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Extrait: "Il s'opère en France, depuis vingt ans, un travail de transformation sociale qui a modifié sensiblement les conditions dans lesquelles s'exerce l'action de l'autorité publique en matière de prostitution. Le sentiment religieux s'est affaibli, la tolérance pour la galanterie vénale et scandaleuse est entrée dans nos mœurs, les prostituées ont invoqué, ou plutt on a invoqué, pour elles, les immunités civiques, la tradition basée...
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¿Le gusta el sexo? No, usted es un adicto al sexo duro o salvaje, si es así, ingrese a estas páginas, lo espera un recorrido amenazador y tempestuoso donde, entre risas y lágrimas, va a gemir sin lubricante y –como dice el autor de Noches de vodka. El diario de la puta inca– verá al diablo calato.
Los personajes en esta novela no tienen piedad ni decoro, esta palabra se ha suprimido del diccionario. Las acciones se ambientan en Lima, Río...
64) Puta no se nace
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Puta no se nace es un libro denuncia contra la explotación de mujeres y niñas por el lobby del sexo. En sus páginas, la reconocida periodista dice basta ya a la esclavitud del siglo XXI que desnuda de derechos y de dignidad a los millones de mujeres de todo el mundo que caen en esta lacra por culpa de los puteros que demandan sin consecuencias el uso de sus cuerpos. "La prostitución existe porque los varones compran el sexo de las mujeres pobres.
La...
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Sex trafficking. For many Americans, it sounds like fiction. After all, who could believe that a preschool teacher was being transported against her will every weekend? That she was being sold for sex in multiple US states, out of the country, and even in her own home? That she was repeatedly threatened, drugged, and raped until she returned to her regular routine as a mother of three in an upper-class northern Utah community every Monday morning?
Julie...
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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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Un libro para dejar los prejuicios a un lado y ver los distintos caminos de mujeres que ejercen la prostitución.
La prostitución es esa persona que te cruzas en un aeropuerto y es el timbre marcado en rojo en un portal de tu vecindario. A veces invisible y a veces a la vista de todos en las mismas aceras en las que te recoges tras una noche de fiesta. La prostitución se analiza desde el tabú, el desprecio, la censura o la compasión, pero pocas...
68) Nana
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Nana Emile Zola - Das Buch war bei Erscheinen ein Skandal: Nana arbeitet sich von einem armseligen Dasein als Straßendirne empor in die vornehme Pariser Gesellschaft. Die "blonde Venus" ist so verführerisch, daß sie Macht über alle Repräsentanten der Regierung und der Presse gewinnt und Einsicht in die Lasterhaftigkeit und Verlogenheit der höheren Stände. Der außerordentlich spannende und lebendig geschriebene Roman ist Zolas schonungslose...
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Told with raw honesty, this is the true story of one woman's life as a call girl-and her ultimate redemptionAt just age 15, Geena had no choice but to leave home. Without an education or any real options, she found herself being lured into the sex industry by the promise of big money and the validation of strangers. She turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain of day-to-day life as a call girl and overcome the emotional scars of her past. But...
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Exposed is Kate Ouimette-Wedell's candid story of finding her way into and out of the commercial sex industry. After arriving in Hollywood to pursue her dream of breaking into the music business, Kate was soon trafficked by a man she believed was a friend. She escaped, but with no other means of survival, she went to work as an exotic dancer and sex worker.
Kate's story takes you through the terror, desperation, and exhaustion of life in the sex industry....
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The stories in Eight Pieces on Prostitution span the whole of Dorothy Johnston's writing life and includes her first published story, The Man Who Liked to Come with the News, which Frank Moorhouse chose for his 1983 anthology, The State of the Art.
Dorothy Johnston's first novel, Tunnel Vision, was set in a Melbourne massage parlour, and the theme of prostitution runs through several of her works, notably in The House at Number 10 and now in this...
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Considered one of the world's most popular holiday destinations, the tropical island of Bali in Indonesia has long been the site for Western fantasies about paradise. Millions of tourists visit the Island of the Gods every year, from families treating the kids to a beach holiday to single men looking for cheap booze and sex. And for many young Westerners and Singaporeans, hardcore partying in Bali has become a rite of passage, but it is not without...
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This guide to sex in Japan demystifies the infamous brothels and parlous of Tokyo and provides a wealth of first-hand information. An important part in any lover's arsenal is an understanding of the background of sex in Japan, an appreciation of the finer points of Japan's culture as it relates to human sexuality, and a familiarity with the vocabulary of love. It generally takes at least two years of energetic (and expensive! ) on-the-spot experience...
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In this trailblazing anthology, more than fifty self-identified sex workers from all walks of the industry (survival and trade, past and present) explore their lived experience through the expressive nuance and beauty of poetry. In a variety of forms ranging from lyrics to list poems to found poetry to hybrid works, these authors express themselves with the complexity, agency, and honesty that sex workers are rarely afforded. Contributors from Canada,...
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NPR's Best Books of 2020
"Galvanizing and urgent....a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle." –National Public Radio
A riveting true story of a young woman's days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms.
When graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money,...
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From an early age, Amber van de Bunt knew she wasn't like the other girls in town. From childhood struggles with depression and eating disorders, her years as a topless dancer in Florida, and an eventual abortion and suicide attempt, to her rebirth in Los Angeles as a porn star named Karmen Karma, overcoming her relationship with her abusive mother, and her struggle to maintain a clean and sober lifestyle-van de Bunt's life has been a wild rollercoaster....
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River of Flesh and Other Stories brings together twenty-one stories about trafficked and prostituted women by some of India's most celebrated writers- Amrita Pritam, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Indira Goswami, Ismat Chughtai, J. P. Das, Kamala Das, Kamleshwar, Krishan Chander, Munshi Premchand, Nabendu Ghosh, Qurratulain Hyder, Saadat Hasan Manto and Siddique Alam, among others.
Jugnu, in Kamleshwar's 'River of Flesh' ('Maas ka Darya')-stares at...
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Sex in the Middle East and North Africa examines the sexual practices, politics, and complexities of the modern Arab world. Short chapters feature a variety of experts in anthropology, sociology, health science, and cultural studies. Many of the chapters are based on original ethnographic and interview work with subjects involved in these practices and include their voices.
The book is organized into three sections: Single and Dating, Engaged...
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Black Market Business is a grassroots social history of the clandestine market for sex in colonial Tonkin. Lively and well told, it explores the ways in which sex workers, managers, and clients evaded the colonial regulation system in the turbulent economy of the interwar years. Christina Elizabeth Firpo argues that the confluence of economic, demographic, and cultural changes sweeping late colonial Tonkin created spaces of tension in which the interwar...
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