BernsteinElizabeth. Temporarily Yours: Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex (University of Chicago Press, 2007). Tracks trends in commercialized sex, focusing on the growing marketing of intimacy coupled with sexual services.
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ChapkisWendy. “Power and Control in the Commercial Sex Trade.” In Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry, ed. WeitzerRonald (Routledge, 2000). Identifies variables that shape worker experiences in different sectors of the sex industry.
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MontoMartin. “Female Prostitution, Customers, and Violence.”Violence Against Women10 (2004):160–68. Exposes several myths regarding prostitutes' clients.
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VanwesenbeeckIne. “Another Decade of Social Scientific Work on Prostitution.”Annual Review of Sex Research12 (2001):242–89. A comprehensive literature review, providing support for the polymorphous model.
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WeitzerRonald. “New Directions in Research on Prostitution.”Crime, Law, and Social Change43 (2005):211–35. Analysis of deficiencies in the research literature and some promising studies that help to address them.
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WeitzerRonald. “The Social Construction of Sex Trafficking: Ideology and Institutionalization of a Moral Crusade.”Politics & Society35 (2007):447–75. Critical evaluation of the claims of antitrafficking forces and their increasing endorsement in U.S. government policy.
