according to a poll released last month.
But the sex workers’ union, which represents more than 250 prostitutes in France, is adamantly opposed to government meddling in its business and would rather maintain as much independence over its members' livelihoods as possible.
Reached by phone, Tiphaine Besnard, a union spokeswoman, said it had been a while since she heard any news from government officials one way or another about how the matter was progressing. In any case, the workers rarely participate in political discussions or decisions involving them.
“Our elected officials … are doomed to repeat the same failures if they do not consult the people who live prostitution daily and know all the consequences of their policies,” the union said in a March press release. “We alone possess the expertise on our lives.”
Among the reasons the union cites for opposing the government’s proposal is the fear that brothel keepers who want to receive a cut of their proceeds would exploit the workers. Plus, the union argues, mandatory testing for sexually transmitted diseases could lead to discriminatory policies that might bar those infected from working. Instances of HIV in the pornography industry has led politicians to ask if they should be doing more to police that industry — a scenario prostitutes would like to avoid. They are also against a system that might divide workers into camps of regular brothel workers and others who refuse to work within that system.PARIS, France — A French lawmaker wants to reopen brothels, outlawed in France... more
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The owner of a brothel more than two hours' drive from Las Vegas said she hopes to hire Nevada's first legal male prostitutes within a month, now that state health officials have approved a method to test men for infectious diseases.
The world is ready for women, or even other men, to legally buy sex, said Shady Lady Ranch owner Bobbi Davis. Plus, being the first to offer male service could boost business in tough economic times, she said.
Until now, men have been effectively barred from legally plying the world's oldest profession in Nevada by the specificity of a state health law requiring prostitutes to undergo frequent cervical testing for sexually transmitted diseases.
The health board approved a regulation to allow urethral testing for men — a crucial rule change by the state agency with ultimate power over whether prostitutes can or can't work.The owner of a brothel more than two hours' drive from Las Vegas said she hopes... more
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The New Zealand Olympic Committee has threatened to sue a local taekwondo athlete who plans to finance his 2012 London Games bid with the proceeds from a brothel.
Logan Campbell, whose participation in the Beijing Olympics last year cost him NZ$150,000 ($110,600) -- most of which came from his parents -- opened a brothel with a friend in Auckland earlier this year.
Campbell went public with the scheme in July and the 23-year-old said he hoped to raise NZ$300,000 to alleviate any financial burden on his parents and to have more time to concentrate on training.
After remaining silent on the issue for three months, the New Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) had written a letter to Campbell demanding he cease linking the Olympics to his business or face legal action, the athlete told New Zealand television Wednesday.The New Zealand Olympic Committee has threatened to sue a local taekwondo athlete who... more
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Unless you’re among the super rich, the chances are you have had to cut back on some of life’s little luxuries since the beginning of the recession. To entice customers back, brothel owners have looked to other industries for inspiration.Unless you’re among the super rich, the chances are you have had to cut back on... more
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A German brothel is going green in a bid to attract more business in tough economic times.
Customers who arrive by bicycle at Berlin's Maison d'Envie will receive a five-euro ($7, £4.30) discount on the usual fee of 70 euros.
The discount also applies to those who can prove they took public transport to get there, owner Thomas Goetz said.
"It's good for business, it's good for the environment and it's good for the girls," he said.
The recession had hit his industry hard, he told the Reuters news agency. But he said that the offer did appear to be working.
"We have around three to five new customers coming in daily to take advantage of the discount," he said.
And, he added, it had helped ease traffic congestion and free up parking in the neighbourhood.
Prostitution is legal in Germany, with an estimated 400,000 people thought to work in the sex industry.A German brothel is going green in a bid to attract more business in tough economic... more
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Cheap sex is for the taking in Berlin - if you show up on a bicycle. The Maison d'envie brothel there is offering discounts to those who arrive on bikes.
The brothel's owner, Thomas Goetz, said: "Obviously we hope that the discount will attract more people. It's good for business, it's good for the environment - and it's good for the girls."
Um, how exactly is it good for the girls?
Cyclists (or those who can prove they took public transportation) get a 5 euro discount from the usual 70 euro fee for 45 minute sessions.Cheap sex is for the taking in Berlin - if you show up on a bicycle. The Maison... more
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THIS is Britain’s cheapest brothel with hookers offering sex for as little as ONE CIGARETTE. The cat house was raided by cops after one satisfied customer boasted to an undercover police woman how cheaply he got his rocks off.
Officers swooped on the knocking shop, which masqueraded as a massage parlour, called Lush Lasses, and unearthed a seedy world of cut-price romping.
The hookers had a price list on the wall which staggered even the most experienced of officers. It offered a HAND JOB for an unbelievable THREE DRAGS of a tab, a BLOW JOB for HALF A FAG and FULL SEX for the amazing price of ONE CIGARETTE.
The prostitutes, who called themselves Poundland Pussies, operated their cut-price whorehouse in Litherland, Merseyside.
And in court this week, Litherland magistrates were told how the horny mothers would sell sex to mucky Liverpudlians for peanuts.
David Robespierre for the prosecution, said: “These strumpets would hawk their vaginal wares for next to nothing.
“They would service men for the drag of a cigarette, pleasure males for £1 and even perform disgusting sex acts for chocolate buttons.”
He added: “There was one example of a woman who allowed herself to be digitally penetrated for a mere Rizla paper.
“And another case of a woman being sodomised for a Cuban cigar. The depths these women had sunk to are beyond comprehension.”
Arthur Peasegood, who lived across the road from the brothel, told how men would enter the premises morning, noon and night carrying boxes of 200 cigarettes.
Racket He said: “At first I thought there was a cigarette smuggling racket going on, so I went to have a closer look.
“Inside the place was like a Victorian opium den heavily laden with smoke and the smell of sex.” After the two-day hearing, hookers Gina Woods, 47, Sheila Johnson, 45, Brenda Halliday, 50, and Dawn Thealis, 42, were all found guilty of running a brothel and fined £250 plus costs.THIS is Britain’s cheapest brothel with hookers offering sex for as little as... more
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"For the second straight year, a play originating in Chicago has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. This year’s winner is Lynn Nottage’s “Ruined, ” her play set in an African brothel.
In an interview Monday afternoon, Nottage described herself as “jubilant” over the honor. “I don’t write a play expecting to get produced,” she said, “let alone win a Pulitzer Prize.”
“Ruined,” commissioned and first produced by Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, is a hard-hitting homage to Bertolt Brecht’s “Mother Courage,” with the action moved from Europe to a bar and whorehouse in the crossfire of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo. Despite the Brechtian nods, it is an intensely original work.
It is the first Goodman commission, and the first play to premiere at the Goodman, ever to win the Pulitzer. (David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” which had its American premiere at the Goodman, won the Pulitzer in 1984, but that play premiered in London.) Last year, Tracy Letts’ “August: Osage County,” produced by the Steppenwolf Theatre, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
Following “Ruined”’s Chicago premiere last November, it moved to the Manhattan Theatre Club, where it currently plays through May 10. Nottage said that aside from small nips and tucks, the play did not change between Chicago and New York. The play’s development and premiere at the Goodman “was one of those rare, beautiful experiences that you sometimes have in the theater,” she said.""For the second straight year, a play originating in Chicago has won the Pulitzer... more
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Story is from earlier this month but wasn't picked up by many news outlets for some reason!
These are hard times even for the oldest trade in the world. A Berlin brothel has responded to the economic crisis by launching a flat-rate service to woo customers.
Unique circumstances call for unique measures, as politicians combating the global financial crisis have been declaring in recent months, and a Berlin brothel has taken those words to heart.
The city's "Pussy Club" has made headlines in the local press by giving clients unlimited access to all its ladies for €70, which includes an all-you-can-eat-and-drink offer, in a bid to weather Germany's worst economic slump since World War II.
To clinch the deal, it is even offering men the opportunity to bring their wives along.
"Seventy euros, that includes everything -- ladies, drinks and food," a member of staff contacted by phone told SPIEGEL ONLINE, confirming media reports. The offer runs during off-peak times. On weekdays it applies between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. On weekends, it's extended by an hour until five p.m.
It's unclear if the new offer will boost business. So far, it doesn't appear to have. "Business is normal," the Pussy Club spokeswoman said.Story is from earlier this month but wasn't picked up by many news outlets for... more
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Reverend David Gilmore is defending the drug activity at a brothel in Soho, despite police claims that the venue attracts drug dealers and theives.Reverend David Gilmore is defending the drug activity at a brothel in Soho, despite... more
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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 changed, and so have her plans:
"I think I'm going to put all my property up for sale in Crystal," Fleiss said recently by phone from her house in Pahrump. "I don't want to work so hard ... and deal with all the nonsense in the sex business."
Instead, she is focusing her attention on an alternative energy project she said is "perfect for Nevada."
"That's where the money is," she said. "That's the wave of the future."
And maybe that's true -- green consumers want more, more, more and there are a few other positive signs:
*Wind now employs more people than coal
*New York State thinks it can revive the economy and the environment at the same time
*Green jobs are looking safer than other jobs
But can renewables really beat the sex industry? Maybe it's best if they just work together.Heidi Fleiss, best known as the Hollywood Madam, had always had plans of opening up an... more
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Three top Frankfurt police officers are being held in custody following a fight in a brothel.Three top Frankfurt police officers are being held in custody following a fight in a... more
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“In recent years, millions of women and girls have been trafficked across borders and within countries. The global trafficking industry generates an estimated five to seven billion U.S. dollars each year, more than the profits generated by the arms and narcotics trades,” quotes a Feb 2001, Asia Foundation and Horizons Project Population Council report.
In the late 17th century, the brothel area of Kamathipura was first established to service British troops in what was then called Bombay, India. In 2004, the cost to buy a sex-trafficked girl from Nepal in what is now called Mumbai, has risen to 100,000 - 120,000 Indian rupees (approx $2,004 - 2,405 USD). Girls trafficked from Nepal are known as a “tsukris.” They are those who have been indentured (forced) to work under a “never ending” contract commonly found with human trafficking.
The industry in the trafficking of Nepali girls is a very lucrative business. It can include forced labor, domestic and factory work. Young girls who are teenagers are often used in the sex-trafficking industries, though, because of the extreme profit for traffickers and the very low incidence of law enforcement arrests against sex-industry racketeers.
Arresting the traffickers can be very tricky. In rural Nepal this is a constant challenge as adequate police enforcement is often non-existent. Seen only as an investment to brothel owners, trafficked girls, in addition to cooperating in the daily sex-servicing of clients, are used by the brothel owners as “virgins,” as owners attempt to sell a girl’s virginity over and over again. This insidious crime can be found throughout the back alleys of Mumbai today.
So, why are most brothel owners interested much more in owning girls from Nepal versus girls from India?
The answer is obvious. Sex sells and girls from villages like Ichowk, Mahankal and Talmarang in the Sindhupalchowk district in northern central Nepal are full of girls who are more than anxious for a better life.
Besides this, Nepalese girls are cheaper to buy, much more cooperative and much easier to control and enslave. Girls from the rural regions are known to be much more obedient and considered more attractive for brothel owners who may want to resell them. Nepali girls coming from the rural farming areas, because of their naïveté, are much more easy to cheat and to force into debt bondage. This is because they have very little, if any, education and they usually do not speak any of the native languages of India.
“Annually, according to U.S. Government-sponsored research completed in 2006, approximately 800,000 people are trafficked across national borders, which does not include millions trafficked within their own countries. Approximately 80 percent of transnational victims are women and girls and up to 50 percent are minors,” reports the US Department of State in a 2008 study.
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