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Title: Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry by Frederique Delacoste, Priscilla Alexander ISBN: 1-57344-042-6 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.11 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Very personal look at women in the sex industry
Comment: Now that I've read, Whores and Other Feminists, Tales from the Clit, Sex for Sale, Out of Bondage, The Lusty Lady, and Brothel, Sex Work gives a personal touch beyond what Whores and Other Feminists has to offer. There is a line of reading that one must read to truly listen to the feminist minority that sex work is part of being a woman. Whether women get paid to have sex or not, all women live with social stigmas attached to them not only by men (police, politicians, and clients) but by women (wives, the feminist majority, and other sex workers). The book explores the good girl/bad girl status of a woman. There is also a lot of question between Madonna/Whore demarcation between women in the sex industry. It answers the question as to where did these women come from.
Women in the sex industry are mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters. They are friends and co-workers. Sex workers are women who love and women who hate. They enjoy sex and don't enjoy sex. There is political activism and victims of the political process.
The very personal accounts read as poems, diary entries, or stories that the reader asks whether it is fact or fiction. Whatever it is, Sex Work explores a world that we all seem to assume we know all about. The sex industry is expansive and limiting, liberating and oppressive. The question now must be asked how can we structure our society so that women aren't labeled for their sexual choices? There are so many women that are defined as prostitute, living under the cloak of legitimacy.
Rating: 3
Summary: good
Comment: It is always enlightening to hear stories from those who have lived it as opposed to reading a psychologist's view of a world he has never experienced. This is a good read, told by women who have experienced all that makes up the world of prostitution.
Rating: 4
Summary: sex in the cities
Comment: I bought this book thinking that I'd be reading only stories by women in the sex industry. I have always had a fascination with how people begin anything, but especially how women or men cross the line (I don't mean that negatively) and become prostitutes. What this book is, however, is half stories from women in the industry and half academic writings on the plight of prostitutes. Not what I wanted, but still pretty good.
The stories, from street prostitutes, call girls, massage parlor workers, and strippers are often quite touching. The women, many of whom are lesbian, I've discovered in this book, choose to become prostitutes, prostitution doesn't choose them. They profess to either enjoy their job or to suffer through it not unlike clockwatchers do. Still, I can't help but read pain between the lines in these women's stories. These women are used -- well used, poorly used -- for others' whims. All of us prostitute ourselves to some end, but these women live short careers. To them, there is no glass ceiling, only plaster and dim lights in dingy rooms.
The academic essays supply some fascinating insights into how prostitution started. The authors offer facts about who prostitutes are, where they live, how the law applies to them, and how prostitutes are grouping together for safety and power.
This book, an amalgam or heartbreaking stories and academic consideration, is really a college-level reader, but for those of us who didn't study this stuff at school or are simply interested in the way prostitutes live, it still makes for interesting reading.
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Title: Turning Pro: A Guide to Sex Work for the Ambitious and the Intrigued by Magdalene Meretrix, Magdelene Meretix ISBN: 1890159301 Publisher: Greenery Pr Pub. Date: 01 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients by Matt Bernstein Sycamore ISBN: 1560231629 Publisher: Haworth (T) Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Whores and Other Feminists by Jill Nagle ISBN: 0415918227 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry by Ronald Weitzer ISBN: 041592295X Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Bare : On Women, Dancing, Sex, and Power by Elisabeth Eaves ISBN: 0375412336 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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