Sources: Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work

Condoms as evidence of prostitution in the United States and the criminalization of sex work

Received 20 March 2013; Revised 21 April 2013; Accepted 1 May 2013; Published 24 May 2013 Copyright: – 2013 Wurth MH et al; licensee International AIDS Society. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproductio...

Prostitution and Sex Tourism in Cuba

For the first thirty years after the triumph of his revolution, Fidel Castro championed Cuba as a model socialist society. Gone were the casinos, the bootlegging Americans, the mafia, and the brothels they frequented. Socialist society, he claimed, is superior to capitalism. Girls do not have to sell themselves for money in Cuba’s new society. Women gain liberation through socialism. They have ...

Researching Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Comparatively

This article examines different types of comparative research designs as applied to either prostitution or sex trafficking. I first present several comparative approaches that are found to be deeply flawed either because of the problematic assumptions of the analysts or because the data provided are insufficient to support the conclusions drawn. I then review research designs that compare two t...

Prostitution laws failing sex workers: CPHA.

CONSUMING SEX – Finnish Male Clients and Russian and Baltic Prostitution

The practices of men who buy sex, “the invisible men”, have been largely ignored by academic discussion – despite the recent visibility and immensity of prostitution and trafficking businesses. The Finnish political debate surrounding the issue of prostitution has concentrated on criminalization of buying sex. There has, however, been little discussion on the different masculinities and sexuali...