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Money lures migrant sex workers
Migrant prostitutes here are not victims of people trafficking and many are in the sex trade for the money, research on migrant sex workers in New Zealand has found.
Clean up underage prostitution
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?
Peter Calder: Standing up for city's sex workers
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.
Prostitution ban splits select committee
A parliamentary committee is still wrangling over whether the Government should ban prostitution from Auckland's troublespots.
Sex tycoons buy Orakei base
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.
China censors cut key Skyfall scenes
Movie censors in China have cut references to torture and prostitution in the country from the Bond film Skyfall.
Trial set for man charged with Manning murder
A man charged with the 2008 murder of Christchurch prostitute Mellory Manning will stand trial next year.
$1000-a-night street workers in turf war
A South Auckland prostitution spot has become embroiled in turf battles between local workers and those travelling from as far as Christchurch and Tokoroa.
Public can get a say on brothel
Plans for Auckland's first high-rise brothel will move a step closer this month when Wellington's Chow brothers face those opposed to the plan.
Sex trade a worry for fly-in mine workers
Aussie mining towns draw sex workers from afar, but police claim the trade is blighted by traffickers.