Tensions between street prostitutes and communities will be explored in a new study.

The 19-year-old was left for dead last May with at least seven holes in her skull, bound, beaten and violated.

There are many reasons to become a sex worker, some work out better than others.

Picture-perfect seaside town in the UK is being plagued by sex dens - with police discovering 14 in six months.

A male escort has lifted the lid on what a day at work is really like - and his revelations have left the internet astounded.

Katherine Stone's family lost an uninsured house in a fire, so the 21-year-old wanted to help them out.

A 66-year-old American, David Strecker, became famous for all the wrong reasons. He became notorious as sex tourist 'Cuba Dave'.

A new book reveals women's harrowing stories of survival in the sex trade and why they want the industry banned.

Korean sex workers are heading here to work after a backlash against them in Australia, a Korean expert says.

Police have interviewed a man over claims a prostitute wrote a note seeking help and secretly handed it to him.

NZ First's prostitution reform amendment bill wants to get sex workers off the streets and into brothels - in other words, end street prostitution altogether.

A study has found that underage sex workers take methamphetamine and work all night on the streets of Auckland - then attend school the next morning.

New Zealand is the best place on Earth to be a prostitute, says a local sex workers' advocate.

New research finds that Auckland's streets were the most notorious, but indoor sex workers were subject to more violence in Christchurch.

A woman who recruited women from Thailand to work illegally as sex workers in Auckland has been jailed.

Christchurch sex workers are continuing in their battle to get toilets installed on their red light patch.

The woman who acted as "a self-confessed pimp", luring under-aged girls into a wealthy Auckland businessman's web of sex and drugs has dodged a jail term.

A man who has launched a series of court battles against a prostitute has failed in his latest bid.

New Zealand is a destination country for foreign men and women subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking, a US State Department report has claimed.

A Jamaican man accused of being a violent pimp who forced women into prostitution in Australia will face trial in a Miami, Florida, court.

A man who tried to sue a prostitute for a refund has lost his case in the High Court.

A Christchurch sex worker has been assaulted following a dispute over payment, police say.

The wife of a senior Auckland police officer under investigation for allegedly harassing a prostitute has rubbished the claims and is standing by her husband.

Liquor licenses have been granted to two brothels owned by the Chow brothers, with the licensing body saying it will not get dragged in to a "turf war" between rivals.

The Chows have dropped plans for a controversial, central-city, 15-floor super-brothel, in a last-minute backdown welcomed by opponents of Auckland's burgeoning flesh trade.

NZ's biggest metropolis stands at a juncture. Do Auckland residents wish to compete with the likes of Las Vegas and Macau for the glitzy yet dubious title of Sin City?

Ngatai "Mellory" Manning had vowed to go straight and clean up her life just weeks before she was brutally raped and murdered.

Jurors in the Ngatai 'Mellory' Manning murder trial have been sent home for the night, and will resume their deliberations tomorrow.

It took less than 20 minutes for the Mongrel Mob to pluck sex worker Ngatai 'Mellory' Manning off the street before raping, bashing, and murdering her, the Crown alleges.