leilaniann's review against another edition
4.0
good collection overall, though scarlet harlot's writing is obnoxiously vain.
theverbalthing's review against another edition
5.0
Yes. This book showed up in my recommended readings when I was shopping for the required texts for my TransFeminism class and I fell in love after the first few essays. It offers personal experiences, fictional accounts, and academic analysis of the sex industry and the women who work in it, from their feelings on the work to the way that they're treated to the overall public perception of sex workers. There are feminist accounts, lesbian accounts, poetic accounts, fictionalized accounts, research accounts, and more. I thought this book was absolutely fascinating and I had a very difficult time putting it down, something that isn't always true of collections like this one.
librarylapin's review against another edition
4.0
This book was extremely informative and had a wide variety of perspectives. Although the book came out a while ago, I found it to be very relevant.
jraley_writes's review against another edition
3.0
I think this is a good book to whet the mind for more discussion and research on sex workers, feminist perspectives, and social policy. Since this was written in the late 1990s I wonder what changes have come about. It was broken up into 3 sections: section 1-stories from sex workers, section 2-a bit of history and policy regarding sex workers/nonsex workers, and section 3-sex workers organizations and policies out there.
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