Revellers out in force in Rio for carnival
Against a backdrop of samba rhythms and colourful costumes, partygoers hit the streets of Rio de Janeiro on Friday as the city's carnival was declared officially open. The five-day extravaganza will culminate in parades from Rio's top samba schools. 14-2-2013
Sex work at the big game: the myth and its makers
For as long as spectators have wanted to crowd around men playing games, so have those who document sports boasted of how many women flock to service all those captive fans. Historians have claimed that along with athletes and the people who adored them, prostitutes, too, poured into ancient Greece for the Olympics, where they could earn a year's pay working the stands. 14-2-2013
Brazil hotline, soap opera helps
bust prostitution ring in Spain
A call home from an anguished daughter in Spain and images from a soap opera about human trafficking for sexual exploitation led a Brazilian mother to realize her daughter was in trouble. So she called a sexual abuse hotline set up by Brazil's Ministry of Women's Affairs, prompting an international police operation that led authorities to break up a prostitution ring in the Spanish university town of Salamanca last week. 8-2-2013
Does porn hurt relationships?
Looking for further proof of the damaging effects of porn? Lucky for you, the pre-eminent scientific journal Cosmopolitan magazine has weighed in with a survey purporting to show that porn is ruining sex. 30-1-2013
Online dating isn’t killing marriage
A recent work centered around some compelling questions: “What if online dating makes it too easy to meet someone new?” and “What if the prospect of finding an ever-more-compatible mate with the click of a mouse means a future of relationship instability, in which we keep chasing the elusive rabbit around the dating track?” 23-1-2013
Brazilian
police stop trafficking ring
Authorities have arrested 10 Brazilians
accused of luring South American women to Spain and
forcing them into prostitution, a federal police
spokesman said this week. 1-7-2007
Brazil arrests Spaniard suspected of leading international prostitution ring
Brazilian police on Tuesday arrested a Spanish man suspected
of being a leader of an international
human trafficking ring that recruited women to work as prostitutes
in Spain, officials said. 18-3-2007
Brazil cracks down on child sex trade for carnival
Party's Underbelly: As Brazil prepares to
celebrate carnival, police are stepping up efforts to
control its unfortunate offshoots - vice and child
prostitution.
18-3-2007
