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Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
by Diablo Cody  Publisher Comments Decreed by David Letterman (tongue in cheek) on CBS TV's "The Late Show" to be the pick of "Dave's Book Club 2006," Candy Girl is the story of a young writer who dared to bare it all as a stripper. At the age of twenty-four, Diablo Cody decided there had...
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Bunny Tales: Behind Closed Doors at the Playboy Mansion
by Izabella St James Publisher Comments What happens in the Mansion, doesn’t stay in the Mansion! How did I get here? I was raised a nice Catholic girl in Ontario, Canada. I am an only child whose parents lavished their attention and resources on me. I have a Bachelor of Arts degree and...
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Bare
by Elisabeth Eaves Publisher Comments This riveting, firsthand account of women in the world of stripping is written by a young feminist journalism major who took it all off in the name of research....
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Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture
by Walter Kendrick Publisher Comments Walter Kendrick traces the relatively recent concept of pornography--the word was not coined until the late 18th century--which became a public issue once the printing press gave ordinary people access to the erotica of the Greeks and Romans, the art and...
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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...
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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....
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Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America
by Lily Burana 
Publisher Comments The ultimate road trip; a daring and disarmingly honest odyssey across America with an ex-stripper who dusts off her dancing shoes for a farewell tour. Burana writes with immediacy and candor; hard-won wisdom and hard-bitten humor; a novelist's voice and...
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The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalog of Their Virtues
by Susan Griffin Review "Provocative and compelling, filled with Susan Griffin's typically wise and beautiful writing, The Book of The Courtesans rescues from near oblivian some of history's most outrageous and audacious women." --Alice Walker, author of The Color...
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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...
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Pornified (05 Edition)
by Paul Publisher Comments Once a taboo vice no one dared to mention, porn has become affordable, accessible, anonymous, and increasingly acceptable. This volume's investigation will further the discussion of how and where porn meets the public eye....
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Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work and Human Rights
by Kamala Kempadoo Publisher Comments Trafficking and prostitution are widely believed to be synonymous and to be leading international crimes. This collection argues against such sensationalism and advances carefully considered and grounded alternatives for understanding transnational...
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Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire
by Sarah Katherine Lewis
Publisher Comments Indecent is not your average I-stripped-my-way-through-college memoir. Sarah Katherine Lewis is a veteran of the sex industry who started small — doing lingerie modeling and striptease shows — but for reasons including the desire to earn more...
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Pornocopia :porn, sex, technology and desire
by Lawrence Otoole Publisher Comments In Pornocopia, Laurence O'Toole argues that the expansion of the new technologies -- video, cable, the internet -- is substantially changing the status of porn in society. As it becomes more and more current -- used by women, couples, gay men, fetishists...
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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...
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Pornified: How Pornography Is Transforming 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,...
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Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent
by David Sterry
Publisher Comments Here is a story like no other: The unforgettable chronicle of a season spent walking the razor-sharp line between painful innocence and the allure of the abyss. David Sterry was a wide-eyed son of 1970s suburbia, but within his first week looking for off-...
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Pandering
by Heidi Fleiss Synopsis Presented in the form of a scrapbook and drawing on newspaper clippings, magazine articles, personal photographs, and other documents, the former Hollywood madam traces her progress from successful businesswoman to convicted criminal....
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Working Sex: Sex Workers Write about a Changing Industry
by Annie Oakley Publisher Comments 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...
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Brothels, Bordellos, and Bad Girls: Prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930
by Jan Mackell Publisher Comments Prostitution thrived in pioneer Colorado. Mining was the principal occupation and men outnumbered women more than twenty to one. Jan MacKell provides a detailed overview of the business between 1860 and 1930, focusing her research on the mining towns of...
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Myth of Sacred Prostitution in Antiquity
by Stephanie Budin Publisher Comments In this study, Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person??'s body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence from...
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