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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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El investigador Roberto Gonzá lez Villarreal explica en La desaparició n forzada en Mé xico có mo es que se transitó de la desaparició n-detenció n por razones polí ticas, de los añ os setentas, a la construcció n del negocio escalofriantemente rentable que hoy representa la desaparició n forzada en Mé xico.
El autor busca colaborar con esta obra a la visibilizació n de las personas ví ctimas y los circuitos de colaboració n e impunidad...
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Exposed is Kate Ouimette-Wedell's candid story of finding her way into and out of the commercial sex industry. After arriving in Hollywood to pursue her dream of breaking into the music business, Kate was soon trafficked by a man she believed was a friend. She escaped, but with no other means of survival, she went to work as an exotic dancer and sex worker.
Kate's story takes you through the terror, desperation, and exhaustion of life in the sex industry....
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NPR's Best Books of 2020
"Galvanizing and urgent....a slice of queer urban history and a necessary rethinking of sex work as a site of collective labor struggle." –National Public Radio
A riveting true story of a young woman's days stripping in grunge-era San Francisco where a radical group of dancers banded together to unionize and run the club on their own terms.
When graduate student Jenny Worley needed a fast way to earn more money,...
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Shanghai in 1930s had a booming prostitution industry which gave the city a certain reputation across Asia, and the beautiful Australian Lorraine Murray was one of its stars—until her patron Edmund Toeg convinced her to leave the high class brothel where she worked. Against the backdrop of the Japanese onslaught on China, and guided by the American author Emily Hahn—the 'China Coast Correspondent for the New Yorker'—Lorraine finally put her...
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Elizabeth G. was twenty-two years old and travelling around Australia when she came across a job opportunity at an erotic massage parlour in Sydney. Fast forward eighteen years and she had built up a trusted list of regular clientele working as a high-end London escort and was frequenting some of the city's most exclusive hotels.
This is an inspirational story of resilience and self-belief in the face of adversity. It gives a fascinating insight...
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1 videodisc (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Russian émigré countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
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A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and violence. While on holiday with her mother at a popular Mediterranean coastal resort, Megan fell in love. Just 14 years old, naïve and vulnerable, she...
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