From seduction to registration: case studies of women in the sex industry

Development of the sex industry and the spread of prostitution in advanced European civilization

“…This is because as long as the typology is 'exhaustive'-another Buzdugan et al (2009, p. 674) criterion-'then having mutually exclusive categories simplifies the typology without sacrificing the potential for complete programme coverage.' (Worley & Gummelt, 2022) Often the motivation behind sex industry typologies and categorisations is to inform services and interventions, particularly regarding sexual health; hence categorising by site of solicitation and/or of the sexual service is prominent. Harcourt and Donovan (2005), for example, in seeking to inform health-particularly sexual health-interventions with people selling sexual services, reviewed 681 academic articles related to 'prostitution' identified within Medline, a database of biomedical journal articles.…”