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...comments stem from a popular urban legend that groups of single women are outlawed from living communally because together, they constitute a brothel under local law. In actuality, there are no laws that label a dwelling a whorehouse simply because a bunch of ladies of high repute are living in the same abode...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hide That Plutonium | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

...just because the brothel story is bogus doesn’t mean Harvard and the City of Cambridge don’t have some unusual laws...

Author: By Stephen M. Fee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hide That Plutonium | 2/19/2004 | See Source »

Mendy’s rabbi, contrary to his intentions, points Mendy in the direction of a brothel that changes his life. The rabbi quotes an obscure Talmudic passage that authorizes restless young Hasidim to “get it out of their systems.” But, true to cliché, Mendy falls in love with Sasha (Tchelet Semel), the beautiful prostitute he meets at the Love Boat, his bordello of choice, and never comes back...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

MEANWHILE IN GREECE ... Unholy Row The Greek Orthodox Church came out against the Mayor of Athens' plan to regulate the city's sex trade in advance of next year's Olympic Games. The Church's Holy Synod accused city officials of wanting to license extra brothels to cope with an expected increase in demand during the Games. Prostitution is legal in Greece if practiced in a licensed brothel; each brothel can employ up to three people. City officials plan to register 230 establishments for a total of 960 approved sex workers. Not that ambitious, given that at the Sydney Olympics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 7/6/2003 | See Source »

...anticorruption drive was crucial to solving the country's grave economic crisis. See Also: Latin America News MEANWHILE IN THE U.S. Welcome Home Troops! The Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Carson City, Nevada, is offering free sex to the first 50 soldiers from the Iraq war who show up. The brothel will issue them with the erotic equivalent of the military hygiene kit, including condoms, lubricant and a $1,000 gift certificate for the Moonlight Bunny of their choice. Those who miss the freebies won't go away empty-handed: a 50% discount is being offered to all U.S. servicemen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Watch | 6/8/2003 | See Source »

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