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7 April 2012

Sex Culture


Sex Culture
 

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In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 file photo, 15-year-old Sahar Gul, is carried into hospital in Baghlan north of Kabul, Afghanistan. According to officials in northeastern Baghlan province, Gul's in-laws kept her in a basement for six months, ripped her fingernails out, tortured her with hot irons and broke her fingers _ all in an attempt to force her into prostitution. Police freed her last week after her uncle called authorities.

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In this photo taken Saturday, June 19, 2010, a prostitute peers out from her makeshift shack as she waits for clients in downtown Port-au-Prince. Many prostitutes have begun setting up makeshift brothels in the rubble of the buildings that were destroyed during the Jan. 12 earthquake. (Alexandre Meneghini)

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In this photo taken May 5, 2011, a sex worker dances with a customer at the Vila Mimosa prostitution zone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Spelling the possible end of Vila Mimosa is a high-speed train the government wants to build to link Rio to Sao Paulo, as part of Brazil's Olympic proposal. The government is expected to open bidding to prospective builders July 29. (Felipe Dana)

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In this photo taken Thursday March 1, 2012 , an exotic dancer performs during the 2012 Sex and Entertainment Expo in Mexico City. The Sex and Entertainment Expo is an annual event where vendors in the sex industry promote their goods and local strip clubs offer a glimpse of their establishments. This year is the event's ninth consecutive year. AP

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In this photo taken May 8, 2011, a sex worker poses for a photo in her cubicle at the Vila Mimosa prostitution zone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Spelling the possible end of Vila Mimosa is a high-speed train the government wants to build to link Rio to Sao Paulo, as part of Brazil's Olympic proposal. The government is expected to open bidding to prospective builders July 29. (Felipe Dana)

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EDS NOTE NUDITY - In this photo taken May 5, 2011, a sex worker finishes her makeup as a coworker dries her hair as they get ready to work at the Vila Mimosa prostitution zone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Spelling the possible demise of Vila Mimosa is a high-speed train the government wants to build to link Rio to Sao Paulo, a $22 billion project that was promised in Brazil's Olympic proposal. The government is expected to open bidding to prospective builders July 29. (Felipe Dana)

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In this photo taken May 25, 2011, Dara, second right, drinks with a customer as other sex workers get ready at the Vila Mimosa prostitution zone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Spelling the possible end of Vila Mimosa is a high-speed train the government wants to build to link Rio to Sao Paulo, as part of Brazil's Olympic proposal. The government is expected to open bidding to prospective builders July 29. (Felipe Dana)

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A prostitute waits for clients in the Bois de Boulogne, on March 2, 2012 in Paris. Twenty-five suspected prostitutes were arrested during an overnight anti-prostitution operation. Getty [Image below obscured by source.]

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In this photo taken May 25, 2011, A sex worker waits for customers at the Vila Mimosa prostitution zone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Spelling the possible end of Vila Mimosa is a high-speed train the government wants to build to link Rio to Sao Paulo, as part of Brazil's Olympic proposal. The government is expected to open bidding to prospective builders July 29. (Felipe Dana)

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In this photo taken May 5, 2011, men sit at a bar as sex workers wait for customers at the Vila Mimosa prostitution zone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Spelling the possible end of Vila Mimosa is a high-speed train the government wants to build to link Rio to Sao Paulo, as part of Brazil's Olympic proposal. The government is expected to open bidding to prospective builders July 29. (Felipe Dana)

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In this photo taken May 5, 2011, a sex worker enters a cubicle where she sees her clients at Vila Mimosa prostitution zone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Spelling the possible end of Vila Mimosa is a high-speed train the government wants to build to link Rio to Sao Paulo, as part of Brazil's Olympic proposal. The government is expected to open bidding to prospective builders July 29.(Felipe Dana)

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In this photo taken May 25, 2011, A sex worker, right, dances with a customer at the Vila Mimosa prostitution zone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Spelling the possible end of Vila Mimosa is a high-speed train the government wants to build to link Rio to Sao Paulo, as part of Brazil's Olympic proposal. The government is expected to open bidding to prospective builders July 29. (Felipe Dana)

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A security guard attempts to control an half naked activist and protestor from the Ukrainian women's right movement FEMEN, after she whistled and waved a file with a sign reading 'EURO-2012 without prostitution' painted on her body, in Kiev, on June 8, 2011, during the countdown event dedicated to the beginning of the official start of the UEFA EURO 2012 European Football Championship which will be hosted in Ukraine and Poland and is planned to kick-off on June 8, 2012. Getty

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In this photo taken Friday June 11, 2010, Majouli Feriz, 20, who works as a prostitute, laughs as she talks to other prostitutes, unseen, in the rubble of a damaged building in downtown Port-au-Prince. Many prostitutes have begun setting up makeshift brothels in the rubble of the buildings that were destroyed during the Jan. 12 earthquake. (Alexandre Meneghini)

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In this photo taken Friday June 25, 2010, men watch a prostitute with a customer at her improvised shelter in downtown Port-au-Prince. Many prostitutes have begun setting up makeshift brothels in the rubble of the buildings that were destroyed during the Jan. 12 earthquake. (Alexandre Meneghini)

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In this photo taken Saturday June 19, 2010, prostitutes relax as they wait for customers in downtown Port-au-Prince. Many prostitutes have begun setting up makeshift brothels in the rubble of the buildings that were destroyed during the Jan. 12 earthquake. (Alexandre Meneghini)

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In this photo taken June 5, 2010, Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, a porn actor suspected of fatally stabbing a former co-worker and wounding two others during a violent rampage threatens to kill himself with a samurai sword as Los Angeles Police Department SWAT team members and crisis counselors attempt to keep him from jumping off a cliff during a dramatic, daylong standoff in Chatsworth, Calif. Saturday afternoon. Clancy later fell to his death when officers moved in. (Axel Koester)

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EDS: NOTE NUDITY -- Performers from the Beija Flor samba school parade during carnival celebrations at the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Feb. 20, 2012. Millions watched the sequin-clad samba dancers at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Carnival parade. (Victor R. Caivano)

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Prostitutes wear masks as they attend a demonstration ahead of vote on a symbolic resolution to abolish prostitution at the National Assembly in Paris December 6, 2011. French Parliament is to debate abolishing prostitution through a crackdown which would criminalise payment for sex. Reuters

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Romanian students dressed as caged brides attend an event to raise awareness to the risks of human trafficking and sexual exploitation faced by young girls lured by the prospect of a better paying job abroad, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011. The event promoted the Romanian premiere of the movie "If the Seed doesn't die" by Serb-born director Sinisa Dragin which tells the story of Romanian searching for his daughter, forced into prostitution in Kosovo, and a Serbian seeking the body of his son killed in a car accident in Romania. AP

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In this Saturday, Oct. 19, 2002 file photo, Zakiya, 30, who is accused of adultery, sews while she holds her daughter Zohra, 1, on her lap at the women's prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. Women interviewed by Human Rights Watch often said they were trying to escape abusive husbands or forced marriages. In some cases, those who had left were assumed to have cheated on their husbands, and therefore were jailed for adultery, which is a criminal offense in Afghanistan. (Lynne Sladky)

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An unidentified Afghan prostitute holds her phones after talking with her friends in her Madame's house in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, May 26, 2008. Afghanistan is one of the world's most conservative countries, yet its sex trade appears to be thriving. (Farzana Wahidy)

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In this picture made Friday, May 8, 2009, Eva, left, and Dana, right (full names not given) pose inside the Artemis brothel in Berlin. Like so many other businesses, Europe's largest legalized prostitution industry is having to adapt to the economic downturn. In response, clubs and brothels are increasingly marketing themselves either as high-class, exclusive spas, or as bargain basements of delight. (Franka Bruns)

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Children in costumes display their placards during an anti-child pornography rally in front of the House of Representatives Wednesday, May 27, 2009 in suburban Quezon City north of Manila, Philippines. The rally conveys a theme as a religious procession called "Flores de Mayo" to claim the legislators to prioritize the passage of the anti-child pornography bill. (Pat Roque)

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Indonesian protesters march against an anti-pornography bill in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. About thousand of people attended a rally opposing the endorsement of the anti- pornography bill by the Indonesian parliament. (Firdia Lisnawati)

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** EDS NOTE: NUDITY ** A visitor poses for a friend's camera in front of a poster at Lisbon's International Erotic Exhibition Saturday night, Oct. 31, 2009, in Portugal. (Armando Franca)