Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Français
Description
After losing her virginity, seventeen-year-old budding beauty Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for erotic hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Sex Trade is a study of the contemporary sex trade, a true global industry, both online and off. Part investigative report and part editorial, the film is a foray into a brutal world where key players claim prostitution is simply a service like any other. But who benefits? High-end and street prostitution, escort agencies, massage parlors, strip clubs, the porn industry, sex tourism - the sex trade is sprawling, and has even spread beyond major...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the Mexican city of Mérida, ten-year-old Janey lives with Johnny--her "boyfriend, brother, sister, money, amusement, and father"-- until he leaves her for another woman. Bereft, Janey travels to New York City, plunging into an underworld of gangs, prostitution, and imprisonment. Then, in Tangier, she meets Jean Genet and beings a torrid affair that will lead Janey to her demise."--Page 4 of cover.
4) Sold
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. It begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old girl with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Mabel Lozano cuenta por primera vez la verdadera historia de lo que hay detrás de la prostitución de la mano de un testigo privilegiado, Miguel, apodado el Músico, un proxeneta que ha confesado con pelos y señales cómo ha evolucionado el negocio de la prostitución en España y todo el mundo, desde principios de los años noventa hasta hoy, con el lucro de la trata y secuestro de mujeres de deuda a las que su única salida era la prostitución...
Series
Criterion collection volume 484
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Français
Appears on list
Description
Jeanne Dielman is a young widow who goes through her daily domestic routine including making the bed, cooking for her grown son, and turning the occasional trick. Includes interviews, booklet, documentary, and more.
9) Saint Jack
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Flowers, saint or sinner, found a new lease of life when he jumped off the Allegro in the Straits of Malacca, caught a passing bumboat to Singapore and got a job as a water-clerk to a Chinese ship-chandler. Soon he executed a brilliant idea, which resulted in his fame throughout the Far East - in a storm he sailed a boatload of bar-girls out to a freighter, where they spent the day with the lonely sailors. But Jack's story is much more than a...
10) Whores' glory
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Thai
Description
Whores' glory, the third film in Michael Glawogger's globalization trilogy (following Megacities, Workingman's death), is an explicit and unflinching exposé of global prostitution. Glawogger's latest larger-than-life documentary is an audacious, non-judgmental study of sexuality, politics, human behavior and the effects of capital and religion on both women and men from starkly different cultures.
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Russian �emigr�e countess Natascha becomes a stowaway in the shipboard stateroom of U.S. diplomat Ogden in order to escape her life of forced prostitution in Hong Kong. Her plan is to blackmail her way to freedom in the States but Ogden has a mind of his own and can resist even the charms of a countess.
13) Dime
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fourteen-year-old Dime, a foster child in Newark, New Jersey, finds love and family as a prostitute, but when her pimp rejects her for a new girl, will Dime have the strength to leave?
14) Tehran taboo
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Persian
Description
In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation. Nevertheless, women invariably end up on the bottom rung of the...
15) Who Cares
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this cinema vérité documentary, director Rosie Dransfeld captures the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton's sex trade workers where, in a post-Pickton era, women now voluntarily provide police with DNA samples for future postmortem identification.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Each year thousands of young girls are recruited from rural Burmese villages to work in the sex industry in neighboring Thailand. Held for years in debt bondage in illegal Thai brothels, they suffer extreme abuse by pimps, clients, and the police. The trafficking of Burmese girls has soared in recent years as a direct result of political repression in Burma. Human rights abuses, war and ethnic discrimination has displaced hundreds of thousands of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
Author
Publisher
TFCB, Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Up for Sale tackles human trafficking and modern slavery around the world, from forced labor to sexual exploitation. It offersheart-wrenching personal accounts from survivors and information about the global fight against human trafficking.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request