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Very Good. Hardcover. Quadrangle Books, 1971, 1st edn. with dust cover in fine condition; red cloth in mint condition; x+292pp+ 30pp notes, index; This is the first serious study of prostitution to appear in America in half a century. It is also a remarkably readable book. Part history, part social analysis, part reportage, it offers a vivid yet comprehensive study of prostitution in all its multifarious aspects: as a social problem, as a profession, as an institution, as a way of life. The product of ten years' research and more than two thousand interviews with prostitutes, their customers, madams, pimps, judges, probation officers, policemen, and others, The Lively Commerce is a treasure house of documented information: alone among all works on the subject it has been able to draw on the extensive files of the American Social Health Association. The result is that its authors have produced an authentic and authoritative book that stands to be the definitive work on prostitution for years to come. Utilizing a cascade of graphic detail, Messrs. Winick and Kinsie devote chapters to such aspects of the subject as Ways of Plying the Trade, The Client, Prostitution and the Military, and International Control. From the discount-store-like brothels of the 1920's to today's independent entrepreneur, the $100-a-shot call girl, the rich history of prostitution is considered from every point of view. Not exclusively bound by American concerns, the book also uses the European experience with prostitution in a comparative fashion. The Lively Commerce goes far beyond traditional sociological investigation. A major concern of its authors is to destroy the myths that have long adhered to such questions as, Why do women become prostitutes? Why do men choose to visit prostitutes? What is the relation between the prostitute and the pimp? To get a truer angle of vision on Americans' real feelings about prostitution, the authors consider how the prostitute has been dealt with in American popular culture, and make use of scores of jokes about prostitutes to illustrate popular attitudes on the subject. All of which goes to make The Lively Commerce a work of remarkable balance and completeness, and one of enduring value. 8½x6"......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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8vo, Pp.320. Fine in little worn dj. OP? Part history, part social analysis, part reportage, it offers a comprehensive study of prostitution as a problem, profession, etc.
