Prostitution and Sex Trafficking (Opposing Viewpoints) Library Binding – July 28, 2006

This book has been a great research tool and provides provocative arguments from both sides - something necessary in the research of this phenomenon. Certain journal articles and excerpts in this book were radically different than the status quo. Good read.

Book is literally new.

This book contributes to the misrepresentation of this issue. As a man who has lived several places around the world and is now retired from the Dept of State, I am well aware that this entire issue of trafficking is driven by extreme and sensational cherry picked stories that help build a crusade of zealots and donations for an international cause du jour. I was so happy to see/buy a book promising "opposing viewpoints". Wrong! I was shocked by the first page, the introduction, which one would presume to be neutral. The first paragraph hit on several of the most outrageous exaggerations of this crusade - "girls", "12 and 13 years old", and "forced to have sex with as many as 30 men per day." And this was supposed to be in the Dominican Republic. After retiring I owned a condo on the north coast of the DR for three years and I never once saw a prostitute under maybe 15 at the very youngest and those were desperate "girls" with children and totally independent and certainly not in brothels. Two of the first six articles offer some counterpoint to the same exaggerations we see on the internet while the other four articles pitch the same sad scary tales see elsewhere that are exceptions, not the norm as they would have us believe. This new US War on Sex Work will be no more winnable than the war in Afghanistan. And people around the world will have a lot less respect for the USA for forcing our weird culture of sex on the rest of the world. Please show me a book that gives fair treatment to both sides of this issue because there is another point of view. Americans just don't see it. This book is misrepresented and thus no more honest than the rest of what you see about trafficking.