Prostitution

Prostitution is the sale of sexual services, such as oral sex or sexual intercourse, for money. A person selling sexual services is a prostitute, a type of sex worker. In a more general sense of the word, anyone selling their services for a cause thought to be unworthy can be described as prostituting themselves.

External links and references

• Website for and from Sex industry survivors
• Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) - big list of resources
• Memoirs of a Sex Industry Survivor
• Prostitution Research
• Hundreds of First Hand Reports about Prostitution from Various Different Countries
• The UN Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others (1949)
• Full text: Status of ratifications, reservations and declarations
• Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others at Law-Ref.org - fully indexed and crosslinked with other documents
• Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography at Law-Ref.org - fully indexed and crosslinked with other documents
• Sex trade's reliance on forced labour - BBC
• A modern slave's brutal odyssey – BBC
• 'Asia's sex trade is 'slavery' - BBC
• 'Bosnia: Sex Slave Recounts Her Ordeal - Institute for War & Peace Reporting
• 'Streets of despair - The Observer
• Radford, Robert, La prostitution féminine à Rome, entre -200 et 200 après Jésus-Christ : une approche pédagogique utilisant les N.T.I.C.. Sherbrooke, Université de Sherbrooke, 2000.
• Anti-Prostitution Site: Argues that all prostitution is harmful
• Prostitute's Education Network: American prostitutes' rights organization, aims for decriminalization. Links to sex worker's rights organizations in other countries
• Website supporting sex work as as a legitimate profession
• Website presenting etablishments of prostitution like escorts and brothels
• Piet den Blanken: The Prostitution Pictures, photographs of streetwalkers and brothels around the world
• 50 Tips for Prostitutes: Helpful hints to The Working Person, by Jahnet de Light, (British)
• U.S. DOJ guide to street prostitution
• FBI press release: Twelve pimps sentenced for prostituting children
• Russell Campbell, Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema, University of Wisconsin Press 2005
• John Preston : Hustling, A Gentlemen's Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution, Badboy Books, 1997
• Néstor Osvaldo Perlongher: O negócio do michê, prostituição viril am Sao Paulo, 1.a edição 1987, editora brasiliense
• Ine Vanwesenbeeck (2001), "Another decade of social scientific work on sex work: A review of research 1990-2000", Annual Review of Sex Research, 12, p. 242
• Sexual Freedom Coalition guide to UK prostitution law
• Prostitution & Violence http://www.sisyphe.org/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=12
• D. Brewer et. al. Prostitution and the sex discrepancy in reported number of sexual partners. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 24 October; 97(22): 1238512388.
• Moffat, PG, Peters SA. Pricing Personal Services: An Empirical Study of Earnings in the UK Prostitution Industry Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Volume 51 Issue 5 Page 675 - November 2004 doi:10.1111/j.0036-9292.2004.00327.x
• Legitimating Prostitution as Sex Work
• Matthews, R. (1997). Prostitution in London: An Audit. Middlesex University.
• Men Who Buy Sex, Phase 2: Internet and British Columbia Survey Methodology and Preliminary Results from the Internet Survey
• Sara, prostitute in Limerick-http://www.escort-ireland.com/saralimerick/
• A national historic site http://thedumasbrothel.com
• Escort Reviews and Discussion : http://www.myredbook.com