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  • Useful reading on sex work issues

    Basic reading about sex work
    Clients
    Feminist perspectives on sex work
    Media bias
    Migration & trafficking
    Research & statistics
    Sex work around the world
    Swedish model
    Workers' rights

    Basic reading about sex work

    Bound, Not Gagged

    Prostitutes' Education Network

    Sex Work: A Risky Business - Teela Sanders (Willan Publishing 2005)

    Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry – eds. Priscilla Alexander & Frederique Delacoste (2nd edition, Cleis Press 1998)

    $pread magazine

    Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry - ed. Annie Oakley (Seal Press 2008)

    Clients

    A Commentary on ‘Challenging Men’s Demand for Prostitution in Scotland: A Research Report Based on Interviews with 110 Men who Bought Women in Prostitution’ (Jan Macleod, Melissa Farley, Lynn Anderson, Jacqueline Golding, 2008) – Teela Sanders et al (PDF)

    Dear John – Mirha-Soleil Ross

    Fair play (PDF)

    Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write about their Clients – ed. Matt Bernstein Sycamore (Haworth Press 2000)

    Feminist perspectives on sex work

    Decriminalization, ending demand, and choice: Feministe interviews the Sex Workers Project

    Ghetto Feminism - Amber Dawn

    Prostitution seen as Violence Against Women: A supportive or oppressive view? - Liv Jessen

    A response to Janice Raymond's '10 reasons for not legalizing prostitution' - Helen J. Self (PDF)

    Whores and Other Feminists - ed. Jill Nagle (Routledge 1997)

    Media bias

    Empowering Words (Bangkok Post)

    The Myth of the Liberal Media, or Further Evidence that the NTY is an Elitist Paper

    Migration & trafficking

    Foreign Prostitution in Oslo: Pro Sentret's Knowledge and Experiences - Av Bjørg Norli (PDF)

    The Countertraffickers: Rescuing the Victims of the Global Sex Trade - William Finnegan

    The Myth of the Migrant: interview with Laura Maria Agustín

    Prostitution Panic: The Growing Hysteria over Sex Trafficking - Ronald Weitzer

    Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry - Laura Maria Agustín (London: Zed Books 2007)

    The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking: Ideology and Institutionalization of a Moral Crusade - Ronald Weitzer (PDF)

    Susie Bright interviews Laura Maria Agustín

    TAMPEP Position Paper on Migration and Sex Work (PDF)

    Trafficking: Return of the 'White Slavery' Scare? - Brendan O'Neill

    The 'White Slavery' Panic - Joanne McNeil

    Research & statistics

    Flawed Theory and Method in Studies of Prostitution - Ronald Weitzer (PDF)

    Sex Work, the Palermo Protocol, and HIV/AIDS - Paul Williams (paper presented by the HIV/AIDS technical adviser of UNODC to the Global Consultation on HIV/AIDS and Sex Work, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13 July 2006)

    Sex work around the world

    Global Sex Workers: Rights, Resistance and Redefinition – eds. Kamala Kempadoo & Jo Doezema (Routledge 1998)

    Network of Sex Work Projects

    Resourcing Health & Education in the Sex Industry (RhED), Australia

    Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Task Force (SWEAT), South Africa

    Taking the Pledge (13-minute film)

    Swedish model

    Against the "Swedish Model" - Laura Schwartz

    Lies About Sexwork in Sweden - Isabella Lund

    Sexworkers and Allies Network in Sweden

    Sexworkers Critique of Swedish Prostitution Policy - Petra Östergren

    The Swedish Model of Criminalizing the Purchase of Sexual Services - comments by Dr Helen J. Self

    Workers' rights

    International Committee for the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE)

    International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW)

    PANIC!

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    SCOT-PEP
    70 Newhaven Road
    Edinburgh EH6 5QG

    Tel: 0131 622 7550
    Fax: 0131 622 7551
    E-mail: voice@scot-pep.org.uk

    SCOT-PEP is a company limited by guarantee (Company No. 140511)
    and is recognised as a charity by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (Scottish Charity No. SC 020657).