prostitution

Authors present a variety of opinions on the risk factors that lead women and children into prostitution and sex trafficking, the identification of prostitution as a human rights violation, and the ways to reduce the demand of sexual services.

Kate Holden recounts her descent into heroin addiction and prostitution, describing how she managed to fight her addictions and demons to reclaim her life and find happiness once again.

Reprint of a 1944 French novel about Divine, a male prostitute who consorts with pimps, thieves, murderers, and other unsavory characters in the Parisian underworld.

Discusses the nature and causes of teen prostitution.

Two teenaged girls with little in common must find a way to work together if they are ever to escape their captors after being abducted into an international prostitution ring.

Examines the global sex trade, exposing how women and girls from all over Eastern Europe are being sold for sex by networks of organized crime that rose to prominence after the fall of communism.

Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov?, a Jewish Auschwitz inmate with no family left, escapes certain death by acquiring a job in a brothel, passing for Aryan and servicing the SS officers she hates.

A collection of true stories about slavery throughout the world, including sweat-shop workers, sex slaves, migrant workers, and domestic servants. First-hand accounts expose how slavery thrives in the twenty-first century and demands that these human rights abuses cannot continue.

"A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five "Craigslist" prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York Magazine cover story"--Provided by publisher.

Twenty-three essays debate issues regarding child and adult prostitution and sex trafficking, discussing the problem's extent, nature, and contributing factors; policies; and society's views of prostitution.