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...

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...

As dangerous as if she stood on the corner of the street exploding gunpowder. This was the view of Miles, a correspondent in the _Bedfordshire Mer...

Carpeted in boreal forests, dotted with lakes, cut by rivers, and straddling the Arctic Circle, the region surrounding the White Sea, which is know...

An intimate and original look at the lives of Nevadas legal sex workers through the voices of current and former employees, brothel owners, madams,...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book offers a theory of trafficking and modern slavery with implications for polic...

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

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

Prostitution bears the unique title of being both the world's oldest profession and one of the least understood occupations. Unlike most of the cri...

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

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

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...