With every tech boom comes a tale not only of the nouveau riche using their disposable income to buy sex, but also about how the very technologies making these clients rich is changing the sex work industry.
Under current federal funding guidelines, international HIV/AIDS programs have to adopt anti-prostitution policies if they want U.S. money. But in taking up a new case Friday, the Supreme Court decided to put that mandate to the First Amendment test.
Two officials from the Drug Enforcement Administration arranged for a Secret Service agent to solicit a Colombian prostitute — and tried to destroy the evidence — according to a letter delivered by the Justice Department to several Senators.
Tucker Carlson's website The Daily Caller is taking a shot at the October Surprise game, accusing New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez of soliciting prostitutes while on a trip to the Dominican Republic.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The Upper East Side woman dubbed the Mommy Madam for allegations she ran a high-cost escort agency is set to go to court in October, a judge said on Thursday, and unlike her co-defendant, she can't take a plea deal because it would mean she could be deported.
Even with updated security measures, Airbnb hasn't insulated the system from the risks inherent to renting out your home to strangers from the Internet. Like, the risk that someone will use your apartment as a temporary brothel, which is apparently what happened in Stockholm.
Whether or not there is prostitution in the Macau casinos owned by big-time GOP donor and casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson isn't the point of his lawsuit against a Jewish organization he accuses of libel.
Now that the Secret Service agents fired for that whole Colombian prostitution scandal are fighting their terminations, we're learning a lot more about how and where they party.
The big tabloids have uncovered the name and photos of the woman at the center of Secret Service sex scandal and more unflattering details have emerged about the agents who have already been dismissed.
We're back in business with the Mommy Madam story: Jaynie Mae Baker, the matchmaker accused of being Anna Gristina's second in command, turned herself in Tuesday.
Despite yesterday's item in the New York Post offering hope that the Upper East Side "Mommy Madam" might be released on bail after her lawyer Peter Gleason offered up his TriBeCa loft toward her bond of $2 million, what we get instead is legal drama.
The Upper East Side 'Mommy Madam' who has been the focus of the tabloids for days -- and in Rikers since February 22 on a charge of promoting prostitution -- may be released.
The Upper East Side "Mommy Madam" is still the focus of the tabloids, with an exclusive interview with her, from Rikers no less, in the New York Post.
As predicted, the story of the "Mommy Madam" has continued to unleash tabloid-ready twists and turns. But what about the building itself where the alleged prostitution occurred?
The Upper East Side "Mommy Madam," Anna Gristina, 44, who was charged yesterday with promoting prostitution is getting a lot of attention in the tabloids today. While no client list has been released, the details coming out about Gristina's personal life are fascinating.
It's not every day that a married "Ugg-wearing" soccer mom with four kids gets busted for operating a prostitution ring out of an apartment on East 78th Street. Thus, New York Post editors are making the most of it, with an array of porny stock photos and puns.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is due to leave French police custody early, but he's not out of trouble yet as the investigation into whether he participated in procuring prostitutes for what he called in his autobiography "libertine parties" continues.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn may have avoided criminal charges after sexual assault accusation in the United States, but he's now facing a different set of troubles thanks to his involvement in another scandal back in home country.
"High-end customers" paid as much as $3,600 an hour, officials say
American Airlines pulled their ads in response to the sex-trafficking debate
The Village Voice countered Ashton Kutcher's figures on child prostitution
Two academics have been named in the bust of a 1,400-person prostitution ring
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