Red-light specials

Well, damn, even where it's legal there are complications. Here's a report from the brothels of Australia, where post-economic-meltdown has fueled competition and spurred some all-Asian places to put their BBBJs on permanent special.

Best to be wary of any claim that sex work practices are responsible for the rise in STDs. Sex workers are always getting wrongly blamed as "vectors of disease," when in fact they're much more likely than those who give it away for free to take precautions. It's their job, after all.