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2013

Park Street gangrape: TMC MP accuses woman of being sex worker »

Mississippi authorities work on leads in stripper case »

The stripper fighting for life after falling off balcony while attempting tricky lap dance move »

Brothel worker stole cash from boss »

Licensing hearing for Consett lap dance club »

Stripper Assaulted Two Strangers as part of a Performance Art Piece »

'P.O.P.' Documentary Strips Down Stripper Stereotypes »

Brazilian sex worker’s group offers prostitutes English lessons ahead of World Cup »

Texas Legislator Proposes Stripper Licensing »

Stripper: Club Manager Demanded Sexual Favors »

Former Glasgow lap-dancing club in hot water for keeping inadequate finance records »

Stripper who fell from balcony at Christie's Cabaret dies »

Tamworth lap dance club owner faces arrest over alleged licence breaches »

Lap dancing club Red Velvet in Consett has drinks licence revoked »

Stripper says Brooklyn Net Andray Blatche watched alleged sexual assault at hotel »

Girl, 16, 'chose' to be stripper, defence argues »

Sex worker murdered »

Adult Entertainment Industry Files Suit Challenging Measure B »

SASOD welcomes police arrests in killing of gay sex worker; reiterates need for law reform »

Consett lap dancing club may be closed down »

Ex-stripper defiant over ruling she was self-employed »

Playboy Fined in U.K. for Failing to Block Children From Hardcore Pornography »

California middle school teacher, who appeared in pornography, loses appeal »

Houston Chronicle reporter fired for stripper gig lands new journalism job »

Murdered sex worker for burial today »

Cops detain man over sex worker’s murder »

The lap dancer quashed by the MOO impediment »

2 Girls + 1 Cup lands producer 4 years jail. But why? »

Sex worker accused of pawning niece »

16-yr-old sex worker duped by ‘client’, undergoes tubectomy »

Israel: Anti-pornography party drops out of elections »

Sex worker bags six-year jail term for killing client »

Lapdancing survey costs £118,000 and finds schools and striptease clubs don't mix »

Sex worker battered in street »

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Erotic postcards were pervasive in early 20th-century Spain, seeping into even the upper echelons of society, Maite Zubiaurre, a Portuguese and Spanish professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said during “Erotic Postcards: A Spanish Inventory,” part of the women and gender studies program’s Sexualities Lecture Series. The provocative images of women, often foreign, were common throughout Spanish households during the Silver Age, she said.

Erotica was heavily ingrained in Spanish culture until the Francoist dictatorship, in power from 1936 to 1975, eliminated such images, Zubiaurre said. All levels of Spanish society came into contact with the pornographic postcards prior to the time they fell out of favor, Zubiaurre said. Even women and children were known to view them and use them as masturbation aids, she said.

“Sexualized postcards appeared in everyday places because they were part of the everyday world,” Zubiaurre said.

Zubiaurre said she aims “to help revolutionize the way literary and cultural criticism has traditionally looked at” early 20th-century Spain, also known as the Silver Age, she said.

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Prostitutes in Spain are on strike against bankers, according to the Daily Mail.

The prostitutes are demanding that bankers open up more credit to firms and families, and vowing to withhold services until they do.

I have no idea how true this story really is. It's a British tabloid. It's too good to check. Although, come to think of it, checking could be fun.

"Hola, senorita. I have muchos euros from my job in investment banking. May I procure your services?"

Whatever the answer, you know the story would be a good one.

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