In Arizona last week, Maricopa County officials
announced the arrest and indictment of 18 individuals in connection with a house of prostitution operating in two locations under the guise of a religious organization. Male and female "practitioners" were charged with performing sexual acts in exchange for monetary "donations" at the Phoenix Goddess Temple in Phoenix and Sedona. They claimed to be providing "Neo Tantric" healing therapies. Saturday's
International Business Times reports further on the arrests.