[Christchurch, November 10. Image via Getty]

CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND - NOVEMBER 10: A contestant competes in the Best Dressed Hat competition at the 2009 New Zealand Trotting Cup at Addington Raceway on November 10, 2009 in Christchurch, New Zealand. (Photo by Martin Hunter/Getty Images)

[Auckland, October 16. Image via Getty]

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - OCTOBER 16: Items are displayed on top of the casket at the funeral service for toddler Aisling Symes at the Ranui Baptist Church on October 16, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. Two-year-old Aisling Symes went missing on Monday October 5 from the front yard of her deceased grandparents' home. Police discovered her body Tuesday October 13 in a drain on a property next to where she went missing. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

[Auckland, October 13. Image via Getty]

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - OCTOBER 13: A mother and daughter visit the house of Aisling Symes after her body was found in a stormwater drain at the end of a property on October 13, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. Two-year-old Symes disappeared from her deceased grandparents' home on October 5, 2009 while her mother Angela was cleaning the property. (Photo by Hannah Johnston/Getty Images)

While some of the garments were totally insane, this little patterned number is actually wearable.

And for a beachy, summery, easy look, it doesn't get much better than this.

Team No Pants is winning. You realize that, right?

Bright, fun, youthful.

May induce migraines.

'Sup, Mr. Gratuitous Objectification.

This dress is a little off, but also kind of sweet — it's some kooky girl's fantasy prom dress, rest assured.

Smack as in smack your lips? Or smack as in, "You've gotta be on smack if you think this passes as a dress"?

'Sup, Mr. Scissors.

I could see one of those Young Hollywood types rocking this at a party.

'Sup, Mr. I'm Shy About My Package.

Teen dream? Or sensory overload?

The weird thing about this collection is that the casual stuff is all street stencils and low-budget looking…

…And then there are some really elegant pieces that aren't a total joke.

'Sup, Mr. Wedgie.

'Sup, Mr. Strategically-Placed Sunglasses.

Is this really what the world needs right now? I don't think so.

On one hand, there's an unapologetic zest for zaniness and party-never-stops energy in this. On the other hand, for the love of Miami Vice! This is terrifying!

There's been a lot of electric blue on the runways, and I like it.

So Pamela Anderson and Richie Rich came out at the end of the show…

…And did whatever it is that you want to call this…

…And that's all she wrote.

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[Auckland, September 25. Image via Getty]

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - SEPTEMBER 25: A model prepares backstage ahead of the A Muse by Richie Rich show on day four of Air New Zealand Fashion Week 2009 at the Westpac Tent, Viaduct Harbour on September 25, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Sandra Mu/Getty Images)

[Naseby, New Zealand; August 30. Image via Getty]

NASEBY, NEW ZEALAND - AUGUST 30: Catherine Greer (11) of Kyeburn competes in the Natural Luge during day nine of the Winter Games NZ on August 30, 2009 in Naseby, New Zealand. (Photo by ODT/Getty Images)

[Queenstown, New Zealand; August 26. Image via Getty]

QUEENSTOWN, NEW ZEALAND - AUGUST 26: Lavinia Chrystal of Australia competes in the Women's Super G Alpine Skiing during day five of the Winter Games NZ at Coronet Peak on August 26, 2009 in Queenstown, New Zealand. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

[Auckland, July 15. Image via Getty]

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 15: Public watch the juggling demonstration after having their face painted during the 25th birthday celebrations for 'Cirque Du Soleil' at the Glenfield Shopping Centre on July 15, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Sandra Mu/Getty Images)>

[Auckland, July 8. Image via Getty]

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 08: Ballet on lights is performed on stage during the preview of Cirque Du Soleil's 'Dralion' at Alexandra Park on July 8, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Sandra Mu/Getty Images)

[Apia, July 7. Image via Getty]

APIA, SAMOA - JULY 07: Local children pose for the camera as New Zealand Prime Minister John Key walks through Poutasi Village, July 7, 2009 in Apia, Samoa. Prime Minister John Key is on a four day visit to Tonga, Samoa, Niue and the Cook Islands for the first time in his role as Prime Minister of New Zealand. (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

[Auckland, July 5. Image via Getty]

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JULY 05: Competitors compete in the Tough Guy and Gal multi sport race at Ti Papa Equestrian And Special Events Centre on July 5, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Sandra Mu/Getty Images)

[Dunedin, New Zealand; June 12. Image via Getty]

A fan looks at the All Blacks rugby players train during a training session in Dunedin on June 12, 2009. The All Blacks will play one Test match against France in Dunedin on June 13 and another one on June 20 in Wellington. AFP PHOTO / FRANCK FIFE (Photo credit should read FRANCK FIFE/AFP/Getty Images)

[Auckland, May 25. Image via Getty]

AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - MAY 25: Campaigners take part in a Hikoi or Maori protest march, to protest against the dropping of Maori seats from the Auckland super city proposal, at Queen Street on May 25, 2009 in Auckland, New Zealand. A Royal Commission proposal suggested having 3 Maori seats on a 23-member council, two elected and one appointed by local iwi (Maori tribes) but was rejected by the Government in favour of instead having only 20 councillors, none directly Maori-elected. Police expected 10,000 protesters today on the march up Queen Street to Aotea Square. (Photo by Hannah Johnston/Getty Images)

[Auckland, New Zealand; December 3. Image via Getty]

The new Economist takes a look at the different reactions of Europeans to the problems of sex work regulation and trafficking and found that no one has a great solution.

In the Netherlands, they legalized brothels in order to attempt to eliminate trafficking and the participation of organized crime — an effect that has yet to be seen in the last eight years. Since women have to work in brothels, they remain subject to exploitation by management. Around the same time, Sweden decriminalized selling sex but criminalized buying it; the country saw a reduction in the numbers of street prostitutes, but sex workers now have a more difficult time vetting clients and clients supposedly aren't willing to report suspected trafficking and are heading overseas to get their paid freak on. All over Europe, countries are tightening their laws, criminalizing the buying of sex and, as we reported earlier, England is even on the verge of making it a separate offense to engage in sex with a woman who it later turns out was trafficked.

The only country with as liberal laws on sex work as those Prop K is proposing is New Zealand — in 2003, the country decriminalized prostitution altogether (although without the bit on trafficking and racial profiling). Since then, police report that the number of sex workers appear to be constant and

More than 60% of prostitutes felt they had more power to refuse clients than they did before. The report reckoned that only about 1% of women in the business were under the legal age of 18. And only 4% said they had been pressured into working by someone else.

One of the major differences between the Dutch (and Nevada) experience and the New Zealand one — other than that its isolation appears to mean that trafficking is less of a problem — is that, in New Zealand, most sex workers own their own businesses, so to speak, and that the law is not only designed to encourage sex worker entrepreneurship but, additionally, bans pimping. Another big difference between the New Zealand law and the San Francisco proposal is that the New Zealand law codifies a series of occupation health and safety standards, such as a requirement that condoms (and other barrier methods) be used, a requirement of sex education for all sex workers and a requirement of regular testing and training. It also allows that sex workers can claim worker's comp if they're injured on the job or contract an STI. None of these things are part of the San Francisco proposal, which seems like a bad idea.

All of this is to say that it's a thorny problem with no simple solutions but — as with health care and the financial system — maybe rapid and unmonitored deregulation of sex work in San Francisco isn't going to be the boon to sex workers there that Prop K proponents hope, or the anaethma to moral values and law enforcement that opponents fear.

Prop K Calls For Decriminalizing Prostitution In San Francisco [SF Chronicle]
Regulating The Sex Trade [The Economist]

Earlier: UK Suggests That Men Who Patronize Trafficked Prostitutes Be Prosecuted

Related: A Guide To Occupational Health And Safety In The New Zealand Sex Industry [New Zealand Occupational Safety & Health Service]
Brazil's Government Gives Tips To Prostitutes [Forbes]

• Authorities from Australia and New Zealand are investigating Roman Hasil, an uncertified OB/GYN who lives in a homeless shelter in Australia, after patients complained of medical negligence and sexual assault, including one claim that he touched a patient's vagina and said "who is the boss now?" • Rev. Peter Mullen, a chaplain in England, said on his blog that homosexuals should have warning labels such as "FELLATIO KILLS" tattooed on their backs and necks to warn about diseases; he now claims the statements "light-hearted jokes" that were "in the tradition of English satire." • Ultra-Orthodox Jewish "modesty patrols" in Israel have been accused of physically attacking women they view as being immodest and torching stores that sell internet technology. • A study of young children attending an international school in Beijing found that girls have a harder time than boys adjusting in an environment where they don't fully know the language. • A recent study has found that female smokers require less tobacco exposure than men to increase their colon cancer risk. • Sentencing is scheduled this week for a rapist in London who was nabbed by authorities because of distinctive rings he wore (two gold sovereign rings and one rink marked "Dad") when he attacked and raped a woman. • Holly Budge was among the three skydivers who became the first skydivers to freefall over Mount Everest yesterday after 15 years of preparation.• The centuries-old tradition of "sworn virgins" in Albania, where a woman can claim to be a man and have all the rights of a man in exchange for celibacy, is dying out. • Author Marc Silver asks if a wife's cancer will lead to her husband's infidelity and finds out that... it really just depends on the husband! • A cleric in Saudi Arabia has asked Muslim women to wear one-eyed veils because having two eyes visible (and being able to gauge distances) is too seductive. • Recent studies have found that there may be a link between CMV, a common herpes virus, and malignant giloma, a deadly brain cancer. • After a scandal broke out in Para, a state in Brazil where a 15-year-old woman was jailed for weeks with men who sexually abused and tortured her, the Governor of Para has acknowledged that girls were being arrested by police to "expressly to provide sexual gratification for prisoners." • A recent study has found that pregnant women who get flu shots can greatly reduce the risk of their infants getting the flu and/or respiratory illnesses for that year. • Meanwhile, a study has found that babies who slept in rooms with fans were 72% less likely to die from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. •

An investigation into Sanlu Group Co, the company responsible for the milk powder and the largest milk powder producer in China, found that the milk powder had been "tainted" with Melamine, a nitrogen-rich chemical. The chemical, normally found in plastics and fertilizers, is not meant to be consumed but is sometimes mixed in with food by companies that want their products to appear more protein-rich since food tests for protein involve nitrogen tests. Melamine-contaminated ingredients that were sourced in China for use in pet food were the cause of kidney failures and kidney stones (the same symptom that has occurred in the children who drank the Sanlu Bei Bei Infant Powder) of thousands of pets in the United States last year.

Sanlu Group is partly owned by the New Zealand dairy export company, Fonterra Co-operative Group, Ltd. The company says that it "understand[s] the the product involved is only sold in China." Although the United States has a ban on infant formula from China, U.S. officials fear that the formula could have been brought in illegally and sold in ethnic food markets, and the officials warn against anyone consuming infant formula that is manufactured in China. Chinese officials also say that the problem formula was mostly sold in poor and remote regions of China at a lower cost.

China, for one, doesn't want to to waste any time getting to the bottom of the contaminated formula and the government promises "serious punishment" for the people responsible. China has also reported the case to the World Health Organization in hopes that some transparency of the issue will help international consumers become more comfortable with the quality control in China.

China Recalls Tainted Infant Formula [CBS News]
China Blame Milk Suppliers In Baby Health Scare [Reuters]

New Zealand players perform the 'haka' after their 2008 Beijing Olympic Games first round Group C men's football match against Belgium at the Shanghai Stadium on August 13, 2008. Belgium defeated New Zealand 1-0. AFP PHOTO/LIU Jin (Photo credit should read LIU JIN/AFP/Getty Images)