LIST: 63 Most Beautiful Croatian Actresses
Here is the list of some of the most beautiful actresses from Croatia. Some of them are also talented model, singer, dancer, some are former beauty queens, also, some are writer, director and businesswoman. See the list below in no particular order or ranking. We also included other Croatian actresses with American and other descents.
1. Alma Prica is a Croatian actress. She graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Drama Arts in 1985 and then joined the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb in 1986. Although primarily a theatre actress, she also appeared in numerous film and television productions.
Born: 17 September 1962, Zagreb, Croatia
Education: ADU - Academy of Dramatic Arts
Parents: Čedo Prica Plitvički, Jasmina Prica
Awards: Croatian Actor Award for Best Artistic Achievement in Drama - Leading Female Performance
Nominations: Golden Orange International Film Competition Best Actress Award
Movies: Halima's Path (2012), The Diary Of Diana B. (2019), Countess Dora (1993), Witnesses (2003), My Uncle's Legacy (1988)
2. Ana Majhenić is a Croatian film and stage actress.
Born: 16 June 1981, Zagreb, Croatia
Spouse: Antun Herceg (m. 2018)
Movies: 7sex7 (2011), Romkom (2011), Horvatovi (2014)
3. Ana Vucak is a theater performer.
Born: 29 November 1986, Zagreb, Croatia
Spouse: Ivan Veljača (m. 2018)
Nominations: Croatian Actor Award for Best Actress in Puppet Show or Play for Children and Youth
4. Anna Maria Chlumsky is an American actress. She began her career as a child actress, best known playing the lead role of Vada Sultenfuss in My Girl and its 1994 sequel. Between 1999 and 2005, Chlumsky's career entered a hiatus while she attended college. Chlumsky is of Czech and Croatian descent.
Born: 3 December 1980, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Spouse: Shaun So (m. 2008)
Children: Clara Elizabeth So, Penelope Joan So
Movies and TV shows: My Girl (1991), My Girl 2 (1994), Veep (2012 – 2019), Gold Diggers: The Secret of Bear Mountain (1995), Trading Mom (1994)
5. Bojana Gregorić-Vejzović is a Croatian actress. She starred in Naša mala klinika as Dr. Lili Štriga, also appeared in the biographical drama Lea and Darija and voiced Helen Parr in the Croatian-language dub of The Incredibles franchise.
Born: 17 February 1972, Zagreb, Croatia
Children: Raul Vejzovic
Spouse: Enes Vejzović (m. 2006), Boris Novković (m. 1992–1997)
Parents: Bozidarka Frajt, Boris Gregoric
Movies and TV shows: Horvatovi (2015 – 2016), Dolina sunca (2009 – 2010), Love Island (2014), Naša mala klinika (2004 – 2007), Dream Warrior (2003)
6. Christina Cindrich is an American television producer, host, and actress, of Italian and Croatian descent. She is the producer and host of Private Islands and Global Passport and has won three Emmy Awards.
Born: 26 August 1981, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Parents: Ralph Cindrich, Mary Rose Cindrich
Movies and TV shows: Private Islands (Since 2010), Spider-Man 3 (2007), Getting Back to Zero (2011), Global Passport with Christina Cindrich (Since 2014), 2095 (2005)
7. Cintija Ašperger, credited as Cynthia Ashperger in English-language roles, is a Croatian-Canadian film, television and stage actress.
Born: 4 May 1963, Zagreb, Croatia
Nominations: Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Movies: S.P.U.K. (1983), The Waiting Room (2015), Croatian Cathedrals (1993), Accidental Co-Traveller (2004), The Promised Land (1986)
8. Danira Gović is a Croatian actress, best known for a recurring role in the British television comedy-drama series Hotel Babylon.
Born: 1973, Šibenik, Croatia
Movies and TV shows: The Mother (2003), Hotel Babylon (2006 – 2009)
9. Daria Lorenci is a Croatian television and film actress. She appeared in more than twenty feature films since 2000. She lives and works in Zagreb.
Born: 13 April 1976, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Education: ADU - Academy of Dramatic Arts (1995–1999)
Spouse: Emil Flatz (m. 2008), Jernej Lorenci (m. 1997–2000)
Parents: Danijela Turkalj, Emir Saltagić
Movies: Sorry for Kung Fu (2004), Just Between Us (2010), Behind the Glass (2008), It's Hard to Be Nice (2007), Vegetarian Cannibal (2012)
10. Denise Lee Richards is an American actress, former fashion model, and television personality. Her most recognized roles are Carmen Ibanez in Starship Troopers, Kelly Van Ryan in Wild Things and Bond girl Christmas Jones in The World Is Not Enough. Her mother is Croatian.
Born: 17 February 1971, Downers Grove, Illinois, United States
Movies: Wild Things, Starship Troopers, The World Is Not Enough
Spouse: Aaron Phypers (m. 2018), Charlie Sheen (m. 2002–2006)
Children: Eloise Joni Richards, Sam Sheen, Lola Rose Sheen
TV shows: The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (Since 2010), The Bold and the Beautiful (Since 1987), Denise Richards: It's Complicated (2008 – 2009), Blue Mountain State (2010 – 2011), Melrose Place (1992 – 1999)
11. Dijana Vidušin is a Croatian film, theater and television actress. She won a Golden Arena for Best Actress at the Pula Film Festival.
Born: 12 February 1982 (age 38 years), Pula, Croatia
Spouse: Mario Knezović
Children: Marla Knezović, Vida Knezović
TV shows: Zlatni dvori
Nominations: Croatian Actor Award for Best Artistic Achievement in Drama - Female Supporting Role
Movies: Love Life of a Gentle Coward (2009), Koko and the Ghosts (2011), Mysterious Boy (2013), The Mystery Of Green Hill (2017), Ministry of Love (2016)
12. Dinka Džubur is an Australian actress, model and filmmaker. She is known for her work in the Golden Globe winning HBO television series True Blood, and films Battle of the Sexes and Turkey Shoot.
Born: Slavonski Brod, Croatia
Education: The University of Queensland, QUT Gardens Point Campus
Known for: Battle of the Sexes, True Blood, Secrets & Lies, Little Hands
13. Doris Pinčić Rogoznica is a Croatian actress and TV and radio presenter. She is known for her role as Lara Božić-Zlatar in the Nova TV series, Larin izbor.
Born: 4 September 1988, Zadar, Croatia
Spouse: Boris Rogoznica (m. 2013)
Education: The Academy of Arts and Culture in Osijek
Children: Donat Rogoznica, Gita Rogoznica
Parents: Mario Pinčić, Violeta Pinčić
Movies and TV shows: Larin izbor (2011 – 2013), Fuck Off I Love You (2017), Because of You (2016), Happy End: Stupid and Stupider 3 (2018)
14. Ecija Ojdanić is a Croatian theatre, film and television actress.
Born: 26 June 1974 (age 45 years), Drniš, Croatia
Education: ADU - Academy of Dramatic Arts (1997)
Spouse: Robert Orhel (m. 2009), Ante Viljac (m. 2003–2007)
Parents: Milenka Ojdanić, Petar Ojdanić
Siblings: Jakša Ojdanić, Ilijana Ojdanić
Movies and TV shows: Larin izbor (2011 – 2013), One Shot (2013), Kud puklo da puklo (2014 – 2016), Zlatni dvori (2016 – 2017), Ministry of Love (2016)
15. Fani Stipković is a Croatian television reporter, host and journalist.
Born: 20 August 1982, Korčula, Croatia
Education: XV. gimnazija (1996–2000), University of Zagreb
Parents: Tina Stipković, Jerko Stipković
16. Hana Hegedušić is a Croatian actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 1997.
Born: 29 January 1976, Zagreb, Croatia
Albums: Festival Kajkavskih Popevki - Krapina 2016
Siblings: Martina Pokupec
Parents: Hrvoje Hegedušić, Ksenija Erker
Awards: Croatian Actor Award for Best Artistic Achievement in Operetta or Musical - Female Role
Movies: Forest Creatures (2010), Play Me a Love Song (2007), God Forbid a Worse Thing Should Happen (2002), Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside (2000), Josef (2011)
17. Helena Minić-Matanić is a Croatian film, stage and television actress. Her debut role was in the 2003 multiple award-winning Bosnian film Remake.
Born: 8 March 1979, Pula, Croatia
Spouse: Dalibor Matanić (m. 2014)
Education: Academy of Performing Arts
Residence: Zagreb, Croatia
Movies and TV shows: Exorcism (2017), Remake (2003), Zakon ljubavi (2008), In The Name Of The Strawberry, The Chocolate And The Holy Spirit (2018)
18. Iskra Jirsak is a Croatian stage and film actress. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb in 2011. Iskra has already gathered extensive experience of working on the stage since her early age and for cinema and television during her studies.
Born: 28 May 1987, Zagreb, Croatia
Movies: Because of You, Fuck Off I Love You
Awards: Croatian Actor Award for Outstanding Achievement of Young Artists Under Age 28 - Female Role
19. Iva Babić is a Croatian actress.
Born: Virovitica, Croatia
Movies: Mali (2018), One Shot (2013), We Will Be the World Champions (2015)
20. Iva Hasperger is an actress.
Born: 10 March 1977, Zagreb, Croatia
Movies: Dinoshark (2010), Malevolent (2002), Vlad (2003), Frank McKlusky, C.I. (2002), Three Days (of Hamlet) (2012)
21. Ivana Bašić is a Croatian actress who starred in the BBC medical drama Casualty as Serbian paramedic Snezana Lalovic. It was announced on 12 February 2009 that she was to leave the series at the end of March, along with co-star Janine Mellor. She resides in London.
Born: 28 February 1976, Split, Croatia
Movies and TV shows: Happy Valley (2014 – 2016), The Rhythm Section (2020), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016), Margery and Gladys (2003), Talking to the Dead (2013)
22. Ivana Miličević is a American actress and model. She is best known for playing Anastasia Rabitov/Carrie Hopewell in the Cinemax original series Banshee and for playing Charmaine Diyoza in season 5-7 of The 100 from 2018-2020. Her parents are both Croatians.
Partner(s): Adrian Hunter (2007–2009)
Spouse(s): Paddy Hogan (m.2018)
Movies and TV shows: Banshee (2013 – 2016), The 100 (2014 – 2020), Casino Royale (2006), Just like Heaven (2005), Witless Protection (2008)
23. Ivana Roščić is a Croatian actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 2004.
Born: 27 September 1978, Split, Croatia
Spouse: Marko Balić (m. 2014)
Movies and TV shows: Uspjeh, A Wonderful Night in Split (2004), Editing (2006), Stories from the Chestnut Woods (2019), A Stranger (2013)
24. Jadranka Đokić is a Croatian actress. Widely considered one of the most talented Croatian actresses of the 21st-century, she has garnered critical success and numerous accolades for her versatile range in theatre, film and television.
Born: 14 January 1981, Pula, Croatia
Awards: Golden Arena for Best Actress, Vladimir Nazor Annual Award - Theatre
Movies and TV shows: Behind the Glass (2008), Naša mala klinika (2004 – 2007), Fine Dead Girls (2002), Moja 3 zida (2009), The Priest's Children (2013)
25. Jelena Veljača is a Croatian actress and screenwriter, currently writing a weekly column for Nedjeljni Jutarnji. Veljača was born in Zagreb. She is best known for her role as "Maja Župan" in the Croatian telenovela Ljubav u zaleđu. She also appeared in the first Croatian telenovela ever, Villa Maria.
Born: 23 April 1981, Zagreb, Croatia
Spouse: Dražen Čuček (m. 2015–2018), Janko Popović Volarić (m. 2009–2012)
Children: Lena Čuček
Parents: Grozdana Veljača, Ivica Veljača
Books: Tatine curice
TV shows: Pogrešan čovjek (2018 – 2019), Villa Maria (2004 – 2005), Prava žena (2016 – 2017), Larin izbor (2011 – 2013), Zakon ljubavi (2008)
26. Jennifer Mary "Jenna" Elfman is an American actress, best known for her leading role as Dharma on the ABC sitcom Dharma & Greg, for which she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 1999, and was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. She is of Croatian ancestry on her father's side and was raised Roman Catholic.
Born: 30 September 1971, Los Angeles, California, United States
Spouse: Bodhi Elfman (m. 1995)
Children: Easton Quinn Monroe Elfman, Story Elias Elfman
Parents: Sue Grace Butala, Richard Wayne Butala
Movies and TV shows: Keeping the Faith (2000), Dharma & Greg (1997 – 2002), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), EDtv (1999), Big Stone Gap (2014)
27. Karmen Sunčana Lovrić, is a Croatian actress.
Partner: Mladen Vujčić
Movies: Happy End: Stupid and Stupider 3, Fuck Off I Love You, Zamka (za) snimatelja
28. Katarina Strahinic is a Croatian actress.
Born: 24 October 1992, Zagreb, Croatia
Movies: The Burden
29. Kristina Krepela is a Croatian actress, the best known for playing in movies La Femme Musketeer and The Hunting Party and in telenovela Ne daj se, Nina, the Croatian version of Ugly Betty.
Born: 4 September 1979, Zagreb, Croatia
Movies and TV shows: Crossroads (2013), The Hunting Party (2007), Mahmut & Meryem (2013), Ne daj se, Nina (2007 – 2008), La Femme Musketeer (2004)
30. Lana Barić is a Croatian actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 2001. In 2017, Lana Barić has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.
Born: 11 December 1979, Split, Croatia
Spouse: Dragan Markovina (m. 2016–2017)
Children: Mirej Barić
Movies: You Carry Me (2015), Hush... (2013), Eden (2020), The Reaper (2014), Yellow Moon (2009)
31. Leona Paraminski is a Croatian theatre, film and television actress. She grew up in Vrbovec, a town near Zagreb, and spent time traveling around Croatia and Germany as a child.
Born: 22 August 1979, Zagreb, Croatia
Spouse: Tin Komljenovic (m. 2012)
Movies and TV shows: Winter in Rio (2002), Budva na pjenu od mora (2012 – 2015), Below the Line (2003), The Society of Jesus (2004), Because of You (2016)
32. Lucija Šerbedžija is a Croatian actress and model, a daughter of Croatian actor Rade Šerbedžija and a sister of Croatian-Serbian film director Danilo Šerbedžija. She is probably best known in the English-speaking world for her role in The Saint as a Russian prostitute, in which her father also starred.
Born: 8 June 1973, Zagreb, Croatia
Spouse: Filip Gajić (m. ?–2014)
Children: Anastazija Gajic, Sergej Gajić
Siblings: Danilo Šerbedžija, Mimi Šerbedžija, Vanja Šerbedžija, Nina Šerbedžija
Education: ADU - Academy of Dramatic Arts, Classical Gymnasium Zagreb
Movies: The Liberation of Skopje (2016), 72 days (2010), The Saint (1997), Madonna (1999), Slow Surrender (2001)
33. Marija Omaljev-Grbić, also known as Mara Omaljev, is a Croatian-American film, stage and theatre actress.
Born: 5 December 1982 (age 37 years), Novi Sad, Serbia
Spouse: Miraj Grbić (m. 2008)
Other name: Mara Omaljev
Movies and TV shows: Pecat, Body Complete, Dolina sunca
Education: Academy of Performing Arts (2003–2007), University of Sarajevo
34. Marija Škaričić is a Croatian actress.
Born: 6 August 1977, Split, Croatia
Siblings: Duje Skaricic
Parents: Ante Škaričić, Jadranka Škaričić
Awards: Golden Arena for Best Actress, Mother of Asphalt
Movies and TV shows: Mare (2020), Fraulein (2006), The Priest's Children (2013), A Wonderful Night in Split (2004), Uspjeh
35. Marina Fernandez is a Croatian actress. Wikipedia
Born: 19 June 1981, Split, Croatia
Movies: Strike Back (2020), Rest in Peace (2018), Ruza vjetrova (2012-2013), Morangos com Açúcar (2007)
36. Matija Prskalo is a Croatian theater, film and television actress.
Spouse: Dominik Galić (m. 2003)
Children: Kalista Galić
Movies: How the War Started on My Island (1996), When the Dead Start Singing (1998), Flower Square (2012), Loving Glances (2003), The Society of Jesus (2004)
37. Mia Begović is a Croatian film, stage and television actress. She is known as younger sister of the late Croatian actress, Ena Begović.
Born: 11 January 1963, Split, Croatia
Spouse: Željko Žnidarić (m. 2004–2010)
Children: Maja Lena Lopatny
Siblings: Ena Begović
Movies and TV shows: Tata i zetovi, Serafim, the Lighthouse Keeper's Son
Parents: Tereza Begović, Nikola Begović
38. Mira Furlan is a Croatian actress and singer. Internationally, she is best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn on the science fiction television series Babylon 5, and as Danielle Rousseau on Lost.
Spouse: Goran Gajić (m. 1998)
Books: The Closing Sale
Children: Marko Lav Gajić
Movies and TV shows: Babylon 5 (1994 – 1998), The Beauty of Vice (1986), Lost (2004 – 2010), When Father Was Away on Business (1985), Babylon 5: In the Beginning (1998)
39. Mirna Medaković Stepinac is a Croatian actress.
Spouse: Hrvoje Stepinac (m. 2015)
Children: Kaja Stepinac, Zora Stepinac
Movies and TV shows: Kud puklo da puklo (2014 – 2016), Pod sretnom zvijezdom (2011), Dolina sunca (2009 – 2010), Forest Creatures (2010), Night Boats (2012)
40. Nada Gačešić-Livaković is a Croatian actress. She appeared in more than fifty films since 1974.
Born: 8 October 1951, Požega, Croatia
Spouse: Mirko Livaković
Children: Ivan Livaković
Movies: The Lika Cinema (2008), Nausikaya (1995), Virgina (1991), Two Players from the Bench (2005), Serafim, the Lighthouse Keeper's Son (2002)
41. Natalija Ugrina is a Croatian actress and fashion model currently based in Los Angeles, California.
Born: Croatia
Alma mater: Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Movies: The Gambler
42. Nataša Dorčić is a Croatian theatre, film and television actress. Dorčić graduated from the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art in 1998, but started acting professionally as early as 1994, when she joined the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
Born: 9 June 1968, Rijeka, Croatia
Spouse: Sven Medvešek (divorced)
Children: Tit Emanuel Medvešek, Toma Medvešek, Roza Medvešek
Movies: You Carry Me (2015), Just Between Us (2010), I Have to Sleep, My Angel (2007), Lada Kamenski (2018), The Show Must Go On (2010)
43. Nataša Janjić-Medančić is a Croatian film, stage and television actress.
Born: 27 November 1981, Split, Croatia
Spouse: Joško Lokas (m. 2012–2014)
Parents: Predrag Janjić, Jagoda Janjić
TV shows: Tito
Siblings: Tamara Janjić
Movies: You Carry Me (2015), Goran (2016), Comic Sans (2018), Donkey (2009), Vegetarian Cannibal (2012)
44. Nera Stipičević is a Croatian pop singer and actress. Nera Stipičević was born in Makarska, where she attended elementary music school. Stipičević is of Albanian origin and was a close relative of Aleksandar Stipčević.
Born: 21 January 1983, Makarska, Croatia
Albums: Tell Me (3-Track Maxi-Single), Nera, Bintang AF Aidilfitri
Movies: Till the End of Death, Little Darling, Nick
Parents: Marijana Stipičević, Matko Stipičević
45. Nina Violić is a Croatian actress. Violić graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Art, University of Zagreb in 1994. She has appeared in more than twenty films since 1993. She also hosted the Croatian version of the quiz show The Weakest Link in 2004-2010.
Born: 15 March 1972, Rijeka, Croatia
Spouse: Tvrtko Juric (m. 2001)
Children: Roza Jurić
Nominations: Croatian Actor Award for Best Artistic Achievement in Drama - Leading Female Performance
Movies: Fine Dead Girls (2002), Alone (2001), Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside (2000), Russian Meat (1997), On the Path (2010)
46. Nives Ivanković is a Croatian actress.
Born: 1 June 1967, Tomislavgrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Other name: Niki Iki
Parents: Ante Ivanković, Zora Ivanković
Movies and TV shows: A Wonderful Night in Split (2004), Ruža vjetrova (2011 – 2013), The High Sun (2015), Nad lipom 35 (Since 2006), Babylon Sisters (2017)
47. Olga Pakalović is a Croatian actress. She appeared in more than twenty films since 1993.
Born: 8 November 1978, Zagreb, Croatia
Spouse: Samia Bergamane (m. 2013–2013)
Movies and TV shows: Halima's Path (2012), Fine Dead Girls (2002), Ministry of Love (2016), Novine (Since 2016), I Have to Sleep, My Angel (2007)
48. Petra Cicvarić is a Croatian actress.
Born: 29 March 1986, Osijek, Croatia
Partner: Peđa Gvozdić
Parents: Tomislav Cicvarić
Movies and TV shows: Ruža vjetrova, Fuck Off I Love You
Awards: Croatian Actor Award for Best Actress in Puppet Show or Play for Children and Youth
49. Rachel Leskovac is an English actress and singer best known for her television roles as teacher Lara Heaton in Shameless, hairdresser Natasha Blakeman in Coronation Street, and Joanne Cardsley in Hollyoaks. She has been nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award. Her father is Croatian.
Born: 5 June 1976, Bradford, United Kingdom
Spouse: David Tench
Education: St Bede's & St Joseph's Catholic College Ignis Site, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
Siblings: Kate Leskovac, Sophie Leskovac
Movies and TV shows: WPC 56 (2013 – 2015), Coronation Street (Since 1960), Dead Clever (2007), Losing Gemma (2006)
50. Rita Rusić, also known as Rita Cecchi Gori, is a Croatian born Italian producer, actress and singer. Rusic's career began as an actress with a major role in the 1982 film Attila flagello di Dio. She was eventually moved into the film industry, with Il pentito in 1982.
Born: 16 May 1960, Poreč, Croatia
Spouse: Vittorio Cecchi Gori (m. 1983–2000)
Education: University of Milan
Children: Vittoria Cecchi Gori, Mario Cecchi Gori
Siblings: Lierka Rusic
Movies: Attila flagello di Dio (1982), Sorry If I Want to Marry You (2010), The Star Maker (1995), The Third Solution (1988), The Repenter (1985)
51. Sandra Bagarić is a Bosnian-born Croatian opera singer and actress. She was born in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina where she attended the High School for Music. She continued her musical studies in Sarajevo, but due to war moved to Zagreb in 1992. In Zagreb she attended the Music Academy.
Born: 5 April 1974, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Spouse: Darko Domitrović (m. 1997)
Children: Lovro Domitrović, Marko Domitrović
Albums: Adagio (Arr. for Soprano and Keyboard), Sjećanja
Filmography: Obećana zemlja (2002), Naša mala klinika (2007), Zabranjena ljubav (2008), Samo ti pričaj (2015-2016)
52. Sanja Doležal is a Croatian singer and television host. She is best known for being a member of the pop music band Novi fosili between 1984 and the early 1990s, during the peak of the group's popularity.
Spouse: Nenad Šarić (m. 1993–2012)
Parents: Mišo Doležal
Children: Lea Šarić, Luka Šarić
Movies: Lea and Darija
53. Sanja Vejnović is a Croatian film and television actress.
Born: 8 August 1961, Zagreb, Croatia
Spouse: Goran Mecava (m. 1984–2015)
Education: Faculty of humanities and social sciences, University of Zagreb
TV shows: Kud puklo da puklo, Pure Love, Ponos Ratkajevih, Balkan Inc.
Children: Andrej Mećava
Movies: The Falcon (1983), The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984), 100 Minutes of Glory (2004), The Three Men of Melita Žganjer (1998), High Voltage (1981)
54. Sanya Mateyas is a Croatian–American actress and singer. She moved to the United States in 1999. She was a leader and a composer for her Los Angeles-based hard-rock band Duda Did It, with an independent album released in 2008.
Born: Zagreb, Croatia
Siblings: Tajči
Nephews: Blais Cameron, Dante Cameron, Evan Cameron
Movies: Holes (2003), Dragonquest (2009)
55. Sementa Rajhard is a Croatian actress and singer.
Born: 4 January 1991, Rijeka, Croatia
Genre: Alt Contemporary Christian
Parents: Ladislav Rajhard, Melita Rajhard
Siblings: Giuliano Rajhard
Movie: Vrati se, Zone (2016)
56. Sonja Kovač is a Croatian actress, model and singer.
Born: 18 June 1984 (age 36 years), Bjelovar, Croatia
TV shows: Neighbors Forever
Education: New York Film Academy (2015–2015)
57. Stanka Gjurić is a Croatian poet, essayist, actress, filmmaker and ex model. She is a member of the Croatian Writers' Association and Croatian Academy of Science and Art in Diaspora. She has also acted in seven feature films.
Born: 20 January 1956, Čakovec, Croatia
Movies: Ubojite misli, That Summer of White Roses, Immoral Manual, The Murmur of the Shell, Lust and the Heart, Here
Books: All That Glitters
58. Suzana Nikolić is a Croatian actress. As of 2020, she is teaching acting at the Shanghai Theatre Academy.
Born: 22 June 1965, Županja, Croatia
Children: Ana Midžić
Education: ADU - Academy of Dramatic Arts (1989), Educational Language Center (1984)
Movies and TV shows: The Three Men of Melita Žganjer (1998), Stipe u gostima (2008 – 2014), Kotlovina (2011), Kud puklo da puklo (2014 – 2016), 95 Decibels (2013)
59. Tara Thaller is a Croatian actress, known for the lead role in HBO's TV series Uspjeh.
Born: 1998 (age 22 years), Zagreb, Croatia
Movies and TV shows: Uspjeh, Success (Since 2018), Guardian of the Castle (Since 2017), Love Or Death (2014), Pogrešan čovjek (2018 – 2019)
60. Tihana Lazović is a Croatian film actress. She is best known for the lead role as Jelena / Nataša / Marija in The High Sun.
Born: 25 September 1990 (age 29 years), Zadar, Croatia
Parents: Miljenko Lazović, Gordana Pavlić
Movies and TV shows: The High Sun (2015), Aleksi (2018), The Last Serb in Croatia (2019), Novine (Since 2016), Hush... (2013)
61. Vanessa Radman is a Croatian actress.
Born: 1974, Križevci, Croatia
Parents: Đurđa Radman, Momir Radman
TV shows: Zora dubrovačka (2013 – 2014), Zakon ljubavi (2008)
62. Vesna Tominac Matačić is a Croatian actress.
Born: 25 October 1968, Vinkovci, Croatia
Movies and TV shows: The Border (1996), Kud puklo da puklo (2014 – 2016), Djeca jeseni, Borderland
63. Zrinka Cvitešić is a Croatian film, television and theater actress.
Born: 18 July 1979, Karlovac, Croatia
Partner: Niko Kranjčar (2014–)
Education: American Academy of Dramatic Arts
Awards: Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical
TV shows: London Spy, Capital
Movies: On the Path (2010), What Is a Man Without a Moustache? (2005), Horseman (2003), My Beautiful Country (2012), Vegetarian Cannibal (2012)


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Anneka joined AEA in 2010 and focuses on AEA’s investments in the Value-Added Industrials and Services sectors. She currently serves on the board of SitelogIQ.
Prior to joining AEA, Anneka was an analyst at The Blackstone Group in the restructuring and reorganization group and prior to Blackstone, an analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the leveraged finance group.
Alan joined AEA in 1989 as a Partner and currently co-heads the AEA Small Business Funds and is a Partner of the AEA Middle Market Funds. Alan serves on the boards of Balboa, Dayton Parts, LoneStar, Meritus Gas Partners, Omega, Pexco, SBP, SGLT, Sparrows, Spectrum Plastics Group, and Veseris. In the last 15 years, he also served on the boards of former AEA portfolio companies Aramsco, Behavioral Interventions, Flow Control Group, Implus Corporation, In the Swim, Kranson, NCS, Phillips Pet Food and Supplies, PLZ Aeroscience, PPC, Shoes for Crews, SRS Roofing Supply, and Troxell Communications.
As a Partner from 1989 to 1999, Alan concentrated his investment activities in Industrial and Consumer / Retail companies, overseeing many of AEA’s successful investments during that period. Alan left AEA in 1999 and joined Peter Solomon Company, a boutique advisory firm, and then returned to the private equity business in 2002 with Saratoga Partners. He rejoined AEA in early 2004 and helped establish the AEA Small Business Funds.
Prior to joining AEA, from 1984 to 1989, Alan was with Lehman Brothers, first in the mergers and acquisitions department and then with the principal investment group. Previously, Alan worked at Citicorp and Pricewaterhouse and became a Chartered Accountant in England in 1980.


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#581 by Bumblepuppy
Beautiful episode, but I have a problem with it. Everyone feels that the end implies that Leela and Fry will get together. Beautiful, and a good way to end a series (although I hope this won't REALLY be the end). However, Leela has reacted to Fry in a similar manner in other episodes, and still they never get together after that. That's why I'm not sure that I agree with everyone. I want to imagine that they get together, and I guess it's open to your imagination, but I honestly still don't think it's a "given" in the way that other fans have told me it is.
Bumblepuppy gave 5 points
#582 by Mero
could not end it in a better way
Mero gave 4 points
#583 by Sean P
I absolutely love this show!!! Us fellow Futurama fans need to unite and get this program back on the air. U think Fox would realize what a great hit they have on their hands. Sure, I like the Simpsons, but Futurama and Family Guy are better by a long shot.
Sean P gave 5 points
#584 by Sean Stella
It's the last episode ever it's and great. It's very sad in one way how leela loses her hearing and fry's hands get chopped off. And ways the it ends is very nice however it did'nt give many laughs but there's something about it
Sean Stella gave 4 points
#585 by Jake
To think that Simpsons gets to keep going after this show was cut down in its prime. A bunch of NFL old guys making fun of each other is better than this? HA! They need to pull the plug on the Simpsons before the bad episodes outnumber the classic good ones.
Anyways, Futurama should be brought back and replace the moldy Simpsons, now.
Jake gave 5 points
#586 by fry's bitch
these eposde iss bullshit. in a good way
fry's bitch gave 5 points
#587 by Ryan
Perfect, I just hopr this isn't the end.
Ryan gave 5 points
#588 by Shouri
Loved it, very emotive ending :')
Shouri gave 5 points
#589 by zerocool
This is one of my all time favorite shows to watch. It's a shame it was cancelled, but it's better to leave when the audience is still cheering, rather than run it for to long, when they get bored with the jokes. A marvellous send-off for the show, with it leaving many questions to your own imagination. well done, futurama!
zerocool gave 5 points
#590 by benda's mama
I'd rather bite Benders shiny metal ass than watch it again Musical BLLLLLLLLH
benda's mama gave 2 points


Daniels said Scrubb's father confirmed an official visit to UC on Aug. 6.
Scrubb, who averaged 19.5 points and 8.6 rebounds at Logan, reportedly has considered entering the NBA Draft if he doesn't accept one of his multiple Div. I offers, which are believed to include UC, Xavier, UofL, Memphis, Creighton, Iowa State, Kansas State, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech, West Virginia and Wichita State.
Scrubb also was invited to Team USA's Under-19 training camp last month in Colorado Springs.
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Malaga to become first Spanish city to test pilot robot delivery scheme
Chris Orejuela with one of the robots to be used. / SUR
The company HappyBox will be using at least five robots developed by an Estonian company to deliver parcels ordered by customers
The Malaga branch of HappyBox, a company which specialises in express deliveries for businesses, including food, will take part in a pilot scheme this spring which involves using robots.
At least five of these autonomous robots will arrive in Malaga from the Estonian company Starship Technologies accompanied by an engineer who will help "teach" them to do their job.
Malaga will be the fourth city in the world to take part, with the scheme already set up in Tallinn, San Francisco and London.
When the order reaches its destination the customer is sent an unlock code to retrieve the parcel
The robots will operate in the pedestrian zone of the city's historic centre, with a delivery time of between 15 and 20 minutes.
Typically weighing around 18 kilogrammes, they will be able to deliver parcels as heavy as ten kilogrammes, and although they have the capacity to move at a speed of 16 kilometres per hour, that will be reduced to ten during the experimental period so that they can keep pace with pedestrians. Their operating range is around ten kilometres and their batteries last around five hours.
The robots will also be fitted with GPS systems, optical cameras, accelerometers and ultrasonic sensors, which will allow them eventually to move about autonomously in a designated area of the city.
However, the first step will involve an engineer helping them create a map of the area, which they will need before they are able to move around without any help. In Malaga, therefore, the engineer will be accompanying the machines during their first few deliveries.
The robots will be connected to the platform HappyBox uses to manage all of its deliveries, with a few slight changes.
When an order from a customer comes through, the address and the time it has to arrive at its destination is transmitted to the robot. Once the machine has arrived at its destination, the customer will be sent an unlock code which will allow them to open the compartment where the parcel has been placed.
The managing director of HappyBox, Chris Orejuela, stated that the next version of these robots will be able to communicate with humans through an application similar to Siri, the programme used by Apple.
Orejuela added that the robots will be accurately tracked at all times when they are out delivering parcels, while there will always be a human being monitoring closeby, to avoid them being stolen.


Josh Oberlander, Chief Water/Wastewater Operator/Supervisor
The City of Douglas gets its water from three different sources. The Little B oxelder Spring is a high-quality gravity-fed water source located west of Douglas. This source provides up to two million gallons per day and meets the water demands in the fall and winter.
The second source of water for the community is the 1.5 million gallon a day Sheep Mountain Well. This well came into service in the fall of 1994 and supplements the city water supply during peak demand and also allows for reduced usage of the more costly water treatment plant.
The third source is the water treatment plant, which treats water from the North Platte River. The water treatment plant has a production capacity in the summer of two million gallons per day and is used May through September. It is not designed to service the community in winter. The water treatment plant also contains the municipal lab where daily testing of the city's water system is conducted.
Water Storage Facilities
The city's water storage facilities include a three million gallon tank west of town, a two million gallon tank in town, and a one million gallon tank east of town.
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'To Entertain the Fancy': The Orchestral Concert song in England, 1740-1800
Foster, Stephen Charles. 2014. 'To Entertain the Fancy': The Orchestral Concert song in England, 1740-1800. Doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London [Thesis]
Text ('To Entertain the Fancy': The Orchestral Concert song in England, 1740-1800)
MUS_thesis_FosterSC_2014.pdf - Accepted Version
The orchestral concert song is a genre of solo song with instrumental accompaniment written or adapted for concert performance. In eighteenth-century England it formed a major part of the output of many composers, both native and foreign, with the London pleasure gardens being the principal venue of performance.
However, this genre has not received much scholarly attention, and such literature as exists is largely concerned with the secular cantata, which was very much in a minority in terms of the overall output. Furthermore, this literature has focussed on the music itself, giving little attention to the surrounding issues that caused the genre to come into being, to grow and eventually to decline.
This study therefore endeavours to build on existing scholarship by not only discussing the other parts of the repertoire – namely the strophic song, the rondo and the aria – but also by examining the social and cultural influences upon the concert song as a whole. This examination precedes the historical account, which is in three parts: the early years (1740-1762); the period in which J.C. Bach and Arne were the predominant composers (1762-82); finally the later years of the century (1782-1800), during which the genre declined. The concluding chapter assesses current knowledge of the concert song, with a view to further investigation and potential revival.
https://doi.org/10.25602/GOLD.00010719
Song, England, eighteenth century, Orchestra, Music History


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By Amelia Tarallo
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Each person who immigrates to the United States of America comes to this country with a story about their journey here. Some of those tales are more easy going, while others are decades in the making. On Wednesday, June 12, the community was invited to hear some of these stories at Temple Beth Shalom. Speakers at Wednesday night’s Suitcase Stories program, organized by the Temple Beth Shalom Tzedek (social justice) and brought by the International Institute of New England, shared stories ranging from dangerous border crossing to war-torn countries, to reuniting families, to childhood memories.
After Cheryl Hamilton’s brief introduction, the stories began, starting with seasoned story-teller Ron Goldman to kick the night off. Goldman spoke of his childhood in South Africa and the sudden change brought on by his parents’ decision to move to the United States. He reflected on how his parents gave up his childhood dog, and the crippling feeling of watching her being taken away. Goldman related these feelings to those of his mother’s leaving her own family as she escaped Nazi capture while her kin perished. Though it has been years since he has moved to the United States, ever since, he has been haunted by the look Honey gave him as she was being taken away.
Georgina Arrieta-Ruetenik talked her experience of moving from the Phillipines to the States. When she was five years old, Georgina lived in the Philippines with her father, while her mother lived in Brooklyn to become a nurse. Georgina recalled a time when her mother had sent a package with clothes in it, all the way from the United States. However, the clothes were too small, disappointing young Georgina. She felt that her mother had forgotten how old she was. About a year after, Georgina and her father immigrated to Brooklyn and were reunited with her mother. “The chill of the October air could not compete with her warm embrace,” she said.
Fast-forward to just a year ago. Georgina had been living in Needham for 16 years; she was now a mother herself and a valued community member. With a news cycle filled with stories of separated families and images of children with no parents at all, Georgina couldn’t help but feel the itch to do something. Before she realized it, she was organizing a march in Needham, accompanied by the hashtag “#FamiliesBelongTogether." Since then, Georgina has continued to organize meetings to raise awareness that all families deserve to be together.
Vicki Krupp began her story with a brief discussion of her Starbucks name (the name she uses to order Starbucks). For a long time, Vicki wished she had a different name, but recalled how her own family had changed their name to Levy. When her ancestors immigrated to this country, they changed their name to make it clear to anyone who knew them that they were Jewish to avoid having to explain that they kept Kosher. For years, the family lived in Georgia running a store, living paycheck to paycheck. It wasn’t until the popularity of Levi’s jeans exploded that the family’s luck changed; people thought that the jeans could be bought at the Levy’s store. Though the family now had money to spend, her grandfather always thought about when they had none at all, and were just beginning in this country “with nothing but a push cart and a donkey.”
Francisco Mendez talks about his journey from Mexico to Needham.
Sandra Rizkallah discussed her experience of immigration from a different point of view. She spent months of her life trying to get a youth band from Zimbabwe to the United States to play at a concert she was organizing. No matter how hard she tried, she could not manage to get enough money or obtain the visas for the group. But Sandra did not quit. She made another attempt to get a band from Africa to play at one of her concerts. After weeks of talking to fellow concert organizers, some from as far away as the Netherlands, Rizkallah picked the band up at the airport. Sandra ended her story with some words of encouragement that she tells her students: “If a magic carpet ends up at their door, they have to get on.”
Francisco Mendez was 14 when he swam across the Rio Grande to leave Mexico. After traveling for days, he ended up Texas and realized it wasn’t the American dream he saw. “Everyone spoke Spanish and I wanted to learn English,” he explained. Finally, Francisco made it to Waltham, where his sister was living, and began learning the language. Soon, he took on every job he could, eventually working at a family member’s restaurant. Soon, Mendez will be opening his own restaurant in Needham.
Renaz Moulla recalled her childhood spent in Syria, starting with the Christmas when she received a Barbie Dreamhouse. Her father owned a successful factory, allowing Renaz to receive such lavish gifts, unlike many of the other Kurdish Muslims living in Syria. But the family’s life changed when war broke out and Renaz’s father lost his factory. Soon, the entire country seemed to have turned upside down. Years later, on Christmas Eve, Renaz arrived in the United States with her children. There was no family waiting for them, like everyone else. Instead, waiting for Renaz was a land of opportunity and new friends. To end her story, Renaz recalled some advice her mother had given to her: “Wear your insecurities like a crown.” Since then, Renaz has learned to love her worries about being a single mom and a Kurdish Muslim.
There wasn’t a dry eye in the room by the end of the showcase. Each audience member seemed to identify with the message of at least one story, whether it be the separation and loss of family, the want for a better life and the need to work hard for it, or making dreams come true.
Attendees left the event with a new appreciation for their own lives, and some even commented that they now felt the urge to help immigrants coming to this country.
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Quick Hit Ellyn Fortino Tuesday July 26th, 2016, 10:52am
Although fathers in the United States have increased their time spent on child care and housework in recent years, they are still doing much less than mothers, according to a report on the "State of America's Fathers."
"Fathers are taking on more child care and domestic work than ever before - and they say they want to do more - but we still have a long way to go" toward achieving gender equality in parenting, reads the report released last month by Promundo and the MenCare campaign.
The research, being billed as the first comprehensive report on U.S. fatherhood, is largely based on data from the Families and Work Institute's National Study of the Changing Workforce.
Among the key findings, 81 percent of employed parents who have a spouse or partner and a child under the age of 18 live in dual-income households. On the flip side, 19 percent of such parents live in single-income households.
"The gender-based boundaries between caregiving and breadwinning have begun to crumble," the report explains, "and today's dual-career, dual-carer parents demand new policies that support them."
Over the past three decades, there has been a 65 percent increase in the time U.S. fathers spend with their children during the workday, the report states.
Despite this increase, mothers in households with children under the age of six still report spending an average of 66 minutes a day on child care, compared to an average of 26 minutes spent by fathers.
"Many men tend to cede most responsibility for family health care practices - arranging doctor visits, communicating with pediatricians and other medical staff - to female partners or family members," the report reads. "But these and other caregiving acts which take place outside the home (parent-teacher conferences, recitals, check-ups, soccer practices, etc.) are nonetheless essential components of child care, and show how the gendering of certain care acts takes place not just within the closed doors of a family home, but also in society at large."
There are now about 2 million full-time stay-at-home dads. By comparison, there were only six self-identified stay-at-home dads in the 1970s, according to U.S. Census data cited in the report.
"In recent years, the number of stay-at-home dads has grown, both because that choice is becoming more socially accepted and because, for some, high unemployment and slow recovery from the recession have left little choice," the report authors wrote.
When it comes to U.S. attitudes toward parenting roles, the report notes that 40 percent of men today hold the view that "it is much better for everyone involved if the man earns the money and the woman takes care of the home and children." Back in 1977, 74 percent of men agreed with that statement.
The wide-ranging report on fatherhood argues that U.S. policies fall short in terms of supporting "all parents, especially low-income fathers, to be involved substantively in their children's lives."
Guaranteeing paid leave nationwide for new mothers and fathers and providing "the poorest fathers and families with a living wage, a reformed justice system, and additional services that encourage and support their caregiving" are among the policy recommendations.
"What our report and our new data show is this: women and men want the policies and the support so that all parents can be full-on, fully engaged, fully equal caregivers," said Promundo President and CEO Gary Barker. "We also confirm that implementing paid leave is far less costly than often thought, and that when implemented alongside income support to low-income fathers and parents, these policies pay for themselves in increased productivity and happier, healthier families. What are we waiting for?"
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In New Hampshire, Maryland’s Hogan keeps 2020 door open
GOFFSTOWN, New Hampshire - Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (center) signs wooden eggs on Tuesday at "Politics & Eggs," a political breakfast at Saint Anselm College. (Carolina Velloso/Capital News Service)
By Carolina Velloso - April 23, 2019
GOFFSTOWN, New Hampshire – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan told a New Hampshire political breakfast Tuesday that he is “listening” to people encouraging him to mount a presidential bid against President Donald Trump.
But Hogan insisted he was not going to launch a “suicide mission” unless he thought there was a path to victory. While he considers a campaign, the governor revealed he is going to be visiting 16 more states.
“A lot of people have been approaching me,” Hogan said at “Politics and Eggs,” co-sponsored by the New England Council and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. “People have asked me to give this serious consideration and I think I owe it to those people to do just that.”
GOFFSTOWN, New Hampshire – Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (center) speaks at “Politics & Eggs” at Saint Anselm College. The political breakfast is a “must stop” for presidential, and would-be presidential, candidates. (Carolina Velloso/Capital News Service)
Hogan dismissed the notion that he would consider a presidential bid with an objective not of a victory, but of weakening Trump in the general election.
“I’m not interested in just running to hurt (or) bruise the president. I have a state to run,” he told reporters after his speech. “I’m out here talking about things that I think are important.”
Hogan said he does not want to run unless he believes he has a chance at victory.
“I have a real day job that’s important to me and (to) the people of Maryland,” he said.
Hogan drew a comparison to former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, the first Republican to announce a primary challenge to Trump, saying that “it is a different calculus” for someone who is not a sitting governor.
Hogan’s remarks are nevertheless the strongest indication to date that he is seriously considering a bid for the Republican nomination.
Hogan revealed that he has already been to 10 states, and plans to visit 16 more over the next few months, playing coy as to his specific plans in each of those states. He said he is going to simply “continue to listen” to what people have to say.
“Obviously I have very strong concerns about the future of my party and the future of the country,” Hogan said. “I’m going to take as much time as it takes to make that decision.”
Tom Rath, a veteran Republican strategist in New Hampshire, said the path to a Hogan victory would be difficult, but praised the Maryland governor’s credentials.
“(Hogan) is is competent, fiscally conservative and fair-minded on social issues,” Rath told WMUR. “He won twice in a very, very Democratic state and has had success.”
“The question,” Rath said, “is whether there is enough support here for someone to challenge the president, who, at the moment, has not just the hearts of many Republicans but also has a strong hold on the organization.”
Hogan’s decision to keep exploring a presidential run comes less than a week after the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference and Trump’s possible obstruction of justice.
Hogan took aim at Trump for the revelations in the Mueller report, which concluded that there was no direct evidence of collusion, though it did not fully exonerate Trump on obstruction of justice.
“There was some really unsavory (and) disturbing stuff in the report,” Hogan said. “Just because aides did not follow his orders, that’s the only reason we don’t have obstruction of justice.”
Hogan stopped short of saying that the outcome of the report would weigh on his decision on whether to challenge Trump for the Republican nomination.
“(The report) did not make me proud of the president, and (it’s) certainly nothing to celebrate,” Hogan said. But he added that “it’s really about seeing what people think out there and whether there’s any path to victory and whether or not they’re really interested in having an alternative.”
A potential campaign strategy, Hogan indicated, might focus on the states that have open primaries, in which voters do not need to be affiliated with a political party in order to vote.
This would allow the moderate Republican, who enjoys a high approval rating in a state with a Democratic majority, to tap into undecided voters or Republicans yearning for more options.
“Here in New Hampshire, for example, they like to be independent, they like to look at the candidates and kick the tires and meet people one-on-one,” Hogan said. “I’m pretty good at retail politics.”
Hogan emphasized in his speech the legislative success he has achieved governing with a Democratic state legislatures, and some experts in attendance said Hogan’s history of bipartisanship could be an asset on the campaign trail.
“I think his remarks on how he has cooperated with Democrats in Maryland were well received, particularly among anti-Trump Republicans,” Andrew Smith, a professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire and the director of the UNH Survey Center, told Capital News Service.
Smith, however, remained skeptical that a successful primary challenge to Trump is realistic for Hogan.
“I’m not sure that he convinced many people that he would be capable of defeating Trump for the nomination,” Smith said.
Hogan said he also met with Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on his trip. Hogan trails only Baker, also a moderate Republican in a deep-blue state, as the most popular governor in the country (Baker holds a 72 percent approval rating, while Hogan sits at 69, according to a Morning Consult poll).
When asked whether they discussed the 2020 election, Hogan replied: “A little bit.”
Tags 2020 election Andrew Smith Bill Weld Charlie Baker Donald Trump Larry Hogan mueller report New England Council New Hampshire Institute of Politics New Hampshire primary obstruction of justice Politics & Eggs Republican primaries Robert Mueller Russia Saint Anselm College Tom Rath University of New Hampshire Survey Center
Carolina Velloso
Carolina Velloso is a reporter for Capital News Service in the D.C. Bureau. A master’s student at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, she has interned at ESPN’s “Around the Horn” and the Newseum and has covered baseball and softball for The Left Bench and the Bethesda Big Train.


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That Was the Week That Was (#13)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged Above the Law, archeofeminism, Australia, avails laws, brothels, California, Canada, censorship, comics, cops, dirty, Divided We Fall, Down Under, East Asia, Elephant in the Parlor, ethics, Europe, FBI, Feminine Pragmatism, France, harm reduction, Hollywood, hysteria, Israel, J’accuse, Knights Erroneous, law, lawheads, LGBT rights, Malaysia, Middle East, neofeminism, New York, pimps, porn, pragmatism, Presents, See No Evil, Sex Lies and Busybodies, sisterhood, Spain, stage names, stereotypes, streetwalkers, Subtle Pimping, Swedish model, The Course of a Disease, The Crumbling Dam, TSA, Washington DC, Whores in the News on March 31, 2012| 15 Comments »
Beware of purity workers [who are]…ready to accept and endorse any amount of coercive and degrading treatment of their fellow creatures in the fatuous belief that you can oblige human beings to be moral by force. – Josephine Butler
Two new items, ten updates and four metaupdates.
Aristophanes’ comedy depicts an Athenian woman who convinces the women of both Athens and Sparta that the only way to end the Peloponnesian War is to withhold sex from their husbands; in the play, as in real life, the problem is getting all the women to cooperate. The ridiculous sex strike American activists plan for April 28th is foredoomed to failure (as if a one-week strike could have any effect anyhow) because the wives of those making the objectionable laws won’t be participating, and even if they did the politicians would simply go to their regular pros. But if all the whores cooperated…
…The largest trade association for luxury escorts in the Spanish capital has gone on…strike…for bankers until they go back to providing credits to Spanish families, small- and medium-size enterprises and companies…a…spokeswoman [said] “…We have been on strike for three days now and we don’t think they can withstand much more.” She has revealed that bankers have made some pitiful attempts to use their services by pretending to be engineers or architects…The bankers reportedly became so desperate that they even decided to call in the government for mediation…
Zero Information
Well, not zero exactly, but I couldn’t resist my first title beginning with “Z”.
A man who police say sometimes poses as a female prostitute to flag down motorists was arrested…Terrence Elliott…had been warned several times in the past few weeks…But Elliott was also found with a…crack pipe…and…charged with possession of drug paraphernalia [and]…loitering…
What the hell does this mean? Is Elliott a drag prostitute, or does he dress in drag to rob or panhandle? News stories are a lot more informative when they actually contain information.
Feminine Pragmatism (April 7th, 2011)
Because this was practically inevitable, she was a fool for waiting until her marketability dried up:
At the height of her fame…Octomom aka Nadya Suleman was offered a lot of money to show her body. Vivid even offered her a $1 million deal to star in one of their films. At the time…[she] swore she would never do nudity. But dignity doesn’t feed 14…babies so…she [started] doing fetish photoshoots and now…topless shoots…However, she’s not commanding the same price she used to. TMZ reports that days away from being foreclosed upon, Nadya has decided to go naked for…Closer. Sources say she only made $10,000…
Subtle Pimping (April 8th, 2011)
“Making money off of whores without giving them anything in return…is as good a working definition of ‘pimp’ as I can imagine…”
…On Friday, March 30th…[the] 2012 Hooker Beauty Pageant…[will be held] in Hollywood…According to…[organizer] Natalia Fabia, the word “hooker” could be loosely defined as (excuse the pun) “someone who sells one’s talents and abilities, talent, or name for money, (but it also means) a rad, strong, talented, tough, colorful, independent, stylish, and beautiful woman.” This pageant is Fabia’s platform for highlighting real women in Hollywood’s music and art scene…
Umm, how about highlighting real hookers – or more specifically, our mistreatment? I googled Fabia and found no statements about sex worker rights or decriminalization, and nothing about part of the proceeds from her “hooker art” or publicity stunts going to hooker organizations, hooker rights advertising, outreach to street hookers…in short, she’s pimping our image.
Down Under (June 9th, 2011)
Australia continues to be what Sweden wants so desperately to be: the world leader in demonstrating the proper way to deal with prostitution:
[A new study shows that]…New South Wales…is the best place in the world [for]…prostitutes…”Jurisdictions that try to ban or license sex work always lose track as most of the industry slides into the shadows,” [said]…Professor Basil Donovan…of [the] Kirby Institute… “In NSW, by contrast, health and community workers have comprehensive access to and surveillance of the sex industry. This has resulted in the healthiest sex industry ever documented.” The report, prepared for the NSW government, found…[that most] sex workers surveyed also reported being “well adjusted and comfortable with their occupation”…
The Crumbling Dam (October 14th, 2011)
Today the Ontario Court of Appeal delivered a landmark decision on …prostitution laws…All five judges…found that…the provision restricting “common bawdy houses” is grossly disproportionate and overbroad, and…that the provision restricting “living on the avails”…is overbroad because it would criminalize non-exploitive relationships…However, three of the five…upheld the provision criminalizing communicating for the purpose of prostitution, holding that the purpose of the provision…is legitimate and must be weighed against the harms it causes…The…decision will most certainly be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada…
Here’s the full decision. If there’s any justice in the universe, the Supreme Court will not only uphold the decisions of both lower courts overturning the bans on brothels and avails laws, but also reinstate Justice Himel’s decision overturning the “communicating” law.
Elephant in the Parlor (October 23rd, 2011)
Not news, but I want to catalog as many of these as possible:
…John Edwards is denying a report that he used the services of a prostitute in New York…a call girl for…Anna Gristina told investigators she had sex with Edwards for money back in 2007…“Mr. Edwards categorically denies that he was involved with any prostitute or service”… said…a statement. “These allegations are false, defamatory, and he puts those who would publish or repeat them on notice that they acting [sic] with actual malice”…
I’m publishing and repeating them, and I fully admit malice toward career politicians, especially those who bear a huge part of the blame for America’s sky-high medical bills.
Divided We Fall (November 16th, 2011)
Gay activists could’ve demonstrated a commitment to supporting sex worker rights this week when “[Malaysian]…Deputy Minister…Datuk Mashitah Ibrahim…said…’The (LBGT) issue…can lead to prostitution, drug abuse, psychological problems and also mental illness…Part of the LBGT problem is caused by natural reasons, such as being born with two private parts…’” but instead many of them were just as indignant about being compared to prostitutes as they were with the mental illness and hermaphrodite stuff. I guess once you win your rights in the West it’s OK to join in with stigmatizing other groups who haven’t yet, just to show you’re part of the gang.
See No Evil (November 26th, 2011)
An inability to tell fantasy from reality would normally be considered evidence of psychosis, but in law enforcement it’s a job requirement:
…the Canadian government [has] dropped all criminal charges against Ryan Matheson, [an] American…charged with…child pornography [due to] Japanese comic book images on his laptop…Matheson accepted a plea deal…[in] which he admitted to “a non-criminal regulatory offense…”
Presents, Presents, Presents! (December 29th, 2011)
I got three new presents this week! Ted sent me The Science of Fear by Daniel Gardner, and Gumdeo sent me the movie New Orleans and a Cuddly Cthulhu! Thank y’all both so much for thinking of me!
The Course of a Disease (February 16th, 2012)
Apparently Canadian neofeminists, angry at their inability to infect their native land with the Swedish Disease, have decided to poison the well in a country which is already sickening:
[Canadian MP Joy Smith] has taken it upon herself to encourage Knesset members [via email] to support recent legislation…which will make paying for sex services a criminal offense…“Israel now has the opportunity to pass progressive legislation and to be a leader in the fight against this form of modern slavery,” Smith wrote in the email. “I urge you to support MK Zuaretz’s bill and help make Israel a country that others aspire to emulate. The world is watching and waiting for Israel to take this important step and eliminate the demand to purchase sex…”
Obviously, Israeli reporters don’t bother to check their facts any more than American ones do; this one erroneously states that “most” Western countries have adopted some form of the Swedish Model, and swallows the easily-debunked prohibitionist lie that most prostitutes are coerced.
Above the Law (March 8th, 2012)
Apparently, the American federal government believes it’s only OK to grope people if one puts on a uniform and does it without their permission: “[Bryant Jermaine Livingston, a TSA] manager at [Dulles International Airport] has lost his job after being arrested on prostitution-related charges…” The story explains that Livingston was running a kind of cheap temporary brothel in a hotel room, stupidly returned to the same hotel and was ratted out to the Gestapo of Montgomery County, Maryland by the irate manager.
Metaupdates
J’accuse in November Updates (Part Three) (November 4th, 2011)
“in France…it’s OK to be a whore as long as you have no friends, family, employees, assistants, managers or other human contact other than customers”, and if you’re an official who has embarrassed Paris one too many times, you can be charged with the horrible crime of helping legal workers to conduct their legal business: “…Dominique Strauss-Kahn…is under investigation for “aggravated pimping” for his alleged participation in a prostitution ring in France…”
Whores in the News in Further Developments (November 18th, 2011)
It’s now official; the government will steal $6.4 million from the former owners of Escorts.com. As usual, the state’s claims read like an FBI drama, with heroic cops “investigating” hardened criminals; in reality, the feds botched an attempt to take over the site surreptitiously in order to use it to entrap thousands of escorts and clients. The bogus “money laundering” charge was just a way for them to recoup their losses; despite FBI claims to the contrary, federal judges have repeatedly ruled that “facilitating prostitution” is not a federal crime and websites are not responsible for the content of ads.
Sex, Lies and Busybodies in That Was the Week That Was (February 4th, 2012)
Sean McBride, AKA “John Curtis”, has resigned as head of “The Grey Man”. After it was discovered that a group of Thai children the group claimed to have rescued from “sex traffickers” were in fact ordinary village schoolchildren, Curtis issued a series of increasingly-absurd and self-contradictory “explanations” (including one on this blog), mostly based on a paranoid fantasy that a competing “rescue group” had conspired with the Thai government to discredit him. But after new revelations that McBride routinely lied about the age of “victims” and the number “rescued”, he stepped down voluntarily before he was thrown out. Good riddance to bad rubbish; let’s hope every one of the con artists who profit by the persecution of whores is similarly exposed, and soon.
Knights Erroneous in That Was the Week That Was (#12) (March 24th, 2012)
I’m pleased to see the number of voices raised in criticism of Nick Kristof’s anti-whore crusades is growing; ever-larger numbers of writers are pointing out the absurdity of the claims made by “trafficking” fetishists and calling attention to the harm this moral panic inflicts on women. I suspect The Guardian will be one of the first major media outlets to officially denounce the hysteria; it’s published a number of articles on the subject, most recently last Monday:
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is on the move and his latest target is the Village Voice. This attack appears to be part of a broader campaign to shut down the sex industry and to rescue and rehabilitate women and girls working in it. Kristof’s allies range from women’s rights organizations to religious organizations…the critical lens applied to Kony2012…must [also be applied]…to the crusades against sex trafficking…when women and girls are “rescued” by the anti-trafficking organizations, they may be taken to state-run rehabilitation homes that have jail-like conditions. Human rights and sex worker organizations have long documented what rehabilitation might mean for a sex worker: overcrowded conditions, a lack of healthcare, and violence at the hands of the police and guards…
It’s wonderful to see statements like these in a large newspaper, and even more heartening to read the many supportive comments beneath.
In “March Q & A” I answer questions about cunnilingus, men pretending to be women online, and the sex drives of middle-aged escorts.
Further Developments
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“Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we’ve been doing.”
“A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” – Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass (chapter 2)
One year ago today I published “November Miscellanea (Part Two)”, which explained how the U.S. government isn’t interested in prosecuting the trafficking of minors for sexual purposes when huge corporations like Time-Warner do it; reported that a Fox newsreader publicly advised another journalist to patronize sex workers; and linked an article called “10 Tips for Dealing with Cops”. And though I already published a three-part “November Updates” column two weeks ago, several more interesting stories have surfaced and so I present this special extra update edition.
Think of the Children! (September 30th, 2010)
Child Cultists apparently believe that sexually-active adults emit invisible “sex rays”, and that if any of that sex wasn’t entirely vanilla the intensity of those “sex rays” increases exponentially and never, ever fades away. Therefore no such person, no matter how long ago she committed these dreaded acts, can ever again be allowed with 10 meters of children lest her pervy emanations induce the dreaded “premature sexualization”, which might {Gasp!} cause innocent children to have sexual thoughts or feelings at some point before the magical Advent of Shazam at exactly midnight on their 18th birthdays. Here, courtesy of TMZ, is the latest example of a shameless harlot recklessly endangering children with her dangerous presence:
Porn legend Sasha Grey says she will NOT back out of a national elementary school reading program — despite pressure from parents — claiming she will “not live in fear” of her XXX past…Grey…participated in the “Read Across America” program at Emerson Elementary School in Compton, CA last week. Afterward, the school received complaints for letting Grey around the kids. For the record, Grey has been out of the adult business for 2 years. Now, Sasha has released a statement … saying, “I committed to this program with the understanding that people would have their own opinions about what I have done, who I am and what I represent…I am an actor. I am an artist. I am a daughter. I am a sister. I am a partner. I have a past that some people may not agree with, but it does not define who I am. I believe in the future of our children, and I will remain an active supporter and participant in education-focused initiatives.”
Good for Sasha; I just hope she doesn’t allow herself to be shamed into quitting as Tera Myers was.
Whores in the News (October 29th, 2010)
On October 27th of last year the FBI raided the offices of Escorts.com, and reports I received from working escorts in the ensuing months convinced me that the company had been taken over by the feds and was being used in an attempt to entrap working girls. Fortunately, the operation was sloppy and heavy-handed and nobody with two brain cells to rub together was fooled; the site was closed entirely at the end of May and since the big pigs were unable to sexually victimize women as they intended, they contented themselves with stealing six and a half million dollars instead:
Two Philadelphia-based companies have been charged with running a website used by prostitutes and escort services to advertise…National A-1 Advertising Inc. and R.S. Duffy Inc. agreed to plead guilty to money laundering conspiracy and will forfeit $4.9 million, pay a $1.5 million fine and serve 1½ years of probation, according to court documents…the companies…operated Escorts.com beginning in 2007. Prostitutes and escort services paid to advertise on the site, while customers were charged subscription fees. The companies have forfeited the domain name. National A-1 also operates phone-sex lines and a pornographic website. Those portions of its business are unaffected by its plea agreement in the escorts.com case…The government said it reserves the right to prosecute individuals associated with the companies.
As we’ve pointed out before, companies aren’t responsible for the content of their advertising so the government had no case even if there was a federal law against advertising sexual services, which there isn’t. But federal prosecutors are empowered with a whole arsenal of nuisance charges (“money laundering” and “conspiracy” being chief among them) with which to hound individuals and corporations to death based on the flimsiest of evidence or even no evidence at all, so National A-1 and R.S. Duffy clearly decided that paying the ransom demand was simply the cheapest and quickest way to get on with their corporate lives.
October Updates, Part Three (October 4th, 2011)
In my update to “A Tale That Grew in the Telling” I discussed the way stories get distorted in the process of rumor-spreading, becoming progressively more lurid and exaggerated. Here, via Furry Girl, is a perfect example from journalist Anderson Cooper: after the tsunami which struck Sri Lanka on December 26th, 2004, a man on a motorcycle took two injured children to a hospital. Some bystander decided he was actually kidnapping them, and it was so reported in a Sri Lankan newspaper; by the time the story reached New York a few days later dozens of storm orphans were being abducted into sexual slavery. It’s rather like And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street, except not at all cute.
Speaking of Furry Girl, I reported last month that she had to resort to a mobile billboard company for her sex worker rights ad after all the regular billboard companies rejected it (despite the fact that they’ve carried anti-prostitution ads in the past). Well, her billboard finished its run on November 9th, and here’s a report from her (with photos) telling about how it went. Let’s hope her next project finds an advertising company which is more interested in making money than in promoting a moral view via censorship of paying advertisers.
May Updates (Part Three)
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The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
This seems to be the month for twosies, ‘cause our first selection today is an update to the same column as our last item yesterday:
Welcome To Our World (January 20th)
The Wall Street Journal isn’t exactly known for publishing neofeminist rants, but the April 23rd issue carried this rather bizarre manifesto which demands that fraternities be banned in order to “protect” helpless, fawn-like coeds:
The Greek system is dedicated to quelling young men’s anxiety about submitting themselves to four years of sissy-pants book learning by providing them with a variety of he-man activities: drinking, drugging, ESPN watching and the sexual mistreatment of women. A 2007 National Institute of Justice study found that about one in five women are victims of sexual assault in college; almost all of those incidents go unreported. It also noted that fraternity men—who tend to drink more heavily and frequently than nonmembers—are more likely to perpetrate sexual assault than nonfraternity men, according to previous studies. Over a quarter of sexual-assault victims who were incapacitated reported that the assailant was a fraternity member. It is against this boorish cartel that 16 Yale students and recent alumni asserted themselves in a Title IX complaint brought against the institution last month—a complaint that could cost the university $500 million in federal funds. The claim concerns both the ways that sexual assaults are handled by the university and also the effect that various fraternity “pranks” have had on its female students…If you want to improve women’s lives on campus, if you want to give them a fair shot at living and learning as freely as men, the first thing you could do is close down the fraternities. The Yale complaint may finally do what no amount of female outrage and violation has accomplished. It just might shut them down for good.
As is typical of such neofeminist punditry, the author indulges in the sort of slurs that, if made by a male against women, would rightfully be called “misogynistic”. And unsurprisingly, she demands blatantly unfair treatment in the name of “fairness”. Sex workers are, unfortunately, used to these tactics; the questionable “studies” making exaggerated claims, the steamrolling of individual rights in order to protect adult women from their own sexual choices or to keep them from getting their feelings hurt, etc. Interestingly, Jezebel writer Margaret Hartmann recognized this garbage for what it is, and wrote an article saying so; perhaps she’ll write an anti-prohibitionist column one day.
March Miscellanea – Backlash (March 22nd)
At the end of this sub-column I wrote, “I’m sure the police were only beating women up for their own good, to save them from those evil traffickers. Or are whores still “dangerous criminals” in South Africa as we are in Florida? It’s hard to keep track these days.” Well, apparently the South African police have made up their minds: we’re dangerous criminals. Here’s the article from the April 30th Johannesburg Times:
Investigating officers this week revealed that their inquiries could uncover the identities of more wealthy clients killed in grubby hotels and guest lodges over the past six months…The infamous strip where the bodies were found…is characterised by overcrowded and dilapidated apartment blocks and rundown guest lodges and hotels…police dockets showed that all of the victims – believed to have been poisoned by [a] syndicate [of prostitutes] – were married and either owned their own businesses or headed up relatively large firms operating in the province…The bodies of five of the victims, who had already been buried after it was presumed that they had died of natural causes, [will] be exhumed; the police [will] conduct DNA and toxicology tests and other forensic procedures on the victims; and evidence in the police’s possession has led them to believe that all six men were carrying large sums of cash at the time they were allegedly poisoned…
Apparently, the South African police believe that it’s much more convenient to blame these murder-robberies on a gang of hookers than on regular gangsters (perhaps using fake prostitutes as bait); after all, chasing after real criminals rather than unarmed women could be dangerous.
They Just Don’t Get It (April 12th)
The Keystone Kops of suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania never seem to get tired of bullying whores. Indeed, it seems that lies and trickery aren’t enough for them any longer, so they’ve graduated to employing the same Gestapo tactics which have become so common in serving drug warrants: namely, smashing people’s doors in without warning in the middle of the night and pointing loaded weapons at terrified children. Here’s the April 28th story from WTAE-TV in Pittsburgh:
Police from Moon Township were surprised by what they found — a woman and her kids — when they used a search warrant in connection with a prostitution case that involves a retired Pittsburgh police detective…police were looking for evidence in the case against Talib Kevin Ghafoor when they went to an address on Collins Avenue…early Thursday morning. “Right now, she’s got her front door and back door smashed in,” said Harvey Moore, the father of a woman who lives in that home. Moore told Channel 4 Action News that the woman and her children — ages 15, 5 and 4 — were asleep when a team that included SWAT members and state troopers approached the building and entered through the front and rear doors.
“The Pennsylvania State Police surrounded the house, and before they could knock and announce their identity, a person up on the third floor was looking out the window, and they felt their positions were compromised, so they conducted a forced entry into the house,” Moon Township Police Chief Leo McCarthy said. The woman’s father said the family has been living there since February and was confused and startled when police arrived. “She claims that, about a month ago, she switched homes with Mr. Ghafoor,” McCarthy told Channel 4 Action News. “In other words, I’ll live in your house, you live in my house.” McCarthy said Allegheny County records led police to the home, which he said is still registered to Ghafoor and has not been sold to the woman. He said Ghafoor still had some of his belongings inside, which were seized…
You haven’t heard the best part yet; Ghafoor was arrested over a month ago and is scheduled for a hearing this week, so they could easily have served him with a warrant at that time at no taxpayer cost and with no danger to bystanders. Of course, that wouldn’t have allowed them to play sadistic cops-and-robbers games with automatic weapons. Still, the question remains…who did these buffoons expect to find in the house that led them to believe they would need a SWAT team? An elite team of armed assault strumpets, perhaps? I wonder if Pittsburgh area cops have been communicating with those from Johannesburg?
Real Men Support Sex Worker Rights (April 22nd)
“Deep Geek” produces a semi-regular podcast called “Talk Geek To Me” in which he often advocates for unpopular causes (including sex worker rights) and sometimes even reads my column aloud. This week, his podcast consists of a 25.5 minute editorial touching on such subjects as the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the two-party system, socialism and sex worker rights. He asked me to call attention to it and I’m happy to do so.
Whores In the News – Escorts.com Raided by FBI (October 29th)
Since the FBI raid in October the fortunes of Escorts.com have steadily declined; many clients and escorts abandoned their accounts immediately and many others continued to use them, but much more warily. Before the end of last year girls started complaining about a plethora of fake reviews (obviously posted by pigs trying to establish themselves as “hobbyists”), then a couple of months after that the site deleted reviews altogether. Finally, I just heard at about 9 AM today that the site will be closing as of May 31st. My theory is that the management was forced to cooperate with the disease infesting it, but found legal loopholes so as to prevent their being used to trick their customers. First they shut down ALL reviews in order to stop fake ones, then closed entirely to prevent the placing of entrapment ads (such as you’ll see mentioned in my May 10th column). One final attempt at trickery: A notice in red on the notice page states, “You must provide us with your full name and mailing address if you want a refund check.” Please, ladies, don’t be stupid; if you provide that information your check will come with a free visit from the local constabulary, either immediately or after they use you as a Judas goat for the next few months.
Whores in the News
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Perception, Tyranny, tagged bad customers, cops, cosmetic surgery, dirty, drugs, Europe, FBI, genitalia, Hollywood, hotels, hysteria, language, law, neofeminism, Pennsylvania, porn, prohibitionist myths, Spain, stereotypes, streetwalkers, Swedish model, Whores in the News on October 29, 2010| 22 Comments »
Why is it constantly necessary to do something to people? If we can’t do something for them, when are we going to learn to let them alone? Or must this incessant interference, this meddling, this mauling and manhandling, go on in the world forever and ever? – Samuel Milton Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio c. 1900
Today’s column is yet another collection of short articles on whores which have appeared in the news media recently; what can I say? If the mainstream media would talk to us as often as they talk about us public ignorance (and with it official persecution) would’ve been swept away long ago. This first item is paraphrased from an article in The Telegraph of Monday, October 25th:
For Their Own Safety
Spanish streetwalkers along a rural highway outside Els Alamus near Lleida in Catalonia have been ordered to wear fluorescent yellow bibs or pay fines of 40 euros under road traffic laws; police claim the sex workers on the LL-11 road are not being specifically targeted because of what they do but because they pose a danger to drivers. The prostitutes are in breach of a 2004 law which states that all pedestrians on major highways and hard shoulders must wear the high visibility garments. A spokesman for the regional police force said: “In the past couple of months the prostitutes have been fined for two reasons: for not wearing the reflective jacket and for creating danger on the public highway.”
Despite police claims, the order comes suspiciously soon after recent legislation in Els Alamus which bans prostitutes from soliciting in public urban areas; Mayor Josep Maria Bea has been accused of mounting a campaign to drive the sex workers out of the area. An estimated 300,000 women work as prostitutes in Spain, where prostitution is not illegal but “living off the avails” is. Streetwalkers on roadsides outside towns and cities are a common sight across Spain, and a recent survey found one in four Spanish men admitted to having paid for sex.
Apparently, Spanish men are either liars or the survey actually asked if they had paid recently.
Charlie Sheen, well known as a regular patron of hookers, was in the news again recently for going on a cokehead rampage and scaring the hell out of the working girl who was with him at the time. The following article was paraphrased from a New York Post article of October 26:
Charlie Sheen Trashes Hotel Room
Charlie Sheen, who left rehab only two months ago, allegedly trashed his room at The Plaza Hotel in the process of attempting to find his wallet and cell phone while high, authorities said.
Hotel security called police just after 2 a.m. after a prostitute called the front desk from the famed Eloise Suite and reported that Sheen had gone on a rampage and then passed out on the bed. Tables and chairs had been thrown around the room and a chandelier was also damaged, sources said; the damage to the luxury suite reportedly totaled about $7,000.
The star of the TV show Two and a Half Men was accompanied to New York Columbia Presbyterian Hospital by his ex-wife Denise Richards, who was staying in a separate room on the hotel’s 18th floor, sources said. Sheen was discharged from the hospital Tuesday night and is slated to return to rehab; he was only a week away from completing his probation, but told cops he was “out partying” and drinking and had snorted cocaine before he started tweaking, the source said. Sheen’s rep later claimed the actor was taken to the hospital after an allergic reaction to medication. Sheen was not injured, but checked himself into the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
Apparently, Sheen noticed his wallet and cell phone were missing soon after returning to the room with the escort and flew into a rage, sources said. The girl then called the front desk and reported that she feared for her life; a source for Life and Style magazine said, “Charlie was incoherent but started screaming slurs at the cops. They recognized him immediately and gave him two options: they could take him to the hospital or take him down to the station. Charlie chose the hospital.” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said no complaints were made and there was no arrest. Sheen was not expected to face any criminal charges.
Ah, cokeheads; once they start tweaking they get paranoid and then it’s best just to leave. I think it’s worth noting that if a hotel room was trashed by a coked-up non-celebrity, both he and the hooker would’ve been taking a ride downtown rather than offered a ride to a hospital. However, I’ll forgive Charlie because he’s the only famous man I can think of who had the balls to refuse to apologize and beg for forgiveness when caught with whores in the past. And when he was being sentenced for using a prostitute, the judge asked him why a man like him would have to pay for sex; Charlie replied: “I don’t pay them for sex. I pay them to leave.” Perhaps the judge is living in a fantasyland where men can get sex for free, but Sheen is smart enough to realize that only hookers come without strings.
Two Arguments About “Trafficking”
On October 20th this column was published in the Huffington Post; I’m not going to quote it because it’s just the usual farrago of lies claiming that suppressing prostitution is a good way to control the bogeyman of “human trafficking”, but following the link is worth your time for several reasons. The first is that the author, a graduate student at NYU (which could just as accurately called “PCU”) who clearly wouldn’t know a call girl if one sashayed up and snogged her, is obviously repeating the latest, trendiest party line from her PC articles and texts, which happens to be “Nordic Model” propaganda. The second is that the comments (including one from yours truly) is almost unanimously anti-prohibitionist and condemnatory of the lies this silly little girl thought she could spread with impunity (judging by her increasingly flustered responses to the comments). Though Huffington Post tends to be very pro-personal rights and has printed a number of pro-prostitution columns in the past, it still pleases me to see so many people recognizing that a woman’s right to control her body does not exclude sex.
Even more heartening is this article entitled “Sex Trafficking: The Abolitionist Fallacy” which one of the commenters linked; it was written last year but is still perfectly topical. Its author, Ann Jordan, is the director of the Program on Human Trafficking and Forced Labor at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, American University Washington College of Law. She is thus a respected expert in the REALITY of sex trafficking and a staunch anti-abolitionist; she even co-authored a letter to the U.S. federal government asking it to reconsider its prohibitionist policy, though as you might expect that has fallen on deaf ears. Still, it’s good to know that there are at least a few bona fide experts who recognize the prohibitionist propaganda for what it is and are willing to say so loudly and publicly.
Escorts.com Raided by FBI
The Philadelphia offices housing Escorts.com (a popular escort advertising site) and HotMovies.com, an adult video-on-demand provider, were raided by 100 FBI agents on Wednesday morning (October 27th). The FBI tried to pretend that the raid was pursuant to pornography charges and most sources of this story make that claim, but local cops who assisted in the raid leaked the information that “it was conducted in connection to an investigation into a prostitution ring.” The Philadelphia bureau of the FBI would not confirm this, but reiterated previous reports that no one was charged or arrested in connection with the raid. They also said that no news would be forthcoming from the FBI; “Any information about the raid will only come from the U.S. Attorney’s office, not our office,” said the chief agent. “And it will probably not be today, or for quite a while.” The PR officer for the US Attorney’s office in Philadelphia said even less; “Our office does not confirm or deny the existence or non-existence of investigations,” she said. CBS affiliate CBS Philly is reporting, however, that the raid was related to a prostitution ring investigation, but had no other information.
Clearly, somebody in the FBI wants to look good to the lowbrows, bluenoses and neofeminists right before election day; “prostitution ring” is cop jargon for an escort service or internet escort review and/or advertising site. By calling it a “ring” rather than a business, they hope to convince ignorant people that the escorts and owners are criminals (as in the term “drug ring”). If any of my readers advertise on Escorts.com, I suggest you cancel your ad immediately and do NOT under any circumstances see any clients calling from that ad. The FBI now has your information and will almost certainly be attempting to “sting” you so they can make a big show of arresting “human traffickers”.
Another Porn Influence
In yesterday’s column I talked about how fads which first appear in porn often work their way into the mainstream (such as complete removal or pubic hair). Well, here’s the latest example: Labioplasty, in other words cosmetic alteration of the labia. I decided to link the article rather than paraphrasing it because I want to use it to make another point: Note that the author makes the ignorant but increasingly common mistake discussed in my column of September 25th, using the word “vagina” to mean “vulva”. She keeps using the term “vagina sculpting” when she obviously means “vulva sculpting”; nobody can see what her vagina looks like without gynecological tools. There is such a thing as vaginoplasty, but it’s a different operation altogether and has nothing to do with appearance.