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• the Church of La Soledad in Mexico City has been the site of an annual commemoration for sex workers?
• the chrysargyron tax forced some Byzantine families to sell their children into slavery and prostitution?
• the World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights, adopted in 1985, calls for the right to unemployment insurance and decriminalization of adult prostitution?
• the enmity between Tang Dynasty general Li Sheng and chancellor Zhang Yanshang began over a military prostitute?
• the original name of Euphemia, empress consort of Justin I of the Byzantine Empire, was 'Lupicina', which led historian Alexander Vasiliev to associate her with she-wolves and prostitution?
• the first feature film of director Paul Verhoeven is Business Is Business, a 1971 comedy film about two prostitutes in Amsterdam?
• the Chatham Garden Theatre in New York City went from haven for prostitution to Presbyterian chapel in the span of one year?
• one of the duties of the medieval English justice Richard Herriard (d. 1208) was paying prostitutes for King John of England?
• Three-Mile Hog Ranch was a center for prostitution for soldiers at Fort Laramie?
• sex workers across the world have organised since the mid-1970s to demand sex workers’ rights, including the decriminalisation of prostitution and equal protection under the law?
• Marthe Richard was a former prostitute and spy who worked to make brothels illegal in France?
• as Texas Attorney General from 1957 to 1963, Will Wilson cracked down on prostitution rings operating in such Texan cities as Galveston, Beaumont, Texarkana and Victoria?
• in the 19th century, part of Wykeham Terrace (pictured)—a "charming Gothic confection" in Brighton—was used as an institution for reformed prostitutes?
• Amsterdam's Prostitution Information Center provides the city's visitors with information and advice about prostitution?

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