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La Fille Elisa
AU$400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdmond de Goncourt; Paul-Louis Guilbert
Paris: Le Livre du Bibliophile, George Briffaut, 1929.Goncourt’s prostitute-prisoner novel, here published for the first time with original drypoints by Paul-Louis Guilbert, a preface by J. -H. Rosny Aine, and an afterword by Jean Ajalbert. Edition of 425 numbered copies, this copy on Arches vellum, unnumbered but inscribed by the publisher, likely to the Belgian publisher Albert Parmentier of Les Editions du Nord.
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The Girls of F Street
Read MoreTod Nylan
San Diego: Greenleaf Classics, 1970.Novelization from the 1966 sexploitation film AKA The Maidens of Fetish Street. Illustrated with stills from the movie as well as additional colour photographs.
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Upstairs at the Everleigh Club
Read MoreRay Hibbeler
: Volitant Books, No date.“The inside story of Chicago’s fabulous bawdy house and its sensuous sex experts.”
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The Discreet Gentleman’s Guide to the Pleasures of Europe
Read MoreAnonymous
New York: Bantam, 1975.1970s guide to brothels and sex clubs of Europe.
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The Girls, the Massage, and Everything
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBernhardt J. Hurwood
Sydney: Eclipse Paperbacks, 1973.The naked truth about massage parlors.
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Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry
Read MoreDavid Jennings
: 1st Books Library, 2000. -
Before Porn Was Legal: The Erotica Empire of Beate Uhse
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartElizabeth Heineman
Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2011.The story of stunt and Luftwaffe pilot turned sex shop entrepreneur Beate Uhse-Rotermund (1919-2001).
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Striptease Culture: Sex, Media and the Democratisation of Desire
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartBrian McNair
London and New York: Routledge, 2002. -
Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
Read More[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1770.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes. Avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women. With Historical and Justificatory Notes]. Second Edition of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits. This copy in a likely 20th century rebind in quarter leather with new endpapers, and extra-illustrated with one erotic illustration bound in at page 16.
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Le Pornographe, ou Idees d’un Honnete-Homme sur, un Projet de Reglement pour les Prostitutes,
Read More[Nicolas Restif de La Bretonne]
Londres and La Haie: Jean Nourse and Gosse Junior, 1769.Propre a prevenir les Malheurs qu’occafionne le Publicisme des Femmes: avec Des Notes Historiques et Justificatives. [The Pornographer, or Ideas of an Honest Man on a Draft Regulation for Prostitutes, Proper to Prevent the Misfortunes Occurring from the Publicity of Women: with Historical and Justificatory Notes]. First edition, second issue (with an updated title page removing reference to the Paris printer Delalain) of the classic 18th century utopian text on sex work in which Bretonne envisions prostitution as a public institution with numerous social and medical benefits.
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I’m For Hire
Read MoreMarie-Therese
Paris: Olympia Press, 1955.First-person account of a Parisian prostitute working all sides of WWII. Translated from the French, Vie d’Une Prostituee, later titled The Memoirs of a Prostitute. KEARNEY 17.
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Boystown: La Zona de Tolerancia
Read MoreBill Wittliff
New York: Aperture Foundation, 2000.Photo essay of the brothels along the border of Texas and Mexico collected and edited by Bill Wittliff. With essays by Keith Carter, Dave Hickey, and Cristina Pacheco.
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Hustling: A Gentleman’s Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Preston
New York: Badboy, 1997.“The very first guide to the gay world’s most infamous profession.” (from rear cover).
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Making Sense of Prostitution
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJoanna Phoenix
Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001. -
De la Prostitution dans la Ville de Paris
AU$300.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet
Bruxelles: H. Dumont, 1837.Consideree sous le rapport de l’hygiene publique, de la morale et de l’administration. ‘Of Prostitution in the City of Paris’, “considered from the point of view of public hygiene, morals, and administration; supported by statistical documents drawn from the archives of the police, with maps and tables.” Authored by French physician Alexandre Parent-Duchatelet (1790-1836), an eminent hygienist who wrote numerous works on public health. This text, published post-humously, became his most famous and is regarded as a medical classic; a major work on the history of prostitution and one of the first empirical sociological surveys based upon nearly 8 eight years of research digging through police archives and conducting field interviews and surveys. The first edition published in 2 volumes in 1836 is considered one of the first work’s of modern sex research. This is the Second Edition to which is added an essay on his life and work by Fr. Leuret.
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Sistaaz of the Castle: SistaazHood: Trans Sex Work Support Group, Cape Town
AU$48.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJan Hoek; Duran Lantink; Gerda van de Glind; SistaazHood
[Ghent]: Art Paper Editions, 2019.“Jan Hoek, fashion designer Duran Lantink and trans sex worker organisation SistaazHood present Sistaaz of the Castle, an ongoing project about the colorful looks and lives of transgender sex workers that roam the streets of Cape Town, South Africa. Most of the girls are homeless, living under a bridge near Cape Towns castle. The Sistaaz are eager activists, proud to be trans, proud to be a sex worker, and even prouder of their stunning sense of style. And they want it to be acknowledged. A series of photographs and a fashion collection based on the girls appearance and their ability to turn whatever they find into the most exuberant outfits was created. This has already resulted in a fashion show at Amsterdam Fashion Week (a show in Cape Town in still on the wish list) and a photo exhibition in Foam Amsterdam.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The $51 Fantasy: Legal Prostitution for American Men
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEric S. Moore
Port Townsend: Loompanics Unlimited, 2000. -
pr0nnovation? Pornography and Technological Innovation
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohannes Grenzfurthner; Gunther Friesinger; Daniel Fabry
San Francisco: RE/SEARCH, 2008.“A collection of essays and transcribed presentations from monochrom’s Arse Electronika conference in San Francisco in 2007. Color photos! Sex, technology, the Internet, and information sciences are the topic of this cutting-edge book by monochrom, Vienna’s Art & Philosophy Collective. Technologys development (Photography, Cinema, The Internet) is often pushed ahead and funded by pornography. This book explores that connection ” (publisher’s blurb)
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A Whore’s Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers
AU$20.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKay Kassirer
Portland: Thorntree Press, 2019.