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V Sailakshmi, 39, says sex work helped pay for her sister's wedding and for her father's funeral
Women & Gender
‘We are demanding full decriminalization’: Sex workers in India rally for labor rights
A roulette wheel is spun.
Business, Economics and Jobs
The economics of risk taking in the workplace
a sign in amsterdam that says you can't drink in the street
Culture
Overtourism in Amsterdam’s red-light district provokes local outrage
A woman holds a sign that says "Sex workers and residents against police raids and closures."
Women & Gender
This English collective says Brexit unfairly targets sex workers for deportation
red light district
Women & Gender
This Israeli Facebook group is a lifeline for women caught in a cycle of prostitution
Nuria at My Red Light, a social project in the form of a brothel in Amsterdam. Nuria plans to retire from sex work later this year and work full-time in an administrative role at My Red Light.
Women & Gender
A Dutch brothel where women work for themselves
Durga Chauhan
Education
She was forced into sex work. Now that she’s left that behind, she dreams of being a doctor.
A former sex buyer, now in recovery, revisits Boston's Chinatown where he sometimes frequented erotic massage parlors. He says such establishments are all over the state.
Economics
Across the US, many illicit massage parlors avoid police detection
Economics
Breaking it down: The economics of a sex worker in Thailand
Justice
This Thai woman says she’s a sex worker to support her family. Don’t judge.
Cida Vieira, president of the Association of Prostitutes of Minas Gerais, looks for clients along a street in Belo Horizonte, November 5, 2013. A group of sex workers are taking English classes once a week in preparation for the World Cup.
Global Scan
Is the World Cup fueling underage prostitution in Brazil?
Korean American activist Phyllis Kim at the Glendale, California, memorial for "comfort women."
Global Politics
A California statue stirs passions in South Korea and ire in Japan
Dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, one of three current and former sex workers who initiated a challenge to Canada's prostitution laws, reacts at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa December 20, 2013.
Conflict & Justice
Safe Sex? Canada’s Supreme Court strikes down laws banning prostitution for reasons of safety
The Directors of “Lovelace” on America’s First Porn Star
Global Politics
Sex trafficking of women has nexus in Queens borough of New York City
Global Politics
Protecting children from sex trafficking continues to be elusive goal
What PETA hopes its .XXX porn site will do for animal rights
Arts, Culture & Media
Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach’s “One Nation Under Sex”
Arts, Culture & Media
Legendary Vancouver Strip Club Goes Gourmet
Conflict & Justice
Muslim Community in Britain Reacts to Child Sex Scandal
“Not Promiscuous” Cartagena Says After Secret Service Scandal
Global Politics
PETA launches pornographic website
Larry Flynt on Sex Scandals that Changed American History
‘Make Love Not Porn’ Author On Talking About Sex
Arts, Culture & Media
Continued calls for apologies, compensation for WWII ‘comfort women’
Global Politics
Europe largest brothel’
Conflict & Justice
Canadian prostitution law
Conflict & Justice
Iceland bans striptease shows
Global Politics
Human smuggling in Europe
Conflict & Justice
Prostitution ban threatens South Korea’s blind
Human trafficking in Mexico
Prosecuting prostitution abroad
Arts, Culture & Media
De-sexing the red light district