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To millions of Americans, the trafficking of children for commercial sexual purposes only happens somewhere else - in Southeast Asia or Central America - not on main Street USA. Yet, it is abundantly clear that today at least 100,000 children are being used as commodities for sale or trade in cites across the nation. These kids are 21st Century slaves. They cannot walk away.
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From Eve and Lilith to Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, the prostitute has been both a target of scorn and a catalyst for social change. In Love for Sale, cultural historian Nils Johan Ringdal delivers an authoritative and engaging history of this most maligned, yet globally ubiquitous, form of human commerce.
Beginning with the epic of Gilgamesh, the Old Testament, and ancient cultures from Asia to the Mediterranean, Ringdal considers the varying...
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"On the worldwide black market, the third most profitable commodity after illegal weapons and drugs is human flesh: women and girls from all over Eastern Europe, sold for sex by the networks of organized crime that became entrenched in the aftermath of the fall of communism. "Natasha" is what they're called in Israel and in Turkey, whether they're actually from Russia, Moldova, the Czech Republic, Romania, or Ukraine, and whatever their real names...
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***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems***
On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day has followed the lives of individual women over fifteen years, and her book details their attempts to manage their lives against a backdrop of social disapproval. The period was one of substantial change within the sex industry.
Through the lens of...
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In the exclusive cul de sac known as Maple Court, luxurious mansions nestle among sweeping, landscaped gardens. But beyond the tree-lined driveways lies a secret, sensual world. In the first in a two-book series, Joan Elizabeth Lloyd escorts readers on a journey into the heart of desire, as one woman learns the joy of reinventing herself--and of giving and receiving pure, delicious pleasure ... When Pam DePalma's husband, Dom, dies, she's left with...
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Traces the remarkable life of the head of post-World War II Paris' most exclusive finishing school, tracing her origins as an impoverished Jewish girl from the city of Angers and discussing the controversies that made her one of the world's most wanted women.
"The secret life of Madame Claude, the brilliant and complicated and utterly amoral woman behind the most glamorous and successful escort service in the world."--Dust jacket.
"The secret life...
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Million dollar duet volume 1
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Delaine Talbot has a secret. When a matter of life and death threatens to tear apart her family, Delaine makes the ultimate sacrifice. She auctions herself off at Chicagos most exclusive erotic club. Now she belongs to Noah Crawford, a wealthy mogul who introduces her to a seductive feast of the senses, awakening desires she only dreamed about. Noah doesnt know why Delaine sold her body for a cool two mil. But its the perfect business arrangement....
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An account of the world of high-class escorts, told from the perspective of a call girl who pursued a taboo career in London after she was unable to support herself on the proceeds of her impressive education, describes her relationships with a range of wealthy clients.
15) Somebody's daughter: the hidden story of America's prostituted children and the battle to save them
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Most people believe sex trafficking in the United States involves young women from foreign lands, but the vast majority of teens caught in the sex trade are American girls -- the runaways and throwaways few people care about. Hundreds of thousands of prostituted children walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. The author takes the reader behind the scenes to expose...
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"Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a haunting and humanizing account of the true-life search for a serial killer still at large on Long Island, in a compelling tale of unsolved murder and Internet prostitution. One late spring evening in 2010, Shannan Gilbert, after running through the oceanfront community of Oak Beach screaming for her life, went missing. No one who had heard of her disappearance thought much about what...
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Criterion collection volume 277
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Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
18) Ladies of the night: a historical and personal perspective on the oldest profession in the world
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Rock legend, best-selling author, reality television star, accomplished entrepreneur, and renowned ladies' man Gene Simmons presents an entirely original take on a traditionally taboo topic - prostitution. In this informative and entertaining mix of narrative history and Simmons' own unique philosophy, the Kiss front man delves deep into the legacy of the oldest profession in the world. From the very first cavewoman to the brothel - women of Rome,...
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"Sassy, streetwise Sammy is falling through the cracks. Neglected by an alcoholic mother, the problems she endures at school and home lead her to act out, seeking attention from unseemly adults when what she wants most is protection. Meanwhile, in a small Eastern European village, sweet Nico is about to turn 13. As her family falls upon desperate times, her father receives an offer of money to marry her off. But when she's shuttled across the border...
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"Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the dark realities of human trafficking and forced labor in order to reveal the degrading and dehumanizing systems that strip people of their dignity for the sake of profit--and to link the suffering of the enslaved to the day-to-day lives of consumers in the West. In Modern Slavery, Kara draws on his many years of expertise to demonstrate the...