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• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Working girls1
• Note
• Chapter 1 The peculiarities of prostitution
• Visible yet hidden
• The dark figure of prostitution
• The markets
• Licensed saunas
• Brothels
• Working premises
• Escorts
• Working from home
• The street market
• Makers and takers
• Notes
• Chapter 2 Ethnography, sex and the self
• Layered access
• Earning acceptance
• The rhythms of fieldwork
• Sex work uncovered
• Risky research
• Notes
• Chapter 3 Choice, risk and selling sex
• Choosing denigration?
• Risk-taking and choice-making
• A hierarchy of harms
• The women
• Selectivity and representativeness
• Age and residence
• Ethnicity
• Education and formal labour participation
• Motherhood and reproduction
• Prostitution career
• Drug use
• Chapter 4 Picking punters
• The prostitution trust game
• Mimicry and traits
• The costly to fake principle
• Eyeballing the punter
• Demeanour
• Ethnicity
• Age
• Re-identification
• Remote observation
• Groups
• Suspicious behaviour
• Testing on the telephone
• Attitude
• Checking consistency
• Assessing on the Net
• Compliance
• Reputation
• Screening for safety
• Chapter 5 Keeping safe
• The normalization of violence
• Precautions: behind the scenes
• General working rules
• Safety in numbers
• Deterrents: calling their bluff
• Pimps: relying on reputation
• Protection: if all else fails
• Resisting violence
• Notes
• Chapter 6 Dodging cops
• The legal landscape
• Policing prostitution
• Soliciting on the street
• Tolerating the indoor markets
• Street wisdom
• Staying power
• Geographical mobility
• Avoiding identification
• ‘Keeping ’em sweet’
• Behind closed doors
• Disguise and discretion
• Informing roles
• Displacing deviance
• Note
• Chapter 7 Secrets and lies
• Sexual stigma
• Shouldering the shame
• The tensions of truth
• Covering up
• Pseudonyms and job aliases
• When worlds collide
• Location
• Geographical distance
• Choosing a market
• Isolation
• Variations of the truth
• Closed subject
• Half the story
• Honesty
• Note
• Chapter 8 Staying sane
• Negative emotions as motive
• Guilt
• Disgust
• Emotion management
• The exceptions
• The strategies
• Avoiding intimate relationships
• The meaning of sex as work
• Body exclusion zones
• Rationalization narratives
• When emotion management fails
• Notes
• Chapter 9 Professionalizing prostitution?
• Rules, rituals and routines
• Norms and sanctions
• Moral hierarchies: old versus new order
• Codes of practice
• Mechanisms of transmission
• Learning from mistakes
• Transferring skills
• Mobility and networks
• Apprenticeships and mentoring
• Sympathetic allies
• Regulating a risky business
• Unionization and collaboration
• Professionalization
• Colluding with clients
• Bibliography
• Index