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John Schools

John schools are programs aimed at the purchasers of prostitution. In the first 12 years of the still ongoing program, now called the First Offender Prostitution Program, the recidivism rate amongst offenders was reduced from 8% to less than 5%. Since 1995, similar programs have been implemented in more than 40 other communities throughout the US, including Washington, DC, West Palm Beach, FL, Buffalo, NY, Los Angeles, CA, and Brooklyn, NY. A 2009 audit of the first john school in San Francisco done by the city's budget analysis, faults the program with ill-defined goals and no way to determine its effectiveness. Despite being touted as a national model that comes at no cost to taxpayers, the audit said the program didn't cover its expenses in each of the last five years, leading to a $270,000 shortfall.

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TV Movie Led to Prostitute's Disclosures

'Mayflower Madam' Gave Gobie Idea
By Bill Dedman

Washington Post Staff Writer
August 27, 1989

Prostitute and pimp Stephen L. Gobie settled in with his "girls" in his Georgetown town house one evening in late 1987 to watch "The Mayflower Madam" on television. As Candice Bergen portrayed upscale madam Sydney Biddle Barrows, Gobie's companions had an idea.

"The girls turned to me and said, 'You're just like her,' " Gobie recalled in an interview yesterday. "That's when I realized that I was in the middle of a developing story that could be worth something someday. I told them, 'One day, don't be surprised if you see me on TV.' "

Gobie's dream has come true. His accusation that Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) knew that Gobie had operated a prostitution service out of Frank's Capitol Hill apartment became national news after it was first reported Friday by the Washington Times.

Frank, one of two openly gay members of Congress, confirmed Friday that he paid Gobie for sex, hired him with personal funds as an aide and wrote letters on congressional stationery on his behalf to Virginia probation officials, but Frank said he fired Gobie when he learned that clients were visiting the apartment.

Frank, a leading House liberal, likened himself to Henry Higgins, who in "Pygmalion" tries to transform a cockney waif into a member of English society. Gobie dismissed that as "garbage." "This is not the case of the poor waif who is being sheltered," Gobie said. "This was the first time he felt good in a relationship. Here's a guy who didn't have a social life until he was 45."

Gobie's craving for public attention also has produced an uproar in Montgomery County. Gobie said he maintained a relationship with Gabriel A. Massaro, the principal of Chevy Chase Elementary School, and used an office at the school in late 1987 to make telephone calls and have one client meet a prostitute.

Massaro, who has been placed on administrative leave, has been unavailable for comment.

Gobie said his motive was largely financial. Gobie had offered his story to WUSA-TV (Channel 9), then the Washington Times. Later he came to The Washington Post, saying he was looking "to start a bidding war" for "a better offer" than the Washington Times made. He and the Times say he was not paid.

Gobie also said he wants "to show up people in positions of power who abuse other people."

Gobie expressed no regret for any damage done to the careers of Frank and Massaro.

Although Frank and Gobie differ in some details of their relationship, they agree on the story line. They met on April Fool's Day 1985. The representative answered a classified ad in the Washington Blade, the local gay weekly. "Exceptionally good-looking, personable, muscular athlete is available. Hot bottom plus large endowment equals a good time."

Then in his third term, the 45-year-old representative had not yet stated his homosexuality publicly. He paid Gobie $80 in cash for sex.

Gobie, then 28, was one of many young men "freelancing" in male prostitution. Gobie said he was born in Boston and grew up in a military family. He has felony convictions for possession of cocaine, oral sodomy and production of obscene items involving a juvenile.

Gobie and Frank say they became more friends than sexual partners. Gobie says he attended a bill-signing at the White House, and helped coach and played left field for Frank's team in the Congressional Softball League. "I was the star player," Gobie said.

Frank began to help Gobie financially, paying his attorney and court-ordered psychiatrist. The House member also said he hired Gobie as a personal aide, housekeeper and driver, but Gobie said that was a "cover story" concocted for probation officers.

In late 1985, Gobie says, he began to use Frank's apartment and two other locations for prostitution. Frank knew about the prostitution all along, but it was never explicitly discussed, Gobie says.

"He knew exactly what I was doing," Gobie said. "It was pretty obvious. If he had to come home early {from work}, he would call home to be sure the coast was clear . . . . He was living vicariously through me. He said it was kind of a thrill, and if he had been 20 years younger he might be doing the same thing."

Frank denies that he knew, saying he learned from his landlord and kicked Gobie out in August 1987. Gobie supports this part of Frank's story.

Gobie said his disclosures are only beginning. "I think I'll just slap a book together. Sydney Biddle Barrows made in excess of a million. I thought 'Capitol Offenses' would be a nice title."

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Scandal-linked senator breaks a week of silence

DEBORAH JEANE PALFREY

July 16, 2007

"I know this has hurt the relationship of trust I've enjoyed with so many of you," Sen. Vitter said Monday.Sen. David Vitter broke a week of silence on Monday and, with his wife by his side, denied allegations he had relationships with New Orleans prostitutes.

Media reports surfaced in the past week linking the Louisiana senator to a well-known prostitution case in New Orleans. Vitter attributed those charges to "long-term political enemies" and people seeking money.

"Those stories are not true," he said.

Vitter admitted he made calls to an alleged prostitution operation in Washington, offered an apology "to all those I have let down" and vowed to resume his work in the Senate.

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'Deeply sorry,' Spitzer to step down by Monday
ELIOT SPITZER

March 12, 2008

Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday that he will step down from the state's top office because he cannot allow his "private failings to disrupt the public's work."

"I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me," he said at a brief news conference announcing his intention to resign, effective Monday. "I will try once again outside of politics to serve the common good."

With his wife, Silda, at his side, he added, "Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."

The announcement came as the New York governor faces allegations -- but no charges -- that he is tied to an international prostitution ring ensnared in a federal investigation.

Spitzer's lawyers were in discussions Wednesday with the U.S. attorney's office in New York, trying to negotiate a plea deal to avoid prosecution, a source said.

However, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia in New York issued a statement saying, "There is no agreement between this office and Gov. Eliot Spitzer relating to his resignation or any other matter."

Spitzer, a former state attorney general whose reputation as a scourge of white-collar crime propelled him to the governor's office in 2006, has faced calls for his resignation since apologizing for a personal indiscretion Monday. He has not elaborated. See a timeline of Spitzer's lifeIn his Wednesday announcement, Spitzer said, "Over the course of my public life, I have insisted -- I believe correctly -- that people, regardless of their position or power, take responsibility for their conduct. I can and will ask no less of myself." Watch Spitzer say his "failings" led him to resignOn Monday, prosecutors unsealed an affidavit detailing a rendezvous in a Washington hotel room last month as part of a federal prostitution investigation. The affidavit refers only to "Client 9," but a source told CNN on Monday that the reference was to Spitzer. View a gallery of recent political sex scandals

Sources said Spitzer spent more than $15,000 for several encounters with prostitutes. Sources revealed Wednesday that Spitzer is thought to have begun patronizing the prostitution outfit, known as the Emperors Club, eight months ago and had used its services on at least eight occasions.

Both Republicans and Democrats had called for him to leave office.

"Eliot knows he cannot hold onto his job here. He might want to, but he is absolutely aware of his predicament," a Democratic source said Tuesday.

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Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation

United States of America

"It is a violation of human rights when women are trafficked, bought and sold as prostitutes." (Hillary Clinton, Lviv Opera House, Lviv, Ukraine, "First Lady To Fight Prostitution," AP Online, 18 November 1997)

Trafficking:

Trafficking in women plagues the United States as much as it does underdeveloped nations. Organized prostitution networks have migrated from metropolitan areas to small cities and suburbs. Women trafficked to the United States have been forced to have sex with 400-500 men to pay off $40,000 in debt for their passage. (Avita Ramdas, president of the Global Fund for Women sponsoring a recent prostitution conference, Brad Knickerbocker, "Prostitution’s Pernicious Reach Grows in the US" Christian Science Monitor, 23 October 1996)

In mid-1997 in Queens New York police were informed of more than 60 Mexican immigrants including 12 children ranging in age from 6 months to 6 years, being held in "involuntary servitude". (Deborah Sontag, "Deaf Mexicans Are Found in Forced Labor," New York Times, 20 June 1997)

The United Nations now lists Mexico as the number one center for the supply of young children to North America. Most are sold to rich, childless couples unwilling to wait for bona fide adoption agencies to provide them with a child. The majority are sent to international pedophile organizations. Many times the children are snatched while on errands for their parents. Often they are drugged and raped. Most of the children over 12 end up as prostitutes. Hector Ramirez, a former deputy, or Mexican Member of Parliament, stated that "many of the state and city authorities [are] doing absolutely nothing to stop what is going on." (Allan Hall, The Scotsman, 25 August 1998)

5,000 women of Chinese descent are in prostitution in Los Angeles. (Kathryn McMahon, Daniel B. Wood, "A Crusade to Free Captive Daughters," Christian Science Monitor, 12 March 1998)

Chinese women are being trafficked into the United States for brothels in New York and North Carolina. They are held in $40,000 debt bondage. ("Chinese women ‘forced into prostitution’ in US," BBC, 3 March 1998)

Traffickers force Chinese immigrants into indentured servitude, women into prostitution and men into the restaurant business. In September 1998, 153 men and 21 women, including 35 juveniles, arrived in San Diego, California from China via Mexico, after paying smugglers $30,000. In 1997, 69 and in 1993, 650 Chinese immigrants were intercepted in the same area. If caught by immigration (INS) officials, most will be sent back to China, unless they receive political asylum. The smugglers may face jail time in the United States. (Paula Story, "Chinese Immigrant Boat Reaches US," Associated Press Online, 19 September 1998)

Traffickers in Miami were receiving Asian children who were being trafficked through Europe by Japanese and Chinese criminal gangs. In one month, at least 15 children were smuggled into the United States for prostitution. ("Pedophilia ring uncovered in Italy," USA Today, Nov. 1997)

25 distinct Russian organized crime groups are operating in the United States in the areas of prostitution, fraud, money laundering, murder, extortion and drug trafficking and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has approximately 250 pending investigations targeting Russian gangs in 27 states. (Barbara Starr, "Former Soviet Union a playground for organized crime: A gangster’s paradise," ABC News, 14 September 1998)

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Mail Order Brides

There have been 5,000 Filipina mail order brides entering the United States every year since 1986, a total of 55,000 as of 1997. (Gabriela, Statistics and the State of the Philippines, 24 July 1997)

Two Honduran "mail-order-brides" were imprisoned with their children and raped by attorney Donald A. Young in Pennsylvania. Young was charged with rape, assault, false imprisonment, harassment, stalking, and child abuse (Boston Globe, 6 August 1997)

The American mail-order bride industry has become a multi-million dollar business, marketing women from developing countries as potential brides to men in Western nations. (Lena H. Sun, "The Search For Miss Right Takes A Turn Toward Russia "Mail-Order Brides" Of The '90S Are Met Via Internet And On "Romance Tours," Washington Post, 8 March 1998)

In the United States, mail-order-bride agencies are developing everywhere. One business, A Foreign Affair, has had more than 15,000 male buyers since it began three years ago. Now there are 200 to 250 of these companies in the United States, a third of which started in 1997. At least 80 of these focus exclusively on Russian and Eastern European women. A Foreign Affair has about 3,500 women from Russia, Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America. The business claims they are responsible for an engagement or marriage every week. (Lena H. Sun, "The Search For Miss Right Takes A Turn Toward Russia "Mail-Order Brides" Of The '90S Are Met Via Internet And On "Romance Tours," Washington Post, 8 March 1998)

One Internet mail order bride service, RWL, Russian Women’s List, has more than 800 members, including military personnel and computer programmers. Ken Wells of the United States bought the addresses of about 600 women from 15 international marriage agencies over the Internet. (Lena H. Sun, "The Search For Miss Right Takes A Turn Toward Russia "Mail-Order Brides" Of The '90S Are Met Via Internet And On "Romance Tours," Washington Post, 8 March 1998)

A Bethesda MD based Encounters International mail order bride company began in July 1993. The business claims it has had 104 marriages, 55 engagements and four divorces as of February 1998. (Natasha Spivak, Lena H. Sun, "The Search For Miss Right Takes A Turn Toward Russia "Mail-Order Brides" Of The '90S Are Met Via Internet And On "Romance Tours," Washington Post, 8 March 1998)

Congress passed legislation that requires mail order bride agencies to give information about marriage fraud, legal residency and domestic violence to women in their agencies or risk $20,000 fines. The legislation, introduced by Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), estimated that 2,000 to 3,500 American men find wives through such agencies each year. (Lena H. Sun, "The Search For Miss Right Takes A Turn Toward Russia "Mail-Order Brides" Of The '90S Are Met Via Internet And On "Romance Tours," Washington Post, 8 March 1998)

In 1995, a computer lab technician shot and killed his Philippine wife in a Seattle courtroom. In 1996, a Texas man was convicted of murdering his fourth wife, a Philippine bride. (Lena H. Sun, "The Search For Miss Right Takes A Turn Toward Russia "Mail-Order Brides" Of The '90S Are Met Via Internet And On "Romance Tours," Washington Post, 8 March 1998)

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Prostitution:

92% of women engaged in prostitution said they wanted to leave prostitution, but couldn't because they lack basic human services such as a home, job training, health care, counseling and treatment for drug or alcohol addiction. 130 people in prostitution were surveyed in San Francisco, California, as part of a study funded in part by Kaiser Permanente and the Prostitution and Research Education project of San Francisco Women's Centers, Inc. Respondents ranged in age from 12 to 61, with an average age of 28. Nearly 40% were white European/American, one-third were African American, and almost 20% were Latina. ("People in prostitution suffer from wartime trauma symptoms caused by acts of violence against them," Business Wire, 18 August 1998)

Girls involved in prostitution are increasingly getting younger, dropping from 14, to 13 and 12 years of age. Child prostitution in the United States began to escalate in the late 1980’s after new laws made it more difficult for officials to detain runaway children. (Lois Lee, founder of Children of the Night, Brad Knickerbocker, "Prostitution’s Pernicious Reach Grows in the US," Christian Science Monitor, 23 October 1996)

In Ohio, over the past seven years, the average age when a girl enters prostitution has decreased from 16 to 14. The demand for prostituted children is increasing, as men feel safer from AIDS with younger girls. 75 to 95% of all prostitutes were sexually abused as children. Many prostitutes are high school dropouts, come from poor and abusive homes, move from place to place and are alcoholics or drug addicts. (Debra Boyer, U. Washington, Susan Breault of the Paul & Lisa Program, "Danger for prostitutes increasing, most starting younger," Beacon Journal, 21 September 1997)

2,632 youths were reported missing, more than 60% of them are listed as endangered runaways, who often end up as prostitutes in Ohio in 1996. Attacks against prostitutes were increasing as of September 1997. (State Attorney General, "Danger for prostitutes increasing, most starting younger," Beacon Journal, 21 September 1997)

16.9 is the average age of entry into prostitution for girls. (Delancey Street Foundation, San Francisco, "The lost boys," Sarah McNaught, The Boston Phoenix, 23-30 October 1997)

14 years is the average age of entry into prostitution for boys, 25 years of age is the average age that men leave prostitution. Male prostitutes usually do not have pimps. (Sean Haley, Director, Adolescent Services, JRI Health, Boston, "The lost boys," Sarah McNaught, The Boston Phoenix, 23-30 October 1997)

Fourteen prostituted women have been killed in five years in Newark, New Jersey. (Evelyn Nieves, "Selling Sex Where All Are Suspect", 19 April 1998)

The estimated average age of girls who enter street prostitution in San Francisco is fourteen. Ninety percent of street prostituted women were abused as children, and are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Fewer than half of the street prostituted women in San Francisco has finished high school. And 85% have never earned money in any other way. (Hope, Promise, Stephanie Salter "Creating hope from lives of desperation" San Francisco Examiner, 16 November 1997)

25 bodies of women and male transsexuals, most known to be in prostitution, have been found outside New Orleans from 1991-1998. Russell Ellwood, 47, a former cab driver was arrested on suspicion for involvement in 25 deaths, charged with two deaths, and pending others. (Janet McConaughey, "Cab Driver Arrested in La. Murders," Associated Press, 4 March 1998)

Seven prostituted women have been murdered in 6 months in Washington State. A task force is looking into possible links with 11 other unsolved killings of area women since 1984. (John K. Wiley, "Wash. Slayings Raise Serial Specter," Associated Press, 1 February 1998)

From 1982 - 1984, forty-nine women, most of them prostitutes, were murdered by someone who became known as the Green River killer. The killer was never found. (John K. Wiley, "Wash. Slayings Raise Serial Specter," Associated Press, 1 February 1998)

The perception that women make alot of money through prostitution is false. "Women who make a lot of money prostituting or being call girls for an ‘exclusive clientele’ are probably in the single figures in terms of percentages". (Elaine Deck, project director for the Women’s Treatment Network, "Former Prostitutes Help Pull Their Sisters Off the Streets," San Francisco Chronicle, 27 December 1997)

300,000 to 600,000 juveniles are involved in prostitution in the United States. (Gary Costello of the Exploited Child Unit of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, "Danger for prostitutes increasing, most starting younger," Beacon Journal, 21 September 1997)

In 1996, 1,508 women were arrested for prostitution or commercialized vice in the Phoenix-Metro area in Arizona. (Phoenix Police Department and the City of Phoenix Prosecutor’s Office "Developing Individual Growth & New Independence Through Yourself" DIGNITY HOUSE)

Over the last decade the street price for oral sex has dropped from $20-$30 to $2-$3. (Christopher S. Wren, "Addicted to Crack, Prostitutes Work Longer for Less," New York Times, 19 August 1997)

There are an estimated 500 male prostitutes in Philadelphia. (Police and anonymous prostitutes, Alfred Lubrano, "Eleven o’clock is feeding time in Center City," Philadelphia Inquirer, 26 May 1998)

The release of the anti-impotence pill, Viagra, increased the business at two brothels, Cherry Patch and Mabel's, in Carson City, Nevada, by 10 percent. (Brendan Riley, "Viagra Boosts Brothel Business," Associated Press Online, 11 June 1998)

In New York City, 26% of street prostituted women were homeless or on the verge of becoming so. 90% reported having children taken away because of their situation. (survey of 4,200 street prostitues by researchers at Frost’d, Christopher S. Wren, "Addicted to Crack, Prostitutes Work Longer for Less," New York Times, 19 August 1997)

In New York City, 40% of street prostituted women have injected heroin or cocaine. More than two-thirds of those said they have smoked crack. (results of a survey of 4,200 "street prostitutes" by researchers at Frost’d, Christopher S. Wren, "Addicted to Crack, Prostitutes Work Longer for Less," New York Times, 19 August 1997)

There are 177 strip clubs, X-rated video parlors and peep shows in New York City’s Times Square, one of America’s most infamous red-light districts. Across the New York City’s five boroughs, the number of adult businesses has increased by more than 30% since 1988. ("Zoning law threatens adult business Times Square could lost most of its red-light district if its enforced in city," Milwaukee Sentinel & Journal, 3 March 1998)

The 1998 Manhattan Yellow Pages has 52 pages of escort services - legal businesses that frequently front as prostitution networks. In 1997, there were 35 pages. (Police department statistics, Kit. R. Roane, "World’s Oldest Profession Moves Off the Streets," New York Times, 23 February 1998)

In 1994, New York City began a crackdown to get rid of street prostitution. When more than 9,500 prostitutes and male buyers were arrested men had their names published and vehicles taken away, the women who were arrested for prostitution were given jail sentences. The crackdown cut the number of street prostitutes in half in some parts of the City. Repeat offenders declined. The Number of convictions per prostitute declined with 50% of them now having no more than one prior conviction, while prior to this it was not unusual to see defendants who had 100 prior arrests. Prostitution has been driven off the street to inside locations. (Michele Svirdoff, research diretor Midtown Community Court’s Center for Court Innovation, Kit. R. Roane, "World’s Oldest Profession Moves Off the Streets," New York Times, 23 February 1998)

4,500-5,000 of the 50,000 prostitutes in New York are on the streets. (Christopher S. Wren, "Addicted to Crack, Prostitutes Work Longer for Less," New York Times, 19 August 1997)

"Fair Play," a "Victorian House of Fetishism and Role Play" in a residential area in New York City operated as a brothel with a 16-room dungeon where buyers pay $150 an hour for sadomasochistic sex with ropes, leather and handcuffs. In July 1997, police arrested Frederic Gorski, 50, and Joseph Villani, 27, and charged each with operating an illegal massage parlor. (Douglas Montero, Larry Celona, Allen Salkin, "New York: They City of Brothel-y Love," New York Post, 5 April 1998)

Seven murdered women, believed to be prostitutes, are suspected victims of a serial killer in Spokane, Washington. Their deaths are possibly linked to a dozen other murders in the area since 1984. ("Serial Killer Believed in Spokane," Associated Press, 2 April 1998)

Ten women’s bodies have been found in the Missouri River between Oct 1996 and April 1998. Many of the women were suspected of being prostitutes on Independence Avenue. (A Scharnhorst, "Team to investigate death of woman found in river," 9 April 1998)

Between 1982-1995 seven women, six suspected of being prostitutes, were murdered and thrown into the Missouri River. Gregory Breeden has been charged with one of the deaths. (A Scharnhorst, "Team to investigate death of woman found in river," 9 April 1998)

In New York City, magazines like "The American Sex Scene," "Screw" and "New York Sex Guide" and Internet sites like ny-exotics.com contain listings for dozens of places that offer "full-service" massages, a euphemism for prostitution. (Douglas Montero, Larry Celona, Allen Salkin, "New York: They City of Brothel-y Love," New York Post, 5 April 1998)

Pimps have strong ownership rights over the women and girls they control. Girls who belong to one pimp are not permitted to even look at another. (Laura Italiano, "I’m A Good Guy: Sex Dealer," New York Post, 23 February 1998)

The Internet is increasingly being used by men to locate prostitutes in New York City, making solicitation less visible. (Kit. R. Roane, "World’s Oldest Profession Moves Off the Streets," New York Times, 23 February 1998)

A radio station, KUFO, in Portland, Oregon sponsored a contest in which the winner got a weekend at the Bunny Ranch, a legal brothel in Nevada. (Personal communication, March 1998)

The murders of three prostituted women in one year (1997) in South Florida indicate that a serial killer may be at large. ("South Florida may be home to serial killer," United Press International, 4 December 1997)

At least six prostituted women were murdered in San Francisco in 1996-1997. (Reverand Glenda Hope, founder of Promise, San Francisco, Stephanie Salter "Creating hope from lives of desperation" San Francisco Examiner, 16 November 1997)

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The John Next Door

Newsweek, 7/17/2011
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The men who buy sex are your neighbors and colleagues. A new study reveals how the burgeoning demand for porn and prostitutes is warping personal relationships and endangering women and girls.

Men of all ages, races, religions, and backgrounds do it. Rich men do it, and poor men do it, in forms so varied and ubiquitous that they can be summoned at a moment's notice.

And yet surprisingly little is known about the age-old practice of buying sex, long assumed to be inevitable. No one even knows what proportion of the male population does it; estimates range from 16 percent to 80 percent. "Ninety-nine percent of the research in this field has been done on prostitutes, and 1 percent has been done on johns," says Melissa Farley, director of Prostitution Research and Education, a nonprofit organization that is a project of San Francisco Women's Centers.

A clinical psychologist, Farley studies prostitution, trafficking, and sexual violence, but even she wasn't sure how representative her results were. "The question has always remained: are all our findings true of just sex buyers, or are they true of men in general?" she says.

In a new study released exclusively to NEWSWEEK, "Comparing Sex Buyers With Men Who Don't Buy Sex," Farley provides some startling answers. Although the two groups share many attitudes about women and sex, they differ in significant ways illustrated by two quotes that serve as the report's subtitle.

One man in the study explained why he likes to buy prostitutes: "You can have a good time with the servitude," he said. A contrasting view was expressed by another man as the reason he doesn't buy sex: "You're supporting a system of degradation," he said.

And yet buying sex is so pervasive that Farley's team had a shockingly difficult time locating men who really don't do it. The use of pornography, phone sex, lap dances, and other services has become so widespread that the researchers were forced to loosen their definition in order to assemble a 100-person control group.

"We had big, big trouble finding nonusers," Farley says. "We finally had to settle on a definition of non-sex-buyers as men who have not been to a strip club more than two times in the past year, have not purchased a lap dance, have not used pornography more than one time in the last month, and have not purchased phone sex or the services of a sex worker, escort, erotic masseuse, or prostitute."

Many experts believe the digital age has spawned an enormous increase in sexual exploitation; today anyone with access to the Internet can easily make a "date" through online postings, escort agencies, and other suppliers who cater to virtually any sexual predilection. The burgeoning demand has led to a dizzying proliferation of services so commonplace that many men don't see erotic massages, strip clubs, or lap dances as forms of prostitution. "The more the commercial sex industry normalizes this behavior, the more of this behavior you get," says Norma Ramos, executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW).

The ordinariness of sex buyers is suggested by their traditional designation as "johns," the most generic of male names. "They're the cops, the schoolteacher--the dignified, respected individuals. They're everybody," says a young woman who was trafficked into prostitution at the age of 10 and asked to be identified as T.O.M.

Equally typical were the men in Farley's study, who lived in the Boston area and ranged from 20 to 75, with an average age of 41. Most were married or partnered, like the majority of men who patronize prostitutes.

Overall, the attitudes and habits of sex buyers reveal them as men who dehumanize and commodify women, view them with anger and contempt, lack empathy for their suffering, and relish their own ability to inflict pain and degradation.

Farley found that sex buyers were more likely to view sex as divorced from personal relationships than nonbuyers, and they enjoyed the absence of emotional involvement with prostitutes, whom they saw as commodities. "Prostitution treats women as objects and not ... humans," said one john interviewed for the study.

In their interviews, the sex buyers often voiced aggression toward women, and were nearly eight times as likely as nonbuyers to say they would rape a woman if they could get away with it. Asked why he bought sex, one man said he liked "to beat women up." Sex buyers in the study committed more crimes of every kind than nonbuyers, and all the crimes associated with violence against women were committed by the johns.

Prostitution has always been risky for women; the average age of death is 34, and the American Journal of Epidemiology reported that prostitutes suffer a "workplace homicide rate" 51 times higher than that of the next most dangerous occupation, working in a liquor store.

Farley's findings suggest that the use of prostitution and pornography may cause men to become more aggressive. Sex buyers in the study used significantly more pornography than nonbuyers, and three quarters of them said they received their sex education from pornography, compared with slightly more than half of the nonbuyers. "Over time, as a result of their prostitution and pornography use, sex buyers reported that their sexual preferences changed and they sought more sadomasochistic and anal sex," the study reported.

"Prostitution can get you to think that things you may have done with a prostitute you should expect in a mutual loving relationship," said one john who was interviewed. Such beliefs inspire anger toward other women if they don't comply, impairing men's ability to sustain relationships with nonprostitutes.

Sex buyers often prefer the license they have with prostitutes. "You're the boss, the total boss," said another john. "Even us normal guys want to say something and have it done no questions asked. No 'I don't feel like it.' No 'I'm tired.' Unquestionable obedience. I mean that's powerful. Power is like a drug."

Many johns view their payment as giving them unfettered permission to degrade and assault women. "You get to treat a ho like a ho," one john said. "You can find a ho for any type of need--slapping, choking, aggressive sex beyond what your girlfriend will do."

Although sex buyers saw prostitution as consensual, other men acknowledged that more complex economic and emotional factors influence the "choice" to prostitute oneself. "You can see that life circumstances have kind of forced her into that," said one nonbuyer in the study. "It's like someone jumping from a burning building--you could say they made their choice to jump, but you could also say they had no choice."

T.O.M.'s story is a case in point. Her father went to prison when she was 2 years old, and she was 4 the first time her body was exchanged for drugs by her mother, an addict. Growing up in foster-care families, she was abused in every one. When she was 10, a 31-year-old pimp promised he would take care of her. "He was my savior at first--I was stealing food to survive. He said, 'I'll be your mom, your dad, your boyfriend--but you have to do this thing for me.' And then he sold me."

For the next five years, until he went to jail, her pimp trafficked her all over the Western United States. "I looked very much like a child for the first three years, and that made it more profitable for him," T.O.M. reports, still diminutive and fine-boned at 21. In Farley's study, one thing that johns and men who don't buy sex agreed on was the ease of access to such children: nearly 100 percent of men interviewed in the study said that minors were virtually always available for purchase in Boston.

Trafficked children often have histories similar to that of T.O.M. Research indicates that most prostitutes were sexually abused as girls, and they typically enter "the life" between the ages of 12 and 14. The majority have drug dependencies or mental illnesses, and one third have been threatened with death by pimps, who often use violence to keep them in line.

But the sex buyers in Farley's study overlooked such coercion and showed little empathy for prostitutes' experiences or their cumulative toll. Researchers and service providers consistently find high levels of posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, suicidal ideation, and other psychological problems among prostitutes. "It doesn't matter whether it's in a back alley or on silk sheets, legal or illegal--all kinds of prostitution cause extreme emotional stress for the women involved," Farley says.

And yet johns prefer to view prostitutes as loving sex and enjoying their customers. "The sex buyers were way off in their estimates of the women's feelings," Farley reports. "In reality, the bottom line is that prostituted women are not enjoying sex, and the longer she's in it, the less she enjoys sex acts--even in her real life, because she has to shut down in order to perform sex acts with 10 strangers a day, and she can't turn it back on. What happens is called somatic dissociation; this also happens to incest survivors and people who are tortured."

Farley is a leading proponent of the "abolitionist" view that prostitution is inherently harmful and should be eradicated, and her findings are likely to inflame an already contentious issue. "Modern-day prostitution is modern-day slavery," says former ambassador Swanee Hunt, founding director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and cofounder of the Hunt Alternatives Fund, a sponsor of Farley's study.

But other feminists defend pornography on First Amendment or "sex-positive" grounds, and support women's freedom to "choose" prostitution. Tracy Quan, who became a prostitute as a 14-year-old runaway, says that many women do it for lack of better economic opportunities. "When I was 16, it's not like there were great high-paying jobs out there for me," says Quan, the author of Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl and a spokeswoman for a sex workers' advocacy group.

"My view of the sex industry is that if we treat it as work and address some of its dangers, it would be less dangerous," says Melissa Ditmore, an author and research consultant to the Sex Workers Project of the Urban Justice Center in New York.

And yet even Quan admits she had one customer who tied her up and scared her so badly she thought he was going to kill her. Noting that such men often escalate their violence over time, she starts to cry; there is a long silence as she struggles to regain control. "I always wondered if he went on to kill somebody else," she says finally.

In response to such dangers, a growing antitrafficking movement is now targeting sexual exploitation both here and abroad. "Before this time, we heard from 'happy hookers,' we saw Pretty Woman, the whole country was being fed a pack of lies about prostitution, and sex trafficking was invisible," says Dorchen Leidholdt, cofounder of CATW. "There is a growing recognition that this is pervasive, that it's enslavement, and that we've got to do something about it."

No one really knows how many women and children are trafficked for sex in the United States, often through the use of force, fraud, or coercion; the scope of the problem is hotly debated, but many believe it is growing. An array of organizations are now working to combat trafficking by building coalitions to reshape policies and change attitudes in the criminal-justice and social-welfare systems. "I think there has been an amazing evolution in thinking, and the movement is growing by the day," says Norma Ramos of CATW.

Such efforts have led to the passage of tougher enforcement laws and the growing use of "john schools" that offer educational programs and counseling as an alternative to sentencing for first offenders. Their effectiveness is under debate, however; Farley's study found that johns themselves viewed jail as a far more powerful deterrent to recidivism, and the strongest deterrent of all was the threat of being registered as a sex offender.

Estimates suggest that "for every john arrested for attempting to buy sex, there are up to 50 women in prostitution arrested," Farley reports.

But the traditional double standard that punished women and forgave men is also being reevaluated. "It's been accepted that this is something men will do, without any real thought about the victims," says New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, whose department recently started an antitrafficking unit and increased its sting operations against johns. "It was considered a victimless crime. But it certainly isn't; we realize that young women are being victimized."

During her years in prostitution, T.O.M. reports that the police often violated her and always treated her "as a criminal, not a victim. This is the only form of child abuse where the child is put behind bars," says T.O.M., who has escaped prostitution and is now working as a youth advocate in California.

Many law-enforcement officials say such longstanding practices are changing and credit the efforts of the antitrafficking movement. "I've seen a huge shift," says Inspector Brian Bray, commander of the Narcotics and Special Investigations Division of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C. "When I first started, I didn't really understand how many of these girls have been trafficked. Now our mindset has changed from assuming the girls are criminals to trying to rescue the victims, provide them the services they need, and get information to lock up their traffickers. Most of our arrests used to be female prostitutes, but now we arrest more johns than we do prostitutes."

Striking developments abroad are also influencing policies in the United States. In 1999 Sweden decided that prostitution was a form of violence against women and made it a crime to buy sex, although not to sell it. This approach dramatically reduced trafficking, whereas the legalization of prostitution in the Netherlands, Germany, and much of Australia led to an explosive growth in demand that generated an increase in trafficking and other crimes. Sweden's success in dealing with the problem has persuaded other countries to follow suit. "The Swedish model passed in South Korea, Norway, and Iceland, and has been introduced in Israel and Mexico," says Ramos.

Despite the struggle to control it, human trafficking is often described as the fastest-growing criminal enterprise in the world, and as second only to drug trafficking in its profitability. With billions of dollars at stake, the campaign against sexual exploitation has also provoked a predictable backlash. Last year Craigslist shut down its "adult" classified-ads section in response to the antitrafficking campaign led by Malika Saada Saar, founder of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights. The Craigslist crackdown increased revenue at Backpage.com, where The Village Voice runs its own adult ads.

Clearly worried about growing social pressure, the Voice attacked the antitrafficking campaign last month, charging that it has exaggerated the extent of the problem. The most common estimates, oft-repeated by major media, suggest that 100,000 to 300,000 children are trafficked in the United States every year. The Voice reported that this statistic identifies children at risk and claimed that the number of those who are actually trafficked is only a fraction of those figures. But the Voice's calculations were promptly dismissed as unreliable; Seattle's mayor and police chief pointed out that their city alone is estimated to have hundreds of minors exploited for commercial sex, and they accused Backpage.com of acting as an "accelerant" of underage sex trafficking.

The Voice also ridiculed Real Men Don't Buy Girls, the antitrafficking video campaign launched earlier this year by Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher with a series of public-service ads featuring Justin Timberlake, Sean Penn, Bradley Cooper, and Jamie Foxx. The ads reflect a growing recognition that men are the key to addressing this problem.

Sex buyers are overwhelmingly male, and they purchase males as well as females. Whatever its form, the underlying question posed by prostitution remains the same: should people be entitled to buy other human beings for sexual gratification? If such ancient practices are to be curtailed, both johns and men who don't buy sex will have to rethink their complicity, according to Ted Bunch, cofounder of A Call to Men, a national organization working to end violence against women and girls.

"This is the first generation of men that's being held accountable for something men have always gotten away with, and that's why you have such a backlash," Bunch says. "Our social conditioning is to see women as objects, as property--that's what commercial sexual exploitation is all about. It's a multibillion-dollar industry; it makes more money than the NFL, the NBA, and Major League Baseball combined."

Fighting that behemoth will require the participation of both sexes. "The system has been set up to blame women for the violence men perpetrate, and this has been seen as a women's issue, so it's easy for men not to get involved. But men's silence about the violence men perpetrate is as much of a problem as the violence itself," Bunch says. "Men feed the demand, and men have to eradicate the demand."

http://www.prostitutionresearc..._buy_sex/000312.html

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Hey deh Johnny, yopu return from your nightly rounds. Good to see you safe bai.

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Prostitution in America

March 19, 2008

In a rare and intimate look at the oldest profession in the world, Diane Sawyer goes inside both the legal and the underground businesses of prostitution in America.

From expensive New York penthouses to Nevada's legal brothels to the tough streets outside Philadelphia and Reno, Sawyer speaks candidly with America's "working girls."

Who are these women, what drives them to sell sex for money and what is it like to work as a prostitute? Sawyer also speaks with experts, including New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, to examine the state of prostitution today.

The world of high-end, high-priced prostitution has been in the news lately because of former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's scandal involving an alleged high-priced escort service, but this kind of service underrepresents what prostitution in America really is. Behind the "Pretty Woman" image is a world of vulnerability, danger and fear.

For more than two years, "20/20" cameras documented the daily risks of streetwalkers and expensive call girls. The report captures the realities of who these women are and how the law deals with them compared to their male clientele.

The program follows women -- whether a single mom, a college student, a housewife, a school teacher or a drug addict -- who have ended up in places they never planned to be. Some are lured by the dream of a flashy lifestyle and fast money, others to feed their drug habit and just to survive, but almost all struggle with the challenge of how hard it is to get out of the profession.

Whether the women are making $20 in five minutes or $20,000 in one night, the program follows the grim spiral of dependence these women often fall into.

One working girl named Jessie says,"We believe money buys happiness. And it doesn't. But it does for a while." Another says she makes as much in one day at a legalized brothel than she would make as a nurse working for two weeks. What would it take for them to change their lives?

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rest yourself this is the oldest profession in the world.

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Source: New York Daily News
By Nicole Bode, Daily News Staff Writer

Prostitution horror for young women

News investigation into the plight of young women forced into horror of prostitution

Hundreds of young women stand with their backs pressed up against a graffiti-covered concrete wall on a side street in Tijuana. Leering men swarm around the girls, some as young as 8, as a chill wind blows across their exposed skin, bound tightly inside leather bustiers, miniskirts and schoolgirl uniforms.

Before the night is over, the girls of "Zona Rosa" - a notorious red-light district just a few blocks from the main tourist drag in this Mexican border town - will make as much as $250 each by selling sex.

It's cold-blooded sexual slavery - forced prostitution that began when they were kidnapped from their small towns in Mexico and Central America and smuggled through a dangerous corridor that leads into the United States.

After they work their apprenticeships in Tijuana, many of the girls end up as sexual servants in New York's illegal brothels.

"I've been in this business for 30 years - it's much more prevalent now than it was then," said federal agent Martin Ficke, who oversees the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's New York division.

"They are coming from everywhere," Ficke said. "[They] are brought to the U.S. under false pretenses and they are forced to work as prostitutes against their will."

As many as 17,500 sex slaves are smuggled into the United States each year, according to the latest federal statistics.

One out of every three people trafficked into New York is forced into prostitution, according to Safe Horizon, a Manhattan-based human rights organization.

The depraved exploitation will be spotlighted by this week's Brooklyn Federal Court case against the Carreto family, a group of extended relatives from Mexico.

Preying upon uneducated and impressionable girls from poor towns throughout Mexico, the family allegedly kidnapped, raped and beat its victims into submission. The family made hundreds of thousands of dollars, while its sex slaves, who toiled inside ordinary-looking homes in Queens, earned next to nothing, authorities charge.

At the heart of the shadowy sex-trafficking industry lies Zona Rosa, law enforcement sources told the Daily News.

"Tijuana is a good crossing point because it's a prostitution zone," said Marisa Ugarte, executive director of the Bilateral Safety Corridor Coalition, an anti-trafficking group based in San Diego. "It's easy to get from Tijuana into Arizona, California, Texas, to New York. It's simple."

The border town, a short drive from San Diego, also provides a daily flood of sex-hungry tourists and a police department that looks the other way.

During a recent trip to Zona Rosa, The News found dozens of cops standing by as hundreds of girls sold sex to strangers.

The girls' burly pimps kept a watchful eye, never moving more than a few feet away. Nearby, street hustlers solicited customers, many of them American men, telling them to move inside dank bars and seedy, second-story motels. They promised "naked massage." Many johns were eager to oblige, forking over a going rate of $20 to $60 for a half-hour session of forced sexual favors.

Premium prices were charged for "bareback," or unprotected sex. But the highest prices were charged for the youngest girls - or "cherries" - who are prized for their fresh appearance and their supposed lack of sexually transmitted diseases.

"There is a perception that the younger the child, the safer you are going to be and the less disease-ridden you are going to be," Ugarte said. "It's another myth because by the time they have a 12-year-old or a 13-year-old, by this time maybe she has already had 50 to 60 men." The girls are forbidden from keeping the money they make from sex and are prohibited from contacting their families or talking to other women.

Violence against them is frequent and severe.

The pimps beat the girls with coat hangers, cables, beer bottles and belts. Many of them are forced to have abortions when they become pregnant and others are given crystal meth and cocaine so they become addicts.

The pimps also threaten to hurt the girls' loved ones.

"They say, 'We'll kill your family.' If they have babies, they say, 'We'll kill your babies,'" said Deputy Sheriff Rick Castro of the San Diego Sheriff's Department.

The sex rings are well-organized and many pimps work with relatives - just as the Carretos allegedly did to smuggle girls to Queens.

Each ring uses its own route from Tijuana into the United States.

Some drive girls across the border flashing counterfeit documents in California. Other sex slaves are slipped across the border on foot and then shuttled by van to brothels through a network of covert safehouses.

Still other pimps promise to smuggle the impressionable girls into the United States, telling them they can get jobs as nannies, cooks and maids - making enough money to support their families back home.

These traffickers charge the girls as much as $7,500 in illicit crossing fees - but once they get to the United States, the girls are raped and forced into prostitution. By the time the girls realize they have been kidnapped, it's too late for them to escape.

"They start going, 'Why aren't we free to leave? ... Why are there men blocking the exit?'" Castro said.

A ring of traffickers busted last year forced 50 girls to have sex with 300 to 500 men a day in a field of reeds just north of San Diego. The girls were given a piece of carpet or a towel to lay on, and an egg timer to keep track of their 10-minute sessions. Each man paid $20 for his window of time.

The ring catered to day laborers, and advertised through word of mouth.

In New York, the sex slaves' clientele includes illegal immigrants who work long hours to send money back to their families and use what little money they have left to buy illicit pleasure. President Bush's administration has moved aggressively to combat human trafficking, and Bush has mentioned the problem in many major speeches.

Despite the growing awareness, anti-trafficking advocates face a daunting task.

The victimized girls are reluctant to go to authorities because they feel a crippling sense of shame. Most also are living here illegally and don't trust law enforcement because authorities in their hometowns either profit from the sex-slave trade or do nothing to prevent it.

"A lot of people think prostitution is voluntary, and maybe for some women it is," Castro said. "But when you're talking about children or people who were brought in under false pretenses, that's not voluntary. That's something completely different."


Seductive lure of bogus ads


Mexican sex traffickers deceive countless young women into becoming prostitutes by placing bogus ads in local papers. Here's a look at one of the ads, translated from Spanish:


If you are between 18 and 24 years old, like to dance, are a size 3 to 7 ... are pretty and want to get between $6,000 and $20,000, pay attention. We're offering:


A round-trip plane ticket.
A work visa to Canada.
Housing.
Transportation from the hotel to the clubs.
Advice on the law.
Contract for six weeks' work.
Training if you have no experience.

Help put end to nightmare

http://www.stopdemand.org/afaw...137/newsdetails.html

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"Prostitution as an institution is evil. It doesn't matter if it is the 'world's oldest profession', it is still wrong."
Dorn Checkley:
Director of the Pittsburg Coalition Against Pornography

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"Prostitution as an institution is evil. It doesn't matter if it is the 'world's oldest profession', it is still wrong."
Dorn Checkley:
Director of the Pittsburg Coalition Against Pornography

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Hey Johnny, tek it easy bai. You gon bruk yuh old back.

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Dan Rather Reports
Posted: May 18, 2010 10:14 AM

Child prostitution has become a national problem in this country. Yes, I know that you have trouble believing that. You don't want to believe it, so you tend not to.

"Widespread sex trafficking in children?", you may be saying to yourself. "Sure, it happens overseas in places like Thailand and Moldova, and while there may be some of it here there's not that much of it in our country."

Based on a months long investigation and some reportorial digging, I'm here to tell you that you are wrong. We all are. We're in denial.

In covering news for more than 60 years, I'd like to think that few stories shock me anymore. But this is one of them. We ran across it late last year and the more we dug, the more disturbing it became.

Eighty-year-old men paying a premium to violate teenage girls, sometimes supplied by former drug gangs now into child sex trafficking big time? You've got to be kidding. Nope. That's happening and a lot more along the same lines.

The business is booming. One of the worst areas for it runs along lines running roughly from Seattle to Portland, to San Francisco and Los Angeles, to Las Vegas. But no place in the country is immune.

To pick just one example among many, Portland, Oregon is without doubt one of the nation's treasures. It has been voted one of the best places to live and work. But according to police, the city and its outlying communities has become a hub for the sexual exploitation of children. In a recent nationwide sting by Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, Portland ranked second in the country for the number of rescued child prostitutes. And according to Doug Justus, the workhorse sergeant in charge of Portland's tiny Vice Detail, many of the children caught up in this are middle class kids from the area.

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Still going strong Johnny. This key word "Prostitution" doing wonder for you old synapses, thanks to Google. Can it be the beginings of your second spring? Good for you ole bai.

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Dan Rather Reports continues.....
Posted: May 18, 2010 10:14 AM

The girls, sometimes as young as 12, often 13-16, are lured by a "front man" in his mid-to-late teens. He becomes her "boyfriend," taking her to dinner, buying her nice things, sometimes meeting her parents. The girl eventually moves in with him. Then he says they need money to continue being together. First, she's enticed to sleep with his friends to pay the rent. Soon she's turning tricks for what police say is an endless supply of older men willing to pay top money for sex with very young girls. Other times convincing the young adolescent girls to sell themselves happens very quickly.

"It is an out-of-control problem. It's unbelievable," say Justus. "I've only done this vice-squad job for three years. I've been a cop for 29. If you had told me three years ago that a 14-year-old girl would go to a food court, meet a guy, and three hours later be selling herself, I'd a said, no frigging way. It happens every single day, every day."

It is a very lucrative business, according to Justus. "An average pimp with one kid will make between $800 and $l,000 a day. That's seven days a week, 30 days a month," he said. And the pimps usually have a stable of young girls. No wonder so many criminals in the drug trade have turned to it which they have in droves. There's less chance of being caught, less chance of being prosecuted if caught, lighter sentences -- if any -- if convicted.

There is, and has been for a long time, a national "War on Drugs." There isn't one on child prostitution and what amounts to a slave trade. Only feeble efforts at best.

Justus is frustrated that the Portland police have only two full-time vice investigators, compared to dozens of drug investigators.

"I'm not a politician. I'm just a cop. But if I'm a criminal and I got busted for drugs and I had a regional (drug) task force over here. And there's another task force over there, and there, and then I know there's only two vice investigators in the city of Portland, let me think. I think I'll sell women because what are the chances of me being caught?"

The story we've prepared is not about prostitution per se. This is about child abuse. This is also about statutory rape and compelling prostitution among the young. All are difficult to prove. A major reason, according to police, is that it's extremely difficult to convince a young girl to testify against their pimps and "johns". They are afraid.

Sgt. Justus told us the story of a 16-year-old girl whom he convinced to "roll" on her pimp. But before she could testify against him she disappeared -- and her pimp walked free. Justus has spent the last year looking for her and fears she's dead.

How many children are being peddled on the streets of Portland and in other cities and towns, to say nothing of the Internet (Justus and other law enforcement people say Craigslist, along with other Internet sites, are major factors in the spread of child prostitution)? Hard to know about the real numbers. The most conservative estimates are that at least 100,000 American children are being victimized. Many experts say they believe it's closer to 300,000 or more.

Whatever the number, it is a national outrage and disgrace. And the problem is growing, not diminishing.

Based on our investigation, we've prepared an hour long program on this problem. We've spoken with parents who never dreamed their young daughter would be caught up in underage prostitution but was. We've also interviewed several girls who lived to tell about their experiences of being sold. Tuesday night at 8pm Eastern time on HDNet, via satellite and cable.

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Hey Johnny, what's your handle on Craig list.

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Hey Johnny, what's your handle on Craig list.

Johnny Johnny

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Countries that regards Prostitution as Legal:

1)Argentina: Population: 40,913,584

Prostitution: Legal
Article 19 of the Constitution states, "The private actions of people that do not offend in any way the public order and morality, nor damage a third person, are only reserved to God, and are exempt from the authority of the magistrates."

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Misleading headline!!

It is debatalbe, as I only got started, might very well become a number one post for the month. In a country where man can marry man and woman can marry woman and people like you tolerating that, just like living in Sodam and Gomorrah.

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HOLD YOUR HORSES BUDDY!!!!

Where and how have you arrived at the conclusion that I am supporting gay marriage?

FOR THE RECORD AND FOR YOUR INFORMATION I AM TOTALLY AGAINST ANY SUCH THING,PERIOD!!

And pleaSE IN THE FUTURE BE CAREFUL BEFORE YOU START YOUR STUPID AND IDIOTIC LABELLING!!

What is the meaning of ProChoice ? I do not support same sex marriages but at the same time I do not oppose it simply because I believe an individual should have the right to choose their way of life once it does not infract on mine. Since drunk driving causes far more deaths how come you guys dont cry out about it. What about people who claim benefits illegally and taxpayers have to foot the bill ? Or what about men who abuse their wives which affects their entire family and damages their kids ?

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Countries that regards Prostitution as Legal:

2) Armenia: Population: 2,967,004

"Prostitution and sex tourism are legal, but operating a brothel is prohibited and engaging in other forms of pimping are punishable by one to 10 years' imprisonment. According to media reports, there were fewer than 5,000 women involved in prostitution in the country, approximately 1,500 of whom were in Yerevan. Police and other security forces reportedly tolerated prostitution...

The country is a source and transit point for women and girls trafficked primarily for sexual and, to a lesser extent, labor exploitation to the United Arab Emirates and Turkey...

Traffickers, using developed networks in source and destination countries, typically recruited victims who were already engaged in prostitution. The majority, but not all, of the identified victims were aware that they would end up in the sex industry in other countries; however, they were unaware of the traffickers' intent or the exploitative circumstances they would face abroad...

Women engaged in prostitution, orphans who had outgrown their institutions, homeless or divorced women, and women in difficult financial situations were at greatest risk of being trafficked. There were some reported incidents of physical violence against trafficking victims."

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Countries that regards Prostitution as Legal:

3) Austria: Population: 8,210,281

Legal since Jan. 1, 1975. Laws regulating prostitution require prostitutes to register, undergo periodic health examinations, be 19 years old or older, and pay taxes.

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Countries that regards Prostitution as Legal:

3) Austria: Population: 8,210,281

Legal since Jan. 1, 1975. Laws regulating prostitution require prostitutes to register, undergo periodic health examinations, be 19 years old or older, and pay taxes.

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Hey Johnny, things looking up for you down under.

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What is the meaning of ProChoice ? I do not support same sex marriages same sex marriages but at the same time I do not oppose it simply because I believe an individual should have the right to choose their way of life once it does not infract on mine. Since drunk driving causes far more deaths how come you guys dont cry out about it. What about people who claim benefits illegally and taxpayers have to foot the bill ? Or what about men who abuse their wives which affects their entire family and damages their kids ?

Same sex marriage, now you gatt ole Johnny (asj) juices flowing.

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Countries that regards Prostitution as Legal:

4) Belgium Population: 10,414,336

Prostitution itself is legal in Belgium, but the law prohibits operating brothels and other forms of pimping or assisting immigration for the purpose of prostitution. However, in practice enforcement can be lax and "unofficial" brothels are tolerated (for example in Antwerp). Human trafficking or exploiting individuals for financial gain is punishable for a maximum prison sentence of 15 years. A recent report by Risk Monitor foundation found that 70% of the prostitutes who work in Belgium are from Bulgaria. Belgium is listed by the UNODC as a top destination for victims of human trafficking. Many sex workers organisations feel that the present grey area in which prostitution operates leaves sex workers vulnerable to exploitation

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Countries that regards Prostitution as Legal:

4) Belgium Population: 10,414,336

Prostitution itself is legal in Belgium, but the law prohibits operating brothels and other forms of pimping or assisting immigration for the purpose of prostitution. However, in practice enforcement can be lax and "unofficial" brothels are tolerated (for example in Antwerp). Human trafficking or exploiting individuals for financial gain is punishable for a maximum prison sentence of 15 years. A recent report by Risk Monitor foundation found that 70% of the prostitutes who work in Belgium are from Bulgaria. Belgium is listed by the UNODC as a top destination for victims of human trafficking. Many sex workers organisations feel that the present grey area in which prostitution operates leaves sex workers vulnerable to exploitation

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Hey Johnny, shhh, Belgium is not a state in the USA.

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Countries that regards Prostitution as Legal:

4) Belgium Population: 10,414,336

Prostitution itself is legal in Belgium, but the law prohibits operating brothels and other forms of pimping or assisting immigration for the purpose of prostitution. However, in practice enforcement can be lax and "unofficial" brothels are tolerated (for example in Antwerp). Human trafficking or exploiting individuals for financial gain is punishable for a maximum prison sentence of 15 years. A recent report by Risk Monitor foundation found that 70% of the prostitutes who work in Belgium are from Bulgaria. Belgium is listed by the UNODC as a top destination for victims of human trafficking. Many sex workers organisations feel that the present grey area in which prostitution operates leaves sex workers vulnerable to exploitation

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Hey Johnny, shhh, Belgium is not a state in the USA.

Why waste your time with this mal educated hate-America-first idiot? The very heading of the thread could only have originated from a jackass. He has to this point not demonstrated that in the US there is loose morals that disproportionately encourages prostitution over other states. We do not know what is his concept of prostitution either since since under his shallow conception ( from the posts to date) it is about the restricted case, sex for money.

However, the nexus between the exchange of cash for sex is broad and can also extend over a vast array of issues that has been the center for feminist thought over the past few decades. In that light we have America as a progressive light in women's rights. Do we for example include pre nuptials, or divorce or dowry or arranged marriages or the nature of marriages in general which was historically a contract for ownership rights to the woman's body. Then there is the matter of temple prostitution and a vast range of commercial exchanges where women are concerned.This man is a virtual jackass. It is little wonder he plagiarized a well known insult by Ambrose Bierce and presented it as his own.

This thread is in light of his usual habit of making stupid anti American posts here on the site. I am particularly incensed that the Owners of this board made him a moderator and also that they allow this kind of serial spanning with no opening argument presented and no argument solicited. It does not happen in discussion boards. In that light this one is unique. In fact, it is unique because only this fool does it. No one else has taken that tact. All we get with this obfuscating trash is the intellectually impoverished rants from a fool through serially posting of anti American crap.

Virtual jackass? He is a mother of all jackasses.

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Countries that regards Prostitution as Legal:

4) Bolivia: Population: 9,775,246

Sometime ago, Bolivia's 'night workers' went on strike. Up to 35,000 prostitutes across the country have refused to report for the medical checkups required every 20 days to legally work the streets...

It comes in response to attacks in the city of El Alto last week in which citizens burned brothels and beat sex workers in protest against legal prostitution... The rampage began after citizens demanded that brothels and bars be located at least 3,200 feet away from schools. Within 48 hours, angry mobs had taken matters into their own hands, burning more than 30 establishments...

The municipal government responded by closing all brothels within 1,600 feet of schools, but took no action against those who had attacked the prostitutes... The latest violence against Bolivia's sex workers is not surprising. Although the Supreme Court in 2001 legalized prostitution, which is widely practiced nationwide, the oldest profession has not gained the relative social acceptance it enjoys in some European countries. Instead, women and men in the sex industry have become scapegoats for everything from broken homes to the rising HIV-infection rate."

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Jackass gone wild...bolivia is now the USA.

Johnny, here to you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHHvnLzhjh4

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Child Prostitution Growing in the U.S.A.
March 20, 2010

Human trafficking or otherwise called child prostitution is an American problem most people don’t even know exist. Most people think this only happens in other countries when in fact early statistics show more than 400,000 child prostitutes are in the U.S. alone, over 800,000 in the world.

According to the FBI the money in child prostitution is much higher than adult prostitution and this problem is getting worse.

The FBI also says that pimps are advertising more on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and My Space, to attract and recruit the children.

The average age for a child prostitute in the United States is 12 years old and anywhere between the ages of 11 to 17. I remember reading about one girl that was rescued in an FBI raid that was only 9 years old.

Many people can’t believe that human trafficking is such a huge problem in the United States. Thousands of children are bought and sold for sex every day across America.

Some of these children are taken to truck stops and made to do thirty sex acts per day and if they try to escape their pimps beat them so badly that they don’t try to leave a second time for fear of getting beaten to death.

Every now and then, the public will hear about human trafficking in the United States, when in fact if the news media reported child prostitution every time it happened, there wouldn’t be any time left to tell other stories.

The internet is vastly being used for child prostitution! The pimps have taken it off of the streets where it can be seen and have now hidden it on the internet.

Statistics will only grow exponentially unless we’re proactive and protect our children and teens against this terrible crime.

http://www.darylwhicker.com/ch...rowing-in-the-u-s-a/

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Oi asj, I noticed this the other day and it troubled me.
In a sense, Guyana is now legalising the spread of the HIV virus. Sad, ain't it?
Kinda scary.

Guyana rejects criminalising HIV transmission

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana's Parliament has rejected a proposal that would have made it a crime to knowingly infect someone with HIV, saying it would lead to further discrimination and discourage voluntary testing.

The South American country has one of the highest HIV rates in Latin America and the Caribbean, with an estimated 13,000 people infected out a total population of 745,000.

Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy praised last night's vote, saying such a law would only worsen the stigma of HIV and encourage people to avoid testing.

"This in turn can lead to increased spreading of HIV from those who do not know their status," Ramsammy said.

The United Nations' Caribbean office congratulated legislators on making what it called "a mature and measured decision."

"Such a law would have deepened the climate of denial, secrecy and fear surrounding the virus in Guyana," it said in a statement.

"Ironically, a measure meant to reduce the spread of HIV could have led to its increase."

Opposition legislators did not vote on the proposal because of an unrelated boycott.

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Opposition legislators did not vote on the proposal because of an unrelated boycott.

Having to live with Aids.....is just like crime, as in many cases victims of aids, are sometimes shunned by society, putting a further penalty to the infected person, I guess would have seen too harsh.....as they say if one is having unprotected sex, with a new partner, then it would be foolish not to use a condom.

I guess that the opposition losses an opportunity, to present their views, would have been interesting to know their views.

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USA PROSTITUTION COUNTRY

What Is the Extent of Human Trafficking in the United States ?

Contrary to a common assumption, human trafficking is not just a problem in other countries. Cases of human trafficking have been reported in all 50 states, Washington D.C., and some U.S. territories. Victims of human trafficking can be children or adults, U.S. citizens or foreign nationals, male or female.

According to U.S. government estimates, thousands of men, women, and children are trafficked to the United States for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation. An unknown number of U.S. citizens and legal residents are trafficked within the country primarily for sexual servitude and, to a lesser extent, forced labor.

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USA PROSTITUTION COUNTRY

What Is the Extent of Human Trafficking in the United States ?

Contrary to a common assumption, human trafficking is not just a problem in other countries. Cases of human trafficking have been reported in all 50 states, Washington D.C., and some U.S. territories. Victims of human trafficking can be children or adults, U.S. citizens or foreign nationals, male or female.

According to U.S. government estimates, thousands of men, women, and children are trafficked to the United States for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation. An unknown number of U.S. citizens and legal residents are trafficked within the country primarily for sexual servitude and, to a lesser extent, forced labor.

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Hey Johnny, you had a dream or what.

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Opposition legislators did not vote on the proposal because of an unrelated boycott.

Having to live with Aids......

I did not realized you live with aids, es tut mir sehr leid. I realize these drug coctail have lots of emotional side effects, but try to keep a positive attitude. It does help.

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Originally posted by asj:

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Opposition legislators did not vote on the proposal because of an unrelated boycott.

Having to live with Aids......

I did not realized you live with aids, es tut mir sehr leid. I realize these drug coctail have lots of emotional side effects, but try to keep a positive attitude. It does help.

The dregs of Society which fits you perfectly well will always be a dweller of the gutter.

When an ineffable dunce like you has nothing to say and says it with a liberal embellishment of bad delivery, embroidering it with reasonless vulgarities of attitude, gesture and attire. Then there can no other way of describing you as blockhead so stupid, a crank so variously and offensively daft. Just seems like one to ignore.

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