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Fantasy's Legal, Reality's Not
Cummings, Clitora E.
Article
1986
A sex worker's take on prostitution and the sex industry.
Good Girls, Bad Girls: Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
Bell Laurie
Book
1987
Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
Bufe, Chaz
Article
1986
Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
Porn Gold
Hebditch, David; Anning, Nick
Book
Porn, Women's Rights and the Left: A Response to Gail Dines
Barnett, Jerry
Article
2014
I believe that government belongs in health, education, welfare, social services, environmental protection and transport; but I do not believe that it belongs in our bedrooms.
Revelations: Essays on Striptease and Sexuality
Dragu, Margaret, and Harrison, A.S.A.
Book
1988
A sympathetic look at a much-maligned art form.
Scarlet Road
Scott, Catherine
Film/Video
2011
Scarlet Road follows the extraordinary work of Australian sex worker, Rachel Wotton. Impassioned about freedom of sexual expression and the rights of sex workers, she specializes in a long over-looked...
Selling Sexual Services: A Socialist Feminist Perspective
Johanna, Brenner
Article
2015
The current debate about sex work among feminists generates more heat than light. Accusations of bad faith fly back and forth across the two sides, research findings are mobilized to undercut the othe...
The Sex Industry and Its Workers
Califia, Pat
Article
1983
An article discussing the various components of the sex industry and the various forms of sexual services that have evolved from prostitution.
A Story About Making a Sex Movie
Article
2005
Politicians try to impose censorship by the back door, by imposing record-keeping obligations that are impossible to comply with.
US-UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking': Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
Article
2004
Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act be...
Who Cares?
Dransfeld, Rosie
Film/Video
2012
Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with...
The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
Pisani, Elizabeth
Book
2008
Pisani's book The Wisdom of Whores is a scathing attack on the bureaucratic international aid communities that deal with HIV/AIDS. Topics include: injection of drugs and the idea of harm reduction by ...
The X-Rated Free Market: On Pornography, Royal Spermatozoa and the Free Market
Raventos, Daniel; Wark, Julie
Article
2014
Is the pornography market the only free one? The question might seem provocative. Or a gross oversimplification. But it might also shed some light on certain points, namely those related with the poli...
Your Knife in my Life
Thomas, Linda
Article
1986
A tale of toil.

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Red Menace, The
The online archive of the libertarian socialist newsletter The Red Menace. Articles on socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, h...
Sexsources.ca
A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools ma...
Sexwork.com
Sex Work Cyber Resource & Support Center. Promoting intimacy and positive, healthy, consenting adult sexuality.
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Inside the Rapidly Growing Cam Industry That's Changing the Porn Industry as We Know It
Weisman, Carrie
2015
The camming industry, also known as the live content industry, has blown up in the past few years. And it’s unique in the fact that it’s all but carved a space for every kink out there.
Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
Saner, Emine
2012
Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
Porn stripped of its secrets
Winbush, Jeff
1998
Covering the pornography industry.

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SexSources.ca
Website
2017
A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools ma...