by Jeremy Lemur | Oct 21, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
The jargon of the illegal prostitution industry is changing. As escort websites like myredbook.com are being exposed as resources for illegal prostitution and getting shut down by the FBI, a new type of “dating” site is rapidly gaining in popularity and emerging as...
by Jeremy Lemur | Oct 17, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
When Nevada legalized prostitution in the form of rural brothels back in 1971, personal computing was barely in its infancy and the internet was a concept yet to be actualized. The brothels of Nevada, unable to advertise anywhere where prostitution is illegal, had...
by Jeremy Lemur | Jul 14, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
Alix Tichelman, an illegal prostitute, was recently arrested on suspicion of murder after allegedly injecting a lethal dose of heroin into Google executive Forrest Timothy Hayes and callously leaving him to die on his yacht in Santa Cruz. The horrific nature of this...
by Jeremy Lemur | Jul 3, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
On June 30th the Oakland Police Department announced the launch of a website that displays the names and photos of “pimps and purchasers,” individuals arrested for soliciting prostitutes or benefiting from prostitution. This is not the first time that a city decided...
by Jeremy Lemur | Jun 26, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
Myredbook.com, a sex industry directory and online community connecting prostitutes and their clients, was taken offline by federal authorities on June 25th. The operators of the site were arrested for facilitating prostitution and money laundering. According to a...
by Jeremy Lemur | Jun 9, 2014 | Legal Prostitution
On December 20th of 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously struck down the nation’s anti-prostitution laws which prohibited brothels, public communication between prostitutes and clients, and living on the profits of prostitution. Chief Justice Beverley...
