To browse Academia. This essay provides a global overview of prostitution from the early modern period to the present. The focus on female prostitution in urban settings is justified by the fact that commercial sex has nearly always been a city phenomenon involving women servicing men. Although the distinction between "pre-modern" and "modern" prostitution is not necessarily sharp, the profound political, military and socioeconomic changes from ca.
The International Observatory on Sexual Exploitation of the Scelles Foundation publishes the " International Press Overview on Sexual Exploitation and Prostitution", a compilation of over articles which have been collected during the year.
It is a unique look back at the prostitution evolution worldwide. The chapter begins with a description of key features of four branches of the sex industry: pornography, prostitution, commercial stripping, and commercial webcamming. The second half of the chapter presents four paradigms, each of which purports to identify the essential features of sex work.
The author argues that one of these models, the polymorphous paradigm, best captures the reality of sex work structurally and experientially. A precious tool for analyzing the current affairs day after day and for detecting new evolutions.
Jane Scoular's book is a tour de force. It is the book those in the field of sexual regulation and the law have been waiting for to reignite and redirect a stagnated debate. Scoular's principle objective is to intervene in contemporary prostitution politics, which privileges law as the solution to the 'problem' of prostitution. The subject of the legal regulation of prostitution has received considerable academic and public policy attention. It is striking, however, that little has been written about how law matters in contemporary sex work.
