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I'm stunned. It seems that all contact strip clubs ($10 dances) are illegal in Quebec as of this summer. Long story short: In November 2003, strippers, bouncer, and client are arrested for being in a regular contact strip club in Laval. No one was naked, or having sex: they were engaging...

"A La Havane, les prostituées sont des modèles de réussite": http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/monde/amerique/a-la-havane-les-prostituees-sont-des-modeles-de-reussite_852090.html

"...strains of the Neisseria gonorrhea bacteria were starting to become resistant and could soon become impervious to all current antibiotic treatment options. "Ceftriaxone and cefixime are still very effective but there are signs that resistance, particularly to cefixime is emerging and...

Amusing: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,665182,00.html

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/10/05/prostitution-law005.html

I sometimes have to use 411 service when I'm away from the computer, and it costs almost $2 a call from my cell. Google is now offering free 411: http://www.google.com/goog411/

U.S. tells Canada: Harsher sentences needed for sex traffickers: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/06/16/bc-human-traffic-sentence.html Sex tourists target Canada: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/tourists+target+Canada+report/1703219/story.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1185928/Teen-auctioned-virginity-8-000-LOSE-half--prostitutes-Germany-taxed-50-earnings.html

Came across this story and thought it might interest some. In brief: guy goes to bawdy house very regularly, buys coke from madam, shares with escorts. One day, escort convulses, madam says "she'll take care of it", guy leaves. Escort dies, madam tries to blackmail guy, police eventually...

As many of you probably know, about 1% of Europeans are partly or almost totally immune to HIV/AIDS. I've been interested in the Google backed 23AndMe ever since they launched their service in Canada . Now I just learned that they dropped their prices and are offering testing for the...

Jury selection begins Monday in the long-awaited trial of an Ontario man accused of fatally infecting two of his sexual partners with the virus that causes AIDS. Johnson Aziga, 52, is the first person in Canada to be prosecuted for murder in an HIV infection case for allegedly having...

A B.C. man arrested in a prostitution sting is challenging the constitutionality of Canada's solicitation laws in what's believed to be the first such case brought forward by a john [...] http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=d1393efc-beb6-4a4f-8576-227f83b45574

Iran's parliament is set to debate a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for those deemed to promote corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the internet, [...] the draft bill also includes "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy", which...

I thought this would get your attention. :) I've come upon two recent decisions (Oct. 2007, Nov. 2005) from the same Municipal Court judge in Laval. He basically says that even normal $10 dance strip clubs are "bawdy houses", and he convicted the numerous people present. So, FYI...

Interesting to read: a 64 year old guy has just received 2 years in jail for pleading guilty to being a pimp. No drugs, minors, force, coercion, bawdy house, etc. were involved. Confirmed on appeal. This guy received over 21,000 phone calls in two months! (which he all answered...

We are unable to increase oil production, while the Chinese and Indians drive more, and some governments nationalize oil fields. Result: http://lcn.canoe.ca/lcn/infos/national/archives/2008/04/20080424-152647.html

"Freakonomics" is a fascinating book on everything from the relation between crime stats and abortion, to the realization that your real estate agent may not be good for your wallet. The author is planning a sequel. One of the items that will be covered is capuchin monkeys' use of money, and...

Split thread from I`m WONDERING.... (Police report after an agression) With that kind of reasoning, then why bother carrying pepper spray? Why not carry a switchblade or a gun? (Btw, I`m in favour of CCW, but I recognize it`s illegal in Canada, so I don`t do it.) Anyways, I`m not trying to...

Apparently it's never OK. Thankfully those two will now be permanently marked as sexual predators. I feel safer already. http://tinyurl.com/2qrfw2

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/index.html#a007948 Lots of interesting items. Of particular relevance to this board: #20. Sex workers in Roman times charged the equivalent price of eight glasses of red wine. #60. The clitoris derives its name from the ancient Greek word...