Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Prostitution & Sex Trade

It's a sick twisted Wonderland, and I'm Alice.

Here is a story like no other: The unforgettable...

Over the last few decades, there has been a marked increase in media and debate surrounding a specific group of offences in modern Democratic nations which bear the brunt of the label crimes against morality . Included within this group are offences related to prostitution and pornography, homosexuality and incest and child sexual abuse. This book examines the nexus between sex, crime and morality from a theoretical perspective.

This is the first academic text to offer an examination and analysis of the philosophical underpinnings of sex-related crimes and social attitudes...

One girl's journey from a poor, but conventional, family background, to life as Britain's foremost dominatrix

Here is the intelligent, funny story of how one Mistress made her way to the top--a warm and moving true story of triumph over family intrigue and tragedy. At the age of eight, Miranda discovered that her beloved "mummy and daddy" were, in fact, her grandparents, and her real mother was the woman she had always known as her elder sister. Miranda writes honestly about her struggle to accept the trauma of these new family relationships. She details how she became a teenage...

Belle Brezing made a major career move when she stepped off the streets of Lexington, Kentucky, and into Jennie Hill's bawdy house -- an upscale brothel run out of a former residence of Mary Todd Lincoln. At nineteen, Brezing was already infamous as a youth steeped in death, sex, drugs, and scandal. But it was in Miss Hill's "respectable" establishment that she began to acquire the skills, manners, and business contacts that allowed her to ascend to power and influence as an internationally known madam.

In this revealing book, Maryjean Wall offers a tantalizing true story of vice and...

In the half-century before Poland's long-awaited political independence in 1918, anxiety surrounding the country's burgeoning sex industry fueled nearly constant public debate. The Devil's Chain is the first book to examine the world of commercial sex throughout the partitioned Polish territories, uncovering a previously hidden conversation about sexuality, gender propriety, and social class. Keely Stauter-Halsted situates the preoccupation with prostitution in the context of Poland's struggle for political independence and its difficult transition to modernity. She traces the...