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Sex Work Books
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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,349 ratings — published 2018
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,141 ratings — published 2014
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.17 — 229 ratings — published 2007
Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.71 — 351 ratings — published 2009
Rent Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,541 ratings — published 2004
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.46 — 544 ratings — published 2021
Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.95 — 402 ratings — published 1987
Whores and Other Feminists (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.17 — 586 ratings — published 1997
Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.77 — 194 ratings — published 2007
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.87 — 495,757 ratings — published 2018
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.57 — 13,716 ratings — published 2005
Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.89 — 157 ratings — published 2014
Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture)
by (shelved 22 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.06 — 179 ratings — published 2007
For the Fans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.31 — 71,790 ratings — published
The Roommate (Shameless #1)
by (shelved 20 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.53 — 135,000 ratings — published 2020
Indecent: How I Make It and Fake It as a Girl for Hire (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.87 — 447 ratings — published 2006
Global Sex Workers (Oxford Historical Monographs)
by (shelved 18 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 102 ratings — published 1998
Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl (Belle De Jour #1)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.33 — 9,413 ratings — published 2005
Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.04 — 423 ratings — published 2015
$pread: The Best of the Magazine that Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.31 — 120 ratings — published 2015
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.97 — 634 ratings — published 2012
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,243 ratings — published 2013
Sex Work Matters: Exploring Money, Power, and Intimacy in the Sex Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.08 — 63 ratings — published 2010
Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,924 ratings — published 2001
Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,408 ratings — published 2001
MateHub: Legend (MateHub, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,556 ratings — published 2024
Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 354 ratings — published 2019
Paying for It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.61 — 5,699 ratings — published 2011
A Merry Little Meet Cute (A Christmas Notch, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.32 — 76,971 ratings — published 2022
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.03 — 210 ratings — published 2021
Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.53 — 189 ratings — published
Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.41 — 2,807 ratings — published 2014
Whip Smart: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.63 — 4,101 ratings — published 2010
To Live Freely in This World: Sex Worker Activism in Africa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.66 — 47 ratings — published 2016
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,105,261 ratings — published 1997
Rebel (Ballsy Boys #1)
by (shelved 12 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,379 ratings — published 2018
Slammerkin (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.76 — 17,305 ratings — published 2001
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.38 — 2,954 ratings — published 1972
How to... Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.79 — 14,041 ratings — published 2004
Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.02 — 739 ratings — published
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.35 — 9,083 ratings — published 2010
Caught Up (Into Darkness, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.79 — 183,434 ratings — published 2025
Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.82 — 72 ratings — published 1996
The Naughty List (Naughtier and Naughtier, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.81 — 24,255 ratings — published 2023
Malibu (Elite 8 Studios, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,167 ratings — published
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 235 ratings — published
The Intimacy Experiment (Shameless #2)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.60 — 26,278 ratings — published 2021
Heart (Ballsy Boys #3)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,715 ratings — published 2018
Tank (Ballsy Boys, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,380 ratings — published 2018
Lingus (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.77 — 31,064 ratings — published 2012
“Gay rights aren't predicated on being born gay or having the right gene. Gay rights are predicated on having choice and consent. If you're a man and you can find another man that consents to have sex with you, it's the consent that gives you the right to have sex with him. Genetics are irrelevant when it comes to sexual rights. Just as gay rights are based on choice and consent, so are prostitution rights. All sexual rights are based on choice and consent.”
― Paying for It
― Paying for It
“Herein lies the material basis of trans femininity: a cis woman might be a sex worker and both proletarian and bourgeois standards for female respectability have long been defined in contrast to the figure of the sex worker, but trans femininity has been positioned by police and cultural producers in a categorical relation to sex work since the late nineteenth century. This is a feminist theoretical conclusion that trans feminine lives reveal and trans women politicize.”
― The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory (Volume 27)
― The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory (Volume 27)
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