Minister
says gay sex should be legal
Singapore's powerful former prime
minister Lee Kuan Yew, has questioned the country's ban
on sex between men. 25-4-2007
Indian sex workers engage men to disguise operations
Sex workers in
Surat are employing men to act as their partners to
cover up tracks of their flesh trade. In some cases, sex
workers have even turned to social and emotional support
from these 'companions' and transferred property in
their name. 25-4-2007
India: Five expelled from college for their role in film on gays
Five students have been
expelled from a college in Kerala for associating with a
film on homosexuals. 25-4-2007
Inda: Ex-husband forces wife into prostitution, porn
A young woman has
accused her ex-husband and her brother-in-law of raping
her, taking her nude photographs and forcing her into
flesh trade. 25-4-2007
Nine remanded to custody after swoop on prostitution network
Nine of the 13
members of a prostitution network arrested in Almerķa
province last week were remanded to custody in the
Acebuche provincial prison this weekend. They are seven
men and two women. 25-4-2007
'Spring of Sex' grips Bahrain
A
cultural festival featuring actors in skin-tight
clothing embracing suggestively has ignited a heated
debate on freedom of expression in Bahrain.
25-4-2007
Baidu web site with links to porn blocked
Baidu.com Inc., operator of China's
most-used Internet search engine, said its Japanese Web
site, which has links to pornography and critics of the
Chinese government, has been blocked in its home market.
21-4-2007
Sex shops add touch of pink to fading rural shopping streets in Japan
Japan's rust belt
has turned into a garter belt with growing numbers of
small cities seeing the mom and pop shops vanish from
their centers to be replaced by sex businesses.
21-4-2007
Japan: Ex-porn star wins 1.7 million yen for infringement of privacy by gossip
magazines
A former porn actress has won
compensation from a major publishing house after two of
its weekly magazines reported on her private life after
she retired. 21-4-2007
Malaysia movie pirates turn to porn
Malaysia's movie bootleggers are selling
more pornography to offset financial losses following a
government crackdown using two Labradors that have found
huge stashes of pirated DVDs.
21-4-2007
Where have all the girls gone?
One of the most shocking global
trends I have encountered in travels to more than 45
countries on all continents in the past five years is
the practice of gendercide.
21-4-2007
Abortion: My story
Making the
difficult decision to terminate a pregnancy is
distressing enough but unfortunately some young Asian
women feel they have no choice.
21-4-2007
Porn websites show disrespect to the Indian Tricolour
While seeking
permission from the court to allow public to hoist the
Tricolour, industrialist-cum-politician Navin Jindal may
have not pondered that his endeavour could also
facilitate its misuse.
21-4-2007
Japan scholars say military sex slaves confirmed in '40s
Evidence submitted to
the post-World War II trials of Japanese war criminals
shows Japan's military forced Asian women into sexual
slavery during the war, historians said Tuesday, citing
newly unearthed documents.
21-4-2007
Few Malaysians satisfied with their sex life
Although most Malaysians agree that sex
is important, fewer than two in five (38%) of them are
satisfied with their sex lives.
21-4-2007
German national arrested for alleged sexual abuse of young Cambodian girl
Walter Munz,
a 62-year-old tourist from Stuttgart, was nabbed during
a raid of his guesthouse room in Phnom Penh on Sunday,
said Keo Thea, deputy chief of anti-human-trafficking
police. 21-4-2007
India: Sex, work and pleasure
Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee (DMSC),
Asia's largest sex workers' collective, has sparked off
a debate by demanding that sex work be treated as
entertainment work. 14-4-2007
China announces new campaign against online porn, saying it has 'perverted'
young minds
The Chinese government is launching a
new crackdown on online pornography which it says has
"perverted China's young minds," a state news agency
said Friday. 14-4-2007
China threatens jail for cell-phone porn
Beijing police are threatening jail
and fines for people who transmit pornography via cell
phones after merchants were caught selling such movies
on phone memory chips, a report said last week.
14-4-2007
Half of Indian children face sexual abuse
One in five of children in India are
physically abused while more than half have faced some
form of sexual abuse, a UNICEF backed government study
has revealed. 14-4-2007
Korea: Teenage sex crimes tripled in 8 years
A rising number of sex crimes among
teenagers is becoming a serious problem in Korea. The
number of reported sex crimes including rape, indecent
assault, and attempted rape more than tripled in eight
years, from 567 cases in 1999 to 1,810 cases last year.
The trend is in contrast with the US and Japan where
teenage sex crimes are decreasing.
14-4-2007
US man sentenced for sex with child in Cambodia
A Bay Area man has
been sentenced in federal court in San Francisco to five
years and four months in prison for having sex with a
13-year-old girl in Cambodia.
14-4-2007
