Section: Sex Work and Sex Industry

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$pread: The Best of the Magazine That Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution

Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, and Audacia Ray

$pread: The Best of the Magazine That Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution

Rachel Aimee, Eliyanna Kaiser, and Audacia Ray

A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography

Mireille Miller-Young

A Whore's Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers

Kay Kassirer

After Pornified: How Women are Transforming Pornography & why it Really Matters

Anne G. Sabo

An Agency of Their Own: Sex Worker Union Organizing

Gregory Gall

Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping (Live Girls)

Elisabeth Eaves

Challenging Perspectives on Street-Based Sex Work

Katie Hail-Jares, Corey S. Shdaimah, and Chrysanthi S. Leon

Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Intimate Essays

Jiz Lee

Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

Kimberly Kay Hoang

Defending Pornography

NADINE STROSSEN

Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work

Melissa Hope Ditmore (Author)

Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-century Paris

Nina Kushner

Flesh for Fantasy: Producing and Consuming Exotic Dance

R. Danielle Egan, Katherine Frank, and Merri Lisa Johnson

Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and The Law

Alison Bass

Give It To Me

Ana Castillo

Healing Labor: Japanese Sex Work in the Gendered Economy

Gabriele Koch

Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex

David Henry Sterry and R. J. Martin Jr.

How to Do Things With Pornography

Nancy Bauer

Hustling Verse

Amber Dawn and Justin Ducharme

I Was a Teenage Dominatrix: A Memoir

Shawna Kenney

Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire

Sarah Katherine Lewis

Invisible: Britain's Migrant Sex Workers

Hsiao-Hung Pai

Legalizing Sex: Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India

Chaitanya Lakkimsetti

Levitate the Primate

Michael Thomsen

Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel

Patty Kelly

Melody: Story of a Nude Dancer

Sylvie Rancourt

Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads, and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration

Audacia Ray

Neon Wasteland: On Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town

Susan Dewey

New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law

Lynn Comella and Shira Tarrant

Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work

Melissa Gira Grant

Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism

Heather Berg

Pornography Feminism: As Powerful as She Wants to Be

Rich Moreland

Prose and Lore: Issue 3: Memoir Stories about Sex Work

Audacia Ray

Prostitution and Sex Work

Melissa Hope Ditmore (Author)

Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex

Juana María Rodriguez

Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture

Carol Queen

Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights

Molly Smith and Juno Mac

Searching for Annabel Chong: Demystifying the Legend of Singapore's Most Famous Pornstar!

Gerrie Lim

Selling Sex Overseas: Chinese Women and the Realities of Prostitution and Global Sex Trafficking

Ko-lin Chin and James O. Finckenauer

Sex and Stigma: Stories of Everyday Life in Nevada’s Legal Brothels

Sarah Jane Blithe, Anna Wiederhold Wolfe, and Breanna Mohr

Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power and Intimacy in the Sex Industry

Melissa Hope Ditmore (Editor), Antonia Levy (Editor), and Alys Willman (Editor)

Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision

Samantha Majic

Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry

Frederique Delacoste

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk

Melinda Chateauvert

Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers

Bernadette C. Barton

Stripped: More Stories from Exotic Dancers, Completely Revised and Updated Edition

Bernadette Barton

Tales from the Clit : A Female Experience of Pornography

Cherie Matrix

The Chelsea Whistle

Michelle Tea

The DIY Porn Handbook: A How-To Guide to Documenting Our Own Sexual Revolution

Madison Young

The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure

Tristan Taormino, Constance Penley, Celine Parrenas Shimizu, and Mireille Miller-Young

The Little Black Book of Grisélidis Réal: Days and Nights of an Anarchist Whore (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

Jean-Luc Hennig, Ariana Reines, and Grisélidis Réal

The Unsexpected Story

Darren Roberts

The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels and the Business of AIDS

Elizabeth Pisani

To Live Freely in This World: Sex Worker Activism in Africa

Chi Mgbako

Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes

Don Kulick

Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Truth, Justice, and the American Whore

Siouxsie Q

Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot

Scarlot Harlot and Carol Leigh

Watching Porn: And Other Confessions from an Adult Entertainment Journalist

Lynsey G.

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival: Essays on Sex Work and Survival

Natalie West (Editor) and Tina Horn (Editor)

Whorephobia

Lizzie Borden

Women of the Street: How the Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance Fails Women in Prostitution

Susan Dewey and Tonia St. Germain

Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex

Matilda Bickers (Editor), Tansy Breshears (Editor), and Janis Luna (Editor)

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