A century ago, the Committee of Fifteen hunted for “houses of ill-fame.”
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Aldermen agree to install 30 more surveillance cameras around Wrigley Field after Manchester bombing, and other Chicago news
Also, Toni Preckwinkle will run for reelection as Cook County Board president next year.
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Should prostitution be less illegal—or more?
An argument against prostitution in the New Republic is mangled by a weak sentence.
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How Francois Ozon’s Young & Beautiful addresses the sexualization of adolescents
Considering the recent French drama in light of the trend of movies on the sexual exploitation of children
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Gold Coast Madam tells all!
Rose Laws reads from her new memoir, Gold Coast Madam, at After-Words Thursday night.
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Spaces in the heart in Like Someone in Love
A Tokyo college student turns tricks for cash in Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love.
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What I learned from Shohei Imamura’s documentaries
Final thoughts on the extraordinary nonfiction series that just ended at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
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You can make your nut doing sex work
Dan on quick cash for a babysitter and a touch choice for a polyamorist
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Hookers and blow jobs
Dan dishes on the male-escort biz; plus, how to relax and enjoy a blow job already
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Best of 2011, number 6: Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer
J.R. Jones on Client-9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, his number 6 movie of 2011.
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The double message of Chester Brown’s Paying for It
“It’s because I do see sex as sacred and potentially spiritual that I believe in commercializing it and making this potentially holy experience more easily available to all.” —Chester Brown The quote, from Paying for It (Drawn and Quarterly), Chester Brown’s new graphic memoir about his experiences with prostitutes, is odd—not so much for what […]
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Fallen Gods
Ernesto Daranas’s drama “Fallen Gods” sets a Havana turf war against the legend of pimp Alberto Yarini Ponce de Leon, who murder led to France’s ouster from Cuba. It screens Tuesday 2/22 in the Latino Cultural Center’s Reel Film Club series.
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Chronicle of a Lynching Foretold
The problem with lynch law was knowing where to stop