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Author Brooks-Gordon, Belinda.

Title The price of sex : prostitution, policy and society / Belinda Brooks-Gordon
Published Cullompton ; Portland, OR : Willan Publishing, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 296 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 How prostitution became a legal problem; 2 Understanding prostitution policy; 3 Understanding sexual demand; 4 Policing street prostitution; 5 Violence, victimisation and protection; 6 Motives, methods and morality; 7 Conclusion; References
Summary As a society we are buying more sex than ever before. Adult sex shops now take their place amongst retailers in the high street and lap dancing clubs compete for an increased share of the leisure economy; hotel chains offer sexually explicit films as part of their standard service, the party selling of adult toys to women in their homes has become a mainstream activity; and at the traditional end of the sexual service economy, prostitution has experienced new growth. Along with this has come new legal measure and attempts to regulate the sexual leisure economy, and far more comprehensive plans
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-291) and index
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Subject Prostitution -- Great Britain
Sex industry -- Great Britain
Sex -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
Prostitution -- Government policy -- Great Britain
Sex industry -- Government policy -- Great Britain
71.67 sexuality as a social problem.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Sex industry -- Government policy
Prostitution -- Government policy
Prostitution
Sex industry
Sex -- Social aspects
Prostitution
Gesellschaft
Prostitutie.
Seks.
Prostitution -- Great Britain.
Prostitution -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
Sex-oriented businesses -- Great Britain.
Sex-oriented businesses -- Government policy -- Great Britain.
Sex -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
Great Britain
Großbritannien
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Form Electronic book
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