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Article: Making sex work.("Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution" and "Call Girls: Private Sex Workers in Australia")(Book review)
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- February 1, 2008
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Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution (Spinifex Press, 2007) by Mary Lucille Sullivan; Call Girls: Private Sex Workers in Australia (University of Western Australia Press, 2007) by Roberta Perkins and Frances Lovejoy.
In the mid 1970s, when I was a young sociology student, my acquaintanceship with a number of women introduced me to the world of prostitution, particularly in what were then illegal massage parlours. Prostitutes' conditions of work and experiences with clients, police and parlour management aroused my feminist ire.
As the result of a seminar held at Melbourne University in 1977, attended by feminists and working ...