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Playboy Magazine to name second Asian model as Playmate in 2004
For the second time in 2004 Playboy Magazine is set to annouce an Asian woman as an upcoming Playmate of the month in the late summer to early fall 2004 sources tell Asian Sex Gazette. Photo sets are already being displayed online with Playboy.com and on her personal site as a "Playboy Cybergirl".  The men's magazine is expected to be naming as a Playmate for an upcoming edition soon. 6-30-2004

Adult Profile: Linda Tran
Versatile, reliable, easygoing, sunny, and inspirational - many photographers and fans would agree that Linda Tran fits all of the above. A native West Coast model (she is originally from Las Vegas, Nevada) who travels often and also lives on the East Coast. Linda has been modeling for over two years and has gained valuable experience from numerous assignments booked on the Internet. 6-28-2004

Iran Police Official Denies Auction of Iranian Girls
The managing director of the Department for Combat Against Social Corruption, Colonel Azim Husseini, noted, "Although many Iranian girls leave the country legally, they don't know what is waiting for them.". 6-22-2004

Sex slave traders sold girls at $500,000
72 female sex slaves were freed by the police during the special operation in Primorsky Area of Russian Far East. According to the Minister, the criminals supplied the sex-slaves - girls from Russia and the other countries of the former USSR - to North America, Asia and Africa. 6-18-2004

AIDS infecting South Asia Fast, 90% incidence in India
The World Bank quoting UNAIDS sources, has stated that over five million people in South Asia are living with HIV/AIDS, comprising nearly one eighth of the world's HIV infections. 6-12-2004

Mullahs turn Iran to Islamic whorehouse
Islamic fundamentalists' success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing, and stoning to death. 6-10-2004

K is for Koguls
Is the media responsible for the shocking images of kogal? Or was there truly a kogal movement: a new emergence of curious, consumer-minded girls who were waiting to be discovered and raised as a national issue? 6-2-2004

Kazakstan: one and all against this scourge
Unemployment, poverty and a lack of social protection are as much a part of Kazakhstan as they are of any other post-socialist country that is having a difficult time making the transition to a market economy. These circumstances along with corruption and the imperfect state of the legal system could not help but contribute to the growth of organized crime, including its new manifestation, which was unknown in Kazakhstan until recently - the trade in women. 6-2-2004

Adult Profile: Jade Hsu
Jade is Korean and Caucasian mix, and she currently lives in the LA area where she also takes some college classes part-time. She was born on July 23, 1981 in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is 5'4" tall and weighs 100lbs; her measurements are 34C-25-35. Jade is also known as Jade Hsu, Jade Martin, Lin Su. 5-29-2004

Sex and the City for liberated Muscovites
Russia is about to launch its own version of the hit US television show. Tom Parfitt reports from Moscow. Russian television has cast aside romantic tradition in favour of earthier entertainment: its own version of the hit US television show Sex and the City. 5-26-2004 

Sex workers in search of rehab
It is almost a year since sex market of Variavi bazaar has been closed down. It is said that it was in existence for the past 400 years. As such, any port town would have some floating population. 5-24-2004

Duo facing sex delivery charge
Two Bahraini men have been accused of running a sex delivery service, by taking prostitutes to clients. The jobless men, aged 28 and 38, were arrested after being spotted handing over two Arab expatriate girls to a Saudi client, the Lower Criminal Court heard. 5-24-2004

Jail child rapists for life!
Child rapists and other sex attackers get a second chance, while their victims suffer a life sentence of emotional trauma and social stigma, says a Bahraini activist calling for dramatic changes. 5-22-2004

To Muslims, sex abuse is worst that could happen
In a culture that condemns nudity and homosexuality, Nechman said, the photos of American soldiers — in particular women — in the aggressor role is especially degrading to Muslim men who grew up in a culture where public nudity is strictly forbidden. 5-21-2004

Singapore criticised for not coming out on gays
Near-naked men simulating sex acts can now be found on postcards in strait-laced Singapore but a prominent gay activist says the government's recent liberalisation of homosexuality is a mirage. 5-21-2004

Bill signed into law to end "sex tours"
Any travel agent in Hawaii convicted of offering, booking or selling a "sex tour" faces up to five years in prison under a bill signed into law Wednesday by Lieutenant Governor James "Duke" Aiona. 5-20-2004

Forum on 'science of sex' in China
A forum on the science of sex will be held in this October in Beijing to promote the development of sexology in China. The forum will henceforth be held once a year, starting from this year. The association was established in 1989. 5-20-2004 

South African girls smuggled to East
South African women have been smuggled to the Far East as sex slaves since 2000. This is according to the latest newsletter of the Pretoria office of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), which claims that women are smuggled to Macau. 5-19-2004 

Lawyers launch battle against sex trade
Korean lawyers on Wednesday launched a crusade against brothel owners and other entertainment facilities providing sexual services to their clients in a desperate effort to protect sex trade victims. 5-19-2004

Secret plan to make adult film in India
Indo-French film collaboration is to move from art house movies into unchartered waters now that a secret plan has been drawn up to shoot Emmanuelle in India, it was revealed in Cannes today. 5-18-2004

Sex scandals batter police
Some police officers were found to have engaged in criminal acts such as sexual exploitation and theft at the sacrifice of the very people they were supposed to protect. 5-18-2004

UK Minister 'shocked and surprised' by Asian sex tourism
Foreign Office Minister Derek Fatchett is "shocked and surprised" by the extent of the sex tourism problem in Southeast Asia. He spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live after returning from a fact finding mission there. He spoke of making the message clear that "using children in this way is wholly unacceptable - we will not tolerate and we will do all we can to stop it." 5-17-2004

Pakistan: Rights groups hail president's call to ban honour killings
Rights groups have reacted positively to Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's statement on Saturday in which he called for a law banning honour killings, but urge more action, as opposed to mere rhetoric, to back Musharraf's assertion that the Hudood Ordinances and the blasphemy law need to be scrutinised to prevent any further misuse. 5-17-2004

Virgins shed 'psychological panties'
"Miss A" had a predicament: She was already 31 and still inexperienced in the ways of corporeal love -- a state of affairs she attributed to her disgust with a philandering father and two elder sisters who conducted affairs with their bosses at work. 5-16-2004

Sex and the Asian man
Hamamoto got the names he expected -- celebrities including Brad Pitt. There wasn't an Asian among them, which reinforced what he has long believed: that cliches and stereotypes about Asian men have rendered them sexual after thoughts. 5-14-2004 

Rights group: Human trafficking on the rise in Asia
In Asia, trafficking children to use for cheap labor or in the sex trade is on the rise. Governments are trying to stop human trafficking, but rights groups say their programs are falling far short. 5-14-2004  

A Serious HIV Education Problem Russia
Igor believes there isn't much he can do to safeguard himself from contracting HIV. In any case, he said, there are no guarantees in life. "Of course, everyone should use a condom," he said. But he couldn't quite put his finger on why. "You're just supposed to. I don't really know what for." 5-14-2004 

Local girls wind up in Kampala bars
They were sold a dream of performing in Malaysia. Instead, they landed up at the dance bars in Uganda. The story of five girls from Jogeshwari has exposed an international syndicate running sex rackets across Asia and Africa. 5-14-2004

Sexual exploitation victims file suit against government
Fourteen victims of sexual exploitation on Thursday filed massive compensation suits against the government and brothel owners, demanding a combined 860 million won for forcing them to engage in prostitution and infringing upon their human rights. 5-13-2004

Lovable children of Edo - where have you gone?
Being a Tokyoite doesn't have the same glamorous connotations as being a Parisian or New Yorker, but inside Japan, we've managed to rack up some notoriety. 5-13-2004

Traffickers prey on Tibetan girls, women
Chinese police and local authorities in Tibet near the Nepal border are colluding with local Tibetan and Chinese entrepreneurs in recruiting Tibetan girls and women to work as escorts, barmaids, and prostitutes. 5-13-2004

Australian jailed for child sex in Indonesia found dead in prison cell
An Australian who was jailed for 13 years on Tuesday for paedophile offences has been found dead in his prison cell on Indonesia's Bali island, his lawyer said. 5-12-2004  

Sex work in South Korea
Since prostitution is illegal, there are no official statistics on prostitution. However, according to surveys by civic organisations, there are over 300,000 establishments related to prostitution. 5-11-2004

Actor Lee ordered to pay compensation for sex with minor
Actor Lee Kyong-young, 44, who was previously convicted for having sex with teenage girl, was on Tuesday ordered to pay 50 million won in compensation for mental damages. 5-11-2004

"Sex" Most Expensive Internet Keyword Gov't to Rehabilitate Women Sex Workers
The word "sex" garnered the highest price in an auction of 1,500 keywords used to connect directly to a company’s Website when entered into major search engines, a local Internet domain company said yesterday. 6-25-2004 The Ministry of Gender Equality said yesterday that it will launch a package of programs next month to help both Korean and foreign women who are victims of human trafficking for forced prostitution. 5-13-2004

Site Features

Has your sex partner been tested for AIDS?
It is hard enough to accept the harsh consequences of our own actions. Think about how difficult it is to accept a possible death sentence when it isn’t at all your own doing. Even worse, when it is the fault of the one person you love more than anyone else. 5-10-2004 

China's homosexuals mark small steps toward equal rights
Rager Shen smiled broadly and spoke calmly, seemingly oblivious to how shocking his story was to many in his midst. "I came out to my mother recently," the 21-year-old from Shanghai told an audience of several dozen other Chinese homosexuals, or "tonghzi." 5-9-2004 

Report: Third world sex tourism thriving
Despite new British laws governing so-called sex tourism, the practice continues to flourish, particularly in southeast Asia. Only three people have been convicted since the British government introduced a law in 1997 preventing British citizens from going on child sex tours. 5-7-2004  

Philippine Pro-Lifers Stand By Anti-Condom Policy
Pro-lifers in the Philippines have challenged claims by a leading human rights group that the government is risking an "explosion" of HIV-AIDS by refusing to promote the widespread use of condoms. 5-6-2004

Government courting HIV/AIDS explosion for policy against condoms
A Philippine government ban on using national funds to distribute condoms could result in an explosion of HIV/AIDS cases in this predominantly Roman-Catholic nation, an international human rights watchdog warned yesterday. 5-5-2004  

HIV/AIDS spreads fast in Xinjiang
China's northwestern region of Xinjiang has now become a hot spot for the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus, second only to Yunnan Province near the infamous Golden Triangle drug-producing region. 5-4-2004 

Tajikistan: National conference on human trafficking opens in Dushanbe
A national conference on human trafficking opened in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, on Tuesday, the first of its kind in the mountainous Central Asian state. 5-4-2004 

Stuck with rogue gumshoes
Mrs. A., a Tokyo housewife, had her suspicions. It seemed her husband had been involved in some hanky-panky, and now she was maneuvering for a divorce. First, though, she needed concrete evidence of her husband's infidelity. 5-3-2004

American doctor suspected of child sex abuse arrested in St. Petersburg
Officers of the St. Petersburg and Leningrad region police have detained and handed over to their American counterparts a US citizen, a pediatric doctor by profession, suspected of involvement in the sexual abuse of minors. 4-29-2004

Base problems: US sex tourists in Asia
A 43-year-old anesthesiologist from Gainesville, Georgia was arrested earlier this month by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and charged with traveling to Russia for the purpose of engaging in illegal sexual conduct with a minor. 4-29-2004

Infections Linked to a Lack of Sex Education in Russia
A lack of sex education is the main reason the rate of sexually transmitted infections in Russia is about 100 times higher than in Western Europe, according to a new Swedish-Russian study. 4-28-2004 

Groups host forum to discuss children and women sex trafficking
Vietnamese American activists in Orange County band together hosting community forum to address issues of children and women sex trafficking in Southeast Asia. 4-26-2004

Consuming exotic animals
Furry bear paws lie next to neatly arranged skins of jungle cats, skulls of monkeys and horns of mountain goats. The parts of vanishing species from Southeast Asia's forests are laid out for Chinese buyers seeking sex boosters, cures for cancer and exotic food. 4-26-2004 

Gaijin Kogal - a new phenomenon
So much is being talked about the kogals (or kogyaru) from Japan, that the world is ignoring the emergence of the global phenomenon inspired by Japanese teenage girls. These girls that are spread out all over the world from Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, to Spain to Mexico to the United States are now drawing attention of their parents and friends who do not what these girls are up to. 4-25-2004

China: Vice-Premier must tackle AIDS reform
Chinese Vice-Premier and Minister of Health Wu Yi should do more to address abuses against persons living with HIV/AIDS, Human Rights Watch said today. The Vice-Premier is visiting Washington D.C. this week for meetings on trade and commerce. 4-23-2004 

Russia’s Willing Sex Workers Find Enslavement Abroad
At a recent press conference, Elena Mizulina, the head of the Interdepartmental Workgroup in charge of preparing a bill against human trafficking, was reported to have announced that 92% of all Russian women who go to work abroad wind up as victims, sold into sex slavery. 4-22-2004 

Agent Cindy: Israel's sex spy
This is Agent Cindy, the Mata Hari who seduced Mordechai Vanunu and cost him 18 years of his life after he was drugged, kidnapped, smuggled back to Israel and jailed for espionage.  4-22-2004 

Tajikistan: Human Trafficking A Growing Concern
Central Asia is becoming a major region of origin for human trafficking. Thousands of young women are either abducted or lured away from the country every year and sold into the sex trade. The problem is of particular concern in Tajikistan, which is still struggling to recover from a five-year civil war that has left many people desperate to find economic prospects abroad. 4-22-2004 

Trafficked women return to Mongolia
Two 20 year-old Mongolian women who were victims of human trafficking have arrived home after almost two years in appalling circumstances, according to Onoodor. In October 2002 the girls had asked the help of one of their aunts in getting high-paying work in Japan in nightclubs or massage parlors,Their plans went drastically wrong as they found themselves mired in a life of prostitution. 4-22-2004 

Teacher held over paid underage sex
A 48-year-old teacher at Sapporo Minami High School was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of violating the child prostitution law, Hokkaido police said. The suspect was identified as Akira Matsuda. 4-21-2004

A Jewel in Japan's hi-tech crown: sex dolls
"The other day, we took a drive out to Mount Fuji," reads the letter. "I've enclosed some photos from our trip. As the temperature has been very changeable of late, please take care of yourself." 4-21-2004

World War II sex slaves still suffer from disorder
Most "comfort women," a euphemism for those forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II, still suffer from some kind of psychiatric disorder as a result of their traumatic experiences, a study showed Wednesday. 4-21-2004

Cambodia releases accused pedophile
An Australian accused of having sex with two 14-year-old Cambodian boys has been released from custody by a Phnom Penh court due to a lack of evidence. David Ford, 49, was released earlier this month after being arrested on March 7 and charged with debauchery, the Cambodian charge for child rape. 4-20-2004 

Burma: The Stone Age
Whenever I visit Burma, I have a ritual: I look up a name in the Rangoon telephone book. Every year a new directory is published, but the listing remains "Aung San Suu Kyi, Daw," followed by Rangoon's most famous address "54 University Avenue" and a telephone number. 4-19-2004  

Hong Kong sex-abuse victim may sue ex-priest in Asian first
The sex-abuse victim of a former Catholic priest is considering suing the Church for 11 million Hong Kong dollars (1.4 million dollars) in the first case of its kind in Asia, a local report said on Monday. 4-19-2004 

Ishihara does about-face on smut, orders crackdown on magazines
By early summer, many magazines and comics displayed in Tokyo bookshops and convenience stores will peer out from beneath sheaths of transparent plastic. This will be one of the more visible results of a recently revised ordinance aimed at controlling sales of "unwholesome materials." 4-18-2004

Soliciting for oldest trade with Shibuya-style spin
Announcements at a JR Shibuya Station exit warn people to be on guard for strangers approaching them, and police outside are on constant watch to ensure pedestrians aren't accosted. 4-17-2004  

Officials target trafficking of women
Government officials held their first meeting Monday to reinforce cooperation to prevent cases of women from abroad being trafficked into Japan and forced to work in the sex industry. 4-16-2004

It's no sex and the single woman
Kyoko Ikegami is a vivacious 27-year-old who has been single for three and a half years. Is she sad and lonely, yearning to meet Mr. Right? Not at all, she says. 4-13-2004

Sex workers assert their rights
Times are changing in India. Many sex workers, instead of accepting the status quo, are now determined to transform negative social attitudes prevailing against their trade - often the only option available to poor, unskilled women in a capitalist and patriarchal society. 4-12-2004

Women who are single and proud of it
Loosely fit over the ''Sex and the City'' outfit, local cable network On Style's ''Singles in Seoul'' follows the everyday life of four single, successful career women as they talk about work, dating, and the difficulties they face as women in South Korean society. 4-11-2004

Muslim women talk sex
Never mind the question - Mohja Kahf and Asra Q. Nomani are the American Muslim world's answer to "Sex and the City." And if they're hoping to shock, they just might get their wish.Today, in the online magazine muslimwakeup.com, the Syrian-born Kahf, a literature professor at the University of Arkansas, launches the mag's first Islamic sex column, "Sex & the Umma." 4-9-2004 

Religion and sex a disturbing combination in `Samaria'
Pom Yorum Kaul Kyoul Kurigo Pom (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring)," which looked at the cycle of suffering from a perspective of a Buddhist monk, Kim layers "Samaria," his new film about teenage prostitution, with variations on Catholic concepts of sin and guilt. 4-7-2004

AIDS pulls up at the crossroads of Asia
A historic trading outpost, Muang Xai, as the locals call this town, has long been at a crossroads of regional commerce. Now, as it is being transformed into a 21st-century transportation hub, the character of its trade is being transformed as well - not always for the better. 4-7-2002

Working toward pleasure
Ask 30-year-old Miho why she dated a foreigner, a Canadian in his late 30s, and she reels off a list of compelling reasons. "Foreign men have the kind of sensitive heart that you don't find with Japanese guys," she says. "When women are speaking, they listen intently. After I confided this to him, we started going out." 4-4-2004

Russian sex slaves in Bangkok
The girl looked exhausted. Her life was just starting, everything was still ahead. "Olya, where have you been all this time?!" Several months ago, her parents went to the police to report their missing daughter. Their 16-year-old Olya left home and never came back. 3-30-2004 

NPA claims 83 women trafficked in for sex in 2003
The National Police Agency claimed Thursday that 83 women were trafficked into Japan and forced to work in the sex industry in 2003, up 28 from the previous year. By nationality, the largest number came from Colombia, at 43, followed by Thailand, with 21 and Taiwan, at 12. 3-26-2004

'Radical sex education' raises problems
"Mom, do we have any condoms in the house? I need some for a school project. Oh, and by the way, how many times a week do you and dad have sex?" The mother was speechless. Who can blame her? 3-25-2004

NHK off hook for sex-slave trial editing
A TV production company was handed a court order Wednesday to pay 1 million yen in damages to a Tokyo-based citizens' group for misleading its members about the content of a program on the "comfort women" issue. 3-25-2004

Cambodia: Sex workers reject HIV drug trials
For some of the sex workers the problem is encapsulated in a comment by one of their number: "Without life insurance, please take the drug back for trial in America." The drug can apparently cause liver failure. I wonder if the story would have received coverege in the US without the name Bill Gates popping up? 3-24-2004 

Israel's sex trade
If you want to talk to Nomi Levenkron, be prepared to endanger her life. More than likely she'll be on the road when you call, pressing her cell phone to her ear as she speeds towards a women's lock-up in Haifa, or to a Knesset hearing in Jerusalem, or to the trial of a sex trafficker in Eilat. She'll tell you she's happy to talk but is in a rush. Could you call again in a few hours? 3-16-2004

Japanese erotica exposed
Japanese shunga - erotic paintings and prints, some of the world's most beautiful - remain indigenously unknown. Though there has recently been some reproductions in Japan allowed, the original works are almost never displayed. 3-14-2004

Sex workers need labor protection
The issue of prostitution is generally swept under the carpet. Yet this is a growing business already worth billions of dollars and exists to some degree in all nations. 3-7-2004

'Sex Slaves' conference to be held in May
An international conference of comfort women who were forced into sex slavery by the Japanese army during World War II will be held in Seoul in May, the South Korean branch office of an international coalition for comfort women said on Sunday. 2-29-2004

Gay Iranian recognized by UNHCR loses bid for refugee status
The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit filed by a 40-year-old Iranian seeking recognition as a refugee on the grounds he would be punished due to his homosexuality under Iran's Islamic penal law. 2-26-2004

Money can't buy me love
The ad was bait, and Takeshi was angling to catch one of the thousands of young women engaged in what the magazine calls "date sales schemes." These involve high-pressure attempts to flog various types of products. The people doing the fleecing target members of the opposite sex, and they hook their victims under the guise of romance. 2-22-2004 

Tokyo used-panty trade faces ban
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has prepared a bill to ban trade in schoolgirls' used underwear. The bill seeks to punish violators with fines of up to 500,000 yen. It would be the nation's first local government ordinance to include such provisions. 2-21-2004 

Burma confronts taboo, educates villagers about HIV prevention
In late afternoon, the Love Boat docked at this small delta village, bringing the promise of adventure and romance. Yet the bright green, 90-foot ship was not on a frivolous voyage. Instead, the Love Boat sought to educate villagers about the lethal disease that is sweeping their country of 42 million people. 2-19-2004

Porn for women looks to be on the rise
The conjugal bedroom was often a bleak place for Japanese women. Their status as sexual auxiliaries was cramping and unfulfilling. How far has their universe expanded? Very far indeed - from erotic "ladies' comics" to "delivery health" services aimed at female customers. 2-18-2004 

The politics of sex: How a government stays on top
Philosopher Michael Foucault has written that sexuality is the most useful tool in any power relationship. It is adaptable to the greatest number of maneuvers and is capable of serving as support for the most varied strategies. As such it has long been used by most governments in their efforts to stay on top. 2-15-2004 

Sex workers in Hong Kong speak
There are different kinds of service, the first is where you sit and talk only. The second is called triple service, where the guest can touch your body only. The double or triple service refers not to the length of time, but the amount of money the guest pays. The third service is called garden hour. You can have sex right in the place. 2-2-2004 

Japan: pink heaven for traffickers
How many of the 700,000 to 4 million global victims of human trafficking a year (according to a 2002 U.S. State Department survey) end up in Japan? Given the secretive nature of the trade, nobody knows for sure. 2-1-2004

Sex work in China
Because sex workers are despised and have no legal protection as workers, they face many difficulties, including violence from clients, the police and pimps, and institutionalised state discrimination manifesting itself in police harassment and difficulties in obtaining medical treatment. 1-29-2004 

US will collaborate with Russia in fight against human trafficking
US Secretary of State Colin Powell has proposed that Russia and the US collaborate in the fight against human trafficking. As a Rosbalt correspondent reports, Mr Powell made this announcement today at the opening of the first Russian Assembly of non-governmental organizations against human trafficking. 1-24-2004 

Boys Will Be Girls
The success of last year's smash hit movie Iron Ladies—about a volleyball team comprised of transsexuals—seemed to say to the world that Thailand embraces all. In reality, the film's success owed more to a good storyline than to societal understanding. Although they're not exactly ostracized, transsexuals live on the fringes of Thai society and struggle to be accepted as women. 1-13-2004

Singapore may ease gay sex ban
Singapore is moving quietly to reform its draconian laws that made it one of the most repressive states in Asia. Among the changes being considered is an easing of laws that prohibit gay sex. 1-7-2004

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