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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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Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance, and Redefinition by Kamala Kempadoo Publisher Comments Presents the personal experiences of sex workers in Asia, Australia, the Americas, the Caribbean, West Africa and Western Europe. In exploring the individual narratives of people involved in the sex trade around the world, this book seeks to undermine... (read more) List Price $61.95 Your price: $21.00 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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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) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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Whores and Other Feminists by Jill Nagle Publisher Comments Each contributor ellucidates a particular intersection, or series of intersections, of feminist theory and sex work practice: a butch lesbian offers herself for hire by femmes; after years of studying the holy whore archetype, a forty-two year old woman... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Love for Sale: A World History of Prostitution by Nils Johan Ringdal Publisher Comments The exchange of sex for money is often cited as the first profession, and it is certainly the most controversial — from Eve and Lilith to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been a lightning rod for changing notions of love, sexual... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion by Izabella St James Publisher Comments When this beach bunny caught the eye of Hugh Hefner at an L.A. nightclub, Izabella St. James was looking for a fun break from studying for the bar. As the latest Girlfriend of the Playboy founder, her “break” lasted two years, but life behind... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slave Hunter: One Man's Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking by Aaron Cohen Publisher Comments From living the rock star life to wading through the world's war zones, refugee camps, and brothels, Aaron Cohen left behind his closest friends, his dying father, and his partnership with a legendary musician to take on treacherous rescue missions in... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Invisible Trade by Gerrie Lim Publisher Comments Welcome to the very real, largely hidden, and often surreal world of high-class sex for sale in Singapore, where the sexual desires of this tiny island run the gamut from simple missionary zeal to the cracking of the whip. Never before have outsiders... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Porn: A Woman's Guide by Erika Lust Synopsis Porn. Do you think of it as a dirty word, a taboo topic, something you associate with cheesy films with bad plots? Filmmaker and author Erika Lust is here to change all that. With the goal of making porn more accessible to women, Good Porn examines the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women by Alexa Albert Publisher Comments In this fascinating study of Nevada's infamous Mustang Ranch, Albert puts a human face on the women who work in America's largest brothel. "Brothel" is a candid and powerful work that examines the realities behind prostitution and tells the stories of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Slave Hunter: One Man's Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking by Aaron Cohen Publisher Comments The author, a former rock star turned anti-slavery activist, exposes the horrors of modern-day slavery as he travels the world in an attempt to free victims from human trafficking.... (read more) Your price: $16.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex by David Henry Sterry Synopsis The only thing the writers in this book have in common is that they've exchanged sex for money. They're PhDs and dropouts, soccer moms and jailbirds, $2,500-a-night call girls and $10 crack hos, and everything in between. This anthology lends a voice to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 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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The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here by Carmine Sarracino Publisher Comments Sarracino and Scott argue that we no longer have to purchase pornography to get porn because we increasingly live porn in our daily lives. Resolutely pro-sex, they contend that, to make the most of our hard-won sexual freedom, we must thoughtfully-and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody Publisher Comments Full of insight and wit, Candy Girl is the seductive memoir of a young woman who dared to bare it all as a stripper Diablo Cody was twenty-four years old when she decided there had to be more to life than typing copy at an ad agency. On a whim, she... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Brothel by Alexa Albert Publisher Comments When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study as the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result. Having worked with... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Stripper's Tail: Confessions of a Las Vegas Stripper by Diamond Publisher Comments For more than eight years, I lived and worked in the dark underworld of Las Vegas as an exotic dancer. Some things are worth repeating--others you try to forget. Unfortunately, you never forget. I decided it was time that somebody told the truth about... (read more) List Price $15.25 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Porn: A Woman's Guide by Erika Lust Publisher Comments Porn — for so many women it is a dirty word, a taboo topic. Even with the prevalence of porn in the world today, so many women are still afraid of it — unsure of what exactly porn is, what constitutes "good" porn, and why it should matter to them... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $15.93 Adobe Digital Editions - Electronic
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