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  Urban Legends Reference Pages: Risqué Business (Sex Bracelets)
Nothing in the various "sex bracelet" news stories we've pawed through indicates girls are actually using these fashion items to declare willingness to engage in various acts, or that boys are breaking girls' bracelets in the belief that so doing grants them a right to claim what they think has been advertised.
In those days, youngsters at various schools throughout the US and Canada heard pull tabs were "sex coupons" — all a fellow needed to do to convince the girl of his dreams to bed down with him was present her with a tab from a can of soda, and she had to say yes.
The notion that a "sex coupon" could compel them to act out their desires gives them a way to vicariously explore lust while at the same time remaining a "good girl" in that there is no admission (internal or otherwise) of sexual hankerings.
www.snopes.com /risque/school/bracelet.asp   (1777 words)

  
 How Companies Have Sex
Sex is all about mixing up the DNA from two parents to spawn something new.
Perhaps the biggest lesson in corporate sex is to recognize the dangers of asexual reproduction and excessive inbreeding.
At the same time, there is such a thing as organizational safe sex and committed relationships -- combinations that pay attention to the long-term reasons for a particular pairing and manage closely the union of ideas, processes, and talent.
www.fastcompany.com /magazine/05/sex.html   (1725 words)

  
 Press Release (ILO/98/31): Sex Industry Assuming Massive Proportions in Southeast Asia - Public information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The sex sector in the four countries is estimated to account for anywhere from 2 to 14 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and the revenues it generates are crucial to the livelihoods and earnings potential of millions of workers beyond the prostitutes themselves.
In Indonesia the financial turnover of the sex sector is estimated at US$1.2 billion to US$3.3 billion per year, or between 0.8 and 2.4 per cent of the country's GDP, with much of prostitutes' earnings remitted from the urban brothel complexes they work in to the villages their families live in.
Sex work is usually better paid than most of the options available to young, often uneducated women, in spite of the stigma and danger attached to the work.
www.ilo.org /public/english/bureau/inf/pr/1998/31.htm   (2379 words)

  
 Sex galore in Japan when World Cup gets underway
Other sex businesses include clubs and pink salons, which often mean sex massage, as well as "imekura", or image clubs, which involve all manner of sexual role-playing, like the use of schoolgirl uniforms or nurses.
Sex industry workers can also conceal their activities from family and friends through the use of professional alibi services which issue bogus employment certificates and salary statements.
Kadokura said delivery health business is more attractive to business people who want to start new sex business because of lower investment costs.
www.walnet.org /csis/news/world_2002/digijourn-020515.html   (720 words)

  
 Making Sex Work Safe: Chapter 7
Sex workers often know a great deal about sex work in the area and can be important sources of information for mapping.
Adult and adolescent sex workers may be working separately and have different needs (young people are more likely to provide sexual services informally or occasionally — street youth who trade sex for food or a place to sleep, for example).
A survey with sex workers and interviews of a random sample of each category of sex worker could help determine how many clients there are on a typical night, types of clients and how many visits clients make per week or per month.
www.nswp.org /safety/msws/msws-07.html   (6006 words)

  
 Sociological study examines sex business in Ukraine (05/19/02)
KYIV - Just under three-quarters of Ukrainian prostitutes are in the sex business because it provides them a living, while around 20 percent would not leave the profession even if given a comparable financial alternative, according to the first-ever sociological study on the plight of Ukraine's women of the night.
Most prostitutes begin leaving the business in their early 30s, although 40- and 45-year-old hookers were not all that uncommon, according to the survey.
Even so, up to 66 percent of the prostitutes surveyed in the UISR study said they practiced unsafe sex at one time or another, with most explaining that it was at the request of the clients, who often compensated them financially for not requiring the use of condoms.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2002/200206.shtml   (1399 words)

  
 The business of sex: Then and now
From the city's incorporation in 1886 to the present, there have been some constants in the conduct of the "sex trade" and its regulation.
Business shifted one block west and, then two blocks south by 1910.
This new policy is "an extremely advanced and intelligent move," says John Lowman, a criminology professor at Simon Fraser University and student of the sex trade whose 1996 study I consulted in preparing this commentary.
www.walnet.org /csis/news/vancouver_97/vansun-970313.html   (1100 words)

  
 Mail Tribune News - Speakers back sex-business bill
Among those who testified for a measure proposed for the Nov. 2 ballot were state representatives from both parties, and city council members and residents of both cities, where openings of Castle Superstores have touched off controversies in the past year.
Communities do not have the power to decide where such businesses can be, unless they prove to be nuisances and crimes can be documented.
If the Legislature refers it and voters approve it, local governments could zone businesses whose "principal" activity is to produce, distribute or display representations of sexual activity.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/apr99/4799n2.htm   (616 words)

  
 The Manila Times Internet Edition | LIFE & TIMES > The serious business of sex, death and rock n’ roll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
If you think you can’t catch the disease because you only had sex once, or because you believe your lover is faithful, or because you only practice oral sex, you are living dangerously.
If you would rather not talk about sex with your children and believe your ignorance will somehow keep them innocent, you are putting their lives in jeopardy.
“Sex between older men and girls often leads to physical trauma to the genital area, which increases the chances of infection,” he elaborates.
www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/nov/12/yehey/life/20041112lif1.html   (1384 words)

  
 Business Horizons: Sex stereotyping in the workplace: a manager's guide - Women in Business
The purpose of this article is to provide managers with a practical guide to sex stereotyping in the workplace by identifying what it is, discussing the legal issues surrounding it, and providing suggestions for minimizing it.
Sex stereotyping occurs when employees are judged according to traditional stereotypes based on gender.
But in small businesses, studies show that most daughters are still automatically excluded from taking over the family business started by their father.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1038/is_n2_v36/ai_13815063   (1274 words)

  
 Imperial College London - Sex and Business: Shere Hite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Sex and Business draws on research carried out within 10 major corporations, including interviews with their chief executives.
Very few grow up thinking they may have long term friendships with the opposite sex but for the first time, men and women are trying to be equal while working in executive positions in long term relationships which aren't sexual.
The business book area is dominated by men's self help books as if women should be like men or invisible as if a situation didn't need discussing.
www.ic.ac.uk /P2547.htm   (962 words)

  
 Eye - Sex is a risky business - 03.17.05   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
By definition, a legalized sex business would be limited to adults of the age of consent.
The truth is, if we treat sex as a commodity like any other, we rob it of the respect it deserves as the means for creating new life and for its emotional and psychological potency.
And, most importantly, sex workers would be entitled to a safety net if they wished to retire because of family, other job opportunities, age or health issues.
www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_03.17.05/op/letters.html   (801 words)

  
 SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Sex Industry Thrives, But States Look Away
"The sex business has assumed the dimensions of an industry and has directly or indirectly contributed in no small measure to employment, national income and economic growth," she added.
The ILO report estimates that the number of sex workers ranges anywhere from 0.25 percent to 1.5 percent of the total female population in the four countries.
She added that figures relating to the sex industry "are not in labour statistics or in development plans" though they impact heavily on human rights, the work force, crime, and health issues like the transmission of HIV/AIDS.
www.aegis.com /news/ips/1998/IP980803.html   (1247 words)

  
 7.7.2000 - The Finnish churches issue an appeal against the sex business   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
In the opinion of the council it is a positive matter that in Finland there has begun to be public discussion on the problems caused by the sex business.
A particular cause for concern is the growth of the sex business in the capital, Helsinki, and in certain northern and eastern border areas, so that it affects the general public.
Many of the victims and customers of the sex business are church members, and so the churches msut be aware of the problem and of the safety nets available.
www.evl.fi /english/news/appeal.htm   (361 words)

  
 Tampabay: Internet business joins sex hit list
Deeming it an adult business operating in an area zoned for general commercial use, the city charged Executive Outcome with a zoning violation.
Lirot, the lawyer, said the city learned of the business from wildly erroneous reports by neighbors that bootleg porn films and snuff films were being made there.
The city ruled last year the dorm is an adult business that violates zoning laws by being in a residential neighborhood.
sptimes.com /News/112700/news_pf/TampaBay/Internet_business_joi.shtml   (597 words)

  
 Business Consulting
Sex and Business challenges both men and women to look long and hard at their own actions and beliefs, as well as those of the people they work with, and asks them to develop a new and more effective way of working and communicating with each other in the workplace.
In Sex and Business: Ethics in Sexuality in Business and the Workplace, she exposes the rules and attitudes men and women acquire socially, in an effort to dissipate the behavioral confusion between genders as more and more women make their presence known in an environment previously dominated by men.
'Sex and Business is almost like an x-ray of men's heads, illuminating what men think, with far-reaching ramifications...valuable for businesses and for any man who wants to take a new look at his life, and any woman who lives or works with men.'
www.hite-research.com /buscons.html   (1731 words)

  
 Sex discrimination | Business Link   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
As with other strands of discrimination, sex discrimination can be direct - treating somebody less favourably on the grounds of their sex - or indirect - applying an apparently general rule which in practice disadvantages one sex and which cannot be justified.
This may be different work from that of a colleague of the opposite sex but it is equal in terms of the demands of the job where they are doing the same or similar work, work rated as equivalent, or work of equal value.
The latter is where work may be different from that of a colleague of the opposite sex but it is equal in terms of the demands of the job.
www.businesslink.gov.uk /bdotg/action/detail?type=RESOURCES&itemId=1073792250   (617 words)

  
 Kerala Scandals :Sex business thriving in Kerala: Study   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Flesh trade is flourishing in Kerala with men and women taking to sex work to make easy money causing concern over the physical and moral health of the society, says a study.
The maximum number of female sex workers are in the capital district (649) followed by Ernakulam (604).
Unlike in other states, the state did not have brothel-based sex workers, The study, conducted with the help of international agency TNS Mode, says the "call girl" system has also become "frequent" in major towns of the state with students and housewives being involved in it.
www.keralascandals.com /news/ks8.htm   (218 words)

  
 Mail Tribune Business - Is sex bad for business?
They included a person possibly driving under the influence of intoxicants, a trespassing, a harassment complaint, a miscellaneous call, a child left unattended in a car, two suspicious vehicles parked in the Castle lot and a request for a car to be towed.
He said those reports included a bullet found behind the property, trash in front of the business, a possible indecent exposure with no evidence of criminal activity, urinating in public (the offender was gone when officers arrived), and a verbal argument including Jonathan Hanken.
They point out that their business window opens onto Castle's parking lot and note that Nevans has a wall and frosted windows obstructing her view of the lot.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/apr99/41199b1.htm   (1185 words)

  
 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Sex, the city and the price of freedom
HBO's "Sex and the City" ended its summer season Aug. 12 with a fairy-tale beginning -- Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), the independent-minded, 35-year-old sex columnist, accepted a marriage proposal, complete with a substantial diamond, from her nouveau-hippie furniture-making beau, Aidan (John Corbett).
"Sex and the City" has always been an astute little fable about the lies otherwise intelligent women live by, the bad choices they make as they take advantage of the post-feminist freedom to pursue "dangerous emotions" (as writer Steve Vineberg so aptly put it in a recent New York Times piece about the show).
This season (its fourth), "Sex and the City" retained its cocktail-fizzy dialogue, its fabulous fashions, its naughty bedroom scenes and its too-true slices of upscale New York life.
www.salon.com /ent/col/mill/2001/08/21/sex_city   (729 words)

  
 Sex-business law advancing
Supporters of local regulations hope that existing sexually oriented business zones in nine cities in Kenton and Campbell counties will be enough to meet U.S. Supreme Court requirements and that new ones won't be needed.
Boone County officials opted not to join in the regional regulation of adult businesses.
Boone Judge-executive Gary Moore said that was largely at the recommendation of County Administrator Jim Parsons, who oversaw the cleanup of Newport's sex businesses while serving as city solicitor and city manager.
www.enquirer.com /editions/2004/03/10/loc_kysex10.html   (624 words)

  
 sexzon0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
That distance means that less than 1 percent of the land under Hamilton County's zoning jurisdiction would qualify to have those types of businesses.
The plan, the assistant prosecutor told them, had the effect of prohibiting the businesses because the zoning was too strict.
In an effort to restrict these kinds of businesses, I don't want to be the out-of-bounds law that stirs this up,'' said Commissioner Bob Bedinghaus.
www.cincypost.com /news/1998/sexzon051998.html   (369 words)

  
 Essential Baby - Men's Business - Pregnancy - Sex - After the Birth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
While your sex life during pregnancy may continue normally, sex after the birth is going to be the last thing on your partners mind, and understandably so!
While the general opinion is that sex can resume straight away, it's probably best to seek the advice of your doctor or obstetrician.
Sex following pregnancy can be beneficial as the hormones your partner releases during sex will cause contractions that will help the uterus to return to it's normal state.
www.essentialbaby.com.au /MensBusiness/SexAfter.cfm   (534 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bush brother's divorce reveals sex romps - Nov. 25, 2003
Neil Bush, younger brother of President Bush, detailed lucrative business deals and admitted to engaging in sex romps with women in Asia in a deposition taken in March as part of his divorce from now ex-wife Sharon Bush.
Brown questioned Bush about numerous other business ventures that paid him well to be a consultant and fundraiser, and, in at least one case, for little work.
He was involved in a business controversy in the late 1980s when he was director of Denver, Colorado-based Silverado Savings & Loan, which collapsed at a cost to taxpayers of $1 billion.
www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/11/25/bush.brother.reut   (784 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Provo adds to clout of sex-business law
The revision is carefully aligned to comply with court decisions in two recent Utah cases involving Doctor John's Lingerie and Novelty Boutiques, but the attorney who represents Doctor John's said Provo hasn't fully inoculated itself against a future legal challenge.
The Roy case revolves around the meaning of the term "substantial portion" in the ordinance, referring to what portion of a company's business is dedicated to adult movies, books, magazines or toys.
Doctor John's believes it does not meet the definition of a sexually oriented business, although it calculated that 25 percent of its floor space was devoted to the defined materials.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600158691,00.html   (437 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Business | Sex trade's reliance on forced labour
In the industrialised parts of the US and Europe, a forced sex worker earns an average $67,200 per year on behalf of her (or his) master, according to an ILO estimate.
The sex industry in Bulgaria started in Borovets and Pamporovo in the eighties where underpaid citizens of Britain enjoyed their only chance to ski and more.
If you insist on going to a prostitute, you can do your part (to reduce sex slavery) by doing research to make sure that the lady who you are paying to have sex with is doing it of her free will.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/business/4532617.stm   (3327 words)

  
 Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The court’s opinion did not affect the actual decision in the case before it; the charges were rejected because the court found that the case of the prosecution was based exclusively on an assumption by the police that the defendant, a Helsinki woman, was selling sex services.
The woman denied selling sex services, saying that she was just meeting friends.
Somewhat unexpectedly, the court also found that a conviction for selling sex services in a public place would require evidence that a disturbance was caused.
www.helsinginsanomat.fi /english/article/1076154276401   (472 words)

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