16 June 06 in Roundup
When you think about it there ain’t much difference between high-end prostitution and blogging, is there?
- A Brazilian woman ran a high-end escort service out of her luxury Manhattan condo, importing hotties from her home country and charging $1500 for threesomes. Unfortunately for those of us with a little cash lying around, she got nabbed. [NYDN]
- Another sexy Chinese blogger bares all. Except this one, Qin Dai, claims to be the Chinese Kafka. [China Daily]
- Japanese women love free porn. This is surely a sign of the coming apocalypse. [Asian Sex Gazette]
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8 June 06 in Media
The U.S. Government is pressuring Germany to halt the flow of sex workers arriving for the World Cup. The administration is attempting to conflate legal prostitution with the international sex slave trade in much the same manner that it conflates legal pornography with the exploitation of minors here in the States.
A U.S. congressman and other anti-trafficking advocates estimate that thousands of foreign women, many from Eastern Europe, will be forced into sex work during the four-week tournament that begins June 9.
At a briefing, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denounced “the sordid trade in human beings” and said the fight against trafficking is “a great moral calling of our time.”
The first problem with the State Department’s argument is that Germany has what is probably the world’s most heavily-regulated flesh trade.
Prostitution is legal in Germany, with about 400,000 registered sex workers who pay taxes and receive social benefits. However, the government says forced prostitution is not tolerated and it denies Smith’s claim that it is helping build brothels.
[T]he 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report gave Germany its highest overall rating for compliance with efforts to stop trafficking, and noted German efforts to combat exploitation during the World Cup.
“Nonetheless, due to the sheer size of the event, the potential for increased human trafficking during the games remains a concern,” the report said.
The second problem is that the State Department’s estimate of the size of the international sex slave trade amounts to a wild-assed guess.
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19 May 06 in Roundup
The Laughing Man is very happy today. Why, you ask? Because for only the third time in ethnorotica history he’s able to use the “Monster Cocks” tag.
- While it’s true that we’re a bunch of prudes here in the States, do the Germans really have to rub our faces in it by opening the world’s largest brothel? Ah, those silly Euros and their healthy attitude toward human sexuality—don’t they know sex is much hotter when you think you’re going to hell for it? [Telegraph Blogs]
- Africans pay $1,800 for 1GB of data. With my porn surfing habit I’d be broke within an hour. [CNN]
- You know those two-foot-long dongs featured on the box covers of Monster Cocks videos? They’re totally fake. I’m sure you’re just as shocked as I am. [Pornzio]
- I feel much the same about the term “women of color” as I do about the word “blog”: it’s probably the best anyone’s come up with thus far, but it still blows chunks. All the same, it’s nice to see women of color in the pasty-white BDSM scene get their due. [Fleshbot]
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