(n.) A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is likely that many of the girls end up working in brothels, but due to the stigma of being a sex worker they will usually report they were forced into marriage.
(2) Some of them, pulled together for the manifesto, are silly, or doomed, or simply there for shock value - information points in the form of holograms of Dixon of Dock Green, the legalisation of soft drugs, official brothels opposite Westminster, complete with division bells.
(3) The law will decriminalise street sex workers, who will no longer be charged for soliciting, but it will still be illegal for two women to work together, or to run a brothel.
(4) I had no money and he threatened that I would end up in a brothel."
(5) A documentary about Femen, Ukraine Is Not a Brothel , premiered at a film festival in September, and revealed the involvement of a man behind some of the ideas for the groups protests.
(6) Historical revisionists – including Abe – have angered South Korea by undermining the widely accepted narrative of the “comfort women”: tens of thousands of mainly Asian women who were forced to work in Japanese military brothels in the 1930s and 40s.
(7) Brothels in the capital were ignored while others were being shut down an hour away in Glasgow.
(8) Meanwhile a report from New Zealand – where selling sex was decriminalised in 2003 – found the law had "little impact" on numbers, although some residents complain about a proliferation of explicit advertisements for brothels on local radio, and are opposing a 15-storey "super brothel" in Auckland.
(9) Tens of thousands of young women from regions devastated by the earthquake in Nepal are being targeted by human traffickers supplying a network of brothels across south Asia, campaigners in Kathmandu and affected areas say.
(10) The discovery of a 44% (44 out of 100) prevalence rate of HIV infection among female prostitutes working in brothels in Chiangmai in Thailand in June 1989, prompted this follow-up study in August to confirm the high prevalence rate and to look for risk factors for infection.
(11) Two girls returned after a year of exploitation in brothels in the Midlands.
(12) Beijing reacted angrily after the outspoken nationalist mayor of Osaka, Toru Hashimoto, said this week that Japan's forced recruitment of Asian women to work in military brothels before and during the second world war had been necessary to maintain discipline among soldiers .
(13) The chilling claim that we are all surrounded by an invisible peril was the prelude to evoking an evil that we had long thought was behind us, with May declaring: "It is walking our streets, supplying shops and supermarkets, working in fields, factories or nail bars, trapped in brothels or cowering behind the curtains in an ordinary street: slavery."
(14) A judge has ruled that a Soho brothel shut down by police earlier this month can reopen for business.
(15) Other neighbours have radically different approaches: in Germany, prostitution is legal and municipally regulated; in Spain, vast borderland brothels in places such as La Jonquera in Catalonia are frequented by French clients.
(16) The findings of this study prompted intensive health education programmes among prostitutes, their customers, and owners of brothels.
(17) Investigators would discover many girls and young women living under the control of men who forced them to work in brothels or who drove them around the city, sometimes to as many as 20 assignments a day.
(18) As far as I have understood one girl and one maid is not illegal, it's not a brothel."
(19) We recently had a client who was in domestic servitude, forced to work in a nail bar during the day and every evening taken to a brothel and exploited there all night.” Human traffickers may face life sentence under Britain's tough new slavery bill Read more Methods used to lure children from Vietnam to the UK are also becoming increasingly sophisticated, including use of social media.
(20) Two months later, Elm Guest House was raided by police and its owners, Haroon and Carole Kasir, were convicted at the Old Bailey of running a brothel.
Sauna
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) It was so difficult to keep a straight face when I was filming a sauna scene with Roy Barraclough, who played the mayor of Blackpool.
(2) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(3) Frequent sauna bathing did not interfere with the patch therapy.
(4) By contrast, maternal workplace temperature, sauna bathing, and temperature of the environment (seasonal variation) were not associated with risk of cardiac malformation in the offspring.
(5) A sauna is in the pipeline, making this the perfect mountain hideaway.
(6) As I walked through the reception area and into the locker rooms and saunas themselves, I spotted old magazines littered on mid-century coffee tables and pictures of Finnish pin-ups adorning the wood-panelled walls.
(7) The release of brain-gut peptides during sauna bathing was studied in seven women.
(8) The scientific information on the interaction of sauna and alcohol on human physiology is totally lacking.
(9) It is concluded that the heat strain and hence the risk in both saunas are similar and exposure in either sauna exceeding 10 minutes may be dangerous.
(10) She had brought me to the Pyhäpiilo sauna near to the winter sports haven of Ruka, 500 miles north-east of Helsinki, and introduced me to a slower, more ritualised process of sauna designed to fully focus on its meditative and health benefits.
(11) Knowing that the hypophysis can release several GH species, we investigated the differential release in blood of total hGH (hGHT) and the main hGH variant (hGH20K) molecules in six trained male swimmers exposed to three different conditions known to favor GH release in blood: 45 min--70% maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max) bicycling and swimming, and 20 min of sauna bathing.
(12) The results demonstrated decreased total peripheral resistance (TPR) to the blood flow in response to the heat of the sauna (C), with concurrent increase in cardiac oxygen demand and negligible increase in the stroke work.
(13) In contrast, serum dolichol concentration studied before and after aspirin and sauna, was not affected.
(14) All examined hormones rose significantly in the normal controls at the end of sauna.
(15) A day package with transfers from Bodø, guided tour, dinner and sauna costs £126pp.
(16) Although exposure to the raised temperatures normally encountered in a sauna can cause thermoregulatory imbalances in children there are no established guidelines for the safe use of saunas by infants and children.
(17) Alcohol-related minor accidents such as sprains and burns are common in sauna, but more serious accidents also take place--head contusions, heat stroke after passing out in sauna and drownings while swimming.
(18) Hong Kong Rent: HK$40,000 (£3,160) shared between two Deposit: Three months rent Property: Two-bedroom, 84 sq m apartment with pool, gym, sauna, playground, shuttle-bus, concierge, gardens, car park and clubhouse Tenancy length: Two years Adrian Warr Adrian Warr, 35, moved to Hong Kong for a new job in PR earlier this year.
(19) The sauna evokes memories of childhood development, awakening feelings of maternal warmth and paternal power in the bather.
(20) Before sauna, ACTH, cortisol and beta-endorphin levels were similar in the two groups, whereas plasma prolactin concentrations were significantly higher in cocaine addicts.