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Prostitution

Crime Sex

The Unlikely Story of a Sex Trafficking Survivor and the Instagram Account That Saved Her Life

Megan Lundstrom understands more than most the conditions that force women into dangerous situations—she also has the key to help them escape.

John H. Tucker Elle Aug 2021 20min Permalink

Sex World

Behind Claude’s Doors

She was once the “world’s most exclusive madam.”

William Stadiem Vanity Fair Sep 2014 25min Permalink

Crime

What Happened Inside Ed Buck’s Apartment?

Two men died of meth overdoses at the home of a West Hollywood political donor. Dark conspiracy theories abounded— but the truth is even darker

Jesse Barron New York Times Magazine Sep 2020 35min Permalink

Best Article Sex Religion Travel

A Pilgrimage of Sin: Booze, Bombs, and Hookers in Islamic Thailand

A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.

Lawrence Osborne Harper's Mar 2011 20min Permalink

Crime

Busted

How police brought down a tech-savvy prostitution network in Seattle.

Lynn Thompson Seattle Times Jul 2017 25min Permalink

World

The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl

Every year, thousands of teenagers from one city in Nigeria risk death and endure forced labor and sex work on the long route to Europe.

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Ben Taub New Yorker Apr 2017 45min Permalink

Sex Health

Can We "Cure" the Men Who Pay for Sex?

A program in Washington state aims to teach johns about healthy relationships - and the patriarchy.

Brooke Jarvis GQ Feb 2017 15min Permalink

Is Prostitution Just Another Job?

What sex workers think about legalizing sex work.

Mac McClelland New York Mar 2016 25min Permalink

Crime Sex

Zola's Story

A stripping trip to Florida gone horribly astray told across 158 tweets.

Aziah King Twitter Oct 2015 Permalink

Crime

The Lost Girls of Rocky Mount

An investigation into serial killings in a small North Carolina city.

Robert Draper GQ Jun 2010 20min Permalink

World

Welcome to Paradise

The effects of legalized prostitution in Germany.

Nisha Lilia Diu The Telegraph Mar 2014 25min Permalink

Sex World

The World Cup of Dirty Dreams

Behind the doors of Centaurus, Rio’s most infamous brothel.

Amos Barshad Rolling Stone Jun 2014 25min Permalink

Crime History

The Case of the Closely Watched Courtesans

Why 18th-century French police obsessively tracked elite sex workers.

Nina Kushner Slate Apr 2014 15min Permalink

Sex World

Nights Out In a New Town

Traveling with a sex tourist to the Uzbek city of Tashkent. Excerpted from the forthcoming book If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai.

Srinath Perur Open Oct 2013 55min Permalink

Crime

The Case of the Bank-Robbing Prostitutes

How a struggling comedian became a pimp who eventually started sending teenage hookers on bank robbery missions that earned them notoriety as the “Starlet Bandits.”

Gene Maddaus LA Weekly Jul 2013 20min Permalink

Sex World

How Legalizing Prostitution Has Failed

When Germany legalized prostitution just over a decade ago, politicians hoped that it would create better conditions and more autonomy for sex workers. It hasn’t worked out that way.

Der Spiegel May 2013 35min Permalink

Crime

First Lost, Then Murdered

The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.

Robert Kolker Slate Jul 2013 15min Permalink

Crime Sex

A Girl, Her Pimp, and Her Parents

A family turns to murder to save one of their own.

Lauren Smiley San Francisco Jul 2013 25min Permalink

Crime World

The Mistress and the Narcotraficante

A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.

Ricardo C. Ainslie Texas Monthly Apr 2013 15min Permalink

Sex

An Avenue of Vice

On Queens’ stubbornly unchanging Roosevelt Avenue, where immigrants pay $2 a song to grind against hired dancers and shuttered houses of prostitution have given way to rolling brothel-vans.

Sarah Maslin Mir New York Times Oct 2012 10min Permalink

Sex

Brothel, Washington DC

A summer as a whorehouse Madame.

Michael Merriam n+1 May 2012 15min Permalink

The Strange Case of the Dentist and the Pimps

How a family man dentist got involved in an underage prostitution ring.

Bryan Smith Chicago Magazine Oct 2006 Permalink

Sex

The Sex Trade

An investigation of human trafficking and the international sex trade.

  1. Part 1: Pleasure, at Any PriceOn sex clubs in the Philippines.

  2. Part 2: The Great Sex MigrationOn cops trying to save girls in Moldova.

  3. Part 3: Where They Love Americans…For a LivingOn prostitution-based tourism in Costa Rica.

Sean Flynn GQ Mar 2007 1h20min Permalink

The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon I: the Report of our Secret Commission

Part one of W.T. Snead’s Victorian-era investigation into child prostitution.

William T. Snead The Pall Mall Gazette Jul 1885 45min Permalink

Crime

A Serial Killer in Common

Five prostitutes disappear. Bodies turn up on a Long Island beach. On the women lost, and the families left behind.

Robert Kolker New York May 2011 25min Permalink

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