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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Ethical issues & debates > Prostitution
The story of Magdalena, raised in a Costa Rican slum by an
alcoholic mother and pedophile stepfather. Runaway at 12, married
at 13, mother at 14 and divorced prostitute at 15. A story of
poverty, drugs, sex, violence and survival as told by Magdalena.
The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research
methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in
prostitution and the people and institutions that process them.
They look at the production of knowledge about prostitution and
trafficking by institutional stakeholders, and how legal responses
to prostitution and trafficking are affected by class, race,
ethnicity, and migration. Drawing on data derived from innovative
research methods including auto-ethnography, re-calculation of
historical data, and participatory methods, the authors challenge
us to re-examine the pro-sex/abolitionist divide, the historical
theories of prostitution and ethical concerns around research with
people engaged in prostitution. Instead our authors offer new
configurations of sex, gender, and prostitution to better inform
future scholarship, policy, and programming.
This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex
work in the United States and globally. Bringing together
perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it
is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in
the transgender community and in the lives of trans sex workers,
including mental health, substance use, relationship dynamics,
encounters with the criminal justice system, and opportunities and
challenges in the realm of public health. The volume covers trans
sex workers' interactions with health, social service, and
mental-health agencies, featuring more than forty contributors from
across the globe. Synthesizing introductions by the editor help
organize and put into context a vast and scattered research and
empirical literature. The book is essential for researchers, health
practitioners, and policy analysts in the areas of sex-work
research, HIV/AIDS, and LGBTQ/gender studies.
Amaya is a young Filipino immigrant who has been an exotic dancer
in Honolulu, Hawaii before she was even 21. This novel is a
semi-biographical examination of Amaya's life in the rural
Philippines, her early teenage years in Hawaii and her life as an
exotic dancer. She is unapologetic about her profession of getting
naked nightly for an endless parade of customers and her
descriptions of life inside a strip club, her fellow dancers, and
the customers they perform for are sometimes crude and cynical, but
they're also laced with humor, many times black humor. Amaya is
direct and honest about her reasons to become an exotic dancer, and
benefits and the dark side of the profession, and about her
attempts to get out of the life. Hopefully, this novel will provide
the reader a better understanding of the women caught in this
career either by choice or happenstance and paints them in a shade
of normalcy that is not found anywhere else. The language is many
times rough and offensive, but it is the world Amaya lives in.
Sex trafficking is a state crime. Nevertheless, it is also a
federal crime when it involves conducting the activities of a sex
trafficking enterprise in a way that affects interstate or foreign
commerce or that involves travel in interstate or foreign commerce.
Section 1591 of Title 18 of the United States Code outlaws the
activities of sex trafficking enterprise that affects interstate or
foreign commerce, including patronising such an enterprise. The
Mann Act outlaws sex trafficking activities that involve travel in
interstate or foreign commerce. This book provides an overview of
sex trafficking. It focuses on the sex trafficking of children in
the United States and reviews the Preventing Sex Trafficking and
Strengthening Families Act.
The story of sex tourism in the Gringo Gulch neighborhood of San
Jose, Costa Rica could be easily cast as the exploitation of poor
local women by privileged North American men men who are in a
position to take advantage of the vast geopolitical inequalities
that make Latin American women into suppliers of low-cost sexual
labor. But in Gringo Gulch, Megan Rivers-Moore tells a more nuanced
story, demonstrating that all the actors intimately entangled in
the sex tourism industry sex workers, sex tourists, and the state
use it as a strategy for getting ahead. Rivers-Moore situates her
ethnography at the intersections of gender, race, class, and
national dimensions in the sex industry. Instead of casting sex
workers as hapless victims and sex tourists as neoimperialist
racists, she reveals each group as involved in a complicated
process of class mobility that must be situated within the sale and
purchase of leisure and sex. These interactions operate within an
almost entirely unregulated but highly competitive market beyond
the reach of the state bringing a distinctly neoliberal cast to the
market. Throughout the book, Rivers-Moore introduces us to
remarkable characters Susan, a mother of two who doesn't regret her
career of sex work; Barry, a teacher and father of two from
Virginia who travels to Costa Rica to escape his loveless, sexless
marriage; Nancy, a legal assistant in the Department of Labor who
is shocked to find out that prostitution is legal and still
unregulated. Gringo Gulch is a fascinating and groundbreaking look
at sex tourism, Latin America, and the neoliberal state.
Masculine Identities and Male Sex Work Between East Java and Bali
introduces the reader to the stories of young male sex workers in
South Bali. These are accounts of gang warfare, bodies, and
violence which speak to the dreams, aspirations, and failures of a
generation of young men in contemporary Indonesia.
The Cultural Politics of European Prostitution Reform traces case
studies of four European Union countries to reveal the way
anxieties over globalization translates into policies to recognize
sex workers in some countries, punish prostitutes' clients in
others, and protect victims of human trafficking in them all.
This book examines how feminist movements have contested the
dominant discourses and state politics that have impeded women's
autonomy over their bodies since the late 1960s. It deals with two
important facets of this struggle, prostitution and the right to
abortion, as they relate to the Czech Republic, the Netherlands,
Portugal and Sweden.
This book identifies risk and protective factors influencing routes
into, through and out of sexual exploitation and sex work. It
explores how the sense made of key childhood and adult experiences
influences the ability to manage roles and identities and choices
they feel empowered or forced to make.
"Sex Work Matters" brings sex workers, scholars and activists
together to present pioneering essays on the economics and
sociology of sex work. From insights by sex workers on how they
handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by
police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this
fascinating and original book offers theoretical discussions as
well empirical case studies, providing new ways to link theory with
lived experiences. The result is a vital new contribution to
sex-worker rights. The book will equip any reader with new
theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry,
challenging readers to explore the topic of sex work in new ways,
especially its cultural, economic and political dimensions.
The story is unthinkable: 121 people, sold into human slavery, were
being transported in a small container from Burma into Thailand.
Even though they were suffocating and calling the driver for help,
their pleas were ignored and the people locked in the container
truck were deprived of oxygen. After their frantic pounding caused
the truck to swerve, the driver, afraid of being caught by the
police, abandoned the group. When the truck was finally discovered,
54 of the 121 people were dead. The real story doesn't end with the
horror of that day; it continues on with corruption, cover-ups and
a nation ignoring that human trafficking exists in their country.
This book gives a shocking look into the world of human
trafficking.
Exiting Prostitution provides a critical re-examination of the
growing body of literature on exiting and desistance. Moving beyond
accounts which are mainly centred on men desisting from crime, this
book focuses on female desistance, particularly in relation to
prostitution and the exiting process.With interviews from over one
hundred women involved in prostitution, the authors uniquely
examine the exiting process considering not only the barriers and
obstacles that women face when trying to leave prostitution, but
also their individual strengths, capacities and aspirations. In
this way, this book aims to present an approach that is more
positive and progressive. It also provides a guide to best practice
through an examination of the types of support that are currently
available to those women involved in both on-street and off-street
prostitution, and develops an outline model of support.Written by a
highly experienced team of experts in the field, this book provides
useful guidelines for practitioners and policymakers on types of
intervention and ways in which to further develop exiting
programmes.
Exiting Prostitution provides a critical re-examination of the
growing body of literature on exiting and desistance. Moving beyond
accounts which are mainly centred on men desisting from crime, this
book focuses on female desistance, particularly in relation to
prostitution and the exiting process.With interviews from over one
hundred women involved in prostitution, the authors uniquely
examine the exiting process considering not only the barriers and
obstacles that women face when trying to leave prostitution, but
also their individual strengths, capacities and aspirations. In
this way, this book aims to present an approach that is more
positive and progressive. It also provides a guide to best practice
through an examination of the types of support that are currently
available to those women involved in both on-street and off-street
prostitution, and develops an outline model of support.Written by a
highly experienced team of experts in the field, this book provides
useful guidelines for practitioners and policymakers on types of
intervention and ways in which to further develop exiting
programmes.
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