read : The Best of the Magazine That Illuminated the Sex Industry and Started a Media Revolution.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: The Sex Worker Rights Movement in the Early 2000s-A Primer -- A Short History of pread -- PART I: WORKPLACE -- Introduction -- Indecent Proposal: Fucking the Movement -- Positions: Is Sex Work a Sacred Practice or Just a Job? -- American Brothel: A Photo-Essay -- Stripping While Brown -- Positions: No Sex in the Champagne Room? -- Menstruation: Porn's Last Taboo -- Diary of a Peep Show Girl -- PART II: LABOR -- Introduction -- Positions: Can We Justify Working for Pimps? -- The Sex Workplace: No Day Without an Immigrant -- Respite From the Streets: A Place to Retire for Mexico City's Elderly Prostitutes -- Black Tale: Women of Color in the American Porn Industry -- The City's Red Lights: Mumbai's Boomtown of Migrant Laborers -- PART III: FAMILY AND RELATIONSHIPS -- Introduction -- Wives -- Keeping Her Off the Pole: My Daughter's Right to Choose -- Hot Topic: People Who Date Sex Workers -- I (Heart) Affection, and Other Forms of Emotional Masochism -- The Coldest Profession -- Hell's Kitchen: Growing Up Loving a Working Mother -- PART IV: CLIENTS -- Introduction -- Cher John (Dear John) -- Indecent Proposal: Bento Bitch -- Empower: In Defense of Sex Tourism -- Haikus for Mistress Octavia -- Honest John: An Interview with Caveh Zahedi -- Hot Topic: Would You Steal From a Client? -- Indecent Proposal: Tiny Town -- Healthy Hooker: Condoms 101 -- The Last Outcall -- PART V: VIOLENCE -- Introduction -- Paradise Lost, Paradox Found: Or, Don't Get Caught Slipping in the Big Hypocro-Easy -- Tsunami Report: Sex Workers in South Thailand -- Epidemic of Neglect: Trans Women Sex Workers and HIV -- The Unicorn and the Crow -- Escort Rape Case Causes Uproar in Philadelphia -- Bodies Across Borders: Experiences of Trafficking and Migration -- PART VI: RESISTANCE -- Introduction.

I Have Nothing to Say: A Story of Self-Defense -- The Cutting Edge: On Sex Workers, Serial Killers, and Switchblades -- Fashion with a Function: The Aphrodite Project -- 2 Young 2 B 4Gotten: Youth in the Sex Trade -- Alphabet Hookers: B is for Bobbi -- PART VII: MEDIA AND CULTURE -- Introduction -- Sex Work and the City: An Interview with Tracy Quan -- Up in Buck's Business: An Interview with Buck Angel -- Intercourses: An Interview with Pro-Choice Activist Joyce Arthur -- In Her Own Words: An Interview with Deborah Jeane Palfrey -- The Real Media Whores: Uniting Against Sensationalism in the Wake of Spitzergate -- Dirty Words: An Interview with Craig Seymour -- The History of pread: A Timeline -- Acknowledgments -- Also Available from Feminist Press -- About the Feminist Press.

The essential collection by sex workers on sex work, prostitute rights, and the real media whores who sensationalize them.

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