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By the 1990s she had come to seem like a relic of an earlier age to the younger women lawyers who now make up 24% of the profession (vs. 3% in the early 1970s), lovely to contemplate on a shelf somewhere but not as politically correct or savvy as the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law According To Ruth: RUTH BADER GINSBURG | 6/28/1993 | See Source »

Sasha, a scruffy-looking long-haired resident of Moscow, has a lucrative profession. He sells the sexual services of small boys. His base of operations is a garden in front of Moscow's magnificent Bolshoi Theatre, where both local and foreign clients know to seek him out. Sasha pimps for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: Defiling The Children | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

Historically, authorities have winked at "the world's oldest profession." If 100,000 German men a year choose to visit Thailand on package sex tours, who is to object? Only recently has anyone begun to ask how many of Thailand's 2 million prostitutes are minors; how many have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

Helpless, Manju, like many in her profession, is resigned to her fate. Returning home would not be an improvement. "Even if you work 24 hours a day in Nepal, you do not get enough to eat," she explains. "One can endure anything except hunger. If I were a man, maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prostitution: The Skin Trade | 6/21/1993 | See Source »

"Good. Because if you ever get the crazy idea to go into this profession, talk to us. We'll change your mind."

Author: By Jay K. Varma, | Title: The Long Goodbye | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

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