High-profile Christchurch murder trial to begin
The trial of a man charged with the murder of Christchurch prostitute Ngatai 'Mellory' Manning starts today.
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Sex war - France's new revolution
Sex, politics and morality: Put the three together, and you are sure to end up with a steaming tub of trouble.
Brothel baron granted diversion
Rich lister and sex entrepreneur Ka Yu Chow, known as John Chow, has been granted diversion after a charge of threatening to injure was downgraded.
School wants brothel action
Epsom Girls Grammar is considering a fresh complaint to Auckland Council after a Herald report that brothels are operating in its immediate area.
Brothel baron pleads not guilty
Rich lister and sex entrepreneur John Chow has pleaded not guilty to threatening to injure another man.
'I have to resort to prostitution'
Beau De Royce fears she could be forced to work on the streets if her sickness benefit is cut as part of a cull of welfare numbers.
Wild West sex trade as Chow boys ride in
An attempt by two Wellington brothers to take over Auckland’s lucrative sex industry could put them on the Rich List.
Trafficking report said to be from NZ media
The Government has dismissed parts of a high-level report which identified trafficking of underage prostitutes in New Zealand because it believed the findings were based on media reports which were not backed by police evidence.
Street legal: Ten years after prostitution decriminalisation
The campaign to clean up Hunter's Corner has created some unlikely bedfellows.
Vexed issue of sex in the city
All forms of prostitution were decriminalised in 2003. But while the Prostitution Reform Act gave local authorities power to regulate where brothels operated, there are no such controls on those selling their bodies on the street.
Officials to discuss arresting prostitutes and clients
Central government politicians have called a roundtable meeting in Wellington tomorrow to look for ways to control street prostitution in South Auckland.
Trial for Manning murder likely to start next year
The trial of a man charged with the 2008 murder of Christchurch prostitute Mellory Manning is likely to start next year.
Money lures migrant sex workers
Migrant prostitutes here are not victims of people trafficking and many are in the sex trade for the money, research on migrant sex workers in New Zealand has found.
Clean up underage prostitution
Police have denied there is a problem with underage prostitution, writes Dave Crampton. Perhaps this is because nobody has laid a complaint with the police?
Peter Calder: Standing up for city's sex workers
The bars on Ponsonby Rd are pumping when I turn up at the Auckland office of the New Zealand Prostitutes' Collective, behind an unassuming frosted-glass window at the western end of Karangahape Rd.
Prostitution ban splits select committee
A parliamentary committee is still wrangling over whether the Government should ban prostitution from Auckland's troublespots.
Sex tycoons buy Orakei base
A pair of Wellington sex industry magnates appear set to make Auckland their home, with the purchase of a $6.65 million house in the city.
China censors cut key Skyfall scenes
Movie censors in China have cut references to torture and prostitution in the country from the Bond film Skyfall.
Trial set for man charged with Manning murder
A man charged with the 2008 murder of Christchurch prostitute Mellory Manning will stand trial next year.
$1000-a-night street workers in turf war
A South Auckland prostitution spot has become embroiled in turf battles between local workers and those travelling from as far as Christchurch and Tokoroa.
Public can get a say on brothel
Plans for Auckland's first high-rise brothel will move a step closer this month when Wellington's Chow brothers face those opposed to the plan.