Porn and software seized in New Delhi
The fact that Delhi has become a hotbed of pirated software has only been authenticated with the seizure of pornographic CDs, VCDs and DVDs worth more than Rs 3.5 crore in the last few days. 10-29-2004

Models charged for appearing 'nude'
A Mumbai court on Thursday framed charges against models Madhu Sapre and Milind Soman in a case dating back to 1996 in which the duo had been charged with obscenity for appearing 'nude' in an advertisment. 10-29-2004

GMS ministers meeting on combating human trafficking opens in Myanmar
A one-day six-nation Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) ministers meeting was opened here Friday to coordinate an initiative against transnational human trafficking. 10-29-2004

KMA says anti-prostitution law violates men's rights
A men’s organization has decided to hand in a petition that calls for repealing the anti-prostitution law, to the National Human Rights Commission. The Korea Men’s Association (KMA), an organization aiming for the protection of men’s rights and the abolition of sexual discrimination against men, has decided to submit a petition to the human rights commission on Nov. 1. 10-28-2004

Indian pornstars get on top
'Be Indian, Buy Indian' when it comes to porn. A newfound lust for the dark-skinned woman is fuelling a demand for desi pornstars not only within the country, but also abroad. 10-28-2004

Global sex survey launched in China
A survey, called Men's Attitudes on Life Events and Sexuality, focusing on erectile dysfunction or ED, will be launched in China next month. 10-28-2004

Pornography meets geography in nationwide sex survey
"From 1996, I began conducting surveys of the sex activities of ordinary women, office workers, housewives and so on, via my home page on the Internet. Through this, I thought I could get a more specific feeling of how the climate and customs in different parts of Japan would have an affect on female sexuality. That led to my establishment of the 'Sexual Feeling Research Institute.'' 10-28-2004

Raising adolescent's knowledge of AIDS, STDs
Fourteen year-old school student Nasim, son a conservative mother, knows about healthcare and fatal diseases like AIDS and other STDs. 10-28-2004

Mekong nations agree to beat human trafficking
Senior officials from the Greater Mekong Sub-region yesterday agreed to a historic deal aimed at ending human trafficking in the six-nation grouping. 10-28-2004

Police bust child pornography, cyber sex ring in Philippines
Police busted a child pornography and cyber sex ring with the arrest of three alleged members in Angeles City, Pampanga province, Director General Edgar Aglipay announced Thursday. 10-28-2004

Vietnam official on rape charge
A Vietnamese former deputy sports minister has gone on trial for allegedly raping a young girl. Luong Quoc Dung attacked the 13-year-old girl because he thought sex with a virgin would bring an end to a run of bad luck, it has been claimed. 10-28-2004

American expelled for sexual harassment on Mindoro governor
An American male was expelled from the Philippines immediately upon arrival here after a Filipina provincial governor accused him of sexually harassing her on the plane, airport officials said on Wednesday. 10-27-2004

Sensual satori in a floating world
"Hot" is how the Japanese describe their neighbors in South Korea. For many of us, Korea and its people symbolize a feverishness and color foreign to the bland Japanese sensibility. Compared to Koreans, the recent "Kanryuu (Korean Wave)" has only enhanced our conviction that we're listless and boring, prisoners of our own ennui. 10-27-2004

UNICEF calls for action to stop trafficking of Laotian children
Children - often girls forced into prostitution - are being trafficked throughout Laos and across its borders, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said today, calling for urgent measures in response. 10-27-2004

Lonely female US soldiers in Iraq feature on porn website
The Pentagon has reportedly launched investigations into nude photos of three female GIs in Iraq being displayed on a porn website. 10-27-2004

Just (don't) do it: Bush's dangerous abstinence policy
In June, President Bush stated that the U.S. should take heed of the message of countries such as Uganda, which promotes condoms to curtail the spread of sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS. Now, do not be tricked by Bush's smooth rhetoric.  10-26-2004

Lovestruck Buddhist monks drop their vows
Two Buddhist monks abandoned their vows after they fell in love with a pair of teenage girls who sold beer across from their temple in central Cambodia, a newspaper reported on Monday. 10-26-2004

Vietnam operators offer more than numbers
What's the best way to sue my neighbor? How big is Ho Chi Minh's mausoleum? Is surgery necessary to remove a bunion? Am I pregnant? For answers to these questions, call 1080. 10-26-2004

Angel of mercy gives Japanese homeless men a hand
You're a homeless man in Nagoya camped out in the park adjacent to Nagoya Castle or one of the several public areas where dozens of vagrants have erected makeshift abodes made of blue plastic tarpaulins. 10-26-2004

Tortuous tangles over Japanese textbooks
Given the history of Japanese textbooks outraging the country's neighbors by whitewashing Tokyo's World War II aggression and worsening its relations with China, Korea and other nations, yet another textbook written and published by right-wing groups has emerged. 10-26-2004

Hanging by a thread
Every morning, 24-year-old Shahida Begum leaves her home in one of Dhaka's slums, winds her way into a posh diplomatic enclave and turns up for work at a garment factory overlooking the U.S. embassy. She may not be making this commute much longer. 10-27-2004

Delhi sex workers demand rehabilitation
Dozens of sex workers took to streets here Monday demanding their rehabilitation in the wake of sealing of brothels located in the capital's main red light district. 10-26-2004

Asian ardour in question as sex rate lags
Europeans, especially the French, like to do it at least twice a week, preferably with plenty of foreplay. Americans are also active in the bedroom, but many Asians can only manage to make love about once a week.  10-25-2004

The all too common Japanese date rape
"I can kinda laugh about it now, but the horrible treatment that guy handed out to me really wasn't anything to laugh about," an 18-year-old schoolgirl who asks to go by the name of Aya tells Shukan Josei. 10-25-2004

Reek rises as Japanese gals stick with stinky panties
Dyed hair, make-up, body piercing, 40 percent with sexual experience, 30,000 of them having abortions every year. Unthinkable among teen-age girls a few years back, it's the norm in Japan now, according to Shukan Asahi. 10-25-2004

Target temple priests who encourage divine prostitution: NHRC report
Pointing out that the existing state laws on abolition of Devdasi system in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka are woefully inadequate and suffer from loopholes, a National Human Rights Commission report has suggested a comprehensive central legislation to abolish the system of 'divine prostitution' perpetuated by temple priests. 10-25-2004

Porn films good business in India
Far away from the glitter and sparkle of the nine-day-long Navratri festival, some men are huddled together in a dark and dingy room watching 'Dhoom' a pirated version of the latest film in a video parlour at Varachha. 10-24-2004

S. Korean crackdown on prostitution continues
Nearly 4,500 people have been arrested or charged since South Korean police kicked off a prostitution crackdown one month ago, police officials said Friday. 10-24-2004

Defending the Malaysian man
Last week several Malaysian women were interviewed on why they preferred Mat Salleh (foreign) men over Malaysians. We received some spirited responses. 10-24-2004

China jails 13 in crackdown on porn
China has sentenced 13 people to prison for trafficking in pornographic DVDs, with the ringleader getting a 19-year jail term, in its biggest yet case against peddlers of the black market films, local media say. 10-24-2004

Japanese government begins efforts to halt human trafficking
The Japanese government has begun talks to establish a legal framework to halt international trafficking of women and children brought to the nation to work as prostitutes, and human-rights groups want the policy to include protection for the victims. 10-24-2004

Human trafficking remains serious problem in Philippines
The crime of human trafficking remains a serious problem in the Philippines and poses as a big threat to Philippine women, said a woman's legal rights expert on Saturday. 10-24-2004

Asian community warned over HIV
Surrinder found she was HIV positive six months ago. She came to the UK three years ago from the Punjab region of India after an arranged marriage. What she didn't know was that her husband had HIV and that he had infected her. 10-24-2004

Trial of upskirt photo gang gives glimpse into underwear underworld
Japanese have a fondness for clubs and organizations possibly unmatched across the globe, but one group that went too far has got even one of the country's typically staid and stuffy judges screaming obscenities at them, according to Shukan Jitsuwa. 10-22-2004

Politics of Korea's prostitution law
I hope nobody accuses me of either supporting or opposing the newly enforced Special Act on Prostitution just because of what I am about to say. First of all, I don't like how people don't say what's on their minds but try to speak in a roundabout way. 10-22-2004

Thousands of men arrested on new prostitution law
Police said Friday that a total of 4,365 people have been arrested or booked for investigation after the special anti-prostitution law took effective on Sept. 23. Among those were 849 brothel owners, 660 prostitutes and 2,352 johns. 10-22-2004

Children in chains: Part III
The story of Maya, as told on the Web site of Free A Child, is a sadly all too common story for the girls in economically struggling areas in places such as Nepal.  10-22-2004

'Divine' sexual exploitation continues: NHRC
Women belonging to the socially underprivileged classes continue to face sexual exploitation under an archaic Hindu system, abolished decades ago by the government. 10-22-2004

Man arrested on Thai sex slave charges
A Briton has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse after allegedly keeping a teenage Thai boy as his sex slave, according to Thai police and reports.  10-22-2004

Japanese year-end calendar craze, from anime to nude idols
Go to any bookstore in Japan in the fall and you'll see large posters advertising hundreds of calendars that are published in Japan. It's kind of an end-of-year custom in Japan to choose what wall calendars you'll sport on your wall for the next year, and the variety of calendars published - from JPOP idols to anime to sexy idols in bikinis to stuff that's just plain silly.

Bollywood finds sex sells in prudish India
A few years ago, when a coy couple were about to kiss on screen in a Bollywood film, the camera would glide to two flowers brushing against each other or two parrots pecking at each other's beaks. 10-21-2004

Children in chains: Part II
"There's drugs ... and arms... but what's the next most deadly illegal trade?" asks the non-profit Boulder-based organization Free A Child on its Web site.  10-21-2004

Japanese gangster arrested for cross-border pornography
A Japanese yakuza gangster was arrested Tuesday in Taipei on charges of beaming pirated pornographic movies around Asia, using Taiwan as his operating base, according to the Criminal Investigation Bureau. 10-21-2004

Japan arrests four over satellite porn
Japanese police have arrested four people for allegedly using overseas satellite broadcasts to beam pornography into the country. 10-21-2004

UN: Ingredients of AIDS explosion in the Philippines
The international community on Wednesday warned that an anemic government effort may play a major factor in an impending epidemic of the humane immunodeficiency virus-acute immune deficiency syndrome in the country, even if transmission of the virus is now described as “low and slow.”  10-21-2004

China's Orwellian Internet
The Internet once promised to be a conduit for uncensored information from beyond China’s bor­ders, and for a brief, shining instant in modern Chi­nese history, it was a potential catalyst for political and human rights reform in China. 10-20-2004

Children in chains: Part I
A man named James abducts a child from an orphanage in London. Trafficking the child around the globe, he first ships the young victim to Romania, where a life of prostitution and horrific pornography ensues for the helpless child. 10-20-2004

Porn on phone catching on in India
Sleaze through cellphone is in and it is catching on fast in the city. If you are really keen and you possess a high-end instrument, you can watch blue films on your mobile set. Understandably, the new development has left the cyber cops jittery. 10-20-2004

India's IT state to restrict surfing
India's southern state of Karnataka, of which the technology hub of Bangalore is the capital, is to restrict the use of Internet cafe to fight cybercrime and pornography, an official said Thursday. 10-20-2004

Equality of the sexes debate turns to all-girls schools
What are the advantages of going to an all-girls' high school? "I learned how to express my opinions," declares one 28-year-old woman who works for the media. But what are some of the disadvantages of attending an all-girls' high school? 10-20-2004

Downward spiral in births alarms Japan
The number of babies born from January to June this year was some 561,000 in Japan, a drop of 4,900 from the same period last year, officials have said. 10-20-2004

Asia-Pacific moving "too late and too slow" in fight against HIV/AIDS
Asia-Pacific risks an AIDS crisis similar in scale to Africa's unless governments across the region step up efforts to combat the spread of the disease, the United Nations is warning. 10-20-2004

Maid jailed for fake robbery, rape
A maid has been sentenced to more than nine months in jail in Singapore for theft after she faked a robbery at her employer's home, where she was found bound, gagged and in her underwear, a news report said. 10-20-2004

Chinese university students condone premarital sex: survey
In a survey of four universities in southeastern China's Fujian Province, 92 percent of students said they accept premarital sex, according to a report in China Youth Daily. 10-19-2004

Sexual harassment common in Japan's public education
Almost one in every 10 women working in the public education sector in Akita Prefecture has reported being a victim of workplace sexual harassment, a shocking survey has showed. 10-19-2004

Dozens of penis ops go wrong
Dozens of Thai men have been treated in hospital after having a suspected paraffin mixture injected into their penises during botched enlargement attempts, a hospital official said. 10-19-2004

Korean sex workers call for licensing prostitution
Calling for the introduction of licensed prostitution, prostitutes and brothel owners launched their biggest rally yet since enforcement of laws prohibiting the sex trade was stepped up last month. The workers, who numbered about 3,000 at the rally, said they need employment security. 10-19-2004

South Korea targets sex trade, for now
As a one-month police crackdown on South Korea's multibillion-dollar sex industry draws to a close this week, most brothel districts in Seoul are deserted, but questions persist about what will happen once enforcement of a tough new anti-prostitution law eases up. 10-19-2004

Calcutta sex workers protest at ancient ritual
Sex workers in the Indian city of Calcutta are up in arms over an ancient ritual in which earth dug from near brothels is offered as a symbol of fertility to the Hindu goddess Durga. 10-19-2004

Rise in sex workers in Indian tourist towns
There has been an alarming increase in the number of sex workers in Himachal Pradesh towns popular with tourists, with an estimated 1,200 operating in this state capital alone, an NGO survey has revealed. 10-19-2004

Human trafficking pact to be signed in Yangon
Ministers from six countries along the Mekong River will announce a coordinated effort to fight human trafficking at regional talks in Yangon next week, a semiofficial newspaper reported. 10-19-2004

U.S. forces also crack down on prostitution
No more slaps on the wrist for soldiers venturing up Itaewon's "Hill" and to other areas known as places to buy sex. Starting next year, USFK servicemen convicted of doing so may face stiff penalties of time in jail and a dishonorable discharge. 10-18-2004

Saudi sentenced to 350 lashes for prostituion insult
The content of the meeting was not disclosed but the the meeting's taking place was not kept a secret when Minister Ehud Olmert and Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv met on Monday of last week. 10-18-2004

Asian children's meeting demands protection from slave trade
Children from five Asian countries are demanding their governments provide greater protection from the modern-day slavery of human trafficking. 10-18-2004

Aids campaigners warn Navratri revellers looking for sex
Education minister Anandiben Patel hates to be reminded of her comment that number of abortions rise in Gujarat a couple of months after Navratri. But, four years after the state's women and child welfare minister made this statement, little has changed as NGOs take it upon themselves to turn the Navratri celebrations into a one big classroom for sex education. 10-18-2004

HK clinic says it offers designer babies without surgery, genetics
From a plush new clinic tucked away on the seventh floor of a drab Hong Kong office building, businessman Min Yoo says he can give would-be-parents the child of their dreams. 10-18-2004

American busted for sexual assault in Okinawa
An American civilian employee of the U.S. military here has been arrested for intruding into a woman's home and sexually assaulting her, police said. 10-18-2004

Pinoy Kasi : Medical tourism?
"Hospital sets sights on Manila," read the headline. I wouldn't have given the article too much attention except that it appeared in The Nation, an English-language daily newspaper in Bangkok. 10-15-2004

Four charged in plot for Asian sex slaves
One billion rupiah was promised to lure young Asian women to Australia where they were held as sex slaves, a court has heard. The sum - more than $150,000 - was 143 years' wages for each victim of four alleged conspirators in a plot to entrap women with the offer of restaurant work. 10-15-2004

Washington cracks down on pedophilia tourism
When a US State Department official went for an evening stroll in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh recently, he was shocked by the open hawking of children for sex in the streets. 10-14-2004

Breast implant popularity rises in Shanghai - for men
Shanghai - Breast implants are becoming more and more popular with a surprising group of Shanghai citizens - men. 10-14-2004

GMS countries to coordinate against human trafficking
The member countries of the six-nation Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) will meet here in the last week of this month to coordinate a ministerial initiative against transnational human trafficking. 10-14-2004

Knesset okays bill to shut down places used for prostitution
The Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Wednesday approved a bill that would grant the police powers to immediately close down for 30 days places used for prostitution in Israel. 10-14-2004

China spurns sexual revolution on campus
China's Education Ministry is trying to force the country's 9 million university students to live in closely supervised dormitories, in a move to head off a wave of premarital sex. 10-13-2004

Love hotels adapt to women changing spots
Every minute, an average of 951 couples hit a love hotel somewhere in Japan, creating a 4 trillion yen a year industry that accommodates twice the number of annual visitors to Tokyo Disney Resort and easily exceeds the takings of the Japan Racing Association. 10-13-2004

Enterprising street kids scrub up to play lover
Tokyo is fast developing a generation of street kids thanks to Gov. Shintaro Ishihara's efforts to clean the capital of its seedier elements. 10-13-2004

Prostitution wave hits 'squeaky clean' Singapore
On a residential street corner on the outskirts of Singapore's red-light district of Geylang, a van pulls up beside two women in the evening dusk, both dressed in revealing blouses and hip-hugging skirts. 10-13-2004

Program targets child-sex tourism
"I am not a tourist attraction. It's a crime to make me one," says one message in a campaign against child abuse announced yesterday by the private aid group, World Vision, and the State Department and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. 10-13-2004

Taiwanese rank nearly last in love-making frequency
Taiwan may be gaining strength in the global electronics industry, but in one area Taiwanese are definitely sagging - sex. 10-12-2004

Kuwait sex-change case overturned
A Kuwaiti court has overturned a ruling that a 26-year-old man who underwent sex-change surgery can be officially regarded as a woman. 10-12-2004

No unsafe sex, say Indians
Indians were 'top of the league' when it comes to good sexual health in the bedroom, with just one in five admitting to having unprotected sex without knowing their partner's sexual history. 10-12-2004

Should prostitution be legalised?
Prostitution is the act, practice or profession of offering sex for monetary gains. Thus, legalisation means imposing laws or regulations under which women prostitutes can come under legal pritection. 10-12-2004

The dowry despair that drove three sisters into a suicide pact
Rekhar, the eldest daughter, went first, swallowing several mouthfuls of the pesticide her father had bought to improve his crops. Then Krishna followed and lastly Maina, the youngest, took her turn. 10-11-2004

Beijing to install condom machines
Beijing will install about 1,000 condom vending machines in hotels, bars, universities and on construction sites this month to fight the spread of AIDS. 10-11-2004

China offers rewards to stem Internet porn
China handed out rewards of up to $240 USD on Sunday to people who reported pornographic websites in a campaign to stamp out on-line smut, the government said. 10-11-2004

Fast-food 'pimp' is jailed
An Indian man who tried to entice a Bahraini woman into prostitution has been sentenced to six months in jail, followed by immediate deportation. The 27-year-old fast-food outlet employee must pay a fine of BD1,000 to suspend the jail sentence. 10-11-2004

Korean crackdown could upset balance of sex trade with Japan 
What have the South Koreans done! cries Asahi Geino in anguish. What were the authorities thinking when they made sex a criminal offense? Will the same thing happen in Japan? 10-10-2004

Crackdown on sex trade in South Korea nets 500 arrests 
Just over two weeks into a sweeping crackdown by South Korean police on brothels, nightclubs and other sex-trade fronts, officials have reported more than 500 arrests and say phone tips reporting suspected illegal activity have increased markedly. 10-10-2004

South Korea bar girls bemoan deployment effects, but applaud prostitution ban 
Nightclub workers in Tongduchon have praised U.S. Army plans to make it illegal for soldiers to pay for sex, but they also complain they’re short of work after the recent deployment of thousands of South Korea-based U.S. troops to Iraq. 10-10-2004

Client list busts Internet prostitution ring
Police have found a list of johns compiled by an Internet prostitution agency, which gives the details of about 180 men, including their body type, personality and sex habits. Members of the agency have been arrested. 10-10-2004

Beauty proves to be in the eye of the beholder for Wicked’s Kaylani Lei
After a year that began with her enjoying both Best Actress and Best New Starlet nominations from AVN, exclusive Wicked Pictures performer Kaylani Lei’s star is continuing to rise. Her latest release, the Brad Armstrong-directed erotic thriller Eye of the Beholder, is bringing both her and the movie praise that’s every bit as glitzy as the DVD’s limited-edition lenticular cover. 10-10-2004

Monks' sex video sparks protests
Two monks have sparked protests in India when they were caught on video having sex with a young woman. The incident has shocked followers of the Vadtal faction of the influential Swaminarayan sect, reports the Hindustan Times. 10-10-2004

Goa's tourist police cracks down on sex offenders
Rave parties, urchins with foreigners and youngsters begging or selling wares on the beach will come under the sharp vigil of Goa's tourist police in a crackdown on child sex abuse in this popular seaside resort. 10-10-2004

Chromosome clue to Y men wander
Geneticists have returned to an old observation to explain new evidence about the migration of human beings across the globe: Some men really get around. 10-8-2004

Sexing babies
"Sex selection will cause a severe imbalance of the sexes," predicted left-wing sociologist Amitai Etzioni way back in 1968. Etzioni further prophesied that the practice would "soon" condemn millions of men to rape, prostitution, homosexuality, or enforced celibacy. 10-8-2004

No sex for 21st century soldiers 
The U.S. Department of Defense is considering making it illegal for troops to buy sex from prostitutes. On the face of it, this sounds ludicrous. As long as there have been soldiers, there has been a lot of sex involved. 10-8-2004

Crime gangs turn to women trafficking: Interpol
International smugglers of weapons and drugs are increasingly trafficking women from Africa, Latin America and Asia to developed countries where they are duped into working as prostitutes, Interpol said on Wednesday. 10-8-2004

Let's not confuse art with artifice
Why this driving need to provoke, to shock, to rebel by riffing inexorably on sex in all its lurid glory? Should sex inform life or life inform sex? 10-8-2004

Worse than politics: porn on mobile phones
The content of the meeting was not disclosed but the the meeting's taking place was not kept a secret when Minister Ehud Olmert and Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv met on Monday of last week. 10-8-2004

US law students tackle Islamic law
Professor Paul Robinson's fall seminar at the University of Pennsylvania Law School offered a unique opportunity for the ambitious student: a chance to make law, rather than just study it. 10-8-2004

110 'baby traders' arrested
Chinese police have arrested 110 people suspected of buying and selling baby boys following a month-long investigation of a sprawling baby trafficking ring, the government said today. 10-8-2004

Spontaneous female orgasms not unusual, but fun 
Some women when doing ordinary activities like watching TV and having no contact with their nether regions and watching nothing sexual on the TV, can get sensations that they're having an orgasm - almost like a phantom orgasm. 10-7-2004

Japan's top gay scene zine bottoms out 
Barazoku, Japan's oldest and most prestigious gay magazine, has suddenly pulled the plug after 33 years in print, according to Weekly Playboy. 10-7-2004

Prostitutes rally against sex work crackdown
About 2,800 prostitutes wearing face masks and sunglasses to shield their identities marched on parliament on Thursday to protest against a police crackdown on South Korea's sex trade. 10-7-2004

Charges filed against 3 who recruited Filipina women for brothel
Criminal charges were filed against a couple and a woman for allegedly recruiting three Negrense women and other Filipinas who were forced into prostitution in Sabah, Malaysia. 10-7-2004

Moldova: young women from rural areas vulnerable to human trafficking
Most victims come from rural areas, where economic hardships and ignorance turn young girls into easy prey for traffickers. RFE/RL spoke with nongovernmental organizations and government officials about measures in place to help those who have fallen victim to such trafficking, and to curb future abuses. 10-7-2004

Human trafficking racket busted in city
The Bureau of Immigration busted an international syndicate involved in human trafficking and arrested its kingpin, Fernando, a Sri Lankan national, here on Wednesday. 10-7-2004

US store offer discount on banned porn for Iraqi soldiers
An adult pornography store in the Eugene, Oregon area is offering a 10 percent discount on its merchandise for U.S. troops fighting in Iraq. 10-7-2004

ASG's top 10 Asian cities 
We have all, at one point or another, sought to travel to the Far East to learn more about different cultures and see how much Western civilization has influenced others abroad. The following 10 cities are prime examples of old thoughts versus new rhetoric, and traditional culture versus modern societies. 10-6-2004

Horny teens hump away despite Big Brother sex laws 
Regardless of whether a controversial suggestion to outlaw sex among under-15s in Tokyo, junior high school pupils in the capital are clearly seeking the pleasures of the flesh with a relish hardly fitting for their years, according to Shukan Taishu. 10-6-2004

Runaway girls lured into prostitution after hitchhiking 1,500 km 
With only 2,000 yen in cash, two girls ran away from their homes in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, this summer and hitchhiked for around 1,500 kilometers to Chiba, east of Tokyo, only to end up in a sex parlor and later in police custody, police said Tuesday. 10-6-2004

Sperm study splits Japanese men in two 
Japanese sperm counts vary according to the season, according to research done by a pair of scientists written up in Asahi Geino. As well as changing with the weather, Japanese sperm counts also come, literally, in two different types, so the scholars say. 10-6-2004

Hong Kong teens love online sex - survey
About 60% of Hong Kong teenagers have view pornography online and more than 40% have sex with strangers they meet online, revealed a child abuse watchdog group. 10-5-2004

Schoolgirl pimp busted for child prostitution 
A 14-year-old junior high school girl who took money from one of her friends after introducing her to a man who paid the friend for sexual favors was reported to prosecutors on Tuesday, police said. 10-5-2004

Nude photos kept abused maid silent
She was allegedly beaten, scolded, and sexually abused. But Indonesian maid Hanif Muaarah quietly put up with it because of a cruel threat. Her employer's wife, 32, her sister, 24, and her brother, 30, had allegedly taken pictures of her being sexually abused by them. 10-5-2004

Helping victims of human trafficking
Dreams of a better life often end in a brothel for the victims of human trafficking, with the people smugglers and slave traders who bring them there making a lucrative living from their misery. 10-5-2004

Cops bust Goregaon prostitution racket
Three girls were rescued by Social Service branch officers from a flat in Goregaon. Bhupen Patel The Social Service (SS) branch of the Mumbai police broke a major prostitution racket in a posh residential locality of Goregaon last night. 10-5-2004

Adult world abuzz over vibrating condom 
A new prophylactic equipped with a vibrator is creating a buzz across Japan. Since the development in 1909 of the Heart Beauty, Japan's first domestically produced condom, Japan has, according to the men's weekly, led the world in the development of rubbers. 10-4-2004

The history of the Hello Kitty vibrator 
Sanrio is one of the top character licensors in the world, having more or less created the business model of doing business by creating something that doesn't really exist and licensing its use to other companies. 10-4-2004

Governors jerking off in glass houses, shouldn't wag fingers at troubled teens 
For a man whose early adulthood involved writing a book about the pleasures involved in masturbating by using his manhood to poke holes through paper screen shoji panels, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara is sure being mean when it comes to today's young partaking in the delights of the flesh. 10-4-2004

Human trafficking: 5 get death sentence in China
Five members of a 36-strong gang of human traffickers were sentenced to death and others given jail terms for kidnapping and selling 74 women and 22 children in southwest China's Yunnan province, the official media reported today. 10-4-2004

Dhaka, Delhi deal likely to check human trafficking
Bangladesh and India are in negotiation to strike a bilateral agreement to effectively deal with the rising incidents of women and children trafficking and their commercial sexual exploitation, UNICEF officials said here on Friday. 10-4-2004

Indian Man held for luring girl into prostitution
Police are looking for a man responsible for exploiting a minor girl in Kerala's Kottayam district, a case that has been sensationalised by the local media. 10-4-2004

New Korean anti-prostitution measure causes stir
Korean Police are drawing fire from human rights groups for their plans to give rewards to those who report sex trade cases, which activists argue may violate human rights of innocent victims. 10-4-2004

Perverted schoolboy killer set free to dissect Japanese society 
We knew him first as "School Killer," then as "Seito Sakakibara," then, during the years of his incarceration and treatment, as "Shonen A," Youth A. Now we know him by no name at all. His new identity and his whereabouts are closely guarded secrets. 10-4-2004

Anti-prostitution laws draw more protests
In Incheon, 300 prostitutes tried yesterday to confront government officials, demonstrating in a two-hour protest in front of the Incheon City Hall. Women from red-light districts in Seoul and Gyeonggi province gathered to protest a new law being enforced to curb the sex trade, complaining that their ability to make a living is at risk. 10-1-2004

Child pornography web stretches across globe
The biggest child pornography crackdown in Australia's history can be traced to an office block in a corner of the former Soviet Union the Russian mafia likes to call home. 10-1-2004

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