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Organized sex in Japan has always been big business, and nowhere was it more politely offered than in the Yoshiwara Yukwaku (red light district) of Tokyo. The appeal of the Yoshiwara was its women, all the surroundings being a frame for display of their charms. The Nightless City provides us with a fascinating picture of a "floating world" that was as transient as a butterfly. Today its teahouses, establishments of assignation, geisha, courtesans,...
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Miss Bangkok is a vivid, powerful and moving memoir of a life spent in prostitution in Thailand. Poor and uneducated, Bua Boonmee escaped an abusive marriage only to end up in the go-go bars of Patpong. There, in the notorious red-light district of Bangkok, she succumbed to prostitution in an effort to support her family. Bua's story is one of resilience and courage in the face of abuse and poverty. Her confessions will make you laugh and cry, cringe...
43) Body Shell Girl
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“Body Shell Girl” is a memoir in verse about the first two years of a decade that Rose Hunter spent in the sex industry in Canada. When Rose walked into a massage parlour in Toronto in 1997, she was looking for a temporary fix to pay rent and avoid having to go back to her home country of Australia.
Awkward, shy and looking for a place to belong, she found herself in a strange world she understood little about, other than here she could make...
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Extrait: "La passion sexuelle est une passion absolument indomptable. On peut en gémir, mais il serait difficile qu'il en fût autrement. Et, en effet, si elle n'avait pas ce caractère, il est à peu près certain, que notre espèce n'aurait pas déroulé de longues destinés sur la terre qui la porte. Le Créateur, qui prend naturellement soin de son œuvre et qui tient apparemment à sa perpétuation, ne l'a pas voulu ainsi."
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From the crumbling backstreets of Chow Kit to the gleaming high-rises of Sultan Ismail Road, ladies of all ages and ethnicities patrol the dark alleys, fancy clubs and dingy massage parlours of Malaysia's capital city of Kuala Lumpur, cruising for customers and surviving on their wits, born in some cases out of true desperation but in other cases out of lifestyle choice. Veteran writer and author Ewe Paik Leong uncovers a hidden world of KTV lounges...
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As eight sexy girls strut their stuff on stage, spandex shorts swathing their behinds as tightly as the lotus-leaf wrappings of a Chinese dumpling, author Ewe Paik Leong once again finds himself on the trail of Kuala Lumpur's ladies of the night. Following the success of his original book, which resulted in several red-light areas being closed down by the Malaysian authorities, he is back with new girls, new locations and new, shocking material. In...
47) Violencias contra niñas, niños y adolescentes en Chiapas: Ámbitos de expresión y vulnerabilidades
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El reconocimiento de las violencias contra niñas, niños y adolescentes como un problema social, de salud y un asunto de derechos humanos es históricamente muy reciente, y en los estudios relacionados con el hogar, con frecuencia se les considera víctimas secundarias. En esta investigación, realizada en tres ciudades de Chiapas, México, se analizan con detalle la magnitud, características, ámbitos de expresión y relaciones ligadas a las violencias...
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In George Town, the capital of Penang, the Pearl of the Orient and a Malaysian island hugely popular with domestic and international tourists, trishaws ply the streets ferrying tourists between colonial buildings, temples, food spots and bars. The more enterprising trishaw drivers offer sightseeing with sex, sometimes with unexpected results. Through candid interviews with sources in the sex industry, as well as Penang's trishaw riders, the author...
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For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that 'sex work' is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, government and the law, the sex industry has had its way. Little is said of the damage, violation, suffering, and torment of prostitution on the bodies and minds of mostly women and children, nor of the deaths, suicides and murders...
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In recent years, Americans have woken up to the reality that human trafficking is not just something that happens in other countries. But what most still do not understand is that neither is it something that just happens to "other people" such as runaways or the disenfranchised. The human trafficker is no respecter of faith, education, or socioeconomic status, and even kids who are raised in solid families in middle and upper class suburbs can fall...
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Lifelike, replica women and girls produced for men' s sexual use, sex dolls and robots represent the literal objectification of women. They are marketed as companions, the means for men to create their ‘ideal' woman, and as the "perfect girlfriend" that can be stored away after its use. Advocates claim the development of sex dolls and robots should be actively encouraged and will have many benefits—but for who?
“Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman...
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Crossing Borders: Essays in Honour of Ian Angus is a collection of original and cutting- edge essays by thirteen outstanding and diverse Canadian and International scholars that engage with Professor Ian Angus' rich contributions to three distinct, albeit overlapping, fields: Canadian Studies, Phenomenology and Critical Theory, and Communication and Media Studies. These contributions are distinct, unique, and have had resonance across the intellectual...
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'I'd rather have a transorbital lobotomy / Than a transnational economy.' In his new book of poetry, Colin Smith's droll humour and meticulous control of language are metered out to explore the stakes of pain and the pain of folly. Language plays throughout the text, bringing a blithe tone to dark matters, and evoking fruitful tensions for the reader. Scattered topics of climate change, labour disputes, war, and massive inequities within cities are...
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Fanny Murray (1729-1778) was a famous Georgian beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and often to be found pressed to a gentleman's heart in the form of a printed disc secretly tucked into their pocket-watch. She rose from life in the 'London stews' to fame and fortune, through her career as a high-class courtesan. She was seduced and then abandoned, aged just 12, by Jack Spencer, grandson of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (and related to...
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Serving as a history as well as a rare and valuable reference, Sex Work Activism in Canada brings together the narratives, histories, expertise, and teachings of sex work activists across the country. Through texts and testimonials from the grass-roots level it explores the past and present work of sex work activists and advocates in our own words.
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First published in 1934, "Sex Life in England" explores the history and development of sexual behaviour in England throughout history, looking at the concept of debauchery, famous people and cases, sexual perversion in the Arts, and much more. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in how ideas surrounding sex have changed over the years, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: "Debauchers...
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La prostitución masculina es un mundo aparentemente invisible del que muy poco se ha escrito y cuya existencia no se conoce en profundidad. Algunos trabajadores del sexo comparten, por primera vez, sus emociones más íntimas, sus risas y sus llantos, las luces y sombras que forman parte del ser humano. El lector se topará con vidas silenciadas e invisibles envueltas en el estigma social.
Esta obra parte de los testimonios de los trabajadores del...
58) Zoe's Eyes
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"What do you mean you are quitting medical school in America to do something so ludicrous and downright insane? You don't know anything about that kind of life! You were brought up without needs or wants. You are leaving a prominent school like Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to do some hair brain idea like this."
"But mother, you don't understand. I am called by God to do this," Zoe attempting to reason with her mother to understand.
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En Hoja en blanco, Rosi Orozco retrata con honestidad y pasión la cruda realidad de la trata de personas. Entre estas páginas se encuentran sus causas, sus dimensiones, el profundo dolor de sus víctimas y el camino de vuelta a la recuperación. Por medio del relato de historias reales, diez valientes sobrevivientes cobran voz. Sus experiencias, en conjunto con información práctica -el fruto de una investigación profunda que atraviesa fronteras...
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