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This Nepalese Woman Has Saved Thousands of People from Human Trafficking
Anuradha Koirala is a 65-year-old woman who's spent the last 21 years saving women and girls from human trafficking in Nepal. We interviewed her about raiding mafia-run brothels and rescuing some 50,000 people from the sex trade.
North Korea Compares Obama to a Gangster Running a Protection Racket
After North Korea decried Park Geun-hye as a “crafty prostitute,” it is now branding her a witch and referring to Obama’s visit as a crime.
Young Indigenous Girls Are Being Sacrificed to the Canadian Sex Trade
Poverty can be a big factor in the sexual exploitation of children by family members or friends, and the children are getting younger.
What It's Really Like to Be an Amsterdam Prostitute
Yesterday, VICE ran an interview with a guy who blogs about sex with Amsterdam's prostitutes. He made it out like the city's sex workers are pulling in hundreds of dollars...
Is Montreal's Mayor Serious About a Massage Parlor Crackdown?
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre has come out saying he wants to crack down on the city's numerous massage parlors that offer sexual services. The parlors operate under a license system, but that doesn't stop some parlors from providing underage girls or...
Why Is the Canadian Media Still Referring to Sex Workers as Prostitutes?
In many ways, Rob Ford is a gift to Canadian journalists, but that doesn't mean basic reporting ethics should be ignored. The term “prostitute” is outdated.
Don't Oversimplify Canada's Prostitution Debate
I always thought legalizing prostitution was the right thing to do. It would bring everything out into the open, making sex workers safer. But the debate surrounding prostitution laws in Canada isn't simple and two-sided
How Would Sex Workers Design a Perfect Condom?
Bill Gates's plan to make safe sex more enjoyable than sex without a layer of rubber separating the fun bits sounds pretty far-fetched. To brainstorm ideas that could help him, I called up some sex workers to see if they could come up with a design...
The Walkabout Is Cambodia's Sleaziest Bar
There’s something kind of heartening in the fact that there's one thing that can make the taxi girls, the motodops, and the Venn diagram of wildly divergent expat groups overlap in the middle of a hooker bar: a garbage bag filled with money.
Pimp Rap Has a New Prince and His Name Is 100s
We haven't seen an MC lay his mack down like 100s did on 'Ice Cold Perm,' his superb debut mixtape, since Snoop's last name was Dogg and Too $hort was spitting "Freaky Tales." It's crazy that he's only 19, half-Jewish, and recently escaped out of a...
Cobra-91
After the war in Iraq started, I spent a lot of time supervising "Cobra" counterterrorism cops assigned to chemical & biological warfare response teams in Lower Manhattan-you know, the guys in the bubble suits that scare everyone half to death?