Resources From Around the World, Canada,
British Columbia and Vancouver
*International Resources and Links*
Prostitute's Education Network
www.bayswan.org/index.html
Prostitution, Research & Education (San Francisco, CA, USA)
www.prostitutionresearch.com/services.html
International Committee on the Rights of Sex Workers in Europe (ICRSE)
www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/sharp/
articles_publications/publications/icrse_20060101
Sexual Health and Rights Project New York
www.soros.org/initiatives/health/focus/sharp/
articles_publications/publications/descrip_20060101
Sex Worker Outreach Project - USA
www.swop-usa.org
Sisters Offering Support – Hawaii
www.soshawaii.org
New Zealand Prostitutes Collective
www.nzpc.org.nz
European Network of Male Prostitutes
www.enmp.org
Spread Magazine USA
www.spreadmagazine.org
International Sex Worker Foundation for Art,
Culture and Education
www.iswface.org
*National Resources and Links*
519 (Committed to Diversity Dedicated to Community)
www.the519.org
Maggie’s Toronto Prostitutes Community Service Project
www.maggiestoronto.ca
Sex Professional of Canada
www.spoc.ca
Sex Trade Workers of Canada
www.sextradeworkersofcanada.com
Canadian Guild for Erotic Labour
www.eroticguild.com
Sex Work Assistance Guide
www.sex-work.org
National Coalition of Experiential Women
www.cncew.ca
International Centre to Combat Exploitation of Children
www.iccec.ca
*Provincial Resources and Links*
New Hope Society
www.princegeorgenewhopesociety.ca
Empower Foundation
www.empowerfoundation.org
The Naked Truth
www.nakedtruth.ca
Surrey Girlz
www.surryegirlz.org
Sexual Exploitation Prevention Program
www.sepprogram.com
British Colombia Coalition of Experiential Women, Communities and Men
www.bccewc.ca
*Local Resources and Links *
PEERS Vancouver
www.peersvancouver.org
PACE Society
www.pace-society.ca
WISH
www.wish-vancouver.net
Covenant House Vancouver
www.covenanthousebc.org
DEYAS
www.deyas.org
SWAN (Sex workers advocacy Network)
swanvancouver@hotmail.com
*Reports and Documents on Sex work
Canada*
Beyond Decriminalization, Pivot Legal Society, June 2006
Voices for Dignity: A Call to End the Harms Caused by Canada's Sex Trade Laws, Pivot Legal Society, March 2004, www.pivotlegal.org
Sex, work rights : reforming Canadian Criminal Laws on Prostitution, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, 2005
Sex Work and HIV/AIDS, Canadian HIV - AIDS Legal Network's Publications
www.aidslaw.ca/publications/publications
John Lowman's Prostitution Research Page
http://mypage.uniserve.ca/~lowman/
Prostitution in Canada: The Invisible Menace or the Menace of Invisibility?, Sylvia Davis, 1994
Making Work, Making Trouble: Prostitution as a Social Problem, Deborah R. Brock, University of Toronto Press, 1998
Taking It Off, Putting It On Women in the Strip Trade, Chris Bruckert, 2002
Under the Radar: The Sexual Exploitation of Young Men – British Columbia Edition, by Dr. Susan McIntyre, www.hindsightgroup.com
Dispelling Myths and Understanding Realties Working Conditions, Health Status, and Exiting Experiences of Sex Workers, Cecilia Benoit and Alison Millar (PEERS Victoria)
http://web.uvic.ca/~cbenoit/papers/DispMythsshort.pdf
From the Curb, Sex Worker's Perspectives on Violence and Domestic Trafficking - BCCEW
In the Here and Now – BCCEW
www.bccew.ca
*Books on Sex Work*
Prostitution On Whores, Hustlers, Johns by James Elias
The Natasha’s: Inside the New Global Sex Trade by Victor Malarek
Prostitution, Trafficking and Traumatic Stress by Melissa Farley
The Happy Hooker: My Own Story by Xaviera Hollander, Robin Moore, and Yvonne Dunleavy
My Undoing : Love in the Thick of Sex, Drugs, Pornography, and Prostitution by Aiden Shaw
The Prostitution of Sexuality by Kathleen Barry
Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World by Christopher A. Faraone and Laura K. McClure
Call Girl: Confessions of an Ivy League Lady of Pleasure by Jeannette Angell
Whores and Other Feminists by Jill Nagle
Hell's Half Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District by Richard F. Selcer
Love for Sale: A World History of Prostitution by Nils Johan Ringdal
Children in the Global Sex Trade by Oconnell Davidson
Listening to Olivia: Violence, Poverty, and Prostitution by Jody Raphael
Bodies and Souls: the Tragic Plight of Three Jewish Women Forced Into Prostitution in the Americas by Isabel Vincent
Being Heard: The Experiences of Young Women in Prostitution by Kelly Gorkoff
Gold Diggers of the Klondike : Prostitution in Dawson City, Yukon, 1898-1908 by Bay Ryley
Red Light Neon, Daniel Francis, 2006
*Books on Male Sex Work*
Chicken: Self Portrait of a Young Man for Rent by David Henry Sterry - Regan Books, 2002
A Consumer's Guide to Male Hustlers by Joseph Itiel - Haworth Press, 1998
Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand by Peter A. Jackson, Gerard Sullivan - Harrington Park Press, 1999
Lila's House: Male prostitution in Latin America by Jacobo Schifter - Harrington Park Press, 1998
Hustlers, Escorts & Pornstars: The insider's guide to male prostitution in America by Matt Adams, 1999
Male Order: Life Stories from Boys Who Sell Sex by Barbara Gibson - Cassell, 1995
Wonder Bread and Ecstasy: The Fast Life and Slow Death of Joey Stefano by Charles Isherwood - Alyson Publications, 1997
Understanding the Male Hustler, Samuel M. Steward - Haworth Press, 1991.
This Idle Trade: The Occupational Patterns of Male Prostitution by Livy A. Visano - Vitsano Books, 1987.
Male Prostitution By Donald West - Harrington Park Press, 1993.
Rent Boys: The World of Male Sex Trade Workers by Michel Dorais
Boys for Sale: A Study of the Prostitution of Young Boys for Sexual Purposes by Dennis Drew and Jonathon Drake - Brown Book Co., 1969.
The Boston Sex Scandal by Mitzel - Glad Day Books, 1980.
Sometimes God has a Kid's Face by Bruce Ritter - Covenant House, 1988.
Gigolos and Madams Bountiful: Illusions of Gender Power and Intimacy by Adie Nelson and Barrie W. Robinson - University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Sorry I Asked: Intimate Interviews with Gay Porn's Rank and File by Dave Kinnick - Masquerade Books, 1993.
For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America by Robin Lloyd - Ballantine Books, 1976.
Strapped for Cash: A History of American Hustler Culture by Mack Friedman - Alyson Publishing, 2003.
*Books on Transsexualism *
Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People by Viviane Namaste - University Of Chicago Press, 2000.
Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes by Don Kulick - University of Chicago Press, 1998.
Sex Changes: The Politics of Transgenderism by Pat Califia - Cleis Press, 1997.
Blending Genders by Richard Ekins - Routledge, 1995.
Tricks and Treats: Sex Workers Write About Their Clients by Matt Bernstein Sycamore - Haworth Press, 2000.
