Backing up theory and critical literature with hard evidence, this book refutes the idea that legalization of prostitution can be anything but a harmful contributor to the commodification of women. It explores the fallacy of the "cottage industry," the role of financial institutions in supporting prostitution, the myth of exit programs, the conflation of legal and illegal sex industries, the problem of applying occupational health and safety standards to prostitution, and the specter of sex trafficking.
Author(s): Mary Lucille Sullivan
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 430
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Setting the Framework: Prostitution in the 21st Century......Page 10
Institutionalising Men’s Rights to Women’s Bodies: Legalisation (1982–1997)......Page 57
From Prostitutes’ Rights to Sex Industry Advocates: The History of the Prostitutes’ Collective of Victoria......Page 100
Living Off the Earnings of Prostitution: Sex Industry Expansion and Its Beneficiaries......Page 143
Unregulated and Illegal: Clandestine Prostitution Under Victoria’s ‘Model Legislation’......Page 194
Victoria’s ‘Safe Sex Agenda’: Occupational Health and Safety for the Sex Industry......Page 253
Rape and Violence as Occupational Hazards......Page 290
Making Men’s Demand Visible......Page 337
Glossary......Page 353
Abbreviations......Page 361
Table of Legislation......Page 364
Bibliography......Page 367
Index......Page 412
