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1) Sold
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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Georgian London evokes images of elegant mannered buildings, but it was also a city where prostitution was rife and houses of ill repute widespread in a sex trade that employed thousands.
In London's Sinful Secret, Dan Cruickshank explores this erotic Georgian underworld and shows how it affected almost every aspect of life and culture in the city from the smart new streets that sprang up in Marylebone, to the squalid alleys around Charing Cross,...
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Seven Australian soldiers, carousing in Paris in 1918, unknowingly witness a murder, with devastating consequences. Ten years later, two are dead...under very suspicious circumstances. Phryne (pronounced Fry-Knee) Fisher's friends, Bert and Cec (sometimes cabbies and sometimes men for hire), appeal to her for help. They were part of this group of soldiers in 1918, and they fear for their lives and for those of the other three men. It's only as Phryne...
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Angels of Pattaya offers an insightful collection of interviews with a number of prostitutes working in Thailand. The women are given a rare opportunity to tell their story in their own words. The women reveal how they became involved in the business, their hopes for the future and what they think of their "customers". Some are from the poorest rural provinces of Thailand, others come from relatively well-to-do families in the cities. Some are in...
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The average age of entry into prostitution in America is 13 years old. Forced into a life they never chose, manipulated, abused and tortured at the hands of the pimps who control them, our country's children are sold on the streets, on the internet and at truck stops across America every night. They aren't bad kids who made bad choices. They are victims of child sex trafficking. They come from our neighborhoods, our schools, our churches, and sometimes...
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For all of the worry warts out there, ignorance is not the solution. The individuals that you are morbidly afraid will attempt to use the information in this book to abuse and exploit women are in stark reality not even able to read it because they have never had a high enough level of literacy to do so.
A woman ultimately has only two dimensions, anxiety and maternal instinct, and if intensified one dimension has the power to completely neutralize...
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Según el Banco Mundial (2020), América Latina es la región más afectada por el Covid 19 y la que va a tener mayores consecuencias a largo plazo, en términos de endeudamiento, crisis económica y exclusión social (Blake, Wadhwa, 2020). Sumida la región en una trampa de bajo crecimiento, alta desigualdad y alta violencia, como lo explica el Plan de Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD), en Orozco et al (2021), el desafío de recuperación...
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En el año 1927 Albert Londres viajó de incógnito a la Argentina para llevar adelante una investigación sobre la trata de blancas. El camino de Buenos Aires, fruto de esa investigación, es mucho más que una crónica ocurrente o el relato de un viaje por el "paraíso de los rufianes": constituye un testimonio polémico sobre la Argentina y un precioso documento sobre el circuito internacional del hampa.
Albert Londres nació en 1884, en Vichy,...
9) Slave
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Jabali Smith was a 6-yr-old in Berkeley, California when he was trafficked along with his sister over the border into Mexico and held captive by a messianic doomsday sex cult. SLAVE courageously and boldly chronicles his journey as a child slave; the escape and the eventual rise from the ashes of tragedy. A story of unimaginable suffering followed by the discovery of success, love, compassion and forgiveness.
Jabali spent years being beaten, tortured,...
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Marta Elisa de León fue al infierno y volvió. El infierno era la mentira, la ambigüedad, el consumismo, la poca autoestima, la obsesión por la imagen, el trastorno emocional en suma: la vida como prostituta. Iniciada como por juego, lúdica al principio, luego angustiosa, convertida en cautividad. Siete años después, la autora revive aquella vida oculta en un libro sin equivalencia con los de su género: no busca el morbo ni el escándalo, no...
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Bonita is a 34-year-old former prostitute from Pennsylvania trying to fight back against the demons in her life. Now being held at the county jail awaiting trial in her connection to the homicide of one of her millionaire clients, she is chosen as the guest speaker to share her story with the in-house support group led by the jails part-time counselor. Hear Bonita's story of loyalty, survival, and her search for hope in a hopeless place.
12) Dolly
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Hi, Im Georgy. I want to tell you my story that goes back to many years, when I was a child of only twelve years old. Its basically a true story about a part of my life over a period of four years, which created me into who I became, how I think, and moulded me into the person I am today. This story did not upset me in any way, and I think many of you will see the charm and the hilarious funny side of the events, maybe some readers could only wish...
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The life of a prostitute is full of abuse, addiction, and depression. While most ladies of the night accept the life they have chosen, some rise up and fight back. The women profiled in this book accepted their faith...and murdered. Their crimes were horrible, but for some, it almost seemed excusable.
Next time you see a girl working the street, you might be a little more frightened about the killer who could be inside her.
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Esta obra, es la compilación de una serie de hallazgos derivados de experiencias de investigación, efectuadas durante el período de 2011 al 2020. La misma gira alrededor de entrevistas y etnografías basadas en actrices y actores involucrados en el comercio del sexo en los estados de Tlaxcala, Puebla y Veracruz. Aunque no fue el objetivo primordial al inicio de la pesquisa, esta publicación se propone ahora, como una fuente de consulta que sirva...
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En el año 1927 Albert Londres viajó de incógnito a la Argentina para llevar adelante una investigación sobre la trata de blancas. El camino de Buenos Aires, fruto de esa investigación, es mucho más que una crónica ocurrente o el relato de un viaje por el "paraíso de los rufianes": constituye un testimonio polémico sobre la Argentina y un precioso documento sobre el circuito internacional del hampa.
Albert Londres nació en 1884, en Vichy,...
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"Forget what you thought you knew about sex trafficking and the best ways to prevent it. The problem is larger in scope and involves more factors than most can imagine. This book lays out what makes young people vulnerable to trafficking; explores the real root of the problem; the numerous effects of abuse; outlines steps parents and others can take to mitigate those risk factors; and describes ways to help victims find healing.Drawing from her own...
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After 22 years since its initial publication, Dane Taylor has rereleased this iconic book which garnered major media attention in 1994-95. GIGOLOS, albeit spawning many other books on the same subject and being the inspiration for Showtime Network's reality show of the same title, remains the original and most complete work on the world's second oldest profession. With Antonia Newton-West providing the woman's point of view, interviews with real-life...
18) Somebody's Daughter: The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them
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They are America's forgotten children, the hundreds of thousands of child prostitutes who walk the Las Vegas Strip, the casinos of Atlantic City, the truck stops on interstates, and the street corners of our cities. Many people wrongly believe sex trafficking involves young women from foreign lands. In reality, the majority of teens caught in the sex trade are American girls--runaways and throwaways who become victims of ruthless pimps. In Somebody's...
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Aparecieron en Bogotá el siglo XIX, y su presencia se hizo notoria a finales de esa misma centuria.
Al principio, ellas se asomaron furtivamente por el balcón, abrieron la puerta y se pararon provocativamente en el dintel; luego, salieron a la calle e ingresaron a los lugares reservados para los hombres, como cafés y bares; tomaron por asalto la noche y, finalmente, hicieron suyo el espacio público, sin permiso... y las llamaron "mujeres de la...
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The book is a compilation of five true stories of adults (4 woman & 1 man) trafficked as children. Each story is preceded by an overview of the type of trafficking the story addresses and followed up by a statement from the survivors themselves. The purpose of the book is to provide insights on how American children are taken captive and often coerced to remain in a lifestyle of commercial sexual exploitation. All profits from the book will be distributed...
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