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Amsterdam plans to raise the minimum age for prostitutes from 18 to 21 and force brothels to close during early morning hours....

Ontario's top court on Monday legalized pimping and brothels in an attempt to make prostitution less dangerous for those employed as sex workers.

The last madam of the infamous Texas brothel that inspired the movie and Broadway show "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" has died in Phoenix. She was 84. Edna Milton Chadwell's nephew, Robert Kleffman, said Wednesday his aunt, the last owner of the Chicken Ranch brothel in La Grange, Texas, died Feb. 25. She had been in the hospital since a car accident in October.

As the super-pimp who once ran Thailand's biggest brothel empire and then exposed the police kickbacks he had to pay for it to flourish, Chuvit Kamolvisit feels uniquely qualified to lead the country's fight against corruption.

The country's first legal gigolo is open for business in a Nevada brothel and his work is courting controversy and mid-market female clientele.

France's culture minister is struggling to keep his job amid an uproar about a 2005 book in which he details Bangkok's brothels and the pleasure and freedom of paying "boys" for sex. Frederic Mitterrand's candid tale came back to haunt him ...