Prostitution has been around for centuries, but as law enforcement steps up efforts to get rid of the age-old sex trade, pimps and prostitutes are finding more sophisticated ways to cash-in.
It’s more than just the internet; they’re now involved in identity theft, robbery and drugs.
Earlier this month, News Channel 12 was invited to follow Hinds County Deputies as they busted a suspected prostitution house in Terry. During the sting, deputies confiscated $16,000 in cash, Valium, steroids and other drugs. The suspected pimp, 54-year-old James Little, is still on the loose. Deputies say he was running a motorcycle repair business as a front.
After decades of undercover stings, Major Nick Clark says prostitutes are turning to more unconventional methods, like the internet.
“They post their pictures, some of them are as explicit as anything I’ve ever seen,“ he said. “Advertising what they do, what they’re willing to do, how much they charge for it.“
One of President Obama’s favorite community organizing group, ACORN, is featured in some very incriminating video. Remember, ladies -- the world’s oldest profession is one thing, cheating on your taxes is another!
ACORN Officials Videotaped Telling ‘Pimp,’ ‘Prostitute’ How to Lie to IRS
Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute, encouraging them to lie to the Internal Revenue Service and providing guidance on how to claim underage girls from South America as dependents.
The videotape was made public Thursday on BigGovernment.com, a political blog launched by Andrew Breitbart as a companion site to his BigHollywood.breitbart.com blog.
In the videotape, made on July 24, James O’Keefe, a 25-year-old independent filmmaker, posed as a pimp with a 20-year-old woman named “Kenya” who posed as a prostitute while visiting ACORN’s office in Baltimore. The couple told ACORN staffers they wanted to secure housing where the woman could continue to maintain a prostitution business.
ACORN — the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — bills itself as the nation’s largest community of low- and moderate-income families “working together for social justice and stronger communities,” according to its Web site. The organization has been accused by Republicans and conservative activists with fraud in voter registration drives around the country and has been under fire since last year for its support of President Obama and for its planned participation in next year’s census.
A spokesman for ACORN, Scott Levenson, when asked to comment on the videotape, said: “The portrayal is false and defamatory and an attempt at gotcha journalism. This film crew tried to pull this sham at other offices and failed. ACORN wants to see the full video before commenting further.”
On the videotape, “Kenya” can be seen telling an ACORN staffer that she earns roughly $8,000 a month. The ACORN employee then suggests to “Kenya” that ACORN could submit a tax return for 2008 showing that she made $9,600 for the entire year — instead of $96,000 — and that ACORN would charge “Kenya” $50 instead of the usual $150 fee for preparing her taxes.
ACORN offers tax preparation and benefits application services free of charge during tax season; it charges nominal fees during non-tax season.
The ACORN staffer can also be seen suggesting that the prostitute list her occupation as a freelance “performing artist.”
“It’s not dancing, trust me,” the “pimp” says.
“But dancing is considered an art,” the ACORN staffer replies. “[Exotic dancers] usually go under performing artists, or yeah, they usually go under performing arts, which will be what you are — a performing artist.”
Newport News police are undercover and cracking down. Only 10 On Your Side was with the police department during a two day operation to kick prostitution out of the city, but prostitutes weren’t the only target over the weekend.
Jefferson Avenue is one of the busiest streets in Newport News and it’s the focus of a two day prostitution crackdown.
“We are continually flooded with calls from the citizens that live in the neighborhood about all the prostitutes that walk up and down the street and peddle their wares in their backyard, and they’re always finding debris that’s left behind after the prostitute and the john get together and it’s actually disgusting to go back there and see some of the things that show up in peoples’ backyards,” says Captain Keith Hartman.
“A lot of this is 24 hours trade. They frequent the hotels up and down Jefferson Avenue. You see the prostitutes walking up and down day and night. It doesn’t really matter what time.”
Through 10 On Your Side’s exclusive access to the police operation, we quickly learned Captain Keith Hartman is right of both prostitutes and the men who buy their services, called “johns.” On the first day of the operation, female detectives and officers went undercover, posing as prostitutes in broad daylight.
“Can I do anything for you here? We’re trying to make some money,” said one of the undercovers to a man in a truck.
It didn’t take long for them to make a deal and only 10 On Your Side was there as they lured the alleged john to the motel room.
“Police! Police,” shouted the officers when the man walked into the hotel room.
Once the man was in custody, he was processed. That’s when we confronted him.
It’s a growing problem in America: teenage prostitution. The problem has exploded recently in communities nationwide. Katie Couric reports on a criminal enterprise that’s growing larger by the day.
CBS News gives some prime time coverage to this issue.
Love is more expensive than sex. An entertaining peek into the world of prostitution from the client’s point of view, courtesy of the creative vision of filmmaker Ileana Pietrobruno.
Girlfriend Experience will be released on DVD on June 17, 2009.
The filmmaker gave an insightful interview to Louise Bak for Toro Magazine, and I recommend you click the link and read more about Peitrobruno and Girlfriend Experience. Here are a couple of excerpts from that excellent interview…
Vancouver filmmaker Ileana Pietrobruno’s Girlfriend Experience is intriguing in its approach to the realities of sex workers’ clients. This mock documentary centres on a man addicted to prostitutes even though he has a girlfriend. The film follows him as he cruises for girls, and when he gets obsessed with a certain girl complications ensue. His relationship is interspersed with sound bites from anonymous johns who also long for girlfriend-like qualities to their paid-sex exchanges.
Q: What drew you to explore client characteristics in sex-work relationships in your film Girlfriend Experience? A: Vancouver has a large prostitution scene. We have the longest track, or “stroll,” in the world – Kingsway Street. So there’s always lots of talk in the media about how to either protect or save the prostitute, the woman. But no one ever talks about the guys – the men who pay for sex. While the female sex worker is scrutinized and analyzed, the male client remains cloaked in secrecy, unknown and unseen. As a filmmaker, I simply wanted to reveal what is hidden: the client. The film references the idea that the client is unknown and unseen with interviews that have him turned away, with his back is to camera. The client is faceless.
Q: As you did some interviews with sex-trade clients, what did you discover the men were saying that informed your film? A: What struck me more than the details of their stories is what regular guys they are. Sure, some of them are super kinky, but still, they’re just regular guys – dads, husbands, brothers, boyfriends, buddies, sons. Very nice guys. Because I did not want to vilify or stereotype the client, I decided that in both the writing and dramatization of Girlfriend Experience, the client had to be “the guy next door”. Daniel (played by David Lewis) is good-looking, white, middle-class (in a lousy low-wage job), and he’s in love with his girlfriend. Daniel is a generic guy, somewhat bland, who just happens to be obsessed with prostitutes.
The john is typically characterized as a sinister shadow lurking in the alleyways and underbelly of the city. In Girlfriend Experience the john is shot with reflections of the city to emphasize that he is right here in the centre of the city, everywhere and everyman. The john is the city.
Conducting the research interviews, I was surprised to learn about the “girlfriend experience.” GFE is a service that offers deep French kissing, bareback blow jobs and full sex; in other words, closeness and intimacy. It’s not so much the sex men are after, as the feeling of being with a girlfriend. Men are hungry for a sexual encounter that feels comfortable, unrushed, friendly, warm, connected, intimate, and most importantly, real – like she’s your girlfriend and you’re her boyfriend. A GFE date must not feel like a paid session. It has to feel like she is really into it. That she likes you, genuinely likes you.
GFE surprised me. If I were purchasing sex, I would not be paying for cuddles and soft kisses; I’d be paying for new physical experiences, without emotional intimacy. I had not expected Girlfriend Experience to be an investigation of the fantasy of love, but as this emotion was so prevalent in my research, it became an important part of the film.
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Q: Daniel has early lines in the film saying he likes prostitution because there’s no games. Yet the dynamics of his GFE seem just as complicated and complicating to his girlfriend Maddy. Have you thought of how how so-called GFE processes differ from more conventional relationships? A: Purchasing a half-hour or one-hour girlfriend experience session is completely different from having an actual, everyday girlfriend. That’s obvious. A GFE session is a circumscribed scene in which the participants are actors playing the roles of girlfriend and boyfriend. By participating in prostitution, Daniel can star in his own movie with a script that he’s written. The film’s use of re-enactments dramatizes the idea that what we are watching is his fantasy, his perspective.
A GFE session is uncomplicated. When the GFE date is over, Daniel says, “I leave the theatre both physically and emotionally.” But later on, Daniel decides to step right into the fantasy and that’s when things get complicated for him. He wants to be inside the fantasy because it makes Adrian’s kisses that much sweeter.
When Daniel steps into the fantasy, he soon finds himself paying for nothing. He is quite literally paying to masturbate. Does he get nothing in return because Adrian is a fantasy who does not exist? Does he get nothing in return because his desire depends on never being satisfied? Is paying to jerk off to a fantasy and never being satisfied a graphic metaphor for prostitution?
Q: You spoke to some johns about their experience. Did you choreograph Daniel’s sexualized re-enactments from what you’ve heard? A: I wrote all the lines and all the scenes. The film is all scripted. Nothing is improvised. It’s a testament to David Lewis’s talent and skill as an actor that viewers often believe that the character Daniel is actually a john who is simply ad libbing lines. He’s not. David Lewis’s lines are scripted, rehearsed and memorized.
So the answer to your question is no. I did not choreograph re-enactments based on what I heard. The interviews that I conducted inspired my writing but everything is made up. David Lewis’s naturalistic acting and John Houtman’s exquisitely “accidental and spontaneous” cinematography both work to dupe the audience into believing that there’s something real going on here. There isn’t. It’s a movie, very manipulated and worked over.
You may use the website Craig’s List to sell your child’s old clothes and video games, but others’ intentions aren’t so innocent.
Detectives in our suburbs say Craig’s List is bringing prostitution into some of the Tri-State’s nicest neighborhoods.
After getting complaints from Deerfield Township businesses and residents, detectives decided to do something about it…they set up an undercover sting.
9 News has the video that shows how the bust went down.
Two women get on the bed and told an undercover officer he can be with both of them for $400.
Another woman who’s pregnant came to the hotel room and talked about her upcoming baby shower, President Obama’s stimulus package and a few minutes later she said she’ll be sure the officer is satisfied for $200.
That’s the offer that got her cuffed and hauled off to the Warren County Jail.
“It’s just simple as going to Craig’s List and going to erotic services and opening the ads and there all, dozens of them there to see, every day,” said Sergeant Brandon Lacy.
Lacy said with 21st century technology you don’t even have to get out of the car to set up a sexual encounter.
“They’re not exactly advertising specific sex acts. They’re advertising massages and other stuff but it’s all innuendo where everyone knows what they mean,” he said.
Calls to people posting erotic services on Craig’s List brought 11 people to a Deerfield Township motel. That’s where the undercover officers were waiting for the right offer. 8 of the 11 were arrested and charged with prostitution.
“There’s a tendency to think of prostitution as the streetwalkers and the people who hang around the corners but there’s more of trend now to operate in the fashion we’re seeing them operate off of computers,” said Warren County Sheriff Larry Sims.
Simms said he wants to send a message that Warren County is not the place to be if you’re into buying or selling sex.
“It comes down to quality of life in the area where people reside and work and this level of activity brings in other criminal activities such as thefts, robberies, drug activity,” he said.
Even worse, a woman who advertised as a masseuse on Craig’s List was murdered earlier this month in Boston.
While the Warren County Sheriff said he can’t stop everyone from using motels and hotels to break the law, he can stop some.
This operation focused on prostitutes but detectives said they have done other busts that focus on the customers.
Two suburban women accused of prostitution are defending themselves. They say they were not selling sex.
The studio was raided on Tuesday, and the women were charged.
But they tell CBS 2’s Mike Puccinelli they committed no crime.
New Dance Expressions: It’s a business where, according to their Youtube ad, “you and a gorgeous instructor come together.”
But Prospect Heights police say what’s on sale here 24/7 isn’t instruction --but sex.
“That’s a lie,” said a dancer and manager.
Two women were busted Tuesday night for allegedly soliciting sex from an undercover Cook County Sheriff’s deputy. The two women say their business isn’t involved in illegal sex. They say it involves erotic dance in private rooms.
“An erotic dance might be a striptease,”one of the accused said. “I mean, none of the girls are required to go naked.”
Both women say they have no criminal records and are being wrongly accused.
The other woman said “I’m completely mortified. … I feel ruined.”
Police say in a back room one of the dance instructors offered sex for $1,200. The officer said he wanted to get another girl in on the action.
The dancer denied she tried to broker a deal. “I never said that,” she said.
“We offered an erotic dance,” she said. “We offered to do a dance together. But we did not agree to anything illegal.”
Sex for sale on the Internet – Can police stop it?
by Mireya Villarreal
The News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooters have investigated sites like craigslist before. News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Mireya Villarreal uncovered why police say this is a growing trend that’s difficult to regulate.
On craigslist, we found ads offering sensual massages or a night of pleasure. While most people might see this as sex for sale, there is little police can do to stop it.
Lieutenant Mike Gorhum heads up the vice unit for the San Antonio Police Department. Gorhum tells us many prostitutes are moving their business from the street to the Internet.
“Some of them have advertised on craigslist,” said Lt. Gorhum. “They’ve even told us.”
So, we decided to check it out for ourselves. We chose four different ads on the erotic services section of craigslist and contacted each one via e-mail.
One man responded by offering any service I wanted for $100. Another wanted to make sure I was really a woman. He never said what services he offered, only that his only concern was my satisfaction.
“How is this legal?” asked News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Mireya Villarreal.
“Looking at some of the advertisements you showed me this morning, they’re not combining all the essential elements in the advertisement needed for the prosecution of prostitution,” explained Lt. Gorhum.
I just got word of an interesting documentary film that offers a sobering look at the Asian Massage Parlor niche in Rhode Island. Best of luck to the film makers! Please visit their web site at Happy Endings Doc.
Happy Endings?
Rhode Island. The only state where indoor prostitution is legal. It had been over 25 years since five prostitutes sued the state of Rhode Island for selective prosecution, and prostitution laws were removed from the books when documentarians Tara Hurley and Nick Marcoux turned their cameras on the under belly of “The Renaissance City” Providence, RI.
Watch the drama unfold in Asian massage parlors as Mayor David Cicilline of the City of Providence pushes to close the prostitution “loophole”. Follow “Heather”, a Korean immigrant, over two years as she manages a massage parlor while trying to become an American citizen.
Learn about the women who work in the spas. Hear from the police who arrest them. Watch the fight for and against prostitution legislation.
The film includes subtitled interviews with Korean women who work in the spas, clients who frequent the spas, Police, Politicians, ACLU, news footage, local radio call in shows, “voiced” reviews from internet escort review boards, local citizens, and human trafficking experts.
There are new questions about whether Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pulled some strings to help someone avoid a trial on prostitution-related charges.
An Action News investigation is raising questions tonight about whether Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pulled some strings to help a well-connected defendant avoid a trial. It’s a story of a preacher, a prostitute and the mayor—and some say it’s also more evidence of how some people accused of wrongdoing can seem to simply avoid facing the music in the city of Detroit these days under Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
Justice for insiders is what defense attorney Charles Hammons says he’s seen time and again in Detroit through many years before he retired…As you’ll see in a minute, he’s very near the heart of this story…the story of a pastor—now a former pastor—at Detroit’s Hartford Memorial Church, arrested for allegedly trying to hire a hooker who turned out to be a police decoy walking the streets in a prostitution sting. Not long after the arrest, the preacher’s lawyer says he was told by his client that the Mayor showed up at the church for a chat and the result was…
Vancouver filmmaker Ileana Pietrobruno’s Girlfriend Experience is intriguing in its approach to the realities of sex workers’ clients. This mock documentary centres on a man addicted to prostitutes even though he has a girlfriend. The film follows him as he cruises for girls, and when he gets obsessed with a certain girl complications ensue. His relationship is interspersed with sound bites from anonymous johns who also long for girlfriend-like qualities to their paid-sex exchanges.
Q: Daniel has early lines in the film saying he likes prostitution because there’s no games. Yet the dynamics of his GFE seem just as complicated and complicating to his girlfriend Maddy. Have you thought of how how so-called GFE processes differ from more conventional relationships?
The News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooters have investigated sites like craigslist before. News 4 WOAI Trouble Shooter Mireya Villarreal uncovered why police say this is a growing trend that’s difficult to regulate.
Rhode Island. The only state where indoor prostitution is legal. It had been over 25 years since five prostitutes sued the state of Rhode Island for selective prosecution, and prostitution laws were removed from the books when documentarians Tara Hurley and Nick Marcoux turned their cameras on the under belly of “The Renaissance City” Providence, RI.
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