'This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years ago in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...' In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars, Nick Davies noticed two boys, no more than twelve years old, oddly detached from the fun of the scene. Davies discovered they were part of a network of children selling themselves on the streets of the city, running a nightly gauntlet of dangers: pimps, punters, the Vice Squad, disease, drugs. This propelled Davies in...
'I was made in Coffee Bay. Right there on the beach, in the sand.' From the opening lines, we are drawn in and engrossed by this startling memoir of a singular childhood. Suzan is adopted as a newborn in the late 1960s into a seemingly loving and welcoming family living in Pietermaritzburg. But Suzan is set on a collision course with, most particularly, her adoptive mother, and society, from her very beginning. Suzan's relationship with her mother is fraught with drama, which veers over into a l...
A Steampunk's Guide to Sex (Steampunk's Guides, #2)
by Professor Calamity, Alan Moore, Margaret Killjoy, Miriam Roč Ek, and Luna Celeste
A true story of how one woman went from mother to escort, escort to madam. Dawn Annandale tells all in this shocking and yet poignant memoir of her life on and off the game. 'Call Me Madam' continues Dawn Annandale's fascinating journey from wife and mother to high class call girl and then proprietor of her own escort agency. After the breakdown of her marriage which left her with six children and a mountain of debts, Dawn Annandale took the only route she believed she had left and became an e...
‘As educational as it is enlightening … Read this’ SARA PASCOE‘Passionately argued, meticulously researched and angry as hell ... leads the reader beyond the strip club and on to the battlefield where sex workers fight for their rights’ KATE LISTER‘Deeply impressive ... An important book, sorely needed’ CAROL LEIGH'An unflinching takedown of inadequate working conditions … A must read’ JUNO MAC, co-author of Revolting Prostitutes Forget everything you think you know about strippers In this pow...
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Action of 2011
by Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Phobic and the Erotic – The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India
by Subhabrata Bhattacharyya
A flamboyantly eclectic anthology that explodes the myths about the lines which divide us - the heterosexual from the homosexual, the normative from the 'alternative', the phobic from the obsessive, the moral from the titillating, the academic from the activist. "The Phobic and the Erotic" brings together a stunning array of serious, committed writing about what is both most visible and most hidden in our lives: our sexualities. While our social and cultural lives are determined by a fairly univ...
A generation ago, most people did not know how ubiquitous and grave human trafficking was. Now most people agree that the $35.7 billion business is an appalling violation of human rights. But when confronted with prostitution, many people experience an odd disconnect because prostitution is shrouded in myths, among them the claims that "prostitution is inevitable," "men need the sex of prostitution," and "prostitution is a job or service like any other." In Not a Choice, Not a Job, Janice Raymon...
Written by Bernie Weisz Feb. 16th, 2010 Pembroke Pines, Florida e mail:[email protected] Sex, money, and more sex. And there's plenty of it in Dolores French's 1988 book entitled "Working:My Life As A Prostitute". French made no apologies within the 384 pages of this book whereupon she parlayed her high libido into big bucks in the U.S.,the Caribbean and Europe. French wrote that in 1955 when as a little girl she was watching the TV show "I Love Lucy" with her mother in Louisville, Kentucky, the...
The White Slave Hell or with Christ at Midnight in the Slums of Chicago
by Rev F M Lehman
Social Construction of Sex Work – Ethnography of Escort Agencies in Poland
by Izabela Slezak
This book presents an analysis of the social organization of escort agencies in Poland. Izabela Ślęzak focuses on the actions of female sex workers, who are seen as active participants co-creating their working conditions. She analyzes the interactions between sex workers and their clients. Furthermore, she discusses the relationships between employees of the premises, namely the women providing sex services, the managers of the agencies, and security workers. The conclusions of the publication...
Emerging from an almost normal suburban family of British emigres, before descending into the life of a teenage prostitute in Hollywood, this is David Sterry's unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp edge between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. Arriving in town to attend college, but desperate for money, Sterry was introduced to a pimp who established him as a male prostitute serving wealthy older women (and occasionally men). Juxtaposed against bitter a...
Making it Work (Social problems & social issues) (Social Problems & Social Issues S.)
by Valerie Jenness
As its double-edged title suggests, Making It Work examines the oldest profession as just that: a service industry with professional sex workers. This reframing of prostitution is done by chronicling the evolution of COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), the leading organization of the contemporary prostitutes' rights movement. Founded in the early 1970s, a period of intense and far-reaching change in American sexual mores, COYOTE sought from the beginning to claim ownership of the problem of...
This book will look at the phenomenon of celebrity hookers in the eighteenth century -all of them the subject of extraordinary press scrutiny and comment. They were the fashion icons of the age, and what they wore was copied and put on sale in the high street within days. Many of them were passed around within the same small circle of aristocratic lovers. They were the object of constant gossip and whether they were flaunting their fame by taking a box at the opera for the entire season, or by...