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Sex Workers and Their Clients

In Their Own Words

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  • © 2021

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Authors:
  1. Jerald L. Mosley

    1. Pasadena, USA

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  • Offers an overview of sex work debates and uses sex workers' voices to provide a new perspective on them
  • Highlights the difference between sex workers' perspectives and those posed by prohibitionists
  • Discusses some of the harms associated with prostitution and the virtues of decriminalization
  • Speaks to the ever-expanding public debate on sex work decriminalization

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-4

  3. Chapter 1: Subjective Lives

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    Pages 5-18

  4. Chapter 2: Exploitation, Money, and Poverty

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    Pages 19-31

  5. Chapter 3: Coercion

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    Pages 33-41

  6. Chapter 4: Abuse and Harm

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    Pages 43-59

  7. Chapter 5: Commodification, Objectification, and Personhood

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    Pages 61-79

  8. Chapter 6: Power, Dominance, and Subordination

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    Pages 81-95

  9. Conclusion

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    Pages 97-98

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 99-113
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About this book

This book draws on the voices of sex workers and their clients to critically assess the criminalization of prostitution in favour of decriminalization. It does so by contrasting their voices with the claims made by prohibitionists: those advocating the prohibition of prostitution or, at least, the prohibition of the purchase of sexual services, and notes scholarly research that gives context to those accounts and claims. Each chapter is dedicated to a particular issue which is given currency in academic and public debates on sex work. The first part of each chapter reviews the state of research and publicly-aired contentions and the second part compares sex workers' voices with claims from prohibitionists. It highlights the gap between what many sex workers have to say about themselves and what theorizing prohibitionists say about all prostitution. It argues that there is often a striking contrast in attitude, perspective, interpretation and valuation. This books speaks primarily to prohibitionist thinking and sex work stereotyping and, secondarily, to the debate on decriminalization of sex work.

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  • Pasadena, USA

    Jerald L. Mosley

About the author

Jerald L. Mosley is an attorney who researches and writes on privacy and sex work issues. After taking his doctorate in philosophy, he entered the legal profession and practiced law with the California Department of Justice until 2014. He now works independently on both the sociological and legal aspects of sex work. 

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