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Love for Sale

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Love for Sale: A World History of Prostitution by Nils Johan Ringdal

Call Number: HQ111 .R5613 2004

Table of Contents

1. The whore of Babylon

2. Patriarchs and priestesses

3. Fallen angels

4. Greek liberalism

5. Hindu ambiguity

6. Rome’s daughters

7. Repentant sinners

8. Tang China’s pleasure women

9. Muhammad’s women

10. Guilds and cloisters, rogues and rapists

11. Celestial whores

12. The war of the roses

13. Pox, punishment, and penitence

14. Splendor and misery of the courtesans

15. Love in the South Seas

16. Fanny Hill

17. Hara-kiri

18. The penetration of Africa

19. Nana and her times

20. Moral crusaders

21. Sex in the Wild West

22. Imperial virtue

23. Tango!

24. Ottoman footnote

25. The white slave trade

26. Kamikaze and comfort

27. Call girls

28. Academic sex tourism

29. Feminism and the sex workers’ movement.