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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Sex Trade is a study of the contemporary sex trade, a true global industry, both online and off. Part investigative report and part editorial, the film is a foray into a brutal world where key players claim prostitution is simply a service like any other. But who benefits? High-end and street prostitution, escort agencies, massage parlors, strip clubs, the porn industry, sex tourism - the sex trade is sprawling, and has even spread beyond major...
3) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients, and the police. The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war and ethnic discrimination has displaced hundreds of thousands of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
Whores' glory, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following Megacities, Workingman's death), is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. Glawogger's latest larger-than-life documentary is an audacious, non-judgmental study of sexuality, politics, human behavior and the effects of capital and religion on both women and men from starkly different cultures.
Publisher
Spinifex Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
For too long the global sex industry and its vested interests have dominated the prostitution debate repeating the same old line that 'sex work' is just like any job. In large sections of the media, academia, public policy, government and the law, the sex industry has had its way. Little is said of the damage, violation, suffering, and torment of prostitution on the bodies and minds of mostly women and children, nor of the deaths, suicides and murders...
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Series
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2006
Language
Español
Description
Contains a novella and six short stories by Columbian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, including the title work in which fourteen-year-old Erendira, having burnt down her heartless grandmother's lavish villa, is forced into a life of prostitution in an effort to repay the old woman.
Author
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A stunning exposé of prostitution in Canada, where a criminal syndicate traffics young women across the country, selling their bodies and murdering them at will. Annie Mae Wilson was nineteen years old on the night she died. After five years working the streets of Nova Scotia, she had found a new pimp and cut ties with supermarket bag boy Bruno, who had called himself her man. Bruno was furious and demanded to be compensated. When Annie Mae refused,...
10) Bezness
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bezness takes place in one of Tunisia's beautiful coastline tourist cities. it tells the contemporary story of a young man trapped between Arab tradition and prostitution. Through this young man who dreams of escape, the Director, Nouri Bouzid, criticizes both the restrictions associated with what he calls "the hypocrisy of Islam" and the European ruling on Arab society.
11) Who Cares
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this cinema vérité documentary, director Rosie Dransfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex trade workers where, in a post-Pickton era, women now voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future postmortem identification.
12) Elles
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A provocative and raw exploration of female sexuality, director Malgoska Szumowska's Elles paints an unromantic picture of upper-crust domesticity refracted through the vibrant eroticism of prostitution. Vacillating between opposing worlds defined alternatively by sexual freedom and constraint, Elles stars the fearless Juliette Binoche (Chocolat) as Anne, a well-off Parisian journalist investigating the lives of two student prostitutes (Joanna Kulig...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
“The 1931 murder of 'Broadway Butterfly' Vivian Gordon exposed an explosive story of graft, corruption and entrapment that went all the way to the top of the state. Wolraich brings a journalist’s eye and a novelist’s elegance to this story of Jazz Age New York.”-- New York Times Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around...
15) The red kimona
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This film is based on the infamous true story of a young girl who is tricked into a life of prostitution in New Orleans and goes on trial for murdering her pimp/lover. Producer and co-director Dorothy Davenport Reid became a director after the tragic death of her husband matinee idol Wallace Reid in 1923 from an accidental drug overdose.
16) Wages of sin
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young prostitute is murdered, and Inspector Peach finds himself with a complex, unpleasant case on his hands. He begins to interview local prostitutes and their customers, including a divorced policeman and a Catholic priest at odds with his beliefs. But did one of them kill the girl or was one of the town's more sinister thugs responsible?
17) Little death
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An erotic thriller from the director of Psychopathia sexualis, the Little death offers a peek into the seedy boudoirs of a Victorian-era brothel, where a strong-willed reformer ventures into a turn-of-the-century brothel to confront its owner, and to liberate a young woman who is being held there in sexual captivity.
Publisher
ThinkFilm
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
New York-based photographer Zana Briski embarked on a project by which she gave cameras to the children of prostitutes and taught them photography, awakening within them hidden talent and creativity and giving them a means to transform their lives.
20) Madams
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
At a time when there were almost no career openings for women, a group of intrepid and gifted females scaled the heights of what was literally a man's world-they became brothelkeepers, or "bawds." Mother Clap-women bawds were often known as Mother-ran male brothels, or Molly Houses. Elizabeth Holland had an immense moated mansion built on Bankside and for 30 years entertained the aristocracy, including royalty. When troops attempted to stop her trade...
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