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May 3, 2012
Prostitution in Denver: Women busted more than men, punished more harshly
Women in Denver are arrested for prostitution-related crimes more often than men and are punished more harshly, according to "Who Pays?," a new study by the Denver-based Laboratory to Combat Human Trafficking. The question of why is still a bit of a mystery, but researchers think it may be tied to p ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
Feminism & Co. sells out a program on sex work
Selling out for the first time since moving into its basement home at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Friday night's Feminism & Co.: Sex Work lecture had to turn many people away at the door. The expertly curated lecture series seeks out artists, scholars and women of all trades to speak about women ... More >>
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April 12, 2012
Sex Marks the Spot
Selling out for the first time since moving into its basement home at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Friday night's Feminism & Co.: Sex Work lecture had to turn many people away at the door. The expertly curated lecture series seeks out artists, scholars and women of all trades to speak about women ... More >>
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February 21, 2012
Hassan Mayo allegedly sold woman to another pimp for $400
Hassan Mayo is the latest alleged Denver-area pimp to be sentenced for human trafficking -- an offense that's earned him a sixteen-year stay at the Cross Bar Hotel His most shocking offense? He reportedly sold a woman to another pimp for $400.
News
February 2, 2012
The Super Bowl prostitution hoax
Indianapolis mobilizes for an epic battle with an urban legend
Blogs
January 30, 2012
Reader: Prostitute mug shots post offensive, proof Westword's gone to crap
Our post featuring mug shots of fourteen prostitutes busted in a Colfax sting operation sparked a slew of passionate, sometimes angry responses, with a number of readers accusing yours truly of exploiting and demeaning the arrestees. That was not my intention, but after reflection, I concluded that ... More >>
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November 10, 2011
Reader: Not all sex workers are victims
Our post featuring mug shots of fourteen prostitutes busted in a Colfax sting operation sparked a slew of passionate, sometimes angry responses, with a number of readers accusing yours truly of exploiting and demeaning the arrestees. That was not my intention, but after reflection, I concluded that ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Village Voice Media asks for your support
Our post featuring mug shots of fourteen prostitutes busted in a Colfax sting operation sparked a slew of passionate, sometimes angry responses, with a number of readers accusing yours truly of exploiting and demeaning the arrestees. That was not my intention, but after reflection, I concluded that ... More >>
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November 3, 2011
Child-sex-trafficking stereotypes demolished by new research
Our post featuring mug shots of fourteen prostitutes busted in a Colfax sting operation sparked a slew of passionate, sometimes angry responses, with a number of readers accusing yours truly of exploiting and demeaning the arrestees. That was not my intention, but after reflection, I concluded that ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2011
Human trafficking: Denver police get $300,000 federal grant to help combat growing issue
Flickr The Denver Police Department has received a $300,000 federal grant to help combat human trafficking. The money will pay for a few officers to work full-time in conjunction with the FBI on cases in which women and, more rarely, men are forced into prostitution, says Denver vice Lieuten ... More >>
Blogs
August 16, 2011
Dallas Cardenas first person convicted under Colorado's human trafficking law
Dallas Cardenas. Dallas Cardenas will serve eight years in prison for trafficking a seventeen-year-old girl and pimping an adult woman, the state attorney general's office announced today. Cardenas , twenty, of Denver, is the first person to be convicted under Colorado's human trafficking sta ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
The underage sex trafficking panic was fueled by anything but science
Where are the hundreds of thousands of teen prostitutes some advocates say are engaged in underage sex trafficking? Village Voice Media spent the past two months collecting arrest data for underage prostitution in 37 of America's largest cities. Reporters found the average number of arrests o ... More >>
Blogs
March 31, 2011
Human trafficking: University of Denver to host conference on modern-day slavery and religion
Starting tonight and running through Sunday, April 3, the University of Denver and the Iliff School of Theology will host what organizers says is a first-of-its-kind conference, which will bring academics together to discuss one of the world's hottest topics: human trafficking.
Blogs
March 25, 2011
Sex Workers Outreach Project co-founders on objections to bill targeting prostitutes' johns
FlickrEarlier this week, SB 85, a bill that would establish a so-called "johns school" for people who solicit prostitutes, sailed through the Senate judiciary committee. Read it below. But the co-founders of Colorado's Sex Workers Outreach Project branch see the measure as ineffective and co ... More >>
News
March 24, 2011
Women's Funding Network sex-trafficking study is junk science
Schapiro Group data wasn't questioned by mainstream media
Blogs
February 21, 2011
Today in irony: One of Michael Gilliland's first Boulder groceries was named Lolita's
It's a bit of cheeky coincidence that the man who co-founded Wild Oats Markets in Boulder twenty years ago has been accused of attempting to sow those oats with an underage prostitute in New Mexico. Turns out that one of the first stores Michael Gilliland purchased en route to building his he ... More >>
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February 17, 2011
Girls Night Out
It's a bit of cheeky coincidence that the man who co-founded Wild Oats Markets in Boulder twenty years ago has been accused of attempting to sow those oats with an underage prostitute in New Mexico. Turns out that one of the first stores Michael Gilliland purchased en route to building his he ... More >>
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April 23, 2010
Chris Romer and Mike Kopp at the Habibi Hookah Cafe: Kenny Be's Friday Afternoon Club
Kenny Be "Expand limited gambling again? Why should we legalize video keno games and ask Colorado bar patrons to fund higher education when we could just legalize prostitution and ask college students to pay for state tuition increases by working their asses off."
News
April 30, 2009
After so-called "Craigslist killings," a victim's family finds an unlikely ally: Craig Newmark
Kenny Be "Expand limited gambling again? Why should we legalize video keno games and ask Colorado bar patrons to fund higher education when we could just legalize prostitution and ask college students to pay for state tuition increases by working their asses off."
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December 4, 2008
Lost Innocence
CU students tackle the disturbing issue of child prostitution.

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