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Set in different national contexts (Brazil, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Laos, Norway, Thailand) and in different social science disciplines, the chapters of this volume aim at questioning anti-trafficking policies and their practical impact on sex work regulation.

This book is about sex work and prostitution third sector organizations (TSOs): non-governmental and non-profit organizations that provide support services to, and advocate for the wellbeing of people operating in the sex industries, with a focus on three vast and extremely diverse regions, Africa, the Americas and Europe.

This book is about sex work and prostitution third sector organizations (TSOs): non-governmental and non-profit organizations that provide support services to, and advocate for the wellbeing of people operating in the sex industries, with a focus on three vast and extremely diverse regions, Africa, the Americas and Europe.

Understanding Sex for Sale aims to understand how prostitution, sex work or sex for sale are delineated, contested and understood in different spaces, places and times; with a particular focus on identifying how the relation between sex and money is interpreted and enacted.

The starting point for this book is the question of how we research sex for sale and the implications of the choices we make in terms of epistemology and ethics.

Reconfiguring Stigma in Studies of Sex for Sale is about the production and effects of stigma in sex work or prostitution with contributions from four continents and different disciplines that taken together explore how such stigma is conditioned by differences in time, place, citizenship, gender, sexuality, class and race.

With each chapter dedicated to a separate country and written by a national authority on the subject, Assessing European Prostitution Policies explores how prostitution is regulated in twenty-one European countries. This innovative volume draws out important implications for an effective and humane prostitution policy.