Ethical Issues: Prostitution & Sex Industry

How the law harms sex workers - and what they want insteadDo you have to endorse prostitution in order to support sex worker rights? Should clients...

Colonial documents and works of literature from early modern Spain are rife with references to public women, whores, and prostitutes. In Profit and...

In the early twentieth century, abolitionists sought to stamp out sex work by penalizing all involved. In the generation that followed, neo-aboliti...

The discourse surrounding prostitution is increasingly one of sexual commerce, transaction and commercial exchange. The sex economy and the consume...

During the early twentieth century, a diverse group of African American women carved out unique niches for themselves within New York City's expans...

This book examines the intersection and interplay between Progressive-Era rhetoric regarding commercialized vice and the realities of prostitution ...

Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service worker...

In 1998, Sweden was the first country in the world to criminalise the purchase of sexual services, but not the sale of sex. The law represented a n...

In 1998, Sweden was the first country in the world to criminalise the purchase of sexual services, but not the sale of sex. The law represented a n...

This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular c...

Throughout the world, vulnerable people are being deceived into entering abusive journeys. Whether in the organ trade, exploitative labour business...

This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and or...

Explores encounters between those who make their living by engaging in street-based prostitution and the criminal justice and social service worker...

In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literary and historical sources to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through t...

In the early 20th century Cairo was a vibrant and booming global metropolis. The integration of Egypt into the global market had led to rapid urban...

For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tour...

Winner of the MLA's 2016 Alan Bray Prize for Best Book in GLBTQ Studies How BDSM can be used as a metaphor for black female sexuality. The Color o...

Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieval prostitutes believed...

From Cuba with Love deals with love, sexuality, and politics in contemporary Cuba. In this beautiful narrative, Megan Daigle explores the role of w...

Storyville was the infamous red-light district of New Orleans. It was a world where normative social values didn’t apply and was shrouded in myster...