Focusing on the ports, dockyards and garrison towns of Kent, this study examines the social and economic factors that could cause a woman to turn to prostitutio

This book places prostitution at the very centre of European history in the twentieth century. With its wide geographical focus from Italy to the USSR via Swede

The starting point for this book is the question of how we research sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms of epistemology and ethics

“As dangerous as if she stood on the corner of the street exploding gunpowder.” This was the view of ‘Miles’, a correspondent in the Bedfordshire Mercury, w

This illuminating global history challenges the notion that coercion alone dictated women's migrations for work in the sex industry.