Free Sex for Sale~Prostitution, Pornography and the Sex Industry by Ronald Weitzer

Commercial Sexual Partnerships in Northeastern Thailand,” Social Science and Medicine 44 (1997): 199–213.
    12. Ipsos/MORI Poll, January 6–10, 2006, N = 1790, aged 16–64.
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    13. Hillary Rhodes, “Prostitution Advances in a Wired World,” Associated Press , March 11, 2008; Bruce Lambert, “As Prostitutes Turn to Craigslist, Law Takes Notice,” New York Times , September 4, 2007.
    14. Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University poll, February 10, 2005, N = 1001.
    15. Davis and Smith, General Social Survey , 1994.
    16. Ellison Research poll, March 11, 2008, N = 1007. This was the view of 42% of men and 57% of women.
    17. Harris Poll #76, September 20–26, 2004, N = 2555. This was the view of 38% of men and 57% of women.
    18. Time magazine poll, conducted by Yankelovich/Skelly/White, July 26–31, 1977, N = 1044 registered voters.
    19. Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life poll, October 2006, N = 739.
    20. ICM Research, Sex and Exploitation Survey, January 2008, N = 1023.
    Women (68%) were slightly more likely to take this view than men (62%).
    21. NBC News/ Wall Street Journal poll, June 10–14, 1994, N = 1502.
    22. Penn, Shoen, and Berland poll, sponsored by Democratic Leadership Council, July 23–27, 1997, N = 1009 registered voters.
    23. General Social Survey, 2006 and 1984. The question asks respondents which policy is closest to their own view: “There should be laws against the distribution of pornography whatever the age.” “There should be laws against the distribution of pornography to persons under 18.” “There should be no laws against the distribution of pornography.” The figures presented here are for the first option, a universal ban on distribution.
    24. General Social Survey, 2006.
    25. Gallup, Gallup Poll Monthly , 1991: 46% thought female strippers and 45% thought male strippers “should be illegal at bars or clubs.”
    26. Only 5% thought that stripping was less acceptable today than a decade ago. Institute for Social Research, University of Alabama, Capstone Poll, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 2002, N = 484.
    27. Danny Hakim and William Rashbaum, “No U.S. Charges against Spitzer for Prostitution,” New York Times , November 7, 2008, p. A1.
    28. “Fresno Deputy District Attorney Busted for Soliciting a Prostitute,”
    Channel 47 News online, Fresno, California, accessed August 27, 2008;
    “Ex-Police Chief Charged in Pa. Prostitution Case,” Evening Sun (Hanover, PA), August 27, 2008.
    29. Part of this section of the chapter draws on two articles: Ronald Weitzer,
    “Prostitution: Facts and Fictions,” Contexts 6 (Fall 2007): 28–33, and Ronald Weitzer, “Sociology of Sex Work,” Annual Review of Sociology 35
    (2009).
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    30. Kathleen Barry, The Prostitution of Sexuality , New York: New York University Press, 1995; Andrea Dworkin, Pornography: Men Possessing Women , New York: Putnam, 1981; Andrea Dworkin, Life and Death , New York: Free Press, 1997; Sheila Jeffreys, The Idea of Prostitution , North Melbourne, Australia: Spinifex, 1997; Catherine MacKinnon, Feminism Unmodified , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987; Catherine MacKinnon, Toward a Feminist Theory of the State , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
    31. Melissa Farley, “Bad for the Body, Bad for the Heart: Prostitution Harms Women Even if Legalized or Decriminalized,” Violence Against Women 10
    (2004): 1087–1125; Janice Raymond, “Prostitution as Violence against Women,” Women’s Studies International Forum 21 (1998): 1–9.
    32. Ine Vanwesenbeeck, “Another Decade of Social Scientific Work on Prostitution,” Annual Review of Sex Research 12 (2001): 242–289; Ronald Weitzer, “Flawed Theory and Method in Studies of Prostitution,”
    Violence Against Women 11 (2005): 934–949, and Ronald Weitzer,
    “Rehashing Tired Claims about Prostitution,” Violence Against Women 11
    (2005): 971–977.
    33. Arlene Carmen and Howard Moody, Working