books about sex work and what it entails
created by maw44
last updated August, 2026
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X
The War on Sex
David M. Halperin
Whore Diaries: My First Two Weeks As An Escort
Tara Burns
To Live Freely in This World: Sex Worker Activism in Africa
Chi Adanna Mgbako
Working It: Sex Workers on the Work of Sex
Matilda Bickers
Working Guys: A Transmasculine Sex Worker Anthology
Jack V. Parker
Women, Race & Class
Angela Y. Davis
Women on Porn: One Hundred Stories. One Vital Conversation
Fiona Vera-Gray
Whores and Other Feminists
Jill Nagle
Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life
Lizzie Borden
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Ruby Hamad
We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival: Essays on Sex Work and Survival
Natalie West
Unrepentant Whore: The Collected Works of Scarlot Harlot
First Last
Undoing Border Imperialism (Anarchist Interventions, 6)
Harsha Walia
The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification (Justice, Power, and Politics)
Anne Gray Fischer
The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure
Tristan Taormino
The Creation of Patriarchy (Women and History)
Gerda Lerner
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970
John D'Emilio
Sex with Kings : 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
Eleanor Herman
Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada
Emily van der Meulen
Policing Pleasure: Sex Work, Policy, and the State in Global Perspective
Susan Dewey
Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism
Heather Berg
Porn: An Oral History
Polly Barton
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America
Lillian Faderman
No More Police: A Case for Abolition
Mariame Kaba
Modern Whore: A Memoir
Andrea Werhun
Love’s Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West
Ruth Vanita
Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance (a Camera Obscura book)
Zahra Stardust
I've Got to Make My Livin': Black Women's Sex Work in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago (Historical Studies of Urban America)
Cynthia M. Blair
How to... Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale
Jenna Jameson
I have a book on this topic if you’re interested :) I’ll be adding some of these. It’s a great list
do give me recommendations if you have any
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