Working sex : sex workers write about a changing industry / edited by Annie Oakley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Oakley, Annie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prostitutes--Biography.

Prostitutes.

Prostitutes--Social conditions.

Prostitution--History--21st century.

Prostitution.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Emeryville, CA : Seal Press ; [Berkeley, CA] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Being a sex worker isn't something to write home about for most women (and men) in the 12 billion-a-year sex industry.Prostitutes, strippers, and adult film stars put themselves, and what they do for a living, out on the street, stage, and TV screen every day, but they often keep their working lives hidden from friends, family, and other employers. They do this because sex work is widely considered illegal, unhealthy, and immoral.Edited by Annie Oakley, Working Sex, New Voices from a Changing Industry features stories and contributions from sex workers-strippers, p

Contents:

contents; introduction; the fisherman; porn piece; smile, you've just been dominatrixed; trick; yeoman johnson; the ballad of burt starr; devices: a short play; staged; sugar & me; pimp; bella; college graduate makes good as courtesan; campus sluts forever!; an interview with gloria lockett; boys stink; meeting rita; the night that plays like ping-pong in my head; degrade; jimmy; golden; advice; my first porn film; dear john; hello; anacam; my stripper year; songs; house call; my pride and broken buzzers; whoreanomics; acknowledgments; about the contributors; about the editor

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-00796-7

9786613007964

0-7867-5087-1

OCLC:

726734678