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Additional authors

1. Weitzer, Ronald John, 1952-

Description

1. vi, 310 p. : map; 24 cm.

Summary

1. "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. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

1. Prostitution
2. Pornography
3. Sex industry
4. Sex Work
5. Erotica
6. Sex-oriented businesses

Contents

1. Why we need more research on sex work / Ronald Weitzer -- Motivations for pursuing an acting career in pornography / Sharon A. Abbott -- Smart girls who like sex: telephone sex workers / Grant Jewell Rich and Kathleen Guidroz -- Gay male video pornography: past, present, and future / Joe A. Thomas -- Why men seek out prostitutes / Martin A. Monto -- Clients and call girls: seeking sex and intimacy / Janet Lever and Deanne Dolnick -- Drug use, HIV, and the ecology of street prostitution / Judith Porter and Louis Bonilla -- Victimization and the social organization of prostitution in England and Spain / Maggie O'Neill and Rosemary Barberet -- From victims to survivors: working with recovering street prostitutes / Nanete J. Davis -- The politics of prostitution in America / Ronald Weitzer -- Power and control in the commercial sex trade / Wendy Chapkis -- Controlling lap dancing: law morality, and sex work / Jacqueline Lewis -- Inside Nevada's brothel industry / Kathryn Hausbeck and Barbara G. Brents -- Police and prostitution: vice squads in Britain / Catherine Benson and Roger Matthews.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-300) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain