Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry

Book Overview

This groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications. Sex for Sale covers areas not commonly researched, including gay and lesbian pornography, telephone sex workers, customers of prostitutes, male and female escorts who work independently, street prostitution, sex tourism, legal prostitution, and strip clubs that cater to women.

Sex for Sale also tracks various trends during the past decade, including the mainstreaming and growing acceptance of some types of sexual commerce and the growing criminalization of other types, such as sex trafficking. Sex for Sale offers a window into the lived experiences of sex workers as well as an analysis of the larger gender arrangements and political structures that shape the experiences of workers and their clients.

This book contributes greatly to a growing research literature that documents the rich variation, nuances, and complexities in the exchange of sexual services, performances, and products. This book will change the way we understand sex work.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041599604X
• ISBN13: 9780415996044
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Nice selection

Weitzer's collection spans a wide range of issues from the need to do more research in this area, to legal debates, to international support services. Contributors include Wendy Chapkis and Jacqueline Lewis. Weitzer is careful to include a variety of perspectives concerning sex work, from those who celebrate paid sexuality to those who believe receiving money is recognition of being someone else's property. He also has a nice list of recommended readings, although it's only two pages.