Social Science - Prostitution & Sex Trade

Sex work was once thought to be anathema to women's liberation. Now, to some, we represent the tenacity of women's struggles under patriarchy and capitalism--that is, at least, the white, straight, cis, able-bodied sex workers who don't engage in actual sex with clients. These...

#1 New York Times Bestseller From the world's #1 bestselling author, Filthy Rich--the book that exposed Jeffrey Epstein's shocking exploits as a multi-millionaire pedophile--now with an updated Author's Note and Afterword. "Much more than a true crime book." --Town & Country Charismatic college dropout...

The history of selling sex is a hidden one--and too often its practitioners are pushed to the margins of history. This book redresses the balance, revealing the history of the sex trade through the eyes of sex workers, from medieval streets to Wild West...

Through her own gripping story of escape from human trafficking, Rebecca Bender reveals the inner workings of the underground world of modern-day slavery and helps us learn how we can be a catalyst for change where we live.Born and raised in a small Oregon...

The secret "black books" (and more) from disgraced financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.Contained in this 265-page book are two address books from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, revealing his network of associates, which included politicians, academics, celebrities, and royalty. Also included is...

A landmark abolitionist primer on migration, sex work, policing, and the "anti-trafficking industry"-and a powerful argument about who is really leading the way toward justice: migrant sex workers themselves. In this impassioned corrective to decades of misguided, carceral approaches to migration and sex work,...

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence...

One Nation Under Blackmail is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly century old relationship between both US and Israeli intelligence and the organized criminal network known as the National Crime Syndicate. This book specifically explores how that nexus between intelligence...

"The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran's Paid For fuses the memoirist's lived poignancy with the philosopher's conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone needs to know about the reality of...

At Rio de Janeiro's 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, where athletes were celebrated as symbols of national achievement, sex workers - reclaiming the term puta - mobilized their own bodily labour within neoliberal regimes of visibility and control, leaving behind embodied and...

"It's a riotous, raucous story, and Wightman is particularly adept at bringing the people around her to life . . . An often exhilarating ride."--Kirkus ReviewsHow did a debutante from LakeForest, Illinois, end up in Boston's notorious "Combat Zone" and become itsmost famous stripper?...

"It's a riotous, raucous story, and Wightman is particularly adept at bringing the people around her to life . . . An often exhilarating ride."-Kirkus ReviewsHow did a debutante from LakeForest, Illinois, end up in Boston's notorious "Combat Zone" and become itsmost famous stripper?...

A pioneering manifesto from Brazil about the centrality of sex workers to feminist struggle.As long as feminism has existed as a movement in Brazil, sex workers have taken to the streets in solidarity--despite the fact that mainstream feminist discourse positions sex work, and the...

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 be criminalized, and can the police deliver justice?In Revolting Prostitutes, sex workers Juno Mac and Molly Smith bring a fresh...

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "An intense and gripping new drama . . . the kind of new play we desperately need: well-informed and unafraid of the world's brutalities."--David Cote, Time Out New York A rain forest bar and brothel in...

An incisive, intimate diary of the life of a travesti sex worker in Brazil, with a foreword by Charlotte ShaneSo What If I'm a Puta, originally published on author Amara Moira's popular blog of the same name, consists of 44 crônicas that wryly portray...

A true-to-life impression of Storyville, the only legally established red light district in the USAt the turn of the twentieth-century, there were hundreds of red-light districts in the United States, ranging in size from a discreet "house" or two in or near small towns...

Behind Telluride's postcard beauty lies a past lit by red lanterns, whispered secrets, and women who lived boldly in the shadows. 10 Shades of Red pulls back the curtain on the town's forgotten red-light district and the women who shaped it-women remembered as much...

This is the true story of the world of human trafficking in Canada. For years many people refused to believe that human trafficking was happening here in innocent, safe Canada to our very own Canadian girls. But they were wrong! It is estimated that...

"The best book about Sin City ever written . . . [Dunne's] grotesqueries aren't drug-induced, they're very real. His is the genuine Vegas." (Esquire)"In the summer of my nervous breakdown, I went to live in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada." So begins John Gregory...