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This encyclopedia provides historical context and contemporary analysis of the complex issues related to prostitution, issues easily reduced to shibboleths. It will fill a void in academic reference collections. In communities where prostitution is a concern, it will provide informative background for public-policy discussions.

The Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work includes 341 entries on important social, cultural, geographic, and medical topics related to prostitution.

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Contributors came from many fields, including advocacy, history, literature, law, and the social sciences and represent a wide range of views on prostitution.

Entry topics range over rime from antiquity to the present and address all regions of the world, with an emphasis on the West and the past 250 years. Most entries include cross-references and suggested further readings for more study and research. More than 20 sidebars, the overwhelm-ing majority of which are from primary sources, accompany the entries.

The appendix of primary resources includes an additional 20 texts.

Contents

Alphabetical List of Entries

Topical List of Entries

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Timeline

The Encyclopedia

Appendixes of Primary Resources Appendix A. Historical Accounts

1. Prostitution in London (1862)

2."The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon" (1885)

3.The Traffic in Women" (1910)

4. "Hikite-jaya" ("Introducing Tea-Houses") (1899)

Appendix B. Poems and Lyrics

5. "Le Crepuscule du Soir" ("Evening Twilight") (1861)

6. "Jenny" (1870)

7."To a Common Prostitute" (1900)

8."The Ruined Maid" (1901)

9."Frankie and Johnnie" (early 1900s)

10."The House of the Rising Sun" (1937)

Appendix C. Documents by Sex Workers

11. World Charter for Prostitutes' Rights (1985)

12. Sex Workers' Manifesto (1997)

13. Asia Pacific Network of Sex Workers Code of Praccice for Working with Peer Educators (2004)

14. Documents from the European Conference on Sex Work, Human Rights, Labour and Migration (2005)

15. Occupational Health and Safety in the Australian Sex Industry (2000)

Appendix D. Legal Documents and Commentary

16. The Mann Act (1910)

17. The 1949 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others

18. International Human Rights Standards and the Rights of Sex Workers (2005)

19. On Laws Affecting Sex Workers (2003,2005)

20."Crime, Sex, Money and Migration: The Negotiations on the United Nations Protocol on Trafficking in Persons" (2003)

21. What Is "Demand" in the Context of Trafficking in Persons?

Selected Bibliography

Index

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TIMELINE

ca. 630 В.С.Б. Sappho of Lesbos born.

18 or 17 b.c.e. Rome passes laws against adultery with "respectable" women.

18 b.c.e. and 9 c.e. Rome passes laws prohibiting marriage between prostitutes and freeborn Romans.

19 Roman senators forbidden to practice prostitution.

40 Emperor Caligula introduces taxation of prostitution in Rome.

498 Taxation of Roman brothels ends.

529 Codex Justinianus allows the marriage of actresses in Rome, enabling Emperor Justinian to marry Theodora.

618-907 Tang Dynasty in China begins long association of courtesans with Chinese literati.

907-1279 Song Dynasty in China further cements association of courtesans and literati with ci poetry.

1161 King Henry II establishes regulation of prostitution in England, introducing the first regulated red light district in Western Europe.

1193 Japan introduces regulated brothels by Imperial Edict.

1227 Pope Gregory IX officially sanctions conversion movements, leading to the introduction of Magdalen Homes.

1265-1273 Thomas Aquinas works on the unfinished Summac Theologiae, which rationalizes prostitution as protection for other women's chastity.

1416 Venice (Italy) requires that prostitutes wear yellow scarves.

1523 Augsburg (Germany) closes official brothels.

1534 Basel (Switzerland) closes official brothels.

1536 Nordlingen (Germany) closes official brothels.

1537 Ulm (Germany) closes official brothels.

1840 China opens borders ro emigration.

1847 Hong Kong doses brochels. Anchor Charles Dickens and philanthropise Angela Burdett Coutts open Urania Cottage Home for Homeless Women.

2005 Hunger strike by Korean sex workers protesting che closure of brothels ends in January.

2006 First wrongful dismissal case won by the GMB, British General Union, for the sex workers branch on behalf of a chat line operator.

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