Prostitution & Sex Trade

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A Bad Collar

From: Vancouver Vice

This chapter examines the West End at the beginning of the 1980s, a situation Maclean’s magazine called "a curbside brothel open from noon to 4 a.m., seven days a week." It also … 13 $1.30 Add
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A Little Vacation

From: The Teen Sex Trade

A Nova Scotian woman recounts her life from age 16 to 17 as it relates to men, drugs, sexually transmitted infections, and abuse from her boyfriend. 17 $1.70 Add
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Balancing Safety, Respect and Choice in Programs for Young Women Involved in Prostitution

From: Being Heard

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Bars and Bathhouses

From: Vancouver Vice

This chapter concentrates on Faces, an early West End gay club, and Wayne Harris, a club member who later became the focus of a major vice squad investigation. 12 $1.20 Add

Being Heard

The Experiences of Young Women in Prostitution

Being Heard examines, from their own perspectives and experiences, the lives of young women sexually exploited through prostitution. Putting their voices in the centre of its analysis, the book … ; 135 View
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Belonging

From: The Teen Sex Trade

A black woman from Nova Scotia recounts how her relationship with her boyfriend when she was 16 became an obsession leading her mother to kick her out of the house. 15 $1.50 Add
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Burnout

Part 5: Surfacing

From: This is My Real Name

Chapter 13 follows Brunet’s move to Montreal and time at Paradis. Topics discussed include night shift versus day shifts, aging as a stripper, bachelor parties, getting suspended, race and … 16 $1.60 Add
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Call Girls and Boys

From: Vancouver Vice

This chapter explores the history of the sex trade in the West End,from the 1930s to 1975. 9 $0.90 Add
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Childhood

From: The Teen Sex Trade

A first person true account of a Black woman’s youth in Halifax, Nova Scotia entailing growing up with four of her eight siblings, the volatile relationship between her parents, and her … 18 $1.80 Add
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City Politics and the Massage Parlour World

From: Rock Paper Sex, Volume II

This chapter is an interview with a St. John’s city councillor regarding the massage parlour moratorium which was in place from 2015 to 2020 3 $0.30 Add
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Community Perspective

Angela Crockwell

From: Rock Paper Sex

This interview with Angela Crockwell, who works in St. John’s Newfoundland in community outreach, discusses systemic barriers to poverty and ideal services to alleviate poverty and increase … 12 $1.20 Add
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Community Perspective

Safe Harbour Outreach Project

From: Rock Paper Sex

This chapter is an interview with Safe Harbour Outreach Project and it touches on the challenges sex workers face, including criminalization and stigma of it, and how those challenges can be … 8 $0.80 Add
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Community Perspective

Government/Outreach Employee

From: Rock Paper Sex

This interview with an anonymous government worker discusses homelessness and its connection to sex workers and human trafficking. 4 $0.40 Add
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Community Resources

From: Rock Paper Sex

This chapter provides a list of services helpful to those connected to sex work. 4 $0.40 Add
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Comprimised

From: Vancouver Vice

In this chapter, Chapman described the end of the West End sex trade, and the consequences of this for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. 8 $0.80 Add
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David is Candid

From: Rock Paper Sex

The firsthand account of a man named David who hires sex workers. A personal discussion about the ethical questions surrounding sex work. 5 $0.50 Add