Ethical Issues: Prostitution & Sex Industry

The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and t...

Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didnt apply and was shrouded in mystery...

Sex work studies have seen an expansion in publications over the past decade, drawing together disciplines from across the social sciences, namely ...

This book brings an important new perspective to the study of sex trafficking by considering the different types of social contracts which existed ...

In the last third of the eighteenth-century, Bristol and Nantes were two of the most active commercial ports of England and France, despite a slowd...

Erotic dance is one of the most contentious issues in feminist debates today and a source of fascination in media and popular cultural representati...

This book challenges many suppositions surrounding sex tourism, suggesting that elderly males who seek romance and are caught up in their fantasies...

The growing mobility of people within and into the Asia Pacific region has created environments of increasing diversity as nations become hosts to ...

It's easy to talk to these women, tell them my deepest secrets. Look where we are. What else do we have to hide? When nineteen-year-old Mia is fire...

Translation of the 1969 Marathi classic Maran Swasta Hot Aahe (Death is becoming cheap)A brothel exposes the intricate mechanisms of power and expl...

Once again, prostitution occupies a prominent position on public and political agendas, both nationally and internationally. A topic of concern and...

Governing Sex, Building the Nation explores the sexual politics of Chinese nationalism in Taiwan between 1945 and 1979, focusing on the politicisat...

First English-language book on the history of commercial sex in BelgiumIn 2022, the Belgian parliament made a landmark decision by approving the de...

The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside wa...

Meet Leela: nineteen, charismatic and fearlessly outspoken. With her sharp wit and stubborn optimism, she is the best paid bar dancer on Bombay's n...

This book traces the social history of early modern Japan's sex trade, from its beginnings in seventeenth-century cities to its apotheosis in the n...

This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, a...

Officially confined to red-light districts, brothels in British India were tolerated until the 1920s. Yet, by this time, prostitution reform campai...