This is a richly detailed account of the way the sex industry works, and one of the few empirical studies that investigates the off street industry in Britain.

Contents Introduction 1 The peculiarities of prostitution 2 Ethnography, sex and the self 3 Choice, risk and selling sex 4 Picking punters 5 Keeping safe 6 Dodging cops 7 Secrets and lies 8 Staying sane 9 Professionalizing prostitution? Bibliography Index