Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law.

AuthorNolan Brown, Elizabeth
PositionBriefly Noted - Brief article - Book review

Legitimizing Sex Work

In Getting Screwed: Sex Workers and the Law (ForeEdge, 2015), Alison Bass explores prostitution in 21st-century America (and parts of the wider world), from posh brothels to city streets and from high-end hotels to jail cells. Weaving together interviews and academic research, Bass--a West Virginia University journalism professor who spent four years talking with sex workers around the country--shows our current approach to commercial sex in the U.S. is dangerous, disingenuous, and an utter failure. Anti-prostitution laws "have done little to stem the thriving industry," she...

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