Teen claims of being forced into prostitution

MALACCA- A 15-year-old teenager said captors solicited RM800 from clients she serviced.

The teen claimed they demanded the exorbitant charges due to the fact that she was still “young and fresh”.

The teen from Duyung who escaped from her captors earlier this month, told this to police officers who were tasked to probe the existence of vice rings which lure girls into prostitution.

Group shows there's life after prostitution

As the night grows older, this part of the city becomes more alive.

Women in low-cut, body-hugging clothes start appearing on the streets of Quezon City's red light district. Some make their move on potential customers.

Also in the area are other women dressed more conservatively in jeans and shirt. They are not around to earn money for the night. Belonging to Bagong Kamalayan Collective Inc. (BKCI), they have come to talk to their scantily clad "sisters" about their rights and to try to inspire them to rebuild their lives.

Liza Gonzales, recounting the scene to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, knows what life is like in the red light district. She was once one of those scantily clad women working in that neighborhood.

Duped into prostitution

KUALA LUMPUR - When Delima (not her real name) was told that she had secured a job as a domestic helper in Singapore, the Indonesian was elated.

Knowing that the job would be of great financial help to her family, the 25-year-old was willing to part with her elderly parents and siblings.

She was horrified when her employer turned out to be a pimp and her place of work and new home was a brothel in Bukit Bintang.

Lawyer's call for legalized prostitution stirs up a storm

Angry women are up in arms over a call by a male lawyer to legalizeprostitution. The lawyer had asked the authorities to do so when he was mitigating for a woman sex worker at the Magistrate's court in Sarawak recently.

It stirred up a hornet's with wives and girlfriends taking umbrage at the suggestion to the extent that they flooded the PKR Women's wing with phone calls to protest.

An incensed Voon Shiak Ni, the PKR Women's vice chairman, also hit out at the lawyer. She accused him of making a mockery of women, refusing to accept his argument that legalizing prostitutes was also one way to deter rape. Why was the study to prove such a sweeping statement, she demanded.

Prostitution? – Website Hooks Female Students Up With ‘Sugar Daddies’ To Pay Off Loans

A website has been accused of promoting prostitution by helping cash-strapped college students pay off their debts by dating older men.

SeekingArrangement.com offers its ‘sugar babies’ the opportunity to collect money through ‘dates’ with older, more financially set men.