• Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 10:46am By Dr Martha Lee
    If sex is up there with tobacco and alcohol which in being notoriously resilient to hard times, how is it that the Australia sex services industry bleeding? The answer: online dating sites, according to the independent business information analyst...
  • Sunday, August 9, 2009 - 4:36pm By Tim McElreavy
    Bloomberg reports that the Bank of Japan published a report last week on the economic potential of sex work and the pleasure industry. The report, entitled “Susukino, Recent Trends and Changes to a Pleasure District,” is part of the...
  • Wednesday, July 22, 2009 - 6:10pm By Tim McElreavy
    Remember that film Calendar Girls starring Dame Helen Mirren in which a group of British women pose nude for a calendar to raise money for charity? It was one of those feel-good movies about female self-empowerment, racy but not raunchy. Of course,...
  • Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 10:00am By Tim McElreavy
    The global recession has hit hard in most financial sectors, including sex work. Amsterdam's world-famous Red Light District, where sex workers offer themselves in red-lit storefront windows, is experiencing a dramatic drop in business. Tourists and...
  • Friday, May 29, 2009 - 3:27pm By Monica Shores
    One of CNN.com's top stories this week was a small news item on seven individuals accused of operating a New York prostitution agency through Craigslist. For the most part, the article is stultifying. It routinely uses quotes around the word "...