CLAYTON, Mo. - We know the police use computers to hunt, catch, and log the bad guys. Now it seems at least one group is giving the gendarmes a taste of their own medicine: Hookers in Missouri are reportedly using the Internet to swap information about undercover cops – including, according to one report, the cell phone number of St. Louis County's vice squad commander.

"That was the shocking thing," commander Rick Battelle told the Associated Press, who acknowledged he gave the number out just once, and then in a bid to nab one suspected prostitute.

In fact, according to some published reports, earlier this month undercover officers meeting two Springfield women at a Maryland Heights hotel found two laptops, and a Website showing the officers' cell phone numbers, undercover names, and even details about their vehicles.

Police are known to keep computerized files on actual and suspected prostitutes, including aliases they use and where they've been known to work, the AP said, while the ladies of the evening, for their part, are known at times to advertise their services on the Web, sometimes with no dressing up and sometimes as "escorts" or "escort services."

But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has also reported county detectives finding a database passing through the Web to help the hookers trade information as they try staying steps ahead of the police. For example, the two Springfield women were tracked by police through message boards, e-mails, and Websites, the paper said, adding that the women used those outlets to screen clients and pass the word along. Full Story...

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The owners of seven Northern Kentucky strip clubs said they will file a lawsuit in the next week challenging a regulating ordinance adopted Tuesday by Kenton County Fiscal Court. They claim the ordinance violates their First Amendment right to free speech.
Kenton County was the first Northern Kentucky government to adopt the new ordinance, which imposes regulations on all types of sexually oriented business, including strip clubs, escort services and adult bookstores.

Jeffrey Willis, CEO of the La Fox Group, which owns Rodney's La Fox and Viva La Fox in Covington, said Cincinnati lawyer H. Louis Sirkin would file the suit by Fridayon behalf of club owners.

Other clubs participating in the suit, Willis said, are Club Venus and The Pad in Covington; The Brass Bull and The Brass Mule in Newport; and The Playpen Gentleman's Club in Wilder.

Willis said he and the other owners are in favor of regulation, but that Kenton County's ordinance simply goes too far and hinders the ability of club owners and entertainers to make a living and operate. He disputed government officials' assertion that the clubs are breaking the law.

"We're already under one of the most stringent ordinances in Covington and now they are trying to say that our performers can't even talk to anyone," Willis said, referring to a provision in the Kenton County measure that prohibits dancers who perform on stage from setting foot in areas of the club open to customers.

"When did these people get the right to tell somebody who they could and couldn't talk to?" Willis said. "They have no right to do that." Full Story...

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Seven cadet candidates have been expelled from the Air Force Academy Preparatory School for taking part in erotic dancing at a dorm party this summer.

At least one of the women was nude. As many as 17 other students who watched the dancing could face varying degrees of punishment, Academy Prep spokesman Lt. Col. Laurent Fox said Friday.

The students’ names were not released.

“We won’t tolerate lewd and unprofessional behavior,” Fox said. “This is totally against the rules they were briefed upon and what the Air Force stands for.”

Fox called the incident “absolutely isolated.”

“There are no indications of prior incidents,” he said.

At the party, which took place July 31, five male students “encouraged” the two women to dance for them, Air Force officials said.

“The five male (cadet) candidates encouraged the females to do this. However, they did it on their volition,” he said.

The spectators included male and female students. Full Story...

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Her nights were fueled by champagne and cocaine; there was sex atop boardroom tables, threesomes, bondage - and $200 when the hour was up.
The life of a call girl - it doesn't sound like the girl next door.
But maybe she is.
Cambridge author Jeannette Angell pulls the down the covers on Boston's invisible, nocturnal culture in her memoir, ``Callgirl'' (The Permanent Press, $26).
``The only grief I'm getting is from people who are saying, `Oh I thought I knew you.' That's where my anxiety has come. Writing about it has put it to rest for me,'' she said during a phone interview. ``My life feels fairly removed right now. I 'm glad I did it as quickly as I did. As I look at it now, it's like it happened to a different person.''
``Could I do it now, no. It was a job.''
Ten years ago, when Angell was 34, her boyfriend wiped out her bank account. With only her meager college lecturer's salary, the graduate of Yale and Boston universities needed to scrape cash together fast to make ends meet.
That's when she answered an escort service ad in the Boston Phoenix.
Her madam, whom she refers to as Peach in the book, didn't provide any tips before Angell went on her first call.
``For a madam, she talks very little about sex. She would say, `Go out and see if it's for you. It's not for everybody.' Until I met other girls who worked for her I couldn't talk to anybody about it because she wouldn't.''
So Angell created her own approach.
``At first, what I would put in my mind was this is a blind date. Then it became second nature,'' the French-born writer said about snuggling up to strangers.
``I saw them as a client. Their looks, bad breath, are secondary. The bad breath got to me more than anything.''
``A waitress waits on somebody who's really rude to her and moves on. In most jobs we don't always choose our assignments. Some people who have to pay for sex are not the most attractive. You think, `This is my client. I have to make him feel good.' It's totally different (than sex in your personal life).'' Full Story...

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Legislators and other government officials who engage the services of female “escorts” for sex can spend time in jail for their impropriety, a top justice department official warned Tuesday.

Chief State Prosecutor Jovencio Zuño issued the caveat to public officials following the disclosure of a starlet that she knew of female escorts, who, for the right price, had sex with their customers or were kept as mistresses by rich and influential clients.

The starlet, whose screen name is Keanna Reeves, said on the ABS-CBN program Kontro­bersyal last week that she herself worked on the side as an escort and was hired by at least one lawmaker. She did not say, however, if she had sex with him.

Reeves’s exposé has prompted calls in Congress for her to name her legislative customer. Full Story...

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