- Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do
The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- Beyond Sovereignty
Issues for a Global Agenda (2nd Edition)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Discussion of the increasingly transnational structure of power in today's world and proposals forabandoning nation-state sovereignty for more integrated, cooperative rule between different types of governance bodies.
- Born into Brothels
Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Resource Type: Film
Published: 2004
The chronicling of two documentary filmmakers and their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
- Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- Common Women
Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (Studies in the History of Sexuality)
Resource Type: Book
Karras analyzes medieval attitudes towards prostitutes and female sexuality.
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Covenant House
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Down With Tory Crackdown on Prostitution!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Tories, who have slashed billions from social programs and caused immeasurable harm to poor and working-class women, have fraudulently promoted Bill C-36 as a way of protecting victims of "exploitation." In this they are backed by an unholy alliance of right-wing outfits like REAL Women of Canada and the feminist groups that make up the Women’s Coalition for the Abolition of Prostitution.
- Eros Denied
Sex in Western Society
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
Spanning 2000 years of Western culture, Eros Denied explores the multitude of forces which through the ages have tended to suppress and pervert the sexual instincts.
- The Erotic Arts
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
Covers the uses of erotic themes in various branches of the arts at all times and in many civilizations.
- Fantasy's Legal, Reality's Not
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
A sex worker's take on prostitution and the sex industry.
- Feminist Issues In Prostitution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
The flawed reasoning behind the opposition to prostitution by (radical) feminists.
- First register; then turn tricks
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A new prostitution law to include compulsory registration meant to fight human trafficking and exploitation is not popular in the industry, and may lead to a return of prostitution going underground.
- The Folklore of Sex
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
A collection of materials illustrating American attitudes to sex, love and marriage.
- Good Girls, Bad Girls
Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Looks into issues like racism in pornography, reclamation of the label "whore," the concerns surrounding censorship and the myths and stereotypes that have made sex trade workers outcasts.
- Happy Hookers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Exploring the lives of sex workers and their would-be saviours.
- Heresies Sex Issue
Heresies #12
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Hidden from History
Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Eessays analyzing the political, philosophical, and social history of homosexuality from the ancient world to the postwar era.
- I Was a Streetwalker for a Night
I did it for science
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
I became a prostitute for a night. Not a high-class escort (the logistics seemed too daunting for an amateur like me) just a regular hooker out on the street. I had no clue what to expect exactly, but that's what made it all so exciting.
- In Conflict with the Law
Women and the Canadian Justice System
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
- Inside the Sensational Business of "Rescuing" Sex Workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
For years, the sex worker movement has been at odds with a conservative wing of the anti-human trafficking movement.
- Love Locked Out
A survey of love, licence and restriction in the Middle Ages
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
A study of the irrepressible sexuality of the Middle Ages, describing the attempts of the church to impose a morality on libidinous medieval society, and shows how they were frustrated at every turn.
- Meet the Fokkens
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2011
A documentary on Louise and Martine Fokkens, 69-year-old twin sisters who have worked as prostitutes in the red-light district in Amsterdam for over 40 years.
- Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
- Not at liberty
Jails (and gaols), Central Prison, the Mercer Reformatory, and the Asylum
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
A history of prisons, reformatories, asylums and mental health facilities in Toronto and their relationship with the populace, detailing and criticizing the implications of attitudes and approaches to mental health by the cities institutions.
- Paying for It
A Guide by Sex Workers for their Clients
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A book of advice for sex work customers, written by sex workers and former sex workers, about how to treat sex workers so they like you more and give you better service.
- Pornography and Prostitution
Issues Paper, November 1983
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Pornography and Prostitution in Canada
Reports of the Special Committee on Pornography and Prostitution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
- Prostitution
Resource Type: Article
Prostitution is the act or practice of providing sexual services to another person in return for payment.
- Prostitution and trafficking – the anatomy of a moral panic
Victims who never existed
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The author challenges the underlying assumptions and methods used to assess the incidence of sex trafficking into the United Kingdom.
- Prostitution ban won't hit England, 'too many politicians' visit sex workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Northern Ireland’s sex trade ban has left prostitutes in fear of "danger and poverty." In an in-depth interview with RT, one sex worker challenged the idea of the law spreading to England, claiming "too many" influential people visit prostitutes.
- Prostitution Rights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
Decriminalization takes prostitution from the jurisdiction of the criminal code. It means private sexual acts between consenting adults are placed outside the realm of criminal laws.
- Public Housing Redesign
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
The solution to the specific problems of illegal drug dealing and prostitution is decriminalization.
- Red City, Blue Period
Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
Resource Type: Book
- Red Emma Speaks
Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
- The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
- Red Menace #5
Summer 1980
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- The Secret Museum
Pornography in Modern Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Kendrick looks at the idea of pornography since the word was coined a century and a half ago, concentrating less on the books and pictures that have instigated battles over "pornography" than on what people thought and felt about them.
- Selling Sexual Services: A Socialist Feminist Perspective
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The current debate about sex work among feminists generates more heat than light. Accusations of bad faith fly back and forth across the two sides, research findings are mobilized to undercut the other side even when the research itself is limited by its methods and scope, different sex worker voices are authorized by each side as either genuine or manipulated, depending on whose position those voices seem to support.
- Sex in History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
Tannahill draws on the findings of anthropology, archaeology, bio-chemistry, genetics, physiology, and psychoanalysis, as well as art, architecture, literature, and theology, in order to place the human sex drive and its social and moral consequences in their widest historical perspective.
- The Sex Industry and Its Workers
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
An article discussing the various components of the sex industry and the various forms of sexual services that have evolved from prostitution.
- Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sex Information and Education Council of Canada Launches New Website
- Sex Work Advocates Make Their Voices Heard While Ontario Considers Harmful New Sex Work Laws
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Sex worker advocates insist that Ontario Attorney General Meillleur must meet with them and consider the mounting opposition to the misguided laws.
- The sex work debate - a response to Jess Edwards
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Contribution to the debate on sex work which has been taking place in the International Socialism journal.
- Sex work: Solidarity not salvation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
An ongoing debate is taking place in anarchist and feminist circles on the legitimacy of sex work and the rights of sex workers. The two main schools of thought are almost at polar opposites of each other. On the one side you have the abolitionist approach led by feminists, such as Melissa Farley who maintains that sex work is a form of violence against women. Farley has said that "If we view prostitution as violence against women, it makes no sense to legalize or decriminalize prostitution." On the other side you have sex worker rights activists who view sex work as being much closer to work in general than most realize, who believe that the best way forward for sex workers is in the fight for workers' rights and social acceptance and for activists to listen to what sex workers have to say. In this article I will discuss why the abolitionist approach discriminates against sex workers and takes advantage of their marginalized status, while the rights approach offer the opportunity to make solid differences in the labour rights and human rights of sex workers.
- Sex workers decry government consultation on prostitution
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Maggie's - Toronto Sex Workers' Action Project, along with sex workers and other experts, question the legitimacy of the federal government online consultation around prostitution in Canada.
- Sex Workers in Nicaragua Break the Silence and Gain Rights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
After living in the shadows, thousands of Nicaraguan sex workers have broken their silence, won support from state institutions and gained new respect for their rights.
- SexSources.ca
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2017
A web portal featuring sexuality resources: articles, websites, books. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- SIECCAN The Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
- US-UN Crusade Against 'Sex Trafficking'
Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Woman, Anti-Sex
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Kidnapping, debt bondage, sexual assault, beatings - for any purpose - are horrible crimes. But there is a qualitative distinction between this kind of coercion and the fundamentally consensual act between a prostitute and her client to exchange money for sex.
- Western Sexuality
Practice and Precept in Past and Present Times
Resource Type: Book
Examines homosexuality, sex and the Church, prostitution, and notions of love and marriage.
- Who Cares?
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Rosie Dranfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex-trade workers. In this post-Pickton era where the unthinkable is now a gruesome reality, women voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future identification.
- Why Do Establishment Feminists Hate Sex Workers?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
On March 21st, 2018, U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats joined together to overwhelmingly pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA); the House had earlier passed the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA).
- The Wisdom of Whores
Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Pisani's book The Wisdom of Whores is a scathing attack on the bureaucratic international aid communities that deal with HIV/AIDS. Topics include: injection of drugs and the idea of harm reduction by the use of clean needles and methadone to prevent the spread of HIV, the question of economic resources and how and where they are spent, the concept of abstinence and how the U.S. administration views has undermined the use of condoms.
- Woman at Point Zero
Resource Type: Book
From her prison cell, Firdaus, sentenced to die for having killed a pimp in a Cairo street, tells of her life from village childhood to city prostitute. Society's retribution for her act of defiance - death - she welcomes as the only way she can finally be free.
- Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
Resource Type: Book
- Working Girls: Prostitutes, Their Life and Social Control
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
An analysis of prostitution laws in Austrailia and a discussion of the need for decriminalisation.
- Yonge Street Mission
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
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