Pimps & Hos: The Week in Prostitution

by Paul on June 26th, 2008

Generally I don’t like to let prostitution related journalism eat into my malt liquor time, but this week there’s no avoiding it.

Maybe it’s a strange conjunction of the stars, but consider these recent developments in the flesh trade:

Behold the Brothel Bus: In Miami, authorities put the brakes on the “brothel bus,” a rolling sex trade business ABC news calls an “alleged whorehouse on wheels.” A bunch of people got arrested, and sex on the back of buses returned to its former unregulated festival seating status.
Child labor hits a new low: Hundreds were arrested across the country in a sting operation targeting child prostitution operations. Oddly, no arrests occurred in Hollywood.
The Bay Area gets some: a Richmond, Calif., man got 11 years for pimping a 16-year-old girl. How did the girl get down here from Washington State? She came down to meet some other guy she encountered on MySpace. Yay, social networking!

Come on San Francisco–represent! Undoubtedly City Hall can provide a related item.

World War II poster image courtesy of the library at Northwestern University.

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