Tag: Prostitution

Recession Hits Hard

Times are difficult down at Berlin’s Pussy Club where a new all-in service is on offer: 70 euros for girls, drinks and food.

Like many of its counterparts, the brothel has been hit by the credit crunch and has had to come up with its own stimulus package for a trade that was legalised in Germany seven years ago.

The Belle Escort, another Berlin brothel, has never before faced problems, but the current financial crisis has triggered a sharp decline in clientele, said its owner Isabelle, without giving her surname.

Since 2001, prostitution in Germany has been legal and is relatively widespread, especially in big cities like Berlin, Munich and Hamburg, where women tout for business in the show windows of the infamous St Pauli district.

But social stigmatisation persists and Heitmann is concerned that prostitutes’ trials and tribulations are not being taken seriously.

Hoping for more success, many women are driven from the clubs to the kerbs to sell their bodies on their own terms.

An increasing number of men on a tight budget are also picking up prostitutes on street corners rather than in pricey brothels or “Eros Centres.”

Some places have been forced to shut their doors and in January, sex-shop owners and porn producers pushed for state aid, taking their lead from the crisis-hit auto and banking industries.

Erotic trade federation official Uwe Kaltenberg, said that “economic aid would be judicious.”

Damn!  I guess there is truly NO recession proof  jobs, huh?

Hot For Teacher In Ohio

Another Sexy Sunday while we wait for the signing of the Obama Stim Bill on Tuesday….so today is All Sex..All The Time…..

A fourth-grade teacher had a side job as a prostitute, and even skipped class after using a school computer to arrange an afternoon tryst at a motel, authorities said Wednesday.

Amber Carter, 35, left school early on Tuesday — taking half a sick day — and was arrested in a motel parking lot in Bellefontaine, where authorities had set up a sting operation.

An anonymous e-mail was sent to the Logan County Sheriff‘s Department on Feb. 4 saying a local woman was posting cash-for-sex ads on the popular Web site Craigslist, Lt. Rob Bibart said.

Detectives found the ad and arranged Tuesday’s meeting with Carter, he said.

Detectives were uncertain how long Carter had been advertising for sex, Bibart said.

Bellefontaine, a small city of 13,000, is about 50 miles northwest of Columbus.

Carter was placed on administrative leave, said Bellefontaine City Schools Superintendent Larry Anderson. She has worked for the district for 13 years, starting as a kindergarten teacher.

Carter was charged with misdemeanor prostitution and a felony count of unauthorized use of property, related to the school computer. She was released from Logan County jail Tuesday.

Damn! The Luck!

Dutch authorities have revealed details of their plans to clean up Amsterdam’s famous red light district.

They say they will close half the city’s brothels, sex shops and marijuana cafes in a bid to drive organised crime from the city centre.

Council officials gave the sex industry a warning a year ago that they were going to close some brothels.

The deputy mayor of Amsterdam says the plans will stop the city being a “free zone” for criminals.

Last year the city said it wanted to close one-third of the red light district’s brothels, where scantily-clad prostitutes display themselves in shop windows.

But the new measures aim to reduce the number of sex “windows” from 482 to 243, a council spokesman said.

Amsterdam also wants to close half of the 76 marijuana shops in the city centre.

The city council says that some other businesses are also related to the decay of the city centre, including peep shows, sex shows, mini-supermarkets, phone and souvenir shops, and they will also be shut down.

It says there are indications that some red light businesses serve as a cover for organised crime, including drugs and the trafficking of women.

“Money laundering, extortion and human trafficking are things you do not see on the surface but they are hurting people and the city. We want to fight this,” said Deputy Mayor Lodewijk Asscher.

“We can still have sex and drugs but in a way that shows the city is in control.”

Prostitution will be allowed only in two areas in the district – notably De Wallen, a web of streets and alleys around the city’s medieval retaining dam walls.

The area has been a centre of prostitution for hundreds of years.

Prostitution was legalised in the Netherlands in 2000, formalising a long-standing tolerance.

Marijuana is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but prosecutors will not press charges for possession of small amounts. Coffee shops are able to sell it openly.

There goes my European vacation….crap!  Damn! The Luck!

Cyber Pimps!

Nine people from Thailand have been jailed for up to two-and-a-half-years for their part in exploiting women who were advertised in “online brothels”. They are thought to have made millions of pounds from women trafficked from Asia to the UK for use in the sex trade.

Every night thousands of men trawl websites in the UK advertising women offering sex for sale.

Many of them are run by prostitutes, or escorts as they often like to describe themselves, who are essentially self-employed entrepreneurs using the internet to cut out the pimps.

But some are advertising women who have been trafficked into the country and are being exploited for profit.

A gallery on the site showed photographs of more than 60 naked and semi-naked women. Many of them were effectively commodities who had been traded and invested in by “bondholders”.

The “bondholders”, who effectively owned several of the women and expected them to pay off their £30,000 debt, were two women, Jirapha Sriwicha, 40, of Hendon, north London and Sutima Khongpon, 55, and Phanusak Kaewbenjarkarn, 32, both from Streatham, south London.

Sutima Khongpon was sentenced to two and a half years in prison, Phanusak Kaewbenjarkarn and Jiripha Sriwicha were each sentenced to two years, Pongpoj Pitayayanakul was sentenced to 18 months, Bordee Pitayayanakul to 15 months, Monthira Duangthip to 12 months in prison, Panya Peakaew, Noppharat Charoenying and Graipich Vudto were all sentenced to 28 days in prison, and Thatri Pornpaditkong was given a community service order.

A Home Office spokeswoman said: “The UK has a comprehensive victim-centred strategy in place to tackle human trafficking.

“In January we launched a short-term review to explore what more we can do to tackle the demand for prostitution.

“We have also invested £5.8m in the Poppy Project over the last six years to provide high-level specialist support for victims trafficked into sexual exploitation.

This includes safe accommodation; advocacy; access to counselling; access to legal advice; interpretative services. Victims are provided with support for an initial thirty-day period whilst they consider their options.”

The Crisis Effects All

Reporting from Wells, Nev. — The women at Donna’s Ranch are crowded around the kitchen table on a warm summer night, dining on stir fry, tugging at thigh-high dresses, griping about depleted bank accounts. At this northeastern Nevada bordello, which marks a gravel road’s end, they woo grizzled truckers and weary travelers for a single reason: money.

Lately, the women don’t go home with much.
Signs of the economic free fall have cropped up in many of Nevada’s 25 or so legal brothels. The Mustang Ranch, for example, has a steady stream of customers, but the number of women vying for work has soared. Even a 74-year-old applied. This summer, the Shady Lady gave $50 gas cards to those who spent $300. The Moonlite Bunny Ranch offered extras to customers paying with their economic stimulus checks.

Here, 180 miles west of Salt Lake City, near the junction of Interstate 80 and Highway 93, Donna’s Ranch has seen its business plummet nearly 20%. More than three-quarters of its customers are long-haul truckers, and high fuel and food prices have drained them of “play money,” owner Geoff Arnold says. That cuts into pay for his 10-member staff and the “working girls.”

Billed as the West’s oldest continuously operating bordello, Donna’s Ranch greets drivers with a sign that depicts a cowboy-hatted, buxom brunet preening atop a truck bed. The red-roofed, single-story brothel is plagued with leaks; a recent earthquake cracked its beige exterior. The women’s rooms are small. Most have a double bed, a television and DVD player, and tables with assorted lotions, sex toys and toiletries. There’s also a handmade sign that reminds customers: Tips are appreciated.

From 2006 to 2007, the brothel’s revenue climbed 7.6%, to about $1 million. This year, Arnold expects to make about $200,000 less. Closing that gap is tricky: Brothel advertising is legal, but billboards and bus ads risk upsetting neighbors. So the bordello sponsors a soccer team in Boise and a rodeo in Wells. It also bought lights for the high school football field and gave local motels pens, which boast that Donna’s is “Your Biggest Bang for the Buck.”

Get off your butts and go help these girls out!

Child Prostitute Rings Smashed

When I read this headline I thought theat the story was about a third world country like Cambodia or Kenya or the like.  Boy!  Was I wrong!

More than 600 adults have been arrested in raids across the US targeting people who force children into prostitution.

Operations took place in 29 cities in a co-ordinated action involving federal, state and local law officers, according to the FBI.

Officials said 12 large-scale prostitution rings were dismantled in the raids and 47 children rescued.

Since 2003, 575 child prostitutes have been saved from exploitation by American criminal gangs, they added.

Officials said many of the prostitution rings broken up were operated through call centres, truck stops, casinos and websites.

The FBI generally gets involved in child prostitution cases that cross state lines.

At a news conference announcing the results of Operation Cross Country II, FBI Deputy Director John Pistole said the arrests were made possible by intelligence gathered during similar raids in June.

“Sex trafficking of children remains one of our most violent and unconscionable crimes in this country,” he said.

The 47 rescued children range in age from 13 to 17, and all but one are female.

A total of 642 people were arrested. They included 73 pimps and 518 adult prostitutes, according to the FBI.

Are You Truly Surprised?

NY Gov. Elliot Spitzer got caught if his peewee in a hooker.  And the media has covered it tooth and nail.  But why are you surprised?  I mean ever heard of Packwood, Gary Hart, Bill Clinton, Craig, Vetter….come on..these politicians are hedonistic a/holes.  That think their shit does not stink and they arre so arrogant that they think they are immune to scrutiny.

Ask yourself whose money was he spending?  BTW, he has been doing this type of thing to the tune of $80,000.  Hell his daddy could hire 4 illegal alien housekeepers for that.   Why does the public get surprised by this behavior?

He will most likely have to resign and lose any political clout he had obtained by winning the governorship.  Will that be enough?  I say yes.  We rid ourselves of yet another a/hole and he should slip back into obscurity.  And is the perfect place for this a/hole.

Sex, Lies And Politics!

Yet another politician is caught with his joint in a bad place.  Spetzer or Spitzer, who know who cares, got caught by FBI dealing with a $4300 hooker.  Thinking….what was he thinking!  oh, never mind, he was not thinking.  A thumper makes one stupid and the Gov, got stupid.

we have had all sorts of politicians doing things that they are suppose to be fighting.  Vetter, Craig, McGrevey, on and on….but does it matter?  well, yes it does, not the fact that he is dealing with a hooker but whose money was he spending.  If it was mine then I would say to him to go to the street and find a cheaper pass time.

Politics makes strange bedfellows, but this is just ridiculous.  May I suggest that Rosy Palm and her 5 sisters would have been a more prudent decision.  This guy is an idiot, we can do without these types.

May I offer a suggestion?  I realize that when the blood rushes from big head to little head, it is difficult to think, but you must try to be more logical.  But that will fall on deaf ears for politicians think that they are immune.  well buck-o, think again!