Sex for sale : prostitution, pornography, and the sex industry / edited by Ronald Weitzer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Weitzer, Ronald John, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitution.

Pornography.

Sex industry.

Physical Description:

vi, 310 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2000.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 Why We Need More Research on Sex Work / Ronald Weitzer 1

Part I Perspectives of Sex Workers and Customers

2 Motivations for Pursuing an Acting Career in Pornography / Sharon A. Abbott 17

3 Smart Girls Who Like Sex: Telephone Sex Workers / Grant Jewell Rich, Kathleen Guidroz 35

4 Gay Male Video Pornography: Past, Present, and Future / Joe A. Thomas 49

5 Why Men Seek out Prostitutes / Martin A. Monto 67

6 Clients and Call Girls: Seeking Sex and Intimacy / Janet Lever, Deanne Dolnick 85

Part II Victimization, Risk Behavior, and Support Services

7 Drug Use, HIV, and the Ecology of Street Prostitution / Judith Porter, Louis Bonilla 103

8 Victimization and the Social Organization of Prostitution in England and Spain / Maggie O'Neill, Rosemary Barberet 123

9 From Victims to Survivors: Working with Recovering Street Prostitutes / Nanette J. Davis 139

Part III Politics, Policing, and the Sex Industry

10 The Politics of Prostitution in America / Ronald Weitzer 159

11 Power and Control in the Commercial Sex Trade / Wendy Chapkis 181

12 Controlling Lap Dancing: Law, Morality, and Sex Work / Jacqueline Lewis 203

13 Inside Nevada's Brothel Industry / Kathryn Hausbeck, Barbara G. Brents 217

14 Police and Prostitution: Vice Squads in Britain / Catherine Benson, Roger Matthews 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415922941

OCLC:

41131821