Mumbai: On April 29, the police raided a pub in Khar after receiving a tip-off about a flesh trade racket operational there, and detained 16 girls. However, families of many of the detainees say they are just college students or housewives from working class families who had only gone to the pub to have a good time. They claim they have been tagged prostitutes and consigned to a rehabilitation centre...
12:15 PM, May 09, 2012
Mumbai: If a person's wife is knocking on the door when he's in bed with a call girl, chances of his getting out of the situation unscathed are rather remote. After stalling for an hour, 54-year-old Surendra Harischandra Chauhan thought he saw a window, or rather, a balcony of opportunity. The fact that his flat was on the third floor led to the strategy ending in disaster. According to police,...
01:34 PM, Apr 21, 2012
London: Women engaged in sex trade in most developing countries, especially in Asia, are nearly 14 times more likely to get infected by HIV compared to general women population, a new study has claimed. The research, an analysis of over 100 studies involving nearly 100,000 female sex workers in 50 low and medium-income countries, found that overall prevalence of HIV in these women was 12 per cent. But, they are...
01:01 PM, Mar 15, 2012
Ahmednagar: Girish Kulkarni has changed the face of the brothels of Ahmednagar. Through his tireless efforts he has ensured that no minors girls are bought and sold in Ahmednagar. He has also set up schools for the children of sex workers. Richa's eyes don't betray the life she led earlier that was a life confined to a brothel. She had been sold to a brothel as a child. "I'm the...
08:55 AM, Feb 22, 2012
Mumbai: Forced into prostitution at the age of 10, Ayesha is fighting back. Not just that she is also helping others like her find life away from the brothels of the city. Ayesha was rescued by a man from a dance bar who later became her husband. Today, she is reaching out to other sex workers, helping them become a part of mainstream society. "Ayesha Didi has been a great...
08:31 AM, Dec 06, 2011
Paris: France is planning to ban prostitution and the Government has decided to bring a law to do so. The bill to ban prostitution will be introduced in France's lower house National Assembly on December 6. Guy Geoffroy of the ruling UMP party claimed that the resolution to outlaw prostitution has been signed by officials of all political groups in the National Assembly. Even though prostitution is not illegal in...
05:41 PM, Dec 01, 2011
Mumbai: After all the controversies in Bigg Boss 4 and shooting an item song, Pakistani model Veena Malik has bagged the biographical role of a sex worker. Veena will be playing the role of sex worker Madhuri, who has been moonlighting for years to support her family. The actress has been very quietly meeting sex workers here, particularly Madhuri, for the film Zindagi 50-50. "This film has changed my life...
05:22 PM, Oct 21, 2011
New Delhi: Another sex scandal has rocked Kerala. A man has been arrested for trying to sell his daughter to the sex trade in Kothamangalam. Police said the fourteen-year-old victim was sexually exploited in cars and autorickshaws for the past three months. The police were tipped off by an anonymous caller and it was then that they nabbed the girl's father. Two other men were also arrested in the case....
08:14 AM, Jul 04, 2011
Sex trafficking survivors push for more stringent laws to be put in place across Asia. ...
11:16 AM, Apr 06, 2011
The Municipal Corporation of Kolkata will be the first civic body to give free mediclaim policies to sex workers. ...
08:48 AM, Jan 31, 2011
Mumbai: The rather unnecessary curiosity over Reema Kagti's new project comes entirely from Aamir Khan's presence in the film. And the latest dope is that a prominent part of the movie is located in a red-light area and apparently the star wants to do them in real locations. "It is a thriller about a cop played by Aamir Khan in search of the truth in the red-light area. Reema Kagti's...
06:49 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Bangkok: A former sex worker has won first prize in a Thai literary contest for her book about her life in Thailand, Hong Kong and Japan, media reports said Wednesday. Thanadda Sawangduean, 42, won the women writers' Chommanard Book Prize for her recently published autobiography "I am Eri: My Experience Overseas", an account of her years on the game. Her work took her from the Thai beach resort of Pattaya...
04:36 PM, Dec 22, 2010
London: A British MP's wife works as a prostitute charging 70 pounds "for oral sex without a condom followed by full sex with a condom", said a media report in London. The revelation left the MP stunned as he said: "That's a horrible shock". 'Sunday Mirror' reported that Tory MP Mike Weatherley's Brazilian wife Carla, 39, works at three seedy brothels. The expose could prove embarrassing to Prime Minister David...
02:44 PM, Sep 06, 2010
Daughters of sex workers have formed an organisation called Parcham. ...
11:13 AM, Feb 24, 2010
It's a rare foray into contemporary installation art. ...
12:33 AM, Nov 18, 2009
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