Books like Working Sex by Annie Oakley

From insights by sex workers on how they handle money, intimate relationships and daily harassment by the police, to the experience of male and transgender sex work, this fascinating and original book offers new theoretical frameworks for understanding the sex industry.

A gripping account of a young Jewish girl who struggled to survive in Philadelphia during the early 20th century and later became a prostitute and morphine addict.

Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave her a ton of money, Belle realized that she could earn more than anyone she knew--by becoming a call girl. The rest is history. Belle became a 20-something London working girl--and had the audacity to write about it--anonymously. The shockingly candid and explicit diary she put on the Internet became a London sensation. She shares her entire journey inside the world of high-priced escorts, including fascinating and explicit insights about her job and her clients, her various boyfriends, and a taboo lifestyle that has to be read to be believed. The witty observations, shocking revelations, and hilarious scenarios deliver like the very best fiction and make for a titillating reading experience unlike any other.

A 1943–1996 autobiography of Maria Rosa Henson, a Filipino comfort woman who endured Japanese occupation, guerrilla service, and later a life shaped by war and family, ultimately sharing her story under the Task Force on Filipino Comfort Women.