http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prostitute/ en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 15:00:17 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261616/posts AMSTERDAM - As the credit crunch keeps away sightseers and business travellers, owners of brothels, escort agencies and sex shops grumble that visitors who still do indulge in the pleasures of the flesh are increasingly tight-fisted. 'Things are bad,' said Mr Dave Doeve, who owns Casa Rosso sex shop in Amsterdam's red-light district where neon-lit prostitutes' windows normally draw hoards of tourists. 'There are no people, as you can see. And those who come buy small things, condoms, cheap things.' Brothel owner Willy van der Sloot, herself a former prostitute, said she had never seen the sex market so depressed.... AFP via Singapore Strait Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2261616/posts#comment Sun, 31 May 2009 15:00:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2252365/posts LONDON - A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son's virginity as a present was spared jail by a court on Friday. The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the road in the red-light district of Nottingham. But the 42-year-old father was arrested because the teenager had chosen an undercover police officer, Nottingham Crown Court heard. reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2252365/posts#comment Sat, 16 May 2009 21:13:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242777/posts No cash to pay? No problem. But it was the Bay County lawyer's flexible payment plans with several two women that cost him his career Thursday. Tipler admitted to having sex with an 18-year-old client who he said paid him in sex for his work on an assault case. The fee for the defense was about $2,300, but Tipler told the woman every time she had sex with him, he would knock off $200. She would get a $400 discount if she brought a friend. Tipler sealed his fate with the state Supreme Court when he pleaded guilty to prostitution... NBC Miami http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2242777/posts#comment Sat, 2 May 2009 17:14:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239891/posts When the Vermont Republican became an independent, Specter lost a committee chairmanship in the Senate's resulting power shift. An angry Specter proposed a ban on such party switches. Reporting from Washington -- When a Senate Republican left his party in 2001, elevating the Democrats to majority status, one member of the GOP was especially vocal about his displeasure: Arlen Specter. Specter said then- Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords' decision to become an independent was disruptive to the functioning of Congress. He proposed a rule forbidding party switches that had the effect of vaulting the minority to majority status in the middle... LA Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2239891/posts#comment Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:30:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2213544/posts ...when you can buy them at the auction, one by one: Romanian Babe Auctions Virginity . Read on Transsylvania Phoenix http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2213544/posts#comment Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:05:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159738/posts Hugh Hefner has a new Playmate – and this one’s a "good girl." Crystal Harris describes herself on her MySpace page "a good girl, for the most part.” And the busty blonde revealed on E! Online’s message board that she has moved into the Playboy mansion, along with 19-year-old twins Karissa and Kristina Shannon. Fox http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159738/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:51:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119745/posts John McCain and Barack Obama, if you're wooing a population of registered voters who are young, female and drawn to men in suits, then Allegheny County has 675 ladies ready to pull your lever. They're convicted streetwalkers, escorts and brothel babes collared in 2000 and from 2003-2006, uncovered during a Trib special report on local prostitution that will be published after the election. Based on the prostitutes' voter registration cards, they're destined to become Obama girls in November. That's because 78 percent of them registered as Democrats. Countywide, Dems make up only about 62 percent of voters, according to the... Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119745/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:34:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053575/posts A NATIONAL ENQUIRER investigation has uncovered John Edwards’ mistress, Rielle Hunter – the mother of his “love child” – has been secretly receiv­ing $15,000 a month as part of an elaborate cover-up... National Enquirer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053575/posts#comment Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:54:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042734/posts Justice Denied has uncovered documents that have been deleted or altered to obsure Congressman Arcuri from what may be a possible association with the Spitzer scandal. Justice Denied 13501 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042734/posts#comment Wed, 9 Jul 2008 02:47:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037218/posts NY-24: Arcuri Tied to Spitzer Prostitution Scandal Former Fundraiser Under Federal Investigation By Bluey Posted in Congress | Freshman Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-N.Y.) paid $44,000 to a political consultant who is under federal investigation as part of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal. The story first broke on a blog in Arcuri's hometown of Utica, N.Y., and is now leading the news in the Upstate New York city. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037218/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:05:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031191/posts By ALISA TANG, Associated Press Writer A string of lights spells out the name of the bar in the back of the basement in capital letters, PARADISE. A dozen Chinese women in skintight miniskirts and halter tops flit around clusters of beefy Western men and flirt in broken English. Now and then, a man and woman climb the stairs to the upper reaches of the house, where Paradise does its real business. Paradise is a brothel in an unmarked residential compound in an upscale Kabul neighborhood where prostitutes from China cater to Western men. Since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001,... Afghan News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031191/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:53:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029531/posts The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow was not ordered to testify in the pretrial hearing of a woman charged in a prostitution sting. Defense attorney Frank A. Cusumano Jr. says Troy District Court Judge William Bolle ruled Tuesday that Thomas Athans' testimony was not needed at a hearing to decide if Alycia Martin could challenge a police search of her hotel room. Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2029531/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:35:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006898/posts WASHINGTON (Map, News) - District Heights Mayor James L. Walls, also an associate minister at a local church, will keep his jobs, for now, after being charged with soliciting a male prostitute in the District of Columbia early Thursday morning, his colleagues said. The 30-year-old fast-rising black political star — he holds positions with nationwide civic groups and the local NAACP chapter, among others — has been charged with solicitation for lewd and immoral purposes after he allegedly attempted to pick up an undercover District officer who was posing as a male prostitute around 12:30 a.m. at Sixth and F... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006898/posts#comment Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:55:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2000045/posts WASHINGTON — A Navy officer has described for a Washington jury how she worked as a call girl while also serving as a supply officer at the Naval Academy. Lt. Cmdr. Rebecca Dickinson testified Thursday that she had sex for money while working for Deborah Palfrey's escort service, according to The Washington Post. She testified she quit in April 2006 because she didn't like the work and because she had other commitments. Palfrey has said she was unaware that the escorts were having sex for money. She says the business was an erotic fantasy service. Testimony resumes Monday. FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2000045/posts#comment Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997882/posts Bad day for Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.). Her husband,Thomas Athans, cofounder of a liberal talk radio network, is cooperating with police in an Internet-based prostitution bust at hotels in Troy, Mich., according to the Detroit Free Press. According to the paper, Athans told police he "paid a prostitute $150 for sex at a Troy hotel in late February." The story notes that Athans, 46, was not arrested or charged. Washington comPOST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1997882/posts#comment Mon, 7 Apr 2008 13:35:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995909/posts Thomas Athans, the husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow had paid $150 per hour to Alycia Martin, the hooker who had oral sex with him at a hotel. Alycia Martin was supposedly contacted by the husband of Debbie Stabenow through an online ad. Thomas Athans, 46, co-founder of the liberal TalkUSA Radio network, was stopped by Troy, Mich. police who were investigating prostitution at the hotel, according to a police report obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press under the state Freedom of Information Act. Bollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1995909/posts#comment Thu, 3 Apr 2008 05:39:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994185/posts <p>We crucify the man who paid for sex.</p> <p>The woman who charged him, we turn into a star.</p> <p>Go figure. In America, it seems, we like our characters prepackaged. And the prepackaged version of the Eliot Spitzer saga is this: Powerful Man, undone by hubris; Vulnerable Girl, caught up in something bigger than her.</p> FW Business Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994185/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:20:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992356/posts Disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has been identified as a long-standing client of a second high-priced call-girl ring, The Post has learned. The ex-governor regularly patronized Wicked Models, the Manhattan-based operation taken down Tuesday, according to financial documents and other evidence unearthed in a yearlong prostitution in vestigation, law-enforcement sources said. PHOTO GALLERY: Alleged Madam Kristin Davis New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1992356/posts#comment Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:26:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986854/posts Faith O’Donnell is a full-time video artist and a part-time prostitute who sees herself as little different from the legions of ambitious New Yorkers who harness the Internet to hawk their corporeal assets, in her case for $500 an hour. Ava Xi’an sells real estate on Long Island, and turned to selling herself when her father, who lacks health insurance, needed heart surgery. She started with how-to books from Amazon.com, raised her rate upon realizing it might make men treat her better, and is currently on a $45,000 weeklong “date.” New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1986854/posts#comment Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:18:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1985881/posts Listening to the media you would think hey, being a prostitute like “Kirsten” is fine and dandy. Get involved with a married, important figure and wow, the money starts rolling in. The message from the media? Be a Prostitute and make millions! Where's the stigma of being a prostitute? The media likes to use “high paid call girl” on occasion. Is that to soften the blow? The amount of pictures, videos and song snippets would lead you to believe that we are talking about a movie star, not a prostitute. associated content http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1985881/posts#comment Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:11:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985842/posts As her instant celebrity status continues to climb in the wake of the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, Ashley Alexandra Dupre has now received a $1 million offer to bare it all. Access Hollywood http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985842/posts#comment Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:47:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984774/posts Eliot Spitzer's favorite squeeze Kerstin has been revealed as Ashley Alexandra DePietro by the NYTimes which I consider less of a source than the 22 year old woman's actual homepage. If it is not too highly trafficked right now, click on it to see what she is like. Her song "What We Want" is first class. She is a singer and her career is about to take off tomorrow. Here is her latest posting from the 30th of August (before tonight, nobody had visited this woman's website since July): Hello Everyone!! how are you?? This Blog i am going to... My Space http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984774/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:36:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984252/posts Link only - Coverup Central http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984252/posts#comment Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:54:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983990/posts New York - At a hastily scheduled morning press conference at the headquarters of New York's exclusive Emperors Club prostitution ring, high priced call girl "Kristen" announced that she would  temporarily step aside in the wake of charges that she had engaged in sex with New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. "I made a serious mistake and betrayed the trust of my co-workers, my many clients, and my pimps," she said in a quiet voice cracking with emotion. "I will be taking a leave of absence to earn their forgiveness, and redeem myself in the eyes of the entire expensive whore... IowaHawk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983990/posts#comment Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:23:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983439/posts I promised myself I would not gloat when the news broke that New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was caught with his pants down in a virtual brothel. So I break a promise. Horsewhip me. Which may be what Spitzer asked various chippies to do to him. ... Entertaining as it is when the mighty fall, it is ever more enjoyable when they have painted themselves in sanctimonious hues. But in Eliot’s case it is not surprising. Spitzer has long been a man for whom ruthless exercise of power fed his ego. Getting his way and doing what he damned well... Cowboy Confessional http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1983439/posts#comment Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:48:37 GMT