Pam Corkery's brothel-for-women idea generated some fierce debate. Here's what our readers had to say.

An escort who has provided sexual services to NZ women for 14 years is not worried about competition from Pam Corkery's planned brothel for females.

Former politician and broadcaster Pam Corkery has been linked to plans for NZ's first brothel for women.

A west Auckland school has a message of thanks for the men who refused to use a brothel which opened across the road earlier this year.

Flora's was always a brothel - only you didn't call them brothels back then. And it was run by one of Auckland's godfathers of the sex industry.

Asian women lured to NZ with cash offers to work in the sex industry are being forced to work in slave-like conditions, a Herald investigation finds.

A former prostitute, who was paid $2.5 million by ASB fraudster Stephen Versalko, was in the Auckland High Court this week to make a deal with the bank over the money.

Police are worried by a rise in underage prostitution in downtown Auckland, where girls as young as 12 are selling themselves for sex.

Police say increasing numbers of girls as young as 12 are working as prostitutes in Auckland's city centre.

nzherald.co.nz readers have shown strong support for a prostitute being sued by ASB for the money she was given by fraudster Stephen Versalko.

Bernie Madoff and his NZ equivalent Stephen Versalko, have a lot in common: both ordinary family guys with credible, crumpled facades.

Some Kiwi ladies are hoping for a different kind of score when the soccer World Cup kicks off this weekend in South Africa.

ASB Bank is trying to reclaim up to $2.55 million given by convicted bank fraudster Stephen Versalko to an Auckland prostitute, during his nine year scam.

A resident's complaint about "strange men knocking at his door" has led to a council using a technical clause to close a brothel.