Ethical Issues: Prostitution & Sex Industry

While street prostitutes comprise only a small minority of sex workers, they have the highest rates of physical and sexual abuse, arrest and incarc...

In this book, eighteen Chinese women tell how they came to sell sex in Hong Kong, Macau, Taipei, Bangkok, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Los Ang...

Based on ethnographic work with Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee in Sonagachi, the iconic red-light district in Kolkata, Prophylactic Rights exami...

This new collection explores for the first time male sex work from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines. It aims to help enrich the ways in...

While sex work has long been controversial, it has become even more contested over the past decade as laws, policies, and enforcement practices hav...

'If you read the papers, you'd think that the only girls to get hooked are from dysfunctional families. But what happened to me could happen to any...

Mara L. Keire's history of red-light districts in the United States offers readers a fascinating survey of the business of pleasure from the 1890s ...

Despite being dubbed the worlds oldest profession, prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it is often crimina...

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

This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work. It explores how the ...

This book provides an international, multi-disciplinary empirical account of pole classes and how they fit into wider discourses about bodies and g...

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...

How people move from deviant to conventional lifestyles is an issue that has attracted considerable interest over the past few years. However, much...

How people move from deviant to conventional lifestyles is an issue that has attracted considerable interest over the past few years. However, much...

The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way anxieties over globali...

This book focuses on human trafficking in Europe for labour and sexual exploitation. It includes empirical work on trafficking throughout Europe, i...

Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali introduces the reader to the stories of young male sex workers in South Bali. The...

Using a wide range of prosecution and trial records, along with more recent newspaper coverage of court proceedings, this book furnishes a fascinat...

Mónica waits in the Anti-Venereal Medical Service of the Zona Galactica, the legal, state-run brothel where she works in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico. ...

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

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

Despite being dubbed the worlds oldest profession, prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it is often crimina...

In 2013, the Supreme Court ruled in Canada v. Bedford that key prostitution laws were unconstitutional. The decision provoked wide interest but lit...

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

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

The past fifty years are conventionally understood to have witnessed an uninterrupted expansion of sexual rights and liberties in the United States...

The expectation used to be that men would be masculine and women would be feminine, and this was assumed to come naturally to them in virtue of the...

Bringing together conceptual, practice, and advocacy knowledge, Ending Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery: Freedoms Journey explores the comp...