Born Into Brothels
2009-06-02 22:13:00 I watched the 2004 Academy Award winning documentary Born Into Brothels last night. Yes, I know I’m about five years late with this, but thanks to Netflix I have been watching a ton of movies I should have seen a long time ago–As well as some movies I wish I never came ...
By: Menstrual Poetry
Review: Born Into Brothels
2008-04-07 18:41:00 Born into Brothels is about children growing up in a red light district in Calcutta (now Kolkatta), India. What I wasn’t expecting is the extensive amount of outside intervention that is really the story of the film. Some would see this as an intolerable rebuke of the documentarian’s principal directive: to document. This is to ...
Boutiques replace brothels in red-light area of Amsterdam
2008-01-23 08:08:00 Skimpy skirts and revealing tops are making way for designer gowns and luxury handbags in Amsterdam's red-light district as the area tries to ditch its seedy image. Fifteen young Dutch designers opened stores in former brothels this weekend, displaying their creations in the tall windows where prostitutes recently sat touting for business. "It is time for a change here," said Lodewijk Asscher, the deputy mayor of Amsterdam, at the launch of the city-backed fashion push. " Amsterdammers ought to able to feel proud of this area."
By: Attuworld
The block of brothels in Amsterdam will become fashionable
2008-01-07 07:00:00 In January fifteen young fashion designers are going to occupy some of premises which will be vacated in the well-known "red block" in Amsterdam because of the closing of 51 brothels at the end of the last year under the decree of the city authorities.. Copyright 2008 TraveLime.com.
By: prison break
What if We Shamed Businessmen who visited Brothels?
2007-10-26 17:00:00 Most of my what if? questions are concerning imagining the world differently, but not really thing we can take practical action on. There are already some organizations out there doing similar work, IJM, Not For Sale, and Perverted-Justice (from To Catch a Predator). I was reading the book Freakonomics and it talks a lot about how ...
By: Trying to Follow
What was Sting doing outside one of Germany’s top brothels?
2007-09-14 12:17:00 Without his wife and family, a long way from home and in the dead of night, no one can blame Sting for feeling in need of a little company.But Trudie Styler and their children might feel less inclined to be understanding when they learn where he ended up in Hamburg in the early hours of ... Related Entries: The Police in Concert at Madison Square Garden - BackstageSting and wife found guilty of discriminationSting, Police to Reunite for 30th Anniversary TourClaudia Schiffer Pose For World Cup Tags: Sting - Celebrities
What was Sting doing outside one of Germany?s top brothels?
2007-09-14 12:17:00 Without his wife and family, a long way from home and in the dead of night, no one can blame Sting for feeling in need of a little company. But Trudie Styler and their children might feel less inclined to be understanding when they learn where he ended up in Hamburg in the early hours of ...
Typical Thailand brothels: Quicky Culture
2007-09-06 08:53:00 Around 11pm, the security guard at my building, a heavy set guy approaching 50, and I set off to have a few beers at a local mystery establishment. I’ve been curious about this particular place I’ve often passed, but up until last night I hadn’t built the courage to stick my head in–now that I ...
Sex workers chronicle life in Indian brothels
2007-07-31 09:27:00 MUMBAI (Reuters) - An exclusive magazine for prostitutes is offering a snapshot of life in some of India's biggest brothels, reporting the murky world of pimps and violent customers and showcasing the dreams and talents of sex workers."Red Light Despatch", a monthly publication, is full of emotional outpourings of women sold to brothels as children, personal accounts of torture and harassment, poems and essays by prostitutes, book and film reviews and advocacy articles.Health workers and prostitutes sit together once a week in a tiny newsroom located inside a brothel in India's financial capital to discuss stories, headlines and the design of issues.The reporters, often themselves prostitutes or their relatives, file their contribution after scouring the brothels of Mumbai, Kolkata and New Delhi and some smaller cities."We choose the best stories for publishing," said Rupa Metgudd, a news coordinator and daughter of a former prostitute, sifting through reports for the latest editi...
By: Believe OR Not
Vitter: valuing brothels
2007-07-18 18:30:00 “Since then, I’ve gotten up every morning, committed to trying to live up to the important values we believe in. If continuing to believe in and acknowledge those values causes some to attack me because of my past failings, well, so be it.” Don’t you just loath the hypocrisy of politicians who do the very thing ...
By: Carson's Post
Brothels offering Senior Citizen Discounts
2007-03-18 21:50:00 BERLIN (Reuters) - A brothel in Germany hopes to capitalize on the growing number of retirees by offering them a 50 percent discount for sex in the afternoon.The "Pascha" in the western city of Cologne has introduced reduced rates for sex sessions for clients aged 66 and above -- provided they can prove they are old enough. "All clients need to do is show us some proof of age," said a spokesman for the brothel's managing director Armin Lobscheid. "A 'normal session' costs 50 euros with us -- and we're now paying 50 percent of that for these older guests." "We don't earn as much money, but we're establishing ourselves across a broader range of age groups," he added. After testing the water with reductions for senior citizens once a week, the Pascha decided earlier this month to offer 50 percent off sex services between midday and 5 p.m every day. "There's been plenty of demand and people have certainly been taking advantage of the offer," the spokesman said. "Older folks are m...
By: Gooseys Gabbings
Fighting Brothels With Books
2006-12-25 03:37:02 By Nicholas D. KristofThe New York TimesPAILIN, CambodiaThree years ago, I purchased two teenage girls from the Cambodian brothels that enslaved them and returned them to their families. Plenty of readers promptly wrote to say: ?Buy one for me, too.?Those readers had honorable intentions (I think) and simply wanted to do something concrete to confront global poverty and sex trafficking. But buying enslaved girls isn?t a general solution ? partly because it raises the market price and increases the incentive to kidnap other girls and sell them to brothels.I?m still in touch with the two girls and visited them on this trip (video of them is at nytimes.com/kristof); one is back in the brothel, and the other is now married and pregnant with her first child in her village. They are wonderful young women and powerful reminders of the need to do more to address human trafficking ? but the conventional tools to do so are wrenchingly inadequate.So in this holiday season let me share the (hap...
3 Picture Day: Bars, Brothels and Busses
2005-03-01 13:23:00 My 3 Picture Day starts twelve hours before yours does Melissa because I'm in Bangkok this morning. Picture 1: The Screaming LadyIf you've read the Post: Calgary to Thailand In 4 Minutes, you know that the catalyst for this journey was a woman I was engaged to who had a change of heart. I am very happy this morning because L has written me a very sweet letter to open the door to a new friendship. I am sitting in an open air internet cafe at my Guest House when suddenly I hear a screaming woman. She is ranting and raving and pointing at the bar tender of the bar just behind. She seems to be tripping on drugs and the people around me are laughing at her. She goes on ranting and shaking her fist at the bartender here for at least 4 minutes before she finally walks down the road. As I'm writing L, I mention her because the scene is so intense. I write 'L': "Today is 3 picture day on the Blog, and this is one of those pictures but I just don't have the heart to take it. I don't kn...
By: Timeline Journey
Brothels in My Backyard
0000-00-00 00:00:00 Every now and then, I get a letter in the post from the Mt Victoria Resident's Association about Brothels in Mt Victoria. I have a bone to pick with these people in the first place, because I am dead certain one day when I was walking up Majorie Banks street in ... |
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