British
bobbies bust 'sex slaves'
Police have swooped on a suspected
brothel in Cheltenham. Officers took two women into
custody after the raid. At least one is believed to have
been smuggled into the country to work in the sex trade.
1-8-2007
Campaigners slam Swedish courts' lenience over child porn
Children's rights
campaigners have slammed the Swedish courts' increasing
lenience towards paedophiles with massive collections of
child pornography. 1-8-2007
Britian: Crackdown pledged on sex with trafficked women
The government will
ensure that the "fathers, brothers and husbands" who
have sex with trafficked girls are prosecuted, Harriet
Harman vowed Tuesday. 1-8-2007
Norway to clamp down on human trade
Norway will be able to jail clients of
prostitutes for up to six months under proposed
legislation aimed at stamping out the human trade,
officials said on Wednesday.
1-8-2007
British Woman: Actor had sex with me at 14
Award-winning comedy actor Chris Langham
took the virginity of a 14-year-old girl in a hotel room
at the start of a campaign of abuse against her, a court
has heard. 1-8-2007
Swedish embassy e-mail link to combat Asian child sex tourism
Police have
identified underage Swedish girls who have been selling
sexual services on sex contact web sites.
1-8-2007
Porn-surfing by proxy
Steve Hunter wanted
to liberate a few oppressed Web users. So, like
thousands of other politically conscious technorati, he
turned his computer into a "proxy server," a back
channel that lets citizens of countries like Iran and
China connect with the Internet without running afoul of
censors. 2-7-2007
UK: Porn editor sacked for choosing too tame photos
The former editor of
an adult magazine has won an employment tribunal after
he was axed by Paul Raymond for failing to put
sufficiently sexy models on the cover. Pierre Perrone,
49, tried to target "discerning older gentlemen" while
at the helm of soft-porn magazine Men Only.
2-7-2007
UK: Chastity ring sparks British teenage sex debate
A high court battle
between a schoolgirl and her head teacher over the right
to wear a purity ring pledging her to virginity until
marriage has reignited debate in Britain about how to
make sex education effective.
2-7-2007
Swedish court approves porn magazines for convicted rapists, ruling against
prison system
Convicted sex offenders are free to read
pornography in their cells, a Swedish court ruled,
saying the country's prison system had no right to deny
an imprisoned rapist access to his porn magazines.
2-7-2007
Alcohol 'fuels sexual health crisis in UK'
Strong links between alcohol, drugs and
risky sexual behaviour are providing fuel for a "sexual
health crisis" in Britain, a government advisory body
report said this week.
2-7-2007
Legal wrangles over porn billing software
When Liz Humby allowed her two sons, aged
seven and nine, to use her new laptop, they did more
than she bargained for. Although she thought them
well-briefed about safe surfing, her eldest accidentally
installed the program developed by Micro Bill Systems
(MBS) of Leeds which provides a subscription to
sexxxpassport, a pornography site. Within days, that was
generating popups which stalled the machine for longer
and longer, and demanding payment of £19.99.
2-7-2007
UK's sex change doctor guilty of misconduct
The UK's best-known expert on
transsexualism was today found guilty of serious
professional misconduct for rushing five patients into
sex-changing treatments, but avoided being struck off.
28-5-2007
Society is changing attitude to sex swap in Britian
For Rachael Padman, the election of Jenny
Bailey as Mayor of Cambridge shows how society's
attitudes towards transsexuals are changing.
28-5-2007
Teenage pregnancy in UK: Let's talk about sex
Teenage pregnancy is one of those totemic
issues used to measure how well a society brings up its
young people. And in study after study, the UK compares
badly with other European countries, with teenage girls
here five times more likely to become pregnant than
their Dutch counterparts.
28-5-2007
Rooftop sex is entertainment for thousands
Little did two lovers know that their
rooftop romp in London was being caught on video and
watched by thousands on the Internet.
28-5-2007
British citizens accused of child porn found to be fraud victims
Information
(identity) theft sometimes leads to innocent people
being charged with a crime. Recently, I've been reading
about how British citizens were accused of viewing child
pornography, when they were actually victims of credit
card fraud. 16-5-2007
Britian: Operation Ore flawed by fraud
The high-profile crackdown on internet
child porn has claimed lives and destroyed reputations.
But fresh evidence says the police got it wrong.
16-5-2007
Swedish girl prosecuted for sex snaps
An 18-year-old girl has been prosecuted
for taking photos of two of her classmates having sex
and uploading the images to the internet.
16-5-2007
Britian: New crackdown targets kerb-crawlers
The Home Office and police are clamping
down on street prostitution with a new advertising
campaign targeting kerb-crawlers.
16-5-2007
Scotland: Vice girls held after raid on brothel
Two illegal immigrants were found working
as prostitutes after police swooped on a brothel in a
Leith waterfront flat.
16-5-2007
Bulgarian prostitution ring bust in Norway
A series of police raids on Tuesday
resulted in ten arrests in a Bulgarian prostitution
ring. One of the ten arrested has been charged with
human trafficking, Oslo police said in a press release.
16-5-2007
London becomes more 'gay friendly'
Traditionally a very male, homophobic
environment, a report by financial services recruiter
Joslin Rowe Associates claims that the financial heart
of the capital is now becoming increasingly gay and
lesbian friendly. 12-5-2007
UK: Girls are porn to be wild
Two thirds of women fantasise about
having group sex and a quarter dream of starring in a
porn film, says a poll.
12-5-2007
Belfast: Will the shutters ever come down on sex shops?
Will there ever be
legalised sex shops open in Belfast? The quick, but
indefinite answer is maybe. The ink on the judgment is
still drying on the ruling issued on Wednesday by the
House of Lords, which vindicated Belfast City Council's
refusal to grant a sex shop a trading licence.
12-5-2007
Norway to criminalise buying sex
Norway's ruling Labour Party voted to ban
the purchase of sex on Sunday in an attempt to stop
prostitution by targeting those who buy it rather than
those who sell it, officials said.
12-5-2007
Irish teen wins right to travel for abortion
An Irish court has ruled that a pregnant
17-year-old who knows her baby will die has the right to
travel to the UK for an abortion.
12-5-2007
Latavian Cardinal: homosexuality a form of prostitution
The opposition
of the Roman Catholic church to gay Pride parades
reached a new low today when the Archbishop of Riga
called homosexuality "total corruption in the sexual
arena" and "an unnatural form of prostitution."
12-5-2007
Irish paedophiles flocking to Philippines
Campaigning Irish priest Fr Shay Cullen
warns that the Philippines is becoming the number one
destination for Irish paedophiles who prey on the
country's estimated 60,000 children caught up in the sex
industry. 20-4-2007
Government: Nice children have sex
One
of the worst examples of this destructive intervention
in family life is the sex education system that has been
imposed on [British] schools. Not very long ago the
Daily Telegraph ran a whole-page story headlined,
'Outrage over explicit sex lessons.'
20-4-2007
Sweden moves to allow same-sex marriage
Sweden took a step toward allowing
same-sex marriage Wednesday when a government-appointed
committee in Stockholm proposed expanding the rights of
same-sex couples. Sweden has recognized civil unions
between gay couples since 1994 but does not permit
same-sex marriages. 20-4-2007
MP angry at husband porn film leak
New South Wales Liberal MP Shelley
Hancock has accused Labor of dirty election tactics
against her by revealing porn movies that falsely
depicted the involvement of her husband.
20-4-2007
Britian: Anti-prostitution strategy to offer counselling or court
Street workers are to
be given bespoke counselling and help to find
alternative lifestyles as part of a tough
anti-prostitution strategy that is being piloted by the
Home Office. 20-4-2007
UK: Pervert teacher jailed
A
pervert teacher who sexually groomed a 14-year-old girl
he met through the internet has been jailed for
two-and-half-years. 20-4-2007
Click for sex: Irish law powerless against the rise of online prostitution
Sandra is 21,
blonde and speaks English and German. She describes her
interests as meeting new people, horse riding and
dancing. The attractive Czech national also charges ?250
for an hour's sex. 18-3-2007
More sex please: We're Scottish
It might be freezing in the great
outdoors this weekend but temperatures are soaring in
the nation's bedrooms.
18-3-2007
Britian: 'I was just defending sex slave'
A man accused of robbing brothels in
Surbiton, New Malden and across south London claims he
was trying to stop Albanian gangsters forcing a young
Asian girl into prostitution.
18-3-2007
Swedish police in record child porn haul
Police in Sweden have confiscated record
quantities of child pornography in a raid in Sörmland
county, south of Stockholm. But the news has coincided
with accusations by campaigners that too few resources
are being devoted to combating the problem.
18-3-2007
UK: Illegal gay porn seller busted
A Yorkshire man has been fined and
ordered to 100 hours of community services after he was
found guilty of illegally replicating gay porn DVDs and
selling them on his website.
18-3-2007
Queen Elizabeth makes amends With sex shop owner
Who knew Queen Elizabeth would ever have
any kind of interaction with a sex shop owner?
18-3-2007
Scotland: Hundreds of condoms given out to teens in safe sex drive
More than 1000 condoms
a week are being handed out free to children under 16 as
part of a controversial safe sex programme in the
Lothians. 18-3-2007
UK: Sex girls return to town streets
Prostitution is once again thriving on
the streets of West Reading, with kerb-crawlers picking
up girls for sex on a regular basis.
18-3-2007
Britian: Rapists and child sex offenders go free
Thousands of rapists and paedophiles are
still on the streets under Britain's soft justice.
18-3-2007
Sex study highlights social shift in Ireland
The social revolution that has changed
Irish society beyond recognition over the past 30 years
was illuminated this week by a study of sexual practice
and beliefs. 18-3-2007
Feminist role in Swedish military's porn ban
A former Justice Department official is
applauding the Swedish military for barring government
officials from staying in hotels that offer pornographic
TV programs.
18-3-2007
