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Prostitution Reform (Control of Street Prostitution) Amendment Bill

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Moving prostitutes off New Zealand streets is the only solution to the problems of prostitution – compromises will not work, said NZ First Party Spokesperson for Social Policy/Welfare and Manukau East Asenati Lole-Taylor in a media release on 31 July 2014.

Lole-Taylor failed to retain her seat in parliament at the recent election held on 20 September 2014, so her private member’s bill – Prostitution Reform (Control of Street Prostitution) Amendment Bill – which she submitted to the ballot while a List MP, will need to be re-submitted in the name of another MP, presumably one of the current 11 NZ First Party members, if it has any chance of ever reaching the select committee stage for consideration. It was not selected from the ballot while she was as MP.

The purpose of the Bill is to amend the Prostitution Reform Act 2003 and prohibit street prostitution in New Zealand. The Bill restricts the locations where the business of prostitution or commercial sex services may occur to licensed or small owner-operated brothels. [Read more…]

Prostitution a new low for legal highs

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One of the leaders of the fight to ban legal highs has spoken of his horror over a teenage girl prostituting herself in return for synthetic drugs. TV presenter turned political hopeful Te Hamua Nikora has revealed the sickening plight of a 15-year-old from his hometown of Gisborne who is being paid with legal highs for performing “sexual favours” on adult men.

The girl’s case has come to light after one of her caregivers approached Nikora’s Mana Party office in Gisborne. Nikora is standing for Mana in the central North Island Maori electorate of Ikaroa-Rawhiti.

“We had someone who looks after her . . . come to see us to say she was down there [in the central city] performing sexual favours on men so they would go in and buy her that sort of stuff,” Nikora told Sunday News.

“When we have a young girl down here who is performing sexual favours for guys to go into the shop to buy that stuff . . . that makes me sad, that makes me angry. It makes me want to talk to these fellas and let them know how I feel about it.”

Full story – Story by Neil Reid. Published 27/04/14

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/9978664/Prostitution-a-new-low-for-legal-highs

Ex-prostitutes call for law change saying decriminalisation of industry has failed them

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Ex-prostitutes call for law change.

Former prostitutes and their advocates are calling for clients of sex workers to be prosecuted, saying the decriminalisation of the industry has failed them.

Freedom from Sexual Exploitation director Elizabeth Subritzky told Parliament’s justice and electoral committee the only solution to the damage that prostitution caused, and the violence it created, was to prosecute buyers of sexual services through a reform of prostitution laws. [Read more…]

“Scurrilous magazine Truth”: “chocker with sex adds” promoting “people trafficking” – says Peters

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NZ First Leader Winston Peters has labelled Auckland “the supercity of sin”, highlighting its flourishing prostitution industry and “that scurrilous magazine Truth” with its many advertising links to the trafficking of sex workers.

“The Hong Kong born Chow brothers are thoughtfully providing a 15-storey brothel, in what used to be an historic building, just across the road from the casino in the heart of Auckland,” Peters said.

“And thanks to our generous student and worker visa schemes the Chow brothers will be able to provide genuine home-grown sex workers for the visitors if that’s what they want.”

He said “that scurrilous magazine Truth” was “chocker with sex ads” most based in Auckland. Many of the advertisements “in reality represent people trafficking”.

“The seven deadly sins were alive and well in Auckland and the city was being trashed economically, socially, physically and ethically,” he said.

For full story by Vernon Small go to:

Peters: Immigrants, brothels and sin city

Published 24 May 2013

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/8714017/Peters-Immigrants-brothels-and-sin-city

Notes on Truth magazine:

On 25 February 2011 Truth Publications Ltd, formerly directed by Dermott Mallet and John Andrew Pin, was struck off the Register of Companies. It had earlier been put into liquidation on 21 October 2009 owing $622,000 to creditors, according to the Liquidator’s reports.  Dermott Malley and John Pin were both directors and indirect shareholders in Truth Publications Ltd.

See: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10606909

The scurrilous tabloid “NZ Truth”, which the failed company had published, made much of its money through advertising Adult Services (prostitution etc) and marketing hardcore porn linked to Steve Crow’s porn companies.

On 21 March 2011 the domain name NZXESCORTS.CO.NZ was registered with the New Zealand Domain Name Commission (DNC) by Dermott Malley. The registrant name was recorded as “Truth Publications Ltd” and Mr Malley recorded his name and the defunct company’s email as “registrant contact” and “administrative contact”. In early June 2011 the DNC was alerted to these false entries and the registrant was changed to Truth Weekender Ltd, with sole director Dermott Malley (contact details were corrected to comply with the law).

The registrant for the domain name NZESCORTS.CO.NZ and truth.co.nz is now Truth Media Network, P.O. Box 204367 Highbrook, Auckland 2161.

It would appear that the “scurrilous magazine Truth” continues to be closely linked to the prostitution industry, Dermott Malley, Steve Crow and his brother David Crow.

On 5 June 2011 The NZ Herald reported that Steve Crow, a banned company director, had announced a new business venture NZX Escorts.

“One week after pleading guilty to directing a company while banned, porn magnate Steve Crow has announced a new business venture. …

“He maintained his involvement as a “marketing consultant” in the new venture did not contravene his director ban. “I’m not running it. David Crow my brother is. He’s the CEO.”

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/connect/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10730335

 

Naked ambition: Banning the sex industry [in Iceland]

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Banning the sex industry: Naked Ambition 

Iceland is determined to outlaw the world’s oldest business. Can it succeed?

April 20th 2013. The Economist Report. Reykjavik

ULTRA-LIBERAL Iceland wants to ban online pornography. It is just the latest step in its attempts to eliminate the sex industry entirely. In 2009 it introduced fines and jail terms for those who patronise prostitutes (whom it treats as victims). In 2010 it outlawed strip clubs. In February the government decided to take on the glut of smut online and floated the idea of banning violent or degrading pornography, which some Icelanders take to mean most of it. No country has yet wholly succeeded in controlling commercial sex, either through legalisation or criminalisation. But all over the world, particularly in rich democracies, policymakers are watching to see whether Iceland succeeds—and may follow in its footsteps if it does.

Full Report:

http://www.economist.com/news/international/21576366-iceland-determined-outlaw-worlds-oldest-business-can-it-succeed-naked-ambition