books about sex work and what it entails
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last updated April, 2026
Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil
Kelly E. Hayes
The Soft City: Sex for Business and Pleasure in New York City (The Cosmopolitan Life)
Terry Williams
What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century
Kathleen Lubey
A Lover's Pinch: A Cultural History of Sadomasochism
Peter Tupper
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Angela Chen
Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
Kristen R. Ghodsee
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
Silvia Federici
Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski
A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography
Mireille Miller-Young
The Almond
Nedjma Nedjma
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity
Liz Plank
What Do We Know About the Effects of Pornography After Fifty Years of Academic Research? (Focus on Global Gender and Sexuality)
Alan McKee
The Perfumed Garden
Umar Ibn Muhammed Al-Nefzawi
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Mary Roach
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History)
Emily L. Thuma
Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash
Alexandra Brodsky
How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History
Samantha Cole
Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray & What It Means for Modern Relationships
Christopher Ryan
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Not Your Rescue Project: Migrant Sex Workers Fighting for Justice
Chanelle Gallant
Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating
Moira Weigel
Saving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction
Shira Hassan
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
Kate Lister
A Curious History of Sex
Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workersâ Rights
Molly Smith
Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work (Jacobin)
Melissa Gira Grant
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