Women: The Subterranean World of Street Prostitution , New York: Harper & Row, 1985; Frederique Delacoste and Priscilla Alexander, eds., Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry , Pittsburgh: Cleis, 1987; Nadine Strossen, Defending Pornography , New York: Anchor, 1995; Wendy McElroy, XXX: A Woman’s Right to Pornography , New York: St. Martin’s, 1995; Wendy Chapkis, Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor , New York: Routledge, 1997.
34. Eileen McLeod, Working Women: Prostitution Now , London: Croom Helm, 1982, p. 28.
35. Noah Zatz, “Sex Work/Sex Act: Law, Labor, and Desire in Constructions of Prostitution,” Signs 22 (1997): 277–308, at p. 291.
36. Julia O’Connell Davidson, Power, Prostitution, and Freedom , Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1998.
37. Barbara Heyl, “Prostitution: An Extreme Case of Sex Stratification,” in Freda Adler and Rita Simon, eds., The Criminology of Deviant Women , Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1979, p. 198.
38. Thomas Steinfatt, Working at the Bar: Sex Work and Health Communication in Thailand , Westport, CT: Ablex, 2002, p. 19.
39. Stephanie Church, Marion Henderson, Marina Barnard, and Graham Hart, “Violence by Clients towards Female Prostitutes in Different Work Settings,” British Medical Journal 322 (2001): 524–526.
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40. See the studies cited in Ronald Weitzer, “New Directions in Research on Prostitution,” Crime, Law, and Social Change 43 (2005): 211–235.
41. See Patty Kelly, Lydia’s Open Door: Inside Mexico’s Most Modern Brothel , Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008; Prabha Kotiswaran,
“Born unto Brothels: Toward a Legal Ethnography of Sex Work in an Indian Red-Light Area,” Law and Social Inquiry 33 (2008): 579–629; Kemala Kempadoo, Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race, and Sexual Labor , New York: Routledge, 2004; Kamala Kempadoo, ed., Sun, Sex, and Gold: Tourism and Sex Work in the Caribbean , Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999; Denise Brennan, What’s Love Got to Do with It?
Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic , Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2004.
42. Libby Plumridge and Gillian Abel, “A Segmented Sex Industry in New Zealand: Sexual and Personal Safety of Female Sex Workers,” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 25 (2001): 78–83, at p. 83.
43. Quoted in Joanne Kimberlin, “Women for Hire: Behind Closed Doors in the Escort Industry,” The Virginia-Pilot , May 18, 2008, p. A11.
44. Dolores French, Working: My Life as A Prostitute , New York: E.P. Dutton, 1988, pp. 152–153.
45. Roberta Perkins and Frances Lovejoy, Call Girls: Private Sex Workers in Australia , Crawley: University of Western Australia Press, 2007, p. 51.
46. Quoted in Elizabeth Bernstein, Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex , Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007, p. 46.
47. Diana Prince, A Psychological Study of Prostitutes in California and Nevada , doctoral dissertation, San Diego: U.S. International University, 1986, p. 490.
48. Ann Lucas, “The Work of Sex Work: Elite Prostitutes’ Vocational Orientations and Experiences,” Deviant Behavior 26 (2005): 513–546, at p. 531.
49. A similar phenomenon has been documented for bar workers who spend extended periods of time with their customers. A survey of Thailand’s bar prostitutes found that more than 80% of them “had a relationship with a customer in which they had developed strong feelings for him.”
Steinfatt, Working at the Bar , p. 251.
50. Charlotte Woodward, Jane Fischer, Jake Najman, and Michael Dunne, Selling Sex in Queensland , Brisbane, Australia: Prostitution Licensing Authority, 2004.
51. Lucas, “The Work of Sex Work,” p. 541.
52. Woodward, et al., Selling Sex in Queensland , p. 39.
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53. Quoted in Mark Waite, “Prostitutes Dispute Trummell Charges,”
Pahrump Valley Times , October 5, 2007.
54. See the studies