While porn and prostitution, in and of themselves, are only tangentially related to YourTango's mandate to improve love lives and relationships, they do play some role in sex and sexuality. With my A sufficiently C-ed, here's the latest on people who have sex for money:

Per Reuters, Amsterdam-area prostitutes have credit problems. No, they haven't been lending too much credit to clients (I'd imagine that, like Biggie Smalls' 10 Crack Commandments, sex workers have a similar stance on credit—i.e. you don't want to get high on your own supply). While business (the old in-and-out) has been fine and … Read More

It takes two to tango, marry, divorce, and remarry, but it might take more than two–and lets say we're talkin' babies, here–to keep Charlie Sheen in a relationship. Charlie, 43, severed marital ties with Denise Richards, mother of their two daughters, and according to Celebitchy it looks like he may be warming up for divorce number three from Brooke Mueller, 31. Brooke is currently carrying Charlie's twins, but a recent In Touch report questions whether Charlie and Brook will last until April, when the babies are due.  Sources say the couple is going through … Read More

San Francisco Chronicle’s Violet Blue had a Q & A with a sex worker currently working the San Francisco market. Quite an interesting read, we must say. Lots of details.

So how do the Bay Area boys rate? All in all, she says the men are polite, well-rounded, liberal, and ideal clients.

Unfortunately, there’s more paid sex to go around than there is interested parties:

"…the ratio of straight men to other people is different than in most other major cities such as Chicago, New York, Boston or Philadelphia. So the ratio of providers to consumers … Read More

Ronaldo (not to be confused with Ronaldinho or Cristiano Ronaldo) got caught in an Eddie Murphy-esque predicament involving 3 crossdressing prostitutes a week or so back. You may know the Brazilian soccer star from his fantastic work as AC Milan's striker before he hurt himself). At any rate, one of the prostitutes alleges that there was drug-use and sex involved. Ronaldo claims that no such sex or drug use happened and he turned the hookers in to the fuzz when they threatened him with blackmail (or possibly Brazilian-male).

So, the story goes that Ronaldo was drinking and watching futbol … Read More