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Anti-prostitute sign gets mixed response Mount Clemens activists were trying to discourage 'johns' PUBLISHED: February 10, 2005 By Mitch Hotts Macomb Daily Staff Writer Homeowners in one Mount Clemens neighborhood are divided over a group's efforts to fight prostitution by erecting signs warning potential customers that they are being watched by area residents. The group recently erected a placard with reflectors on it that read: "Prostitution Zone -- If you are looking, we are watching" in front of a vacant house on Euclid, near Gratiot. But Delores Gosciniak, a grandmother who lives near the vacant structure, tore the sign down....

Poipet, Cambodia — After I purchased Srey Mom from her brothel for $203 a year ago and brought her back to her village, the joy was overwhelming. Her parents and siblings had assumed she was dead, and they shrieked and hugged and cried. I had doubts about the other sex slave I had purchased, Srey Neth, whom I wrote about on Wednesday - and who in fact is thriving and is now preparing to become a hairdresser. But I was pretty sure that Srey Mom would make it. So I'm devastated to say that a year later, I found Srey...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Antwerp will dim the bright new lights along the Belgian port city's waterfront after prostitutes complained they were putting off potential clients. "We had some remarks from the prostitutes that there was too much light, both for them and the clients," city council spokesman Jorn Verbeeck said. "We are investigating the possibility of lowering the light there." Prostitutes complained to city and police officials that the lights installed in December did not give them enough privacy and hurt business, he said. The port, which tolerates prostitutes in a select few streets near the waterfront, will next week...