Numbers Crunch: Prostitution

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 Numbers Crunch: Prostitution
  A few historic stats on the world's oldest job. This one's a freebie. 
   
 Alex Panisch 
          
          Sep 12, 2014
          
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Hustling is a global phenomenon--and legal in parts of the globe. Two books, Male Sex Work and Society (Harrington Park Press) edited by Victor Minichiello and John Scott, and Sex Workers Unite (Beacon Press) by Melinda Chateauvert, take a look at men doing sex work today, and prostitution as practiced in ye olde times.

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Numbers Crunch: Prostitution

A few historic stats on the world's oldest job. This one's a freebie.

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