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If you want, please to be admiring my WICKED AWESOME list of articles for this week's 'Porn and Sex Work' discussion. If you'd like to talk about any of these or if you've got an awesomegood sex industry or porn-related article to share yourself, lay on, Macduff.

Sex Work in America:

Wired's Rundown of the Suicide Girls Controversy

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/09/69006

Porn actress Sasha Grey on the adult film industry

http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=105&sid=fdfaee62-b23d-44fe-8357-132a26911cd3%40sessionmgr108&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=39144605

Feminist approaches to pornography and sexwork:

http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1297

Sex Workers' Perspectives:

Peruse Spread Magazine, a publication for and by sex workers:

http://www.spreadmagazine.org/index.html
(with articles like 'tips on clients with disabilities,' and Ask a Ho: Should I tell my parents?)

Wikipedia's summary of Sex Worker Rights issues

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_workers%27_rights#European_Conference_on_Sex_Work.2C_Human_Rights.2C_Labour_and_Migration

Sex Trafficking and Tourism:

check out "Why Hiring a Sex Worker is Like Sunning on the Beach: A Defense of Sex Tourism in Thailand" (http://www.spreadmagazine.org/sextourism4.2.html) from Spread, versus

http://www.humantrafficking.org/countries/thailand , and
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208800,00.html

Other cultural perspectives:

Japan's Sex Industry

on the book Pink Box--bouncy, encyclopediac pictorial guide:

http://www.straight.com/article-74893/a-visual-journey-into-japans-sex-industry
http://www.pinkboxjapan.com/about.html

the Darker Side:

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/world/tokyo-journal-red-light-scouts-and-their-gullible-discoveries.html

Sex and Taboos in the Islamic World

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,443678,00.html

"a look (at) how the modern gay rights movement in Cuba is interwoven with the rise in sex workers and why this communist country just may grant same-sex marriage rights before the United States in order to demonstrate their commitment to human rights." PODCAST

http://www.feastoffools.net/gay-fun-show/2009/05/01/fof-979-cuban-sex-workers-and-british-scally-lads-050109/

"Risk exposure and risk management strategies among gay male sex workers in Germany"

http://gateway.nlm.nih.gov/MeetingAbstracts/ma?f=102238193.html (abstract)

Holland: Tempting the Tourist With Hookers and Hookahs

http://europeforvisitors.com/europe/articles/holland_hookers_and_hookahs.htm