Description

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A major challenge to the view that prostitution and the "sex economy" can ever be normalised as a legitimate economic business in which women have control, and as employment comparable to other forms of low-paid work.

About the Author

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Monica O'Connor is research manager at the Equality Studies Centre, University College Dublin. She has been an independent researcher, policy analyst, and activist on violence against women for the past thirty years and is the author and coauthor of numerous publications, including the first comprehensive study of trafficking and the commercial sex trade in Ireland.