Prostitution is changing under the influence of Western affluence, deepening Third World poverty, cheaper travel, cultural shifts in attitudes to extra-marital sex,and the Internet. This global survey looks at the prostitutes themselves, their clients, and the pimps and international traffickers.

Patterns of prostitution are changing radically under the influence of Western affluence, deepening Third World poverty, cheap international travel, cultural shifts in attitudes to extra-marital sex, and the Internet. This global survey looks at all three sets of actors involved - the prostitutes themselves, their clients, and the pimps and international traffickers. It covers prime Third World sites such as Thailand, and the increasing numbers of both Third World and eastern European women being brought into prostitution in Europe, North America and Australia. The text documents the huge increase in prostitution overall, the scale of international trafficking, the impact of North/South historical and cultural factors, the variety of situations faced or created by prostitutes,and the innovative responses being pioneered in Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands.

Introduction to Prostitution in a Global Context
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Susanne Thorbek
PART 1: MEN IN PROSTITUTION
1. Travellers' Tales: Sex Diaries of Tourists Returning from Thailand
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Ryan Bishop and Lillian S. Robinson
2. Prostitution in a Global Context: The European Inheritance: Male Perspectives
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Susanne Thorbek
3. The Beach Boy of Barbados: The Post-Colonial Entrepreneur
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Joan L. Phillips
PART 2: MIGRANT WOMEN IN PROSTITUTION
4. A Social Response to Transnational Prostitution in Queensland, Australia
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Linda Meaker
5. Transnational Prostitution of Thai Women to Germany: A Variety of Transnational Labour Migration?
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Pataya Ruenkaew
6. Four Cases from Hamburg
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Prapairat
R. Mix
7. Bodies across Borders: Prostitution-related Migration from Thailand to Denmark
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Anders Lisborg
8. Black Prostitutes in Denmark
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Marlene Spanger
PART 3: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS
9. A Portrait of the Lady: The Portrayal of Thailand and its Prostitutes in the International Media - Chitraporn Vanaspong
10. Il y a 50,000 Prostituees Marocaines de Luxe dans la Cote Espagnole: A Necessary Myth - Ana Lopez Lindstrom
PART 4: NEW POLICIES ON PROSTITUTION
11. Migrant Sex Workers in Canada
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Noulmook Sutdhibhasilp
12. Business like any other? Managing the Sex Industry in the Netherlands
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Marieke van Doorninck
13. The Criminalization of Buying Sex: The Politics of Prostitution in Sweden
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Author Gould
PART 5: CONCLUSION
14. Conclusion
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Bandana Pattanaik