Britain’s Women’s Institute which is infamous for offering classes on burlesque dancing and sex therapy and having members pose naked in a charity calendar has a new controversial campaign attacking ads for escorts and massage parlors. Minister for Women Harriet Harman who last week announced plans to criminalize paying for sex with women forced into prostitution asked the group s 205 000 members to join the government in its war against human trafficking. She asked that the group monitor newspapers and complain to editors who run sex ads that just might be promoting trafficked women; in turn the organization has asked its members to pass along tips. “Look at the adverts in your local newspaper ” Harman said. “They advertise women for sale for sex. Many are young women from eastern Europe from Africa or Asia tricked and trafficked into this country and forced into prostitution.” It s unclear though what the criteria will be for actionable ads or information worthy of passing along. I highly doubt Harman expects these women to put on their amateur detective caps and investigate suspicious operations before targeting them. So will they broadly complain about anything mentioning escorts or massage parlors Since the U.K. does not criminalize prostitution but does outlaw persistent kerb-crawling and public solicitation these advertisements are a major avenue for the sale of sex. Attacking all sex ads would almost appear a campaign to eradicate prostitution not just sex trafficking which some suspect is Harman’s real aim .
U.K. asks women to attack escort ads – Broadsheet – Salon.com.
When we decided that Megan Fox should grace the cover of this October’s GQ, we knew exactly three things about her: that she’d been a scene-stealer in Transformers, that she was a hit on the Internet, and that she looked, well, like this. But since then, we’ve learned a few other fun Fox facts. That putting photos of her on GQ.com will nearly cause the site to melt down. That married men will send e-mails saying, “Your cover moved me in a very special way.” And that readers across the land will be inspired to do weird shit like render her nude in an oil painting and then offer to let us auction said painting for charity. (Thanks, Ray from Arizona. Not creepy at all, dude.) Megan was game to talk about anything, from hand jobs to her lesbian fling to why guys love women whose assets include both an Xbox and a vagina. And while all of that made the story, there were a few gems that did not. Like her taxonomy of farts (“If you eat Chinese food, your farts come out like Chinese food. If you eat Mexican food, your farts come out like Mexican food. And milk, it’s like—you can smell the warmth in the fart. My wardrobe on Transformers always smells like farts, and I have no idea why”) and her assessment of Transformers co-star Shia LaBeouf’s love life (“He has no problem getting girls—it’s like he’s fucking Justin Timberlake. I mean, he’s not fucking Justin Timberlake, but like he is Justin Timberlake”). We thought maybe you’d enjoy hearing from her again—or at least seeing her.
Click here for GQ.com’s October Megan Fox page, featuring more photos and a sexy behind-the-scenes video from her GQ shoot.
MEGAN FOX: OBSESSION: GQ Features on men.style.com.
“Desperate Housewives” actress Teri Hatcher told David Letterman on his show this week how she associates Barack Obama’s election night victory with her need for reported need for new underwear.
Hatcher described watching election-night coverage and deciding to go online for more reaction, when she was greeting with an unlikely photo on the AOL homepage: her butt.
“It had Obama wins and the whole map of the country… then I see this picture… i think, ‘that’s my ass’… [with the headline] Desperately Needs New Underwear”
Why Teri Hatcher Associates Obama Winning With Her Underwear (VIDEO).
A model presents a creation from designer Kati Zoob’s 2009 spring/summer fashion show in Budapest November 25, 2008.
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