Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry by Sylvia Plachy, James Ridgeway powerHouse Books, 1996. 255pp. "Featuring over 120 gritty black-and-white photographs, Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry is a provocative tour of New York City's sexual underground, told in the authentic voices of those who live and work in it." --book description. The X Factory : Inside the American Hardcore Film Industry by Anthony Petkovich Critical Vision, 2002. 208pp. "The most comprehensive look inside the adult film industry ever. Highly acclaimed. The X Factory goes behind the scenes on the shooting of a blue movie and on the set of The World's Biggest Gangbang 2. Features many no-holds-barred inerviews with stars, starlets, directors and technicians." --book description

Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video
by Robert J. Stoller
Yale University Press, 1996. 246pp.

"The late UCLA psychiatrist Stoller ( Porn: Myths for Our Time ) and Levine, a journalist and screenwriter with X-video credits, have collaborated on an unusual (and necessarily explicit) oral history of the world of erotic films. The voyeuristic and curious may learn much, as well as lose what Levine calls "lurid misconceptions," through such interviewees as a male actor who confesses fears of AIDS or a female counterpart who cites Piaget in discussing the emotional unreadiness of 18-year-old women for the trials of public sex. There are provocative observations: one porn director calls her work "a document of contemporary Western sexuality"; a male producer believes it's healthy for men to see violence against women; a female actress maintains that women from dysfunctional families go into porn for "adoration and love." Levine himself dubs the industry a "hideout for arrested development cases." Surrounded by much incidental verbiage, these points would benefit from more explication." --Publishers Weekly

The Fantasy Factory: An Insider's View of the Phone Sex Industry
by Amy Flowers
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998, 144pp.

"The Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustler. The author's interviews with these women, as well as her own first-hand experiences as an operator, reveal the complex ways operators and callers negotiate the shifting borders between desire and disgust, fantasy and reality, deception and belief. Flowers discovers that operators - who assume names like Tiffany and Corvette - create a virtual reality in which callers can act out fantasies that operators may find boring, disgusting, or even frightening. She also discovers that even those women who are skilled at keeping their "true self" and their phone sex persona separate find that they have to struggle to protect that self and to maintain the ability to experience real intimacy. The Fantasy Factory raises provocative questions about the manufacture of artificial intimacy and the technological mediation of intimacy, as well as about the social construction of sexuality and gender." --book description

The Other Hollywood : The Uncensored Oral History of the Porn Film Industry
by Legs McNeil
Regan Books, December 2003. 320pp.

Strapped for Cash : A History of American Hustler Culture
by Mack Friedman
Alyson Publishing, 2003. 275pp.

"...Strapped for Cash is a critical examination of sex work that serves as both a cultural analysis and a guide for those who conduct HIV/AIDS and other interventions among male and transgendered sex workers. Mack Friedman brings to this work an unusual perspective informed by both his former life as a hustler and his current work as a case manager targeting prostituted youth. Drawn from many sources, including 50 oral histories from current and former male and transgendered sex workers, details of the work of anti-vice committees, academic research and uncovered materials from archives around the country, Strapped for Cash presents the first complete picture of the evolution of hustler culture..." -- book description.

Skin City: Uncovering the Las Vegas Sex Industry
by Jack Sheehan
Stephens Press, 2004. 276pp.

"Sex. No other city in America capitalizes on the power of sex like Las Vegas. Author Jack Sheehan, a writer who has lived in Las Vegas for thirty years and knows the true dark side of the city, pulls back the curtain of the adult sex industry and examines the lives of the people give Sin City its naughty reputation. Jack was able to get XXX-rated film stars, the top madam in town, beautiful call girls who command $1,000 per hour and up, swingers, and the most alluring exotic dancers on the Strip to tell him everything, both on and off the job and how anything goes in the arena of sexual self-expression." --book description

Skinflicks: The Inside Story of the X-Rated Video Industry
by David Jennings
Authorhouse, 2000. 452pp.

"In this book, Dr. Robert J. Stoller, one of the world`s leading experts on human sexual behavior, joins with I. S. Levine, a professional writer and director with experience in the making of X-rated videos, to examine the backgrounds and motivations of the participants in an adult heterosexual X-rated video, Stairway to Paradise. Their interviews with performers, writers, directors, producers, and technicians provide unique insights into the mechanics and aesthetics of this type of video, the psychological make-up of the people involved, and the legal and moral implications of such films." --book description

Wonder Bread and Ecstasy : The Life and Death of Joey Stefano
by Charles Isherwood
Alyson Pubns, 1996. 220pp.

"Though it was ruled accidental, the drug-related death of 26-year-old gay porn star Joey Stefano Nicholas Iacona garnered attention from the tabloid press and prompted a television talk-show host to ask whether the sex industry was to blame. Isherwood writes in defense of the industry, and as a partial response to the accusations traces Stefano's life ... that culminated in his sporadically successful careers in dancing, prostitution and Los Angeles's pornographic film industry. ... but then his popularity faded. Coupled with this was his knowledge that he was HIV positive, and Stefano increasingly numbed himself with a variety of drugs including Ecstasy and Special K (ketamine). In his first book, Isherwood struggles to objectively report these events, providing a brief overview of the inner workings of the gay pornographic film business..." -- publisher's weekly.

Sex for Sale : Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry
by Ronald Weitzer
Routledge, 1999. 288pp.

"Sex for Sale is a collection of original essays on sex work, its risks, and its political implications. Covering areas not commonly researched, the book includes studies on telephone sex workers, gay pornography, Nevada's legal brothels, prostitute's customers, police vice squads, actors in the porn industry, lap dancing in strip clubs, and street prostitution. It includes discussion of violence, HIV infection, and drug addiction, as well as legalization, commercialization and criminalization. A unique addition to the literature, Sex for Sale examones all sides of the sex industry--both positive and negative--and will change the way we understand the sex industry. " -- book description.

Prostitution : On Whores, Hustlers, and Johns
by James Elias, Vern L. Bullough, Veronica Elias (eds.)
Prometheus Books, 1999. 450pp.

Child Pornography: An Internet Crime
by Max Taylor, Ethel Quayle
Brunner-Routledge, 2003. 248pp.

Children In The Game
by Ross A. MacInnes
Street Teams, 1998, 188pp.

The Prostitution of Women and Girls
by R. Barri Flowers
McFarland & Company, 1998. 263pp.

"Prompted by a World Health Organization report on "dramatic increases in the prostitution of women and girls in virtually every country," the author (The Victimization and Exploitation of Women and Children, McFarland, 1994) examines prostitution here and around the world. Among the topics covered are definitions of female prostitution, types and theories of prostitution, juvenile prostitution, pornography, customers, male prostitutes, AIDS, the role of substance abuse, legal and decriminalization issues, and the worldwide response to prostitution. This is a very readable study, intelligently presented and well supported with an extensive bibliography..." -- Library Journal, Mary Jane Brustman.

Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children : Youth Involved in Prostitution, Pornography & Sex Trafficking
by Laura A. Barnitz
Youth Advocate Program International, 1998. 41pp.

"Around the world hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of children are involved in the sex trade. This booklet provides an overview of factors that put children at risk of entering the sex trade and identifies the practices of those who profit from and abuse these children. The booklet also enumerates efforts to stop this abuse, as outlined by the First World Congress Against the Commercial Exploitation of Children" -- book description

Live Sex Acts : Women Performing Erotic Labor
by Wendy Chapkis, Jill Posener (Photo), Gon Buurman (Photo)
Routledge, 1997. 248pp.

"Commercial sex has long been a troublesome issue for feminists. Chapkis, a sociologist and author of Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance, is a self-professed champion of the rights of prostitutes and pornographers. ... Here, she conducts 50-plus unstructured interviews with women in the trade between 1986 and 1995 in the Netherlands and in Santa Cruz and San Francisco... Eight black-and-white photos of professional women add to the gritty and realistic, rather than erotic, tone of the book. It is part sociology and part journalism, with a polemic on the rights of women in the commercial-sex business running throughout. The mix doesn't work well, and will likely disappoint the possible audiences interested in sociology, journalism or polemic" -- publishers weekly

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