Streets Apart
In the debate about prostitution, there are those, like the Dutch, who advocate legalising it, and those, like the Swedes, who want to get women…
Library/Mental and Physical Health Effects of Prostitution and the Sex Trade/Prostitution/Racism, Colonialism
Prostitution and the Invisibility of Harm
The harm of prostitution is socially invisible, and it is also invisible in the law, in public health, and in psychology. This article addresses origins…
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Prostitution and Trafficking of Women and Children from Mexico to the United States
A description of the historical background of sex trafficking from Mexico to the United States and summaries of two cases illustrating the complexity of providing…
How Prostitution Works
A description of customers, pimps, and the ways that young people get into prostitution. Prostitution, pornography, and other forms of commercial sex are a multi-billion…
Prostitution in 5 Countries: Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Research summary and discussion of the life conditions of 475 people in prostitution in South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, USA & Zambia. These people live in…
Prostitution As Violence Against Women
This article discusses how prostitution is exempted from other kinds of violence and human rights violations, how prostitution is legitimized by distinctions between “forced” and…
Prostitution and Civil Rights
The gap between the promise of civil rights and the real lives of prostitutes is an abyss which swallows up prostituted women. This article discusses…