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POPSRecession-hit brothels offer novel promotions The promotion is popular which brothel owners who have to pay their sex workers a fixed daily wage whether or not they have any clients. But conservative politicians have expressed disgust at the innovation and have ordered a wave of police raids on sex clubs in an effort to bring it to an end.
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POPSFamous prostitute's gravestone deemed too 'slutty'
Maybe provocative or sexy. I wouldn't call it "slutty" though? "But the cemetery officials are not alone in criticising Ungerer’s memorial. Photographer Günther Zint, another friend of Niehoff, told the newspaper, “There was a bit of a debate among her friends whether Tomi needed to emphasise her breasts like that. They were after all a bane of her life.” Niehoff, who gained fame for advocating the rights of sex workers in the 70s and 80s, died at age 63 in February 2009. Originally from Cologne, Niehoff lived through drugs, child prostitution and desperate attempts to get out of the sex trade. She grew up in an orphanage before slipping into prostitution, when she married a brothel owner, who committed suicide ten years later. She worked as a prostitute in Munich and Hamburg and had her own brothel before she began to push for the legalisation of prostitution in Germany in the 1980s. She then became a social worker to help women to get off the street."
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POPSHIV cases in porn industry may be fewer than thought The people who were yelling and shouting that names should be released forget one thing: these are medical records, and there are very specific rules with very specific penalties for disclosing personal health information improperly. Especially since it seems the panic may have been overblown. One more way sex workers are considered less than full people in this society.
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POPSYour Tax Money at Work just how many people had to work all year long to pay the taxes for this $2.6 million waste of time and energy?
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POPSA World Is Sick When Slavery's Tolerated The statistics on this blog post are astounding, in terms of the number of human beings who are trafficked for labor and/or sex. It is awful. Do you part. Start by reading this article and then look up on the net how you can help.
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POPSInternational Women's Day: Exceptional photos!!! Each photo has a tale to tell. I'm unable to include the full comments. Please go to site to read in full. There are more that I could not include. Search for "International Woman's Day" for more and a fulsome explanation.
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POPS"America : The Gift Shop"
the PIPELINE: Style on Tap * September 19, 2008 11:32 AM * News National Nightmares for Sale: The Disturbing Mementos of "America: The Gift Shop" By Gabriel Bell philtoledano_america1.jpg After eight years of government that have left a sizable chip on America's shoulder, it's no big surprise that W-era memorabilia isn't exactly flooding the market. Enter photographer Phillip Toledano who previously explored the dirty corners of this country with arresting exposés on offices emptied by the dot-com crash and phone-sex workers. This time, Toledano's "America: The Gift Shop" virtual exhibition takes on the torture, special rendition, and government secrecy with enough cheek to make you gasp, giggle, or groan (depending on your politics). Turning to plastic arts instead of his camera, Toledano has created a conceptual store of Bush administration mementos, including such satirical wonders as a bouncy Gitmo holding cell, an Abu Ghraib bobblehead doll, and a Dick Cheney
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POPSMore sex is safer sex ..So at the end of the decade, we have a lot more premarital sex and not all that much condom use with girlfriends. But now that these young, cash-strapped guys can have sex without paying, they've stopped handing over cash for sex. By the end of the 1990s, only 7 percent of young men were paying for sex, and HIV prevalence in sex workers had come down too. ....In short, more women having premarital sex equals less HIV.
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POPSActing Globally, Living Locally: Nurse Visits Over 60 Countries Simin Marefat, an unstoppable nurse: For almost 10 years, wherever she went, she saw enormous need and a huge deficit of resources around the globe from Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan to Chile, Argentina, Peru and Bolivia. She organized a benefit in 2006 that raised $14,000: the proceeds helped Orphans of Rwanda to build a health clinic at Gisimba Memorial Center. She visited the clinic in June 2007 to see that the children all have health cards with their pictures and vaccinations and medications. They have a nurse who provides for them. She then organized a second benefit which raised $18,000: the proceeds will cover tuition for 34 Orphans of Rwanda to go to school. Fleeing Iran, her family arrived in the United States in 1986 to Hays, Kansas. It was that odyssey, beginning with escape, displacement, discrimination and eventual acceptance, Marefat says, that taught her anything was possible.
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POPSHIV Risk and the Transgender Population What Can Be Done? Like all problems, much can be accomplished through education. Examples of what is needed include: * Providers must be educated as to the needs of the transgender community. * Insurance companies need to be educated regarding the importance of hormonal therapy, the ramifications if hormones are not a covered drug, and the need to include coverage for hormones in their drug programs. * Prevention messages and education needs to be targeted to the transgender community in a manner that is sensitive to their needs, concerns and fears. * Providers must provide a safe place for those identifying as transgender to disclose their gender identity.
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POPSBill Gates on HIV in China The Wall Street Journal Health Blog has a nice interview with Gates about his foundation's decision to give $50 million in grants to fight AIDS in China.
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