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Sex Work Books
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Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.59 — 4,454 ratings — published 2018
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,154 ratings — published 2014
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.16 — 231 ratings — published 2007
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.45 — 559 ratings — published 2021
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 — 353 ratings — published 2009
Rent Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,538 ratings — published 2004
Whores and Other Feminists (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.17 — 586 ratings — published 1997
Sex Work: Writings by Women in the Sex Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.96 — 403 ratings — published 1987
The Kiss Quotient (The Kiss Quotient, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.87 — 502,594 ratings — published 2018
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
Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.57 — 13,757 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 — 159 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 4.05 — 182 ratings — published 2007
For the Fans (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,997 ratings — published 2023
The Roommate (Shameless #1)
by (shelved 21 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.53 — 136,353 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 3.88 — 448 ratings — published 2006
Belle de Jour: Diary of an Unlikely Call Girl (Belle De Jour #1)
by (shelved 18 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.33 — 9,450 ratings — published 2005
Global Sex Workers (Oxford Historical Monographs)
by (shelved 18 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 102 ratings — published 1998
MateHub: Legend (MateHub, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.28 — 5,041 ratings — published 2024
Coming Out Like a Porn Star: Essays on Pornography, Protection, and Privacy (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.04 — 426 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 — 122 ratings — published 2015
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.98 — 636 ratings — published 2012
How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,247 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 — 1,936 ratings — published 2001
Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers' Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.24 — 358 ratings — published 2019
Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.53 — 192 ratings — published
Paying for It (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.60 — 5,773 ratings — published 2011
Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,412 ratings — published 2001
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.03 — 220 ratings — published 2021
Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.41 — 2,830 ratings — published 2014
Whip Smart: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,159 ratings — published 2010
A Merry Little Meet Cute (A Christmas Notch, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.31 — 78,593 ratings — published 2022
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 — 2,120,529 ratings — published 1997
Caught Up (Into Darkness, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.80 — 215,814 ratings — published 2025
Malibu (Elite 8 Studios, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.34 — 4,449 ratings — published
Rebel (Ballsy Boys #1)
by (shelved 12 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,446 ratings — published 2018
Slammerkin (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.76 — 17,392 ratings — published 2001
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.38 — 2,969 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 — 14,108 ratings — published 2004
Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.01 — 803 ratings — published
Lingus (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.77 — 31,293 ratings — published 2012
Some Girls: My Life in a Harem (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.35 — 9,128 ratings — published 2010
Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.84 — 74 ratings — published 1996
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.36 — 245 ratings — published
The Nanny (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.54 — 138,884 ratings — published 2023
Lucky (Lucky, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,628 ratings — published 2018
Heart (Ballsy Boys #3)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,769 ratings — published 2018
Tank (Ballsy Boys, #2)
by (shelved 10 times as sex-work)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,447 ratings — published 2018
“The sweet-talking is not necessary ... I am doing this because you are paying me, not because you charm me.”
― The Temptation of Eden
― The Temptation of Eden
“Ci chiedono se proviamo dolore al termine di una giornata di lavoro e io gli rispondo di provare a fare la stessa domanda al muratore che è stato tutto il giorno attaccato a un'impalcatura o alla domestica che ha stirato in piedi per ore. Loro lo hanno scelto? Qui è dove notiamo che la questione è morale”
― Sex work is work
― Sex work is work
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