Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry FROM THE PUBLISHER
Sex, Money, Power, Danger--all are in a day's business for many sex workers. Sex for Sale provides a window into the world of sex workers, their customers, and the growing sex industry.
A Major Contribution to our understanding of the sex industry, Sex for Sale is a collection of original essays on sex work, its risks, and its political implications. Covering areas not commonly researched, the book includes studies on telephone sex workers, gay pornography, Nevada's brothel industry, police vice squads, call girls, actors in pornographic films, prostitutes' customers, lap dancing in strip clubs, and the risks of street prostitution. The book includes discussions of violence, HIV infection, and drug addiction, as well as commercialization and alternatives to criminalization such as legalization. A unique addition to the burgeoning scholarship on sex work, Sex for Sale examines all sides of the sex industry and will change the way we understand sex work.
SYNOPSIS
Money, sex, danger and power--it's all in a day's work for the typical sex
worker. Sex for Sale provides a window into the world of sex workers,
their customers, and the growing sex industry--in America and abroad.
A major contribution to our understanding of the sex industry, Sex for
Sale is a collection of original essays on sex work, its risks, and its
political implications. Covering areas not commonly researched, the book
includes studies on telephone sex workers, gay pornography, Nevada's legal
brothels, prostitutes' customers, police vice squads, actors in the porn
industry, lap dancing in strip clubs, and street prostitution. It
includes discussion of violence, HIV infection, and drug addiction, as
well as legalization, commercialization and criminalization. A unique
addition to the literature, Sex for Sale examines all sides of the sex
industry--both positive and negative--and will change the way we
understand the sex industry.
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