Sex Work
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Behind the Burly Q: The Story of Burlesque in America
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 15cm. xxiv, 360 pages. Black papered boards, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
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Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry
$20.00 Add to cartDavid Jennings
: 1st Books LIbrary, 2000. -
Lights, Camera, Sex! An Autobiography by Christy Canyon
$100.00 Add to cartChristy Canyon
: Christy Canyon, 2003.
Autobiography of pornstar Christy Canyon (1966-). This copy inscribed by Canyon to Louis. -
Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse
$50.00 Add to cartElizabeth Heineman
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
The story of stunt and Luftwaffe pilot turned sex shop entrepreneur Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919-2001). -
Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
$30.00 Add to cartBrian McNair
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. -
Call Girls: Private Sex Workers in Australia
$50.00 Add to cartRoberta Perkins; Frances Lovejoy
Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2007. -
Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
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Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1770.
Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes. Avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women. With Historical and Justificatory Notes]. Second Edition of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits. This copy in a likely 20th century rebind in quarter leather with new endpapers, and extra-illustrated with one erotic illustration bound in at page 16. -
Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
$2,000.00 Add to cart[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1769.
Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes: avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women: with Historical and Justificatory Notes]. First edition, second issue (with an updated title page removing reference to the Paris printer Delalain) of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits. -
I’m For Hire
$500.00 Add to cartMarie-Therese
Paris: Olympia Press, 1955.
First-person account of a Parisian prostitute working all sides of WWII. Translated from the French, Vie d’Une Prostituee, later titled The Memoirs of a Prostitute. KEARNEY 17. -
Private Theatre: Personal Observations and Revelations of a Dominatrix
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 13.5cm. [vi],194 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
The story of a dominatrix that strained in Auckland, New Zealand, before starting her own practice in Melbourne, Australia.
Half-title clipped. Very minor shelf wear. Very Good Condition. -
Naughty Sydney Issue 4, Friday, January 12, 1990, Vol. 4
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First Edition.
42cm x 29cm. 40 pages. Newsprint.
Single issue of the Sydney sexpaper, Naughty Sydney. Feature interview with Star Trek sex symbol William Shatner, and a lengthy story on the bushranger Frank Gardiner. Also features regular sex columns, an article on seduction, an erotic fiction story, and personal ads. Crammed with advertisements for Sydney sex services throughout.
Horizontal fold. Minor tanning. Very minor foxing. Very Good Condition. -
Working Girls: Prostitutes, their Life and Social Control
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First Edition. Inscribed by Author
21.5cm x 14cm. xiii, 467 pages. Wrappers.
Australian Studies in Law, Crime and Justice.
Creasing to spine and wrappers. Foxing. Previous owner’s name. Good Condition. -
Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia
$200.00 Add to cartBill Wittliff
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2000.
Photo essay of the brothels along the border of Texas and Mexico collected and edited by Bill Wittliff. With essays by Keith Carter, Dave Hickey, and Cristina Pacheco. -
For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America
$100.00 Add to cartRobin Lloyd
New York: Vanguard Press, 1976.
With an introduction by Senator Birch Bayh. This copy signed by the author and from the collection of Dr. Gary Simes, with his signature. -
Hustling: A Gentleman’s Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution
$100.00 Add to cartJohn Preston
New York: Badboy, 1997.
“The very first guide to the gay world’s most infamous profession.” (from rear cover). -
Making Sense of Prostitution
$20.00 Add to cartJoanna Phoenix
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. -
Marked Women: Prostitutes and Prostitution in the Cinema
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First Edition.
23cm x 15cm. xiv, 450 pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.
Minor shelf wear. Near Fine Condition. -
De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris
$300.00 Add to cartA. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet
Bruxelles: H. Dumont, 1837.
Consideree sous le rapport de l’hygiene publique, de la morale et de l’administration. ‘Of Prostitution in the City of Paris’, “considered from the point of view of public hygiene, morals, and administration; supported by statistical documents drawn from the archives of the police, with maps and tables.” Authored by French physician Alexandre Parent-Duchatelet (1790-1836), an eminent hygienist who wrote numerous works on public health. This text, published post-humously, became his most famous and is regarded as a medical classic; a major work on the history of prostitution and one of the first empirical sociological surveys based upon nearly 8 eight years of research digging through police archives and conducting field interviews and surveys. The first edition published in 2 volumes in 1836 is considered one of the first work’s of modern sex research. This is the Second Edition to which is added an essay on his life and work by Fr. Leuret. -
Sistaaz of the Castle: SistaazHood: Trans Sex Work Support Group, Cape Town
$48.00 Add to cartJan Hoek; Duran Lantink; Gerda van de Glind; SistaazHood
[Ghent]: Art Paper Editions, 2019.
“Jan Hoek, fashion designer Duran Lantink and trans sex worker organisation SistaazHood present ‘Sistaaz of the Castle’, an ongoing project about the colorful looks and lives of transgender sex workers that roam the streets of Cape Town, South Africa. Most of the girls are homeless, living under a bridge near Cape Town’s castle. The Sistaaz are eager activists, proud to be trans, proud to be a sex worker, and even prouder of their stunning sense of style. And they want it to be acknowledged. A series of photographs and a fashion collection based on the girls’ appearance and their ability to turn whatever they find into the most exuberant outfits was created. This has already resulted in a fashion show at Amsterdam Fashion Week (a show in Cape Town in still on the wish list) and a photo exhibition in Foam Amsterdam.” (publisher’s blurb) -
Art Sex Music
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Reprint.
20cm x 13cm. ix, 502 pages, colour photographs. Lettered wrappers.
“Musician and artist Cosey Fanni Tutti has continually challenged boundaries and conventions for four decades. As a founding member of the hugely influential avant-garde band Throbbing Gristle, as one half of electronic pioneers Chris and Cosey, and as an artist channelling her experience in pornographic modelling and striptease, her work on the margins has come to reshape the mainstream. Shocking, wise and life-affirming, Art Sex Music is the fascinating memoir of an inspirational woman.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The $51 Fantasy: Legal Prostitution for American Men
$20.00 Add to cartEric S. Moore
Port Townsend: Loompanics Unlimited, 2000. -
pr0nnovation? Pornography and Technological Innovation
$35.00 Add to cartJohannes Grenzfurthner; Gunther Friesinger; Daniel Fabry
San Francisco: RE/SEARCH, 2008.
“A collection of essays and transcribed presentations from monochrom’s Arse Electronika conference in San Francisco in 2007. Color photos! Sex, technology, the Internet, and information sciences are the topic of this cutting-edge book by monochrom, Vienna’s Art & Philosophy Collective. Technology’s development (Photography, Cinema, The Internet) is often pushed ahead and funded by pornography. This book explores that connection…” (publisher’s blurb) -
A Whore’s Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers
$20.00 Add to cartKay Kassirer
Portland: Thorntree Press, 2019. -
Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower-class Japanese Women
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22.5cm x 15cm. xliii, 215 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
Translated by Karen Colligan-Taylor.
Some bubbling to wrappers glaze. Very minor foxing. Good Condition. -
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The Autobiography of a Bellboy [The Autobiography of a Pimp]
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23cm x 15cm. 128 pages. Illustrated wrappers.
An anonymously published mid-late 20th century reproduction of the 1930s sex work fiction by Allison Hardy.
Minor bumping to corners. Good Condition. -
Ivy League Stripper
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First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. vii, 288 pages, black and white photographs. Pink quarter cloth, gilt lettering, pictorial jacket.
The story of an American girl stripping to pay her way through college at an American Ivy League school.
Minor wear to boards. Very minor soiling to edges. Very Good Condition. -
Male Prostitution
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First Edition.
21.5cm x 15cm. xix, 358 pages. Lettered wrappers.
Spine creased and slightly cocked. Foxing to edges, wrappers verso, and scattered through text. Previous owner’s stamp. Good Condition. -
Prostitution: On Whores, Hustlers, and Johns
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 15.5cm. 545 pages, black and white illustrations, map. Black papered boards, red lettering, pictorial jacket.
Spine creased. Minor soiling to top edge. Very Good Condition. -
Love for Sale: Courting, Treating, and Prostitution in New York City, 1900-1945
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First Edition.
23.5cm x 15.5cm. xiii, 325 pages, black and white illustrations. Illustrated wrappers.
Minor creasing to spine. Good Condition. -
Traivailleurs du Sexe
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First Edition.
22.5cm x 15cm. 107pages. Pictorial wrappers. Text is in French.
Foxing to edges. Bookplate of Dr. Gary Simes. Very Good Condition.