Residents' six-year battle to move sex workers from plying trade outside their homes.

Sex workers slam deceptive tactic Aussie's cities using in war against illegal brothels.

The Prostitutes Collective says policing their members won't work.

Whangarei's ethical brothel, The Bach, has been blocked from advertising for staff.

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.

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.

More foreign prostitutes are coming to New Zealand and offering unprotected sexual services.

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.

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.

Auckland Council has been told it already has the power to pass a bylaw to prohibit prostitution in specified public places.

A New Zealander has given evidence in the Florida trial of a man who allegedly forced women into becoming high-end prostitutes.

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?