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Picture taken today of a sunflower growing in the middle of Holton St. in Milwaukee

Milwaukee is trying a new approach to girls in foster care who go on run a lot: full time foster parents whose whole job is to care for the youth.

A couple of updates on cases I brought up here previously. One woman in Urbana Illinois received 6 years for her role in getting a teen girl involved in prostitution. A mom got 15 years for pimping out her teen daughters. And in a new case, a 22 year old young women was charged with pimping a 17 year old teen in St. Paul.

I’ve been thinking a lot about young men’s experiences in the sex trade and how rarely it’s addressed in the media. You find it some places. For example, a Boston based paper picked up a story from Britain on young homeless gay men using websites to find men who can provide them with a place to sleep in exchange for sex, because of homophobia and violence at shelters. Sometimes it’s hidden in the text of other articles. For example in a NY Times article on HIV in Mexico, more specifically for migrants who return home to Mexico from the US - I found this item.

A study financed by the California-Mexico AIDS Initiative found that more than a third of the migrants at job-pickup sites in Los Angeles had been offered money by men for sex. About a tenth of the migrants, desperate to earn a living, have agreed, the study found.

I’ll keep finding more sources and write more on this.

By the way, you can find more about the recent news items here and archived news links here.