South Asian sex trade 'booming'
Slavery is booming in South Asia, with hundreds of thousands of women and children being trafficked and sold or forced into the sex trade or domestic service each year, Unicef warned yesterday. 9-30-2004

Miss Asia candidates from China
Okay so this isn't necessarily sex news we know, but the candidates sure are sexy so we thought we would include this piece introducing the Miss Asia contestants from China. 9-30-2004

The US is still supporting slavery
Near the back of one of my Navy cruise books—roughly analogous to a high school annual—is a photograph of a girl no older than 15 years old. Index finger on lower lip, she's scantily clad and posing provocatively. She's a Thai prostitute. 9-29-2004

The US military and the growth of prostitution in Southeast Asia
The growth of prostitution in Southeast Asia received considerable attention from journalists, human rights activists, feminists, political commentators, and Pope John Paul II. While the bulk of this attention focused on contemporary events and concerns the U.S. military’s historic role in laying the foundation for the Asian sex industry was frequently noted. 9-29-2004

Man goes for haircut, gets 'porn' treatment
Mazhar Hussain Shaikh Abdul Habib Shaikh, a 35-year-old salesman went for a haircut to a beauty salon on Sunday evening, but had a hair-raising experience instead. 9-29-2004

Say 'no' to child sex, UNICEF tells South Asian men
Better enforcement against child traffickers and more cross border cooperation by Governments in South Asia is being called for by the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF. 9-29-2004

China paternity tests rise with casual sex
Paternity tests are becoming increasingly common in China along with casual sex as suspicious husbands check on their wives' fidelity, a news agency says. 9-28-2004

Beheading videos replace porn as favorites in Baghdad
In an outdoor food market under the fierce midday sun, a crowd of men and boys were watching video footage of a truck bomber seated behind the steering wheel, smiling and murmuring his last words before crashing into U.S. military vehicles on an overpass. 9-28-2004

Bush on human trafficking
Since the release in June of the U.S. State Department’s 2004 Trafficking in Persons Report, four countries cited for not meeting minimum standards have made steps to combat trafficking in recent months.. 9-28-2004

Love is in the air; Lifting the taboo on love
Determined to get the jump on teenage hormones, educators in Shanghai have unveiled a textbook that features a chapter on the nature of romantic love - a topic that has long been taboo in the country's socially conservative educational system. 9-27-2004

Thai Teens embrace pre-marital sex
Thai teenagers’ chaste reputation has gone out of the window with more than half of Bangkok youths believing that pre-marital sex is no longer taboo, poll results showed. 9-27-2004

Erotic Asia 
The West has long been fascinated with Eastern sexuality. Throughout its encounters, it has struggled with these passions, from indulging them in secrecy and condemning them in public to embracing them openly. 9-27-2004

Duke feminist gives thumbs up to Taliban
Afghanistan’s Taliban was one of the most oppressive regimes in the world, and doubly so when it came to women’s rights. For years, various activists expressed concern about the situation of Afghan women and supported the efforts of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan. 9-27-2004

Ishihara opposed to outlawing child sex 
Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara has voiced his opposition to suggestions made in a metropolitan government panel that children below junior high school age be banned from having sex. 9-27-2004

Pair busted for forcing girl into prostitution 
Two jobless men who forced a 16-year-old girl to work as a prostitute to repay debts she had incurred have been arrested, police said. 9-27-2004

Sex trade under fire in Taj Mahal city
As this city prepares to mark the 350th anniversary of the Taj Mahal, the world famous monument to love, women’s groups are fighting to end something else Agra is becoming famous for: prostitution. 9-27-2004

Import company brings bizarre Japanese products to US 
Japanese porn is a big seller but the product that gets the biggest rise out of Americans is "Black Caffeine Gum," which is popular with computer programmers working long hours. 9-27-2004

Prostitution racket busted; 5 call girls, 4 pimps arrested
A prostitution racket being run in the garb of a massage parlour was unearthed in a South Delhi area with the arrest of five alleged call girls and four men accused of being their pimps in three different raids, police said today. 9-27-2004

US troops mixed on anti-prostitution proposal 
Reaction of troops throughout Japan was mixed regarding the Defense Department’s proposal to make it a court-martial offense to solicit or otherwise use the services of a prostitute, even in countries where the world’s oldest profession is either legal or largely winked at by the local authorities. 9-27-2004

China tries, with limited success, to halt online porn
Authorities have given China's Internet and telecommunications operators, regulators and police a deadline: Clear the country of online smut before Oct. 1, the National Day holiday marking the birth of the People's Republic. 9-27-2004

Sex traders protest police crackdown
Representatives of red-light districts around the country said Friday they will continue to hold rallies to demand police stop their campaign against the sex trade, which was launched Thursday as a new special anti-prostitution law took effect. 9-24-2004

Story of crackdowns and disappearing prostitution
11:40 p.m. Prostitution town in Cheongryang-ri, Seoul. Among the shops lined up at both sides of the alley, half of them have not turned on their lights. Even the shops with lights on have locked their doors. The prostitutes have disappeared. 9-24-2004

Troops support, wonder about effectiveness of anti-prostitution rules
U.S. servicemembers in South Korea largely support newly proposed rules to make pandering illegal under military law but also wonder about the effectiveness of military and government efforts to combat the sex trade and human trafficking overseas. 9-24-2004

Teachers urged to report sexual blackmail
Deputy Prime Minister Vishanu Krua-ngam yesterday urged teachers to complain to police if their superiors coerced them into having sex with the threat of being laid off under the government's third step to reforming bureaucracy. 9-24-2004

Human trafficking: UK points to Pakistani officials
British High Commissioner to Pakistan Mark Lyall Grant said on Thursday that his government had told the Pakistani government about officials involved in human trafficking. 9-24-2004

Chest challenged chicks ring in bigger breasts 
Some of the silly tunes Japanese pay to download to use as the ring tone for their mobile phones sure have their knockers, but it's for precisely that reason that a well-known counselor is raking it in at the moment, according to Shukan Gendai. 9-23-2004

Soapy gal's golden chair makes for a slippery ride 
Anyone who rides commuter trains in Japan is likely to be familiar with the term "Silver Seat," which is, of course the term given to priority seats set aside for the elderly, the handicapped, expectant mothers and the like. But Japan also has another type of seating referred to as a "gold chair." 9-23-2004

S. Korea in new anti-prostitution drive
South Korea's usually bustling brothel districts have fallen silent after police enforced stringent new anti-prostitution laws against human traffickers, pimps and even clients. 9-23-2004

Fighting prostitution is a battle
There are big hopes for the new anti-prostitution laws that will go into effect today, which will punish not only prostitutes' customers, but their pimps as well. 9-23-2004

USFK to combat prostitution near bases
With a special law on the sex industry set to take effect Wednesday, the United States Forces Korea (USFK) has begun actively eliminating prostitution near its bases, according to the U.S. military newspaper Tuesday. 9-22-2004

Malaysia’s long, hard sodomy battle
Gay sex between men remains illegal and can be harshly punished in this predominantly Muslim nation, but one victory was achieved this month: The sodomy conviction of former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim was overturned, and he was released from prison after six years. 9-22-2004

Sessions in colleges against prostitution
More and more women in Delhi are taking to prostitution as a profession, a study conducted by the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) and other women's organisations have found. So, to buck the trend a series of awareness sessions have been lined up in a few colleges of the Delhi University and also in schools. 9-22-2004

US troops may be tried for using prostitutes
U.S. troops stationed overseas could face a court martial for patronizing prostitutes under a new regulation drafted by the Pentagon. 9-22-2004

Horror and porn rub shoulders in Baghdad
Hostage throat-slitting and pornography rub shoulders in the stalls of the infamous "thieves market" in the heart of Baghdad. Television sets rigged to sound systems broadcast the sights and sounds of tortured hostages, belly dancers and pornographic movie stars in the open-air stalls of Bab al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad. 9-21-2004

Symposium: Why the mullahs murdered Atefeh Rajabi
Tehran’s despots recently hanged a 16-year-old girl. What is it in the Arab-Islamic culture that breeds the demonization and dehumanization of the female? To discuss this issue with us , we have assembled a distinguished panel. 9-21-2004

Confessions of an elephant polo groupie
The cheerleader has a light beard and waves pink Mylar pom-pons. He screams at a transsexual who's whacking a black-and-orange polo ball with a 6-foot wooden mallet. A British industrialist blocks the shot. Their mounts—Asian elephants—bellow and bray as they are urged down the field.. 9-21-2004

Tokyo official wants youth sex law 
Parents in Tokyo would be legally responsible for keeping school-aged children from having sex if the city's top law and order official gets his way. 9-21-2004

Chinese couple fined $94,000 for one-child rule lapse
A court in China's southern boomtown of Shenzhen has fined a couple 780,000 yuan ($94,250) and sealed off their house for having more than one child, the Beijing Morning Post said Monday. 9-21-2004

The art of love is an open book
A sex school is being set up in Calcutta to teach Indian couples the secrets of the Kama Sutra. The school describes itself as a "multi-faceted lifestyle provider" that will provide sex education, counselling and therapy. 9-21-2004

Pakistan and Inda: A haven for girl traffickers
More than 20,000 women from Bengal are smuggled to north Indian states, Pakistan and West Asia annually. The districts on top of the trafficking chart are Murshidabad, the 24-Parganas, the two Midnapores, Birbhum, Hooghly, Burdwan, Nadia and the two Dinajpurs. 9-21-2004

Court convicts top papers for publishing prostitution ads
The Tel Aviv Magistrates Court last week convicted senior employees of the Yediot Ahronot and Maariv daily newspapers and employees of the Shocken news association, owner of Haaretz daily, for illegally publishing prostitution-soliciting ads in their newspapers. 9-20-2004

Internet cafes shut in Vietnam for porn, politics
Authorities in southern Vietnam have shut down 65 Internet cafes and kiosks after finding hundreds of addresses of pornographic and anti-government Web sites on their computers, a newspaper reported on Friday. 9-20-2004

Yamagata University academic quits over sexual harassment of student 
A 60-something Yamagata University professor has resigned after being suspended for sexually harassing one of his female students, college officials said. 9-20-2004

Three arrested in prostitution racket
Prostitution kingpin Kamaljit, reportedly the biggest pimp in Delhi, is back in action, police say. The Delhi Police Crime Branch arrested two associates of Kamaljit and an alleged prostitute, from the parking of a hotel in Central Delhi on Thursday. 9-20-2004

What time is it? It's time to stop
Back from Singapore, I asked my Singaporean friends in New York how the Tiger Beer-sponsored chilli crab fiesta in Brooklyn went. Their responses were consistent: First, it was a crowd-puller which caused stirrings of national pride; second, the crabs were great 'but not enough, leh! 9-20-2004

4 Negros women held by prostitution ring
Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philippines - Four Negrense women who were forced into prostitution were being held by a syndicate in Sabah, Malaysia, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) said Friday. 9-20-2004

The price of sex
Trafficked across the borders of the former Soviet bloc, the forgotten girls and women of Victor Malarek's new book are known in the sex trade as Natashas. For those who have observed the astronomical growth of the global sex trade in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe over the past 15 years, the shock of Victor Malarek's "The Natashas" is unfortunately all too familiar. 9-17-2004

Thai women jailed for prostitution
Two Thai women were brought to the Bandar Seri Begawan Magistrate's Court yesterday to face a charge of soliciting a male person for prostitution. 9-17-2004

Naked ambition: Asian co-ed makes the grade
You've heard that story before, the one about the average girl next door - a cheerleader, or perhaps a Catholic schoolgirl who grows up with dreams of appearing in Playboy, and ends up shedding her clothes to help pay the tuition bills. 9-16-2004

Fiery foxes spend summer banging on the sly 
"In summer, there's so much skin showing," sighs a 22-year-old department store employee, one of 300 OLs who responded to the magazine's poll. "Feelings are more open. Sex just happens." 9-16-2004

Sex starts early in India now
Adolescents in India are having sex more often and at a younger age. Rape is also common in this age group. These findings are part of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare's India Country Report on Population and Development. 9-16-2004

Dutchman jailed in Vietnam for selling porn
A Dutchman of Taiwanese origin has been jailed in Vietnam for three years for producing and trading pornographic videos. A court in Ho Chi Minh City jailed the 45-year-old man on Tuesday for "spreading depraved culture", Dutch news agency nu.nl reported. 9-16-2004

Envoy vows to help woman forced into prostitution
Egyptian Ambassador Dr Azmi Khalifa pledged yesterday to help a woman, who was injured while trying to escape from captors she says were trying to force her into prostitution. 9-16-2004

Cops' bad miss over sex shop shocks young Miss 
Red-faced police have apologized to a young woman here after her parents received notification from a family court that she faces obscenity charges following a sex shop raid only for investigators to later discover the schoolgirl apprehended had stolen the woman's identity, Osaka Prefectural Police said. 9-15-2004

Nude Viki Knafo enrages single mothers, confuses social activists
Viki Knafo's decision to pose nude for an Israeli porn site shocked and confused individuals and social activists who had joined her struggle for single mothers last summer. 9-15-2004

What men want: Straight, stereotypical sex
Most Indian men, keeping alive old stereotypes, have sex only at night in their bedrooms and believe having sex with their wives is their marital right, a survey has revealed. 9-15-2004

Korean arrested for prostitution
Police arrested a Korean for operating a massage parlor in Salinas Drive in barangay Lahug that allegedly served as a front for prostitution. Bong Sil Chang, also known as Peter, refused to issue a statement regarding his alleged violation of the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act. 9-15-2004

Human trafficking can't be solved by Burma junta says expert
Burma's military junta, State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) plans to open anti-human trafficking liaison offices in three border key towns in a bid to crack down on the regional scourge, according to its propaganda news. 9-15-2004

Osaka commuters call it splits to guard gals from gropers 
"Oh, this is truly embarrassing. Osaka has become the laughing stock of the country yet again," a disgusted OL from Suita, a suburb of Osaka, moans to Shukan Jitsuwa. 9-14-2004

Receiving sexual entertainment may bring disgrace
According to the new law, anyone who sets foot into an unlicensed prostitute quarters will have a series of disgraces brought upon them. 9-14-2004

Godhra accused denied 'sex bail'
A special court has refused bail to a man charged for the train torching that triggered riots in Gujarat two years ago. He had applied for bail so that he could go home to have sex with his wife. 9-14-2004

Early Russian sexual traditions
Russia has rich history of sexual traditions. Unfortunately, we documented our history worse than the peoples of the East. The ancient Indian Kama-Sutra manuscript on sex has been preserved until nowadays, while we have to restore information on our sexual history with the help of the chronicles of foreign people who visited Russia in ancient times. 9-14-2004

Double standards on sexual humiliation
The Muslim world often views the western woman as nothing more than a sex object. The western world thinks of the Muslim man as the oppressor of women. And here in this one picture, we have the western woman depicted as the oppressor of the Muslim man. 9-14-2004

Sexual prejudices in mass media
Influenced by traditional social norm, China's media is still accustomed to treating women's images and the discussion of them from a men-dominating view. Audiences should remain highly sensitive toward the many phenomena in the media of inequality between the sexes. 9-14-2004

Philippines: Fight vs. porn now includes text
Anti-pornography crusader Rene Bullecer of the Cebu Anti-Indecency Board said they are proposing that the ordinance on anti-pornography be amended to include short messaging service or text messages, Internet cafés and billboards. 9-14-2004

Indian girl given hormones for sex trade
Indian police have rescued a 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped five years ago when she was just seven and fed hormones to prepare her for prostitution, a newspaper has reported. 9-14-2004

Whore stories to make even a geisha blush 
If sex workers could write -- and maybe some of them can -- their memoirs would be worth studying. Some of the deepest secrets of our species unfold on their doorstep. They are twice blessed, enriched not only by their own experiences but by those of their talkative and confiding clients, many of whom lead remarkably varied lives. 9-13-2004

Sexual identity sufferer allowed to register as man 
Masae Torai, a writer who announced having a sexual identity disorder, was granted a request to be officially recognized as a male at a Tokyo Family Court ruling on Friday. 9-13-2004

Iranian pair raped and killed 22 children
Iranian police have arrested two men suspected of raping and savagely killing up to 22 children, and then disguising the smell of their rotting bodies by leaving a dead cat or dog near their makeshift graves, AFP reported. 9-13-2004

Myanmar strengthens fight against cross-border human trafficking
Myanmar will set up anti-trafficking liaison offices in three of its border towns to strengthen the fight against transnational human trafficking crimes, a local news journal reported Monday. 9-13-2004

Indian girls lured to Dubai for prostitution
A flourishing network of agents and pimps are allegedly luring Indian girls to Dubai for prostitution after promising them jobs as housemaids. Two such girls, one from Andhra Pradesh and another from Kerala, who have been rescued, are waiting for travel documents to be sent back home. 9-13-2004

Nude photographer arrested for robbing student 
Police sent the man, Kojiro Nakajima, 28, to public prosecutors accusing him of robbery resulting in injury following the incident, which took place at a hotel in Tokyo's Shibuya district. 9-13-2004

US sanctions against three countries over human trafficking
The United States has imposed sanctions against Burma, Cuba and North Korea for their failure to curb human trafficking and exempted four countries, including Bangladesh, in view of the steps they took to deal with the menace. 9-13-2004

Sikh community has lowest sex ratio: Census report
The Sikh community has the lowest sex ratio of 893 females per 1000 males, well below the national average of 933. This is revealed in the census figures of 2001 based on religion released recently. 9-13-2004

Sex Volunteer Corps kindly share expertise with desperate virgins 
Japan's infamous Sex Volunteer Corps is being swamped with frantic calls for its dispatch from growing numbers of desperate 30-something virgins, according to Asahi Geino. 9-10-2004

Getting a shot off with Japan's 'most beautiful Olympian' 
Japan sent a record 171 women athletes to the recently concluded Athens Olympic Games. Each of the female competitors was young, fabulously fit and many of them were gorgeous, but none approached the beauty of shooter Yukari Konishi, according to Shukan Shincho. 9-9-2004

Internet prods Asia to open up
As the Internet sweeps across Asia, it is bringing with it a strong challenge to the region's authoritarian governments: a freer exchange of information and ideas. Nowhere more so than in China, where the government has mounted a huge effort to filter Internet content. 9-9-2004

Drag queen extravaganza puts bums in seats 
Enormously successful cross-dresser concerts held at three-star hotels in country areas across Japan is proving that entertainment in the sticks doesn't necessarily have to be a, well, drag, according to Shukan Shincho. 9-9-2004

Chinese women line up to test new sex medicine
Chinese women, mostly working, are lining up at a local hospital in Beijing to test a new medicine, which may help them achieve orgasm, signalling the traditionally conservative country's changing attitude to sex. 9-8-2004

Gov't to dispatch sex slave fact-finding teams 
Spurred into action by a U.S. State Department report that listed Japan as an influential part of the sex slave trade, the government has decided to send out fact-finding teams to come up with ideas to combat white slavery, government officials said. 9-8-2004

Korea must counter foreign reports on child prostitution
South Korea should conduct comprehensive research on the present condition of child prostitution in the nation in order to prevent distorted or exaggerated foreign reports on the problem, a visiting Dutch legal expert on human trafficking said. 9-8-2004

Thai woman jailed for prostitution
A Thai woman has been jailed for a year, to be followed by immediate deportation, after being convicted of prostitution. The 41-year-old woman denied the charge, telling police that she only offered a massage service to hotel guests in their rooms. 9-8-2004

Jagat Cinema employees arrested for screening porn
Delhi Police’s Special Cell has arrested three people, including the manager of Jagat Cinema in Jama Masjid, on charges of violating the Cinematography Act. 9-8-2004

Let's talk about sex, say Chinese teachers
Chinese schools are taking steps to break taboos on sex education with a new textbook for teenagers dealing with issues like masturbation, homosexuality and contraception, state press reported on Tuesday. 9-7-2004

Japan to probe human trafficking in Philippines, Thailand 
The Japanese government will send a fact-finding team on human trafficking to Thailand and the Philippines, Kyodo news said Wednesday. The report quoted Japan's foreign ministry officials as saying that the teams will be sent to the two Southeast Asian countries because most victims of human trafficking come from there. 9-7-2004

Israeli film shows sex slaves' hell
It is called "Promised Land", but Israeli director Amos Gitai's highly realistic new film depicts Eastern Europeans' brutal journey into sex slavery. Largely shot with handheld cameras giving it a documentary feel, the movie which premiered on Tuesday at the Venice Film Festival follows a group of women who are smuggled across the Sinai Desert into Egypt and eventually Israel. 9-7-2004

Inquiry ordered into sexual abuse of children
A day after police announced setting up of a child and women protection unit, Goa's Director General of Police (DGP) Amod Kanth on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into the alleged sexual abuse of four children while in custody by the policemen. 9-7-2004

Bad news for children in Cambodia
While foreign pedophiles cruising war-ravaged Cambodia spark international outrage, a rise in reported child rapes committed by local men hints at a larger crisis scarring Cambodia's youth, activists say. 9-7-2004

Commercial sex attracting children
An increasing number of Thai teenagers, mostly students, are indulging in commercial sex, lured by the money it offers for a luxurious lifestyle. The children, some as young as 12, enter the flesh trade driven by a craving for the latest gadgets and brand products. 9-6-2004

Taiwan: DOH urged to scrap 'faulty' safe sex Web site
Some women rights activists yesterday demanded that the Department of Health (DOH) scrap an official Web site designed to promote safe sex among the young, but the department refused. 9-6-2004

Lack of protest, punishment encouraging child sex tourism: NHRC
Child sex tourism in India has assumed "serious dimensions" because of lack of open protest by citizens and slender chances that the abusers will be caught or punished, according to an NHRC report. 9-6-2004

Premarital sex: Is abstinence the best policy?
About two years ago, seven college girls in Chengdu of Southwest China's Sichuan Province signed a "purity pledge" and established an "alliance for flawless youth" for the purpose of opposing premarital sex. 9-6-2004

Porn publishers may get up to life imprisonment in China
People found guilty of producing and distributing pornography in China through the internet, mobile phones and other electronic means may get up to life imprisonment under a new legal interpretation, which came into effect today, the state media reported. 9-6-2004

Some MPs allegedly involved in human trafficking business
A gruesome scandal of human smuggling had been divulged in which Members of Parliament and other government officials were reportedly involved directly. It has been revealed that Vice Nazim of Gujar Khan Union Council No.1 Shahid alias Shahid Suniara, his accomplices and a large gang for the last twenty years had been involved in this heinous business. 9-6-2004

Iran hardliners demand clampdown on women's dress
About 500 hardline vigilantes have taken to the streets of Tehran, demanding authorities crack down on women who wear colourful headscarves and figure-hugging coats which they denounce as "prostitution". 9-5-2004

Adult Profile: Aiko Tanaka 
Aiko Tanaka has emerged as an international adult model in recent years. Her pictures grace the covers of magazines throughout the world. Asian Sex Gazette had an opportunity to profile the Asian model, in her own words with this interview. 9-3-2004

Profits of panda porn: Proliferation
Sex education videos, or pornography for panda bears, is being credited with a panda becoming pregnant and giving birth to healthy twins, the BBC reported Thursday. 9-3-2004

Cases of forced prostitution are 'very rare'
These women are not offenders, but if they solicit for sex in public, they will be prosecuted, says Ho Peng Kee. Women brought here and forced to be prostitutes will not be prosecuted. Neither will foreign women who come here to earn money as prostitutes. 9-3-2004

Bangkok students urged: No sex on buses
Young passengers on Bangkok city buses are being asked not to have sex during the commute. The plea comes from the city's transport officials, who posted notices on some of the buses yesterday. 9-2-2004

Kisaeng it all bood-bye?
Many Koreans believe that prostitution was completely alien to the Korean tradition until the early 1900s, when it was first introduced by those naughty Japanese. However, the North Korean experience should make us skeptical about this idea. 9-2-2004

Seoul urges Tokyo not to distort history in textbooks
South Korea’s top diplomat on Wednesday criticized Japan for repeated attempts to distort history in its textbooks, affirming there cannot be dual truths in historical facts. 9-2-2004

China continues war on electronic pornography
From the walled compounds where China's Communist leadership runs the country has come the word: no more porn. No more nudity on the Internet. No more late-night erotica on the phone. Goodbye to racy text messages on the mobile. 9-2-2004

Sex in city, for less than Rs 20
Sex sells. And Chandigarh is no exception. A first-of-its-kind mapping study to identify high-risk behaviour populations in relation to HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases in the city estimates that there are some 3,224 commercial sex workers (CSW) operating here. 9-2-2004

Adult Profile: Francine Dee
The first well known pictures of Francine Dee (aka Djhoanna Dee, Holly, Chase, Joy), were taken about 8 years ago - possibly still in highschool. She made the cover of Oriental Dolls and quickly became the buzz in the school halls. At that time, Francine already had her breasts enhanced and was sporting blonde hair. 9-1-2004

Sex and the citystate: Singapore urges baby boom
Urging couples to lie back and think of Singapore is a new brief for Wong Kan Seng, the Home Affairs Minister. He has been put in charge of increasing the island's population and has been dubbed the Baby Tsar. 9-1-2004

China Barbie launches official website
Adult star China Barbie has unveiled her official website, ChinaBarbie.com.  The site’s debut comes after a brief sabbatical for Barbie from the adult industry. “I had taken a break from the mainstream adult film industry, but [was] still working in and out in different areas of the industry." 9-1-2004

Police seek suspects in local porn film
Police in the West Java capital of Bandung are searching for the makers and stars of a pornographic film called Iulan Madu (Honeymoon) that was apparently filmed in a hotel in the city. 9-1-2004

China offers parents cash for girls
China is offering to pay couples a premium for producing baby girls to counter an alarming gender imbalance created by the country's one-child population control policy. Last year, 117 boys were born for every 100 girls in China, compared with a global average of 105 to 100." 9-1-2004

Commercial sexual exploitation of children and women
Including other South Asian nations, Nepal and India have given a bad account as far as trafficking of humans for sexual purposes and the commercial sexual exploitation of children and women are concerned. 9-1-2004

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