New York Strip Clubs: Even as Arrests Increase, Human Trafficking Remains A Problem

… We’re making dent, and we’re making progress,” said James Hayes, ICE’s Special Agent in Charge of Investigations. “But there’s still a lot of work to do.”
Between 14,500 and 17,500 victims are trafficked into the United States each year, according to the Department of Justice. ICE has been reaching out to the public with information about trafficking, particularly through January, which is the Human Trafficking Awareness month.
Most trafficking victims are from impoverished backgrounds and come from Mexico, El Salvador or Guatemala, often by crossing the border illegally or from south-east Asia and Eastern Europe, using fraudulent documents.
Traffickers often entice their victims with the prospect of jobs, education or marriage in the United States.
“When they get here, they’re working 14 hours in a night club, 14 hours in a strip club, 14 hours in a massage parlor, or worse,” Hayes said.

See the full article from “WNYC”

New York Escorts: Demonstrations to press Israel on prostitution

Demonstrations to press Israel on prostitution
January 31, 2012
(JTA) – Demonstrations to put international pressure on Israeli lawmakers to criminalize the purchase of sexual services in Israel are set to be held in four major cities worldwide.

The legislation, proposed by Orit Zuaretz of the Kadima Party, is based on laws that have been enacted in Sweden, Iceland, Norway and most recently in France. The model works on the principle that in order to effectively combat sex trafficking and prostitution, the demand for sexual services must be confronted. 
“Simply put, prostitution is a form of modern slavery and must be eradicated — not just in Israel but throughout the world,” said Rabbi Levi Lauer, founding executive director of ATZUM.

More than 15,000 individuals are estimated to be working in the prostitution industry in Israel, including 5,000 minors.   

See the full article from “Jewish Telegraphic Agency”

New York Escorts: Jennifer Love Hewitt Goes Shopping For Sex Toys

Jennifer Love Hewitt was spotted shopping for sex toys last week in Hollywood. Wait a minute, who was watching all of her cats at home? Mr. Snuggles must have been so lonely! From the New York Post:
Jennifer Love Hewitt was spotted shopping for toys at the Hustler store the other night on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Hewitt was solo and, according to our spy, “had a few pairs of thongs in her hand and was perusing the ‘toys’ section before making a purchase.” Perhaps the actress was doing some research for her new role in the Lifetime series The Client List, in which she plays a Texas mom-turned-prostitute. Her rep didn’t get back to us.
The New York Posts’ writers are either comedians or puritans, because nobody believes that J.Love needs to impale herself on dildos to research movies. There could be three reasons why Jennifer needs to buy enormous rubber penises:1. Research for a Movie of the Week (yeah right)2. Vagina is beat to hell (possible, but J enjoys the company of seemingly less well-endowed WASPs)3. Power scissoring (when scissoring that special lady isn’t enough, add a doubled-headed kidney masher)My guess goes with 3, what’s yours?

See the full article from “Opposing Views”

New York Strip Clubs: 2 Chainz Rocks NYC Show, Rumored To Be Signing To Def Jam [Video]

At one point to begin his show, he merely mimicked himself on stage, not spitting one verse on the microphone, and just allowed the track to play. However, the crowd reacted to every word and movement, as if the rapper had just given you the hottest 16 bars of his life, it was actually amazing to see.
Once he started, you could tell he had genuine fans in the crowd. Every verse, complete with ad-libs, was guided by the jam-packed crowd. While the crowd remained “turnt-up” the entire show, the biggest records during his set were definitely when he performed “Riot,” “Spend It,” “Supa-Freak” and “Duffle Bag Boyz.”
The first two of the aforementioned records are off his latest mixtape, TRU REALigion, while the strip club anthem “Supa-Freak” can be found on Jeezy’s latest release, TM103. 2 Chainz’ performance of “Duffle Bag Boyz,” was the sign that his fans have been riding with him throughout his journey, as the record was followed as if it’d just been released.

See the full article from “Hip-Hop Wired”

New York Adult Entertainment: Auditions: Chatham Players to hold open auditions for Cabaret

Fraulein Schneider: Alto (50+).  German Accent.  A world-wearing owner of an apartment block where much of the action (outside of the Kit Kat Klub) takes place.  Falls for Herr Schultz and her relationship with him is tested to the extreme. 
Herr Schultz: Baritone (50+).  German Accent.  German Jew who is sweet, loving and honest. Runs a fruit stand near Fraulein Schneider’s apartment building.  Falls in love with Fraulein Schneider.  Charming and likeable. 
Ernst Ludwig: Bari/Tenor (25-40).  German Accent.  An amiable Nazi sympathizer, a street wise smuggler who seems to know everyone and everything.  Befriends Cliff, when he arrives in Berlin.  However, he has somewhat sinister depths to his character.  When his true beliefs become apparent, he is revealed as a Nazi.
Fraulein Kost: Mezzo (25-45).  German Accent.  Sexually dubious and selfish. Not afraid to speak her mind and admit her indiscretions.  A prostitute who lives in Fraulein Schneider’s rooming house.  Initially her character is played for laughs, however, later a more sinister and unpleasant side of her character is revealed (she is a Nazi sympathizer). 

See the full article from “Examiner.com”

New York Adult Entertainment: ‘Twin Peaks’ burlesque, and yes, the pun is intended

If Twin Peaks is remembered for anything, it’s the strangeness. David Lynch’s early 1990s cult hit was loaded with peculiar scenes, oddball characters, backwards talking, and of course a lady who adored a log. It also had its share of boundary-pushing naughtiness (strange-naughty, to be sure), mostly centered on One Eyed Jack’s, the casino/brothel where lots of the sexiest and creepiest scenes took place. Yet where early-’90s ABC sensibilities left the scope of the sexiness rather limited, latter-day Lynchians are free to turn up the raunch as high as they like.
That was possibly why a line led from the back of the Parkside Lounge, through the bar, and out to East Houston Street on Saturday night. The “Miss Twin Peaks” pageant is part of the Pink Room series put on by the producer, known by her stage name, Franny Fluffer. Her effort brought a cabinet of New York’s emerging neo-burlesque performers to reinterpret the show with bare-bodied dance routines.

See the full article from “Capital New York”

New York Escorts: Passionate with Joe Garcia

With other New Yorkers, Joe shares a sophistication not overly burdened by self-consciousness. And, like New York natives who appreciate the big bad city, Joe is amenable to getting side-tracked. If he had not been intercepted in a Wienerwald restaurant one fateful night, you might perhaps be seeing him on the stage of the Staatsoper today. However, he was approached by a perfectly friendly couple who introduced him to a perfectly friendly old gent. 
In a Ringstrasse hotel a week later, said gent handed him 5,000 Schillings and invited him to an apartment in the 19th District. Ushered into the bedroom, Joe was presented with a fait waiting to be accompli-ed – “a huge bed with a woman in it” – and for the next two years he was a sexual (not musical) performer for one of Austria’s most wealthy and powerful businessman, since deceased. “It was prostitution, but then so is opera – and that’s good, not bad,” he muses. Detachment is indispensable to brilliance. “It might be better to date opera than to live with it.” 

See the full article from “The Vienna Review”

New York Escorts: Corlear’s Hook and Its Hooker History

… Walnut Street [now Jackson] probably had the highest concentration of commercial sex in New York…Prostitution in the Hook was the most impoverished in the city… By 1839, eighty-seven brothels were situated in the Hook.”

Please welcome the treating girls, or the occasional prostitutes. (I really must thank the Tenement Museum for having an Educator Meeting about this fascinating topic). This vice of regular prostitution was, of course, not limited to the Hook, but I thought you’d get a kick out of this:

In New York, prostitution was so prevalent and almost, dare I say accepted, that some streetwalkers became celebrities.

And how about Madam Eliza Jumel? You may recognize that name. Her eponymous mansion is the oldest surviving house in Manhattan. Again, according to City of Eros “the leading prostitute in post-Revolutionary America was Eliza Bowen Jumel…she entered her mother’s profession at an early age…everybody who was anybody knew her or knew about her.” For several decades she was the wealthiest woman in America.

See the full article from “Bowery Boogie”

New York Adult Entertainment: Viral Internet story says Mitt Romney helped locate missing teen daughter of …

… In July 1996, the 14-year-old daughter of Robert Gay, a partner at Bain Capital, had disappeared,” the story reads. “She had attended a rave party in New York City and gotten high on ecstasy. Three days later, her distraught father had no idea where she was. Romney took immediate action. He closed down the entire firm and asked all 30 partners and employees to fly to New York to help find Gay’s daughter. Romney set up a command center at the LaGuardia Marriott and hired a private detective firm to assist with the search. He established a toll-free number for tips, coordinating the effort with the NYPD, and went through his Rolodex and called everyone Bain did business with in New York and asked them to help find his friend’s missing daughter. Romney’s accountants at Price Waterhouse Cooper put up posters on street poles, while cashiers at a pharmacy owned by Bain put fliers in the bag of every shopper. Romney and the other Bain employees scoured every part of New York and talked with everyone they could – prostitutes, drug addicts – anyone.

See the full article from “PolitiFact”

New York Adult Entertainment: Too Short Brings Bay Area Rap to the Knitting Factory

And then there’s 2, which was the number of shows this Oakland, Calif., rapper performed last week, on Thursday and Friday, at the Knitting Factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, his first full concerts in New York.
“I never even knew I had a chance of getting on a stage in New York,” he said in the wee hours of Saturday morning at the end of the second of these concerts; he seemed heavy with exhaustion, and his voice was a bit tattered by the New York cold.
Too Short is perhaps the original regional rap star, a longtime genre pioneer and fixture in the Bay Area who, despite several platinum and gold albums in the 1990s, never quite became a nationwide superstar. His music trafficked in the dirty stuff — pimping, raunchy sex — and still does, in a style straightforward enough to be blues, or nursery rhymes.

See the full article from “New York Times”

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