Police have denied there is a problem with underage prostitution, writes Dave Crampton. Perhaps this is because nobody has laid a complaint with the police?

The bars on Ponsonby Rd are pumping when I turn up at the Auckland office of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective, behind an unassuming frosted-glass window at the western end of Karangahape Rd.

A parliamentary committee is still wrangling over whether the Government should ban prostitution from Auckland's troublespots.

A pair of Wellington sex industry magnates appear set to make Auckland their home, with the purchase of a $6.65 million house in the city.

Movie censors in China have cut references to torture and prostitution in the country from the Bond film Skyfall.

A man charged with the 2008 murder of Christchurch prostitute Mellory Manning will stand trial next year.

A South Auckland prostitution spot has become embroiled in turf battles between local workers and those travelling from as far as Christchurch and Tokoroa.

Aussie mining towns draw sex workers from afar, but police claim the trade is blighted by traffickers.