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Some Girls: My Life in a Harem by Jillian Lauren Publisher Comments Read Jillian Lauren's posts on the Penguin Blog. A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Legalizing Prostitution: From Illicit Vice to Lawful Business by Ronald Weitzer Publisher Comments When most people think of prisons, they imagine chaos, violence, and fundamentally, an atmosphere of overwhelming brute masculinity. But real prisons rarely fit the “Big House” stereotype of popular film and literature. One fifth of all... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover
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Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, & Culture) by Don Kulick Publisher Comments In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, often beginning at ages as young as... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity by Robert Jensen Publisher Comments In our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Affair of the Mind by Laurie Hall Publisher Comments Laurie Hall's story reveals pornography's subversive side and offers comfort, encouragement, insight, and a plan of action to women whose husbands are addicted.... (read more) List Price $10.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot by Scarlot Harlot Publisher Comments A declared feminist activist, Carol Leigh refers to herself as a life artist, an "autobiographical journalist ... using myself and my life as an example, employing the image of whore in order to reclaim female sexual symbolism." Scarlot Harlot, Leigh's... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $3.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Magic Gardens: The Memoirs of Viva Las Vegas by Viva Las Vegas Publisher Comments A Midwest preacher's daughter with a fabulous academic pedigree, Viva could have chosen any career, but chose to become a naked girl. This personalized tour of her milieu offers a unique perspective on a thriving industry that is largely condemned or... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Pornified: How Pornography Is Damaging Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families by Pamela Paul Publisher Comments “Strips porn of its culture-war claptrap . . . Pornified may stand as a Kinsey Report for our time.”—San Francisco Chronicle Porn in America is everywhere—not just in cybersex and Playboy but in popular video games, advice columns... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz Publisher Comments In 1916, at age fifteen, Norma Wallace arrived in New Orleans. Sexy and shrewd, she quickly went from streetwalker to madam and by 1920 had opened what became a legendary house of prostitution. There she entertained a steady stream of governors... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Neon Wasteland: on Love, Motherhood, and Sex Work in a Rust Belt Town (11 Edition) by Susan Dewey Publisher Comments This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sex Trafficking : Inside Business of Modern Slavery (08 Edition) by Kara Siddharth Publisher Comments Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret Life by Melissa Febos Publisher Comments A dark, wild, powerful memoir about a young womans transformation from college student to professional dominatrix While a college student at The New School, Melissa Febos spent four years working as a dominatrix in a midtown dungeon. In poetic, nuanced... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir by Rachel Lloyd Publisher Comments During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself to helping... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Ninetenth-Century New York by Patricia Cline Cohen Publisher Comments In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gospel According To Viva Las Vegas by Viva Las Vegas Publisher Comments Celebrated as a “Diva of the Demimonde [who writes] a love song to life on the shady side” (Katherine Dunn, Geek Love), Viva Las Vegas, the award-winning author of Magic Gardens and “The Last Days of My Left Breast,” returns with a collection of... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Porn Com Making Sense of Online Pornography by Feona Attwood Book News Annotation In this contribution to the emerging field of online porn studies, Attwood (media and communications studies, Sheffield Hallam U., UK) situates the Internet's place in debates over the relationship between sex, freedom of expression, and technology... (read more) Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bare: On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power by Elisabeth Eaves Publisher Comments It began when she was a teenager with an awareness of her body and the reaction other people had to it. It continued with the realization that women’s bodies often gave them a strange power over men. As an adult, it became a fascination with... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Perversion for Profit: The Politics of Pornography and the Rise of the New Right by Whitney Strub Publisher Comments While America is not alone in its ambivalence toward sex and its depictions, the preferences of the nation swing sharply between toleration and censure. This pattern has grown even more pronounced since the 1960s, with the emergence of the New Right and... (read more) Your price: $32.50 New - Hardcover
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Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor by Wendy Chapkis Publisher Comments Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands, Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unseemly Man by Larry Flynt Publisher Comments This century's most ardent advocate of the First Amendment, controversial and outspoken, hated and adored, the infamous Larry Flynt's life needs no exaggeration to make it one of the most interesting stories of our time. The real events of Flynt's life... (read more) Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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