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"In this provocative and courageous defense of pornography, Wendy McElroy goes beyond the standard First Amendment arguments and illustrates how pornography benefits women and the feminist movement. Her arguments are based on the classic principle of "A woman's body, a woman's right." She believes that women have the right to enjoy, learn from, and participate in pornography."--Jacket.

We are surrounded with sexual images that convey the message that sex is for sale - in sex toys, clothing, films and even baked goods. This video includes three conversations about the business of sex - one with a sex toy educator in a college setting; the second with the owner of a sex bakery; the third with the managers of a modern and readily accessible sex shop. Take a tour of these three venues.

Offers first-hand insight into Bombay's sex industry and traces the author's experiences with a charismatic teenage exotic dancer whose independence was challenged by an ambitious politician's campaign of false morality.

"The year was 1945. Hundreds of thousands of Allied troops poured into war-torn Japan and spread throughout the country, altering both the built environment and the country's psychological landscape. The effect of this influx on the local population did not lessen in the years following the war's end. In fact, the presence of foreign servicemen also heightened the visibility of certain others, particularly panpan--streetwalkers--who were objects of...

"For eighteen years following the Civil War, the police in St. Paul, Minnesota, informally regulated brothel prostitution. Each month, the madams who ran the brothels were charged with keeping houses of ill fame and fined in the city's municipal court. In effect, they were paying licensing fees in order to operate illegal enterprises. This arrangement was open; during this period, the city's newspapers published hundreds of articles about vice and...

This path-breaking book examines the lives of five topless dancers in the economically devastated "rust belt" of upstate New York. With insight and empathy, Susan Dewey shows how these women negotiate their lives as parents, employees, and family members while working in a profession widely regarded as incompatible with motherhood and fidelity. Neither disparaging nor romanticizing her subjects, Dewey investigates the complicated dynamic of performance,...

Reports on America's "shadow" economy of illegal drugs, pornography, and illegal migrant workers, arguing that these underground industries continue to grow with government intervention.