https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Barcelona’s activist mayor Ada Colau said on Thursday that she wants to reduce sanctions against sex workers walking the streets as well as against skateboarding youths. https://www.thelocal.es/20150619/barcelona-to-ease-fines-for-prostitutes-skaters Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:16:22 +0200 barcelona-to-ease-fines-for-prostitutes-skaters Thirteen people have been arrested for luring eleven Romanian women to Spain with the promise of a better life before forcing them to work as prostitutes. https://www.thelocal.es/20140812/spanish-police-smash-romanian-sex-slave-ring Tue, 12 Aug 2014 15:28:00 +0200 spanish-police-smash-romanian-sex-slave-ring Six Barcelona women have been arrested and accused of spiking clients' drinks with so-called date rape drugs in order to steal over €20,000 ($27,100) using their credit cards – a technique known as the 'Dream Kiss'. https://www.thelocal.es/20140617/dream-kiss-prostitutes-drugged-and-robbed-clients Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:31:00 +0200 dream-kiss-prostitutes-drugged-and-robbed-clients A Barcelona-based career development course for aspiring prostitutes has outraged Spanish activists who say positive media coverage of the event could see Spain becoming "the whorehouse of Europe". https://www.thelocal.es/20140227/prostitute-career-training-sparks-feminist-ire Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:49:00 +0100 prostitute-career-training-sparks-feminist-ire Prostitutes in Spain hit out on Thursday against a planned crackdown on streetwalking, vowing to demonstrate in central Madrid to defend their livelihoods. https://www.thelocal.es/20140214/spains-prostitutes-fight-streetwalking-crackdown Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:16:20 +0100 spains-prostitutes-fight-streetwalking-crackdown The good deeds of four Austrian tourists on holiday in Majorca backfired when a woman they were trying to help during a fight ended up attacking them. https://www.thelocal.es/20131127/woman-beats-up-four-tourists-helping-her Wed, 27 Nov 2013 18:40:16 +0100 woman-beats-up-four-tourists-helping-her A Malaga man almost had his penis sliced off by a knife-wielding prostitute after an argument over the price of an orgy. https://www.thelocal.es/20131113/spaniard-nearly-loses-penis-after-prostitute-attack Wed, 13 Nov 2013 13:06:00 +0100 spaniard-nearly-loses-penis-after-prostitute-attack Spanish women are heading to Switzerland to work as prostitutes in ever greater numbers, press in the Alpine nation are reporting. https://www.thelocal.es/20131105/spanish-mothers-find-work Tue, 05 Nov 2013 12:24:00 +0100 spanish-mothers-find-work More and more mixed groups of 16 to 24-year-old guys and girls in Spain's capital are swapping discos for brothels, a new study shows. https://www.thelocal.es/20130924/brothels-are-madrids-new-nightclubs-survey Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:00:00 +0200 brothels-are-madrids-new-nightclubs-survey The owner of a pub in Andalusia is facing widespread condemnation from locals after he offered clients the chance to win a one-night stand with a prostitute as part of a party raffle. https://www.thelocal.es/20130813/bar-owner-cops-heat-over-sexy-waitress-raffle Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:20:04 +0200 bar-owner-cops-heat-over-sexy-waitress-raffle Spanish police said on Monday they had busted two rival Chinese criminal networks that lured women and girls from China to Spain with the promise of high-paying jobs and then forced them into prostitution. https://www.thelocal.es/20130701/police-smash-chinese-sex-slave-rings-in-madrid Mon, 01 Jul 2013 17:13:00 +0200 police-smash-chinese-sex-slave-rings-in-madrid Basque police have found bone remains in a Bilbao gym run by the martial arts expert who on Sunday was arrested after he allegedly tortured and left a prostitute in a coma. https://www.thelocal.es/20130603/human-remains-found-in-shaolin-torturers-gym Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:07:00 +0200 human-remains-found-in-shaolin-torturers-gym