Tag - sex-industry

 
 

SEX INDUSTRY

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CULTURE / Books
Jul 4, 2020
‘Healing Labor’: Examining how Japanese sex work is woven into culture and economy
Gabriele Kochu2019s u201cHealing Laboru201d delves into how Japanese sex workers regard their work as necessary to the social and economic well-being of Japanese society.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 28, 2019
Japanese police took action against 40 human traffickers in Japan in 2018; cases decline by 10 from previous year
Police took action against 40 people for human trafficking offenses including forced prostitution last year, up by 10 from a year earlier, official data showed Thursday.
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2016
Should the world's oldest profession be legal?
As Amnesty Interational has pointed out, criminalizing the sex industry does far more harm than good.
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JAPAN / Society
Aug 17, 2016
Sex trade a shaky safety net for Japan's working-poor women
For the past six years, 47-year-old single mother Kasumi Endo has lived a double life.
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JAPAN / Society
Aug 17, 2016
Tokyo exhibition focuses on plight of sexually exploited girls
In Japan, teenage girls who turn to prostitution do so because they want to make easy money or fulfill their own pleasures.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 8, 2016
Two arrested over alleged Thai prostitution racket in Tokyo
A Thai woman and a Chinese female operator of a sex parlor in Tokyo have been arrested for allegedly arranging for another Thai woman overstaying in Japan to provide sexual services, police said Friday.
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WORLD
Feb 23, 2013
Keep it clean: World watches Iceland lead the way toward ban on Web porn
Small, volcanic, with a proud Viking heritage and run by an openly gay prime minister, Iceland is now considering becoming the first democracy in the Western world to try to ban online pornography.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 27, 2008
Law bends over backward to allow 'fuzoku'
Some desires money can't gratify, but for appetites of the flesh, there are ways in Japan to legally sate one's carnal cravings.

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