BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

This book is about time! I just hope that law enforcement in North America will READ & HEED! from Abyss2Hope: The CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) News Sunday interview with Victor Malarek about his book " The Johns, Sex for Sale and the Men Who Buy It " highlights the dynamics of an industry, much of it run by organized crime. What he talks about has been talked about for years by women who are regularly dismissed as sex negative or prudes . Malarek rejects the notion that the prostitutes are the problem and holds men involved in any way (other than when they are prostituted) responsible instead. He rightfully points out that this industry is not about sexual needs, it is about power and control. This is what men are buying. Money gives them the feeling that they have the right to act out their need for power and control. When we understand this reality we can begin to focus on primary prevention of the harm done through sex trafficking, both international and domestic. It...

I don't like prostitution for what it does to the sex workers , the mind-set of the johns and the damage to their families. Personally I consider prostitution to be PAID RAPE. Period. But to use children! Just disgusting -- I will never be able to wrap my brain around it. However, I have said before - law enforcement has to start GOING AFTER THE JOHNS MORE AGGRESSIVELY if they expect this to make any difference . FBI says 345 arrested, 21 children rescued in prostitution busts in 16 cities Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution. The Justice Department says it targeted 16 cities as part of its "Operation Cross Country" that caps off five years of similar stings nationwide. Many of the children forced into prostitution are either runaways or what authorities call "thrown-aways" _ kids whose families have shunned them. Officials say th...

I couldn't agree more with Ms. McLennan. Despite her unashamed life as a high-end escort, I have to agree that the law SHOULD BE GOING AFTER THEIR CLIENTS. Hit the demand not the supply will probably work were the reverse has failed miserably. I despise double-standards. I had a lot of dealings with Spitzer's office of Attorney General in 2004, was impressed with them and campaigned for his run for Governor. He had a take-no-prisoners, "the law IS the law" style I liked. Why then is he getting a pass? Why aren't clients of high-price escorts sent to 'John School' and publicly shamed like the guys who frequent streetwalkers? Why the double standard? By NATALIE McLENNAN I'm not naive. I know life isn't always fair and justice isn't truly blind. Yet Eliot Spitzer getting off scot-free and US Attorney Michael J. Garcia's saying, "We have determined that there is insufficient evidence to bring charges against Mr. Spitzer," tests...

While I believe prostitution is abuse - I commend Margie Burns for bringing attention to the very screwed-up priorities of the Justice System and our own myopic views. The sad suicide of Deborah Jeane Palfrey by Margie Burns The news yesterday that Deborah Jeane Palfrey, the so-called 'DC madam,' hanged herself in a shed on her mother's property, was sad and rattling. I did not cover her trial in DC, did not sit in on any of it or follow it particularly closely. But somehow her suicide feels closer to me than it rationally, objectively is. That may be partly because I did write about her famous client list a few times, earlier. My main interest was what effect, if any, the attacks of September 11, 2001, had on her business patterns. Answer: if anything, the burgeoning defense and security booms kicked off by those attacks probably helped her business over-all, at least in a diffuse way. Exploiting 9/11 has provided a gusher of funding, and the gusher has trickled down to th...

I have been saying this for years. Stop arresting the supply - go after the DEMAND side of prostitution. Rabbi Sherlo rules that men who solicit services of prostitute should be imprisoned A man who visits a prostitute should be sent to jail, according to a special Religious opinion drafted by prominent Religious-Zionist Rabbi Yuval Sherlo. After being approached by National Religious Party Chairman Zevulun Orlev, Sherlo recommended that faction members back MK Zahava Gal-On's bill, which calls for a six-month prison term for men who solicit the services of a prostitute. "The desire to prevent prostitution in Israel should be one of the major moves in maintaining the sanctity of Israel and the status and dignity of women," Sherlo wrote in his response to Orlev's query. "Therefore, one should seemingly be a party to any initiative that advances this reality." However, the rabbi said that the bill proposed by Gal-On is partial and added that some responsibili...

Finally! Something I have been saying all along. Get rid of the demand, not the supply. I even said it to an aide of then-Attorney General Eliot Spitzer in 2004... and they were very pro the idea! Who knew? -- Eliot, it was the hypocrisy that did you in. Sweden's sex law: Get the customer Once a radical model, it's now under consideration by other countries Selling sex isn't illegal in Sweden, but buying is — a radical approach to prostitution that faced ridicule when it was introduced nine years ago. Now, while Americans are preoccupied with the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer in a prostitution scandal, some countries are considering emulating the Swedish model, which prosecutes the client but views the prostitute as an exploited victim. Officials say the changed approach has reduced the demand for prostitutes and reshaped attitudes toward the sex trade. "We don't have a problem with prostitutes. We have a problem with men who buy sex," said Kajsa ...