Nevada's Clark County School District may be some 400 teachers short this year, but it did add to its coffers thanks to the generosity of a Las Vegas strip club. Scores Las Vegas raised $2,500 for the district by holding an event called "Detention," in which strippers were dressed as teachers, schoolgirls and librarians. An advertisement said, "It's back to school time and you know what that means. Detention for everyone who has been bad!"

Police in China arrest five strippers for entertaining people attending a funeral in Jiangsu province. The official Xinhua news agency says police intervened after two groups of strippers gave "obscene performances" at a farmer's funeral in Donghai County.

Sex workers in Vegas are advocating respect for their profession in Sin City. Prostitutes demonstrated on the steps of the courthouse in downtown Las Vegas. Hookers and strippers demanded more legal protection in an effort to decriminalize the "world's oldest profession. " Thirty-six-year-old ex-Army Reservist, Starchild, stood in solidarity with the rallying sex workers in Las Vegas. He emphatically claimed his seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

Strippers and prostitutes are demonstrating for more legal protection and the decriminalization of prostitution. The protest is being held in downtown Las Vegas on the steps of the city's courthouse. Sex industry workers say all too often, workers claims of rape and violence are ignored by authorities and that anti-human trafficking laws are sometimes unfairly used against sex industry workers.

Proving that even the oldest professional occupation in the world can get some equality in today's world, those in the world of prostitution and the like will be able to deduct taxes on items used in the sex industry. Prostitutes, strippers, and lap dances can now claim tax deductions on condoms, lubricants, gels and other items, according to a fact sheet issued on the Australian Taxation Office's official Web site.