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'No Condoms as Evidence' Legislation Up for Debate in Albany

Soliciting, promoting, and patronizing prostitution are all illegal in the state of New York. Carrying a condom is not illegal, but there’s no law that says the NYPD can’t confiscate a sex worker’s condoms and use them as evidence in trial. A proposed bill would make that policy illegal. Full story

Pen Pals

RockBottom Heads Toward Bottom

The early morning air stunk of pissy pussy and unwashed balls. RockBottom did his thing all night like always, dispensing drugs to the party people. The fiends were nodded out, neck-cramp proper, and the freaks spun out on E were in the bedroom, fruitlessly masturbating each othe… Full story

Kat Stacks Is a Real American Hero, Bitch

A former prostitute turned loudmouth rap groupie seems like an unlikely poster child for the immigration movement in the US. But not only has Kat Stacks become a symbol for undocumented immigrants who came to the country as children, her story is so American, it should be printed… Full story

Our Guidance Counselor Likes Whores and Cocaine

David Mendelowitz was a dean of students and guidance counselor at Scarsdale High School for 15 years. He just got arrested for being involved in a prostitution ring and coke dealing operation. So, we figured it'd be a good idea to talk to his students. Full story

Making Friends with the Prostitutes of Switzerland

Bar Oceano is a family-run brothel in the Swiss border town of Lugano, and one of the landmarks of the Swiss sex industry. Recently my friend Georgio and I drove up there to have a chat with Ulisse, the brothel's 60-year-old owner, and Nicola, his right-hand man. Full story

The Life of the Party

Prostitutes, fun-loving though they are, find it a bit uncouth to call what they do behind closed doors “fucking.” They’d rather call it “partying.” In Nevada, where prostitution is legal, there's a lot of "partying" going on. The 28 legal brothels in Nevada generate around $50 m… Full story

The VICE Guide to Voting - High-Class Whores

PROSTITUTION. A vocation as old as politics and half as dirty. Professional ladies and fancy gents have been taking it for cash long before Obama and Romney were shaking hands and kissing babies. If this election is about redefining social order, our nation's hookers are on the f… Full story

Olympic Sex-Trafficking! (Is Barely Even Happening)

The Daily Mail might say so, but my prostitute friend says otherwise. Full story

Question of the Day

Prostitution Should Be Legal, Right?

We asked a bunch of Londoners if selling state-sanctioned sex services was OK. Full story

Drinks with the Girls

I sat down with the working girls at Abu’s, a horrifying hole in the wall bar/brothel on Nairobi’s extremely sketchy River Road, to talk HIV and the proposed legalization of prostitution. Full story