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As seen on TV, The Hedonist is the ultimate Sports and Sex Vacation Guide. Written for the guy who knows exactly what he wants, is willing to pay for it, and loves to spoils himself rotten. If you love exotic tropical getaways with Ocean Lined Golf, Deep Sea Fishing, Casinos, and pay for play girls who always say yes, this book is for you. Experience the Ultimate Fat Cat Vacations that can be pulled off on a fraternity tight budget. Get your BS stories for the old lady at home, it's time to be the fearless weekend warrior who indulges in balls to the wall hedonistic lust.

Spring Break, Cancun, and Hedonism are for wimps. This is the Big Leagues, the Adult Disneyland. Where every guy scores hot young girls every night, and the fishing and golf stories are all real. Covering 20 tropical cities, dive headfirst into hedonist insanity in Costa Rica, Rio de Janeiro, Cabo San Lucas, from Bangkok to the Caribbean, to a dozen untarnished island paradises in South America, Asia, and Europe, where you'll be treated like a King for $25! A fascinating read written from personal experiences, in a hysterical, Maxim-like sarcastic style that seems more like a Bachelor Party conversation than a travel guide. Golf, Fishing, Gambling, Beaches, and chugging umbrella drinks with Pay for Play hotties wearing nothing but a smile. Who could ask for anything more?

Learn the how, what, and where for all your daytime sports activities:

• Breathtaking world ranked Ocean-lined Golf Courses
  
• Big Game Sportfishing with Trophy-sized Marlin and topless horny shipmates
  
• Scuba diving, Windsurfing, Parasailing, Snorkeling, and Kayaking
  
• Jungle treks, rappelling, mountain climbing, insane Level 4 Whitewater Rafting

Learn the how and the where to meet your uninhibited "dates".

• Massive High Class discos where every girl is available and competes for you
  
• Full service, upscale Strip Clubs (incall/outcall), Massage Parlors and Roman Termas
  
• Sports bar Brothels, Red Light Districts, Escorts, endless local nymphos
  
• Topless beaches overflowing with sexy young Island girls who ALWAYS SAY YES
  
• The low down on the club procedures, pricing and terminology, w/local updated websites w/maps and details.

What can I expect to happen on these vacations?

• Expect Viagra to become a favorite new food group
  
• Expect girls to be walking with a limp after leaving your hotel room
  
• Experience first-hand the wisdom of the famous line "we pay them to leave."
  
• Discover a little late that "Drink Canada Dry" is just a slogan, and not a personal challenge
  
• Expect to feel 20 years younger, and to dread the day you have to return

A turnkey guide travel assistant, complete with reviews, addresses, phone numbers, and first hand field reports. Included is a must-read 30 pages of Sex Tourism 101 advice on mastering the games and psychology of the local women you'll meet. This is the taboo Bachelor's Vacation Guide that we've all been waiting for, without a single politically correct word in it. Nicknamed the Sex Bible for Men, over 200 pages of extensive, concise, well-researched advice, including tips for hotels, cabs, customs, currency, crime and scams, sightseeing advice and more. A real time and money saver. Why settle for anything but the best? Why gamble on hopes? Bet on the sure thing. The girls are waiting....
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When Harvard medical student Alexa Albert conducted a public-health study as the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada, the only state in the union where prostitution is legal, neither she nor the brothel could have predicted the end result. Having worked with homeless prostitutes in Times Square, Albert was intimate with human devastation cause by the sex trade, and curious to see if Nevada’s brothels offered a less harmful model for a business that will always be with us. The Mustang Ranch has never before given an outsider such access, but fear of AIDS was hurting the business, and the Ranch was eager to get publicity for its rigorous standards of sexual hygiene. Albert was drawn into the lives of the women of the Mustang Ranch, and what began as a public-health project evolved into something more intimate and ambitious, a six-year study of the brothel ecosystem, its lessons and significance.

The women of the Mustang Ranch poured their stories out to Albert: how they came to be there, their surprisingly deep sense of craft and vocation, how they reconciled their profession with life on the outside. Dr. Albert went as far into this world as it is possible to go — some will say too far — including sitting in on sessions with customers, and the result is a book that puts an unforgettable face on America’s maligned and caricatured subculture..
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"I know girls as young as 12 years old who have been forced to marry their stepfathers," Laura Chapman states in God’s Brothel For the first time, the stories of Laura and 17 other former polygamist wives are being told in book form. Unique among books on this topic, God’s Brothel presents accounts from 10 of the 11 major Mormon polygamist sects and several independent families. This thorough coverage reveals patterns of physical, sexual and emotional abuse common to these groups.

In addition to the women’s stories, God’s Brothel presents a fascinating discussion of polygamy’s history in America. Moore-Emmett recounts the prosecution of polygamists and current freedom of religion arguments used to justify its practice. She also provides a coherent breakdown of the major contemporary polygamist groups and places U.S. polygamy in a world context. This background information greatly clarifies much of the confusion surrounding this complex issue.

Far from affecting only Utah, Mormon and Christian fundamentalist polygamist groups are found in 30 U.S. states, Mexico, and Canada. Conservative estimates place those living in polygamy in North America at 50,000 to 100,000 and growing. Recently, members of Utah’s Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) moved to Texas to escape prosecution after first telling local officials that they were opening a hunting lodge. This event represents just one instance of polygamy’s spread across the country, a spread that could bring God’s Brothel to a neighborhood near you..
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A flame-throwing epidemiologist talks about sex, drugs, and the mistakes (dismal), ideologies (vicious), and hopes (realistic) of international AIDS prevention

When people ask Elizabeth Pisani what she does for a living, she says, "sex and drugs." As an epidemiologist researching AIDS, she's been involved with international efforts to halt the disease for fourteen years. With swashbuckling wit and fierce honesty, she dishes on herself and her colleagues as they try to prod reluctant governments to fund HIV prevention for the people who need it most—drug injectors, gay men, sex workers, and johns.

Pisani chats with flamboyant Indonesian transsexuals about their boob jobs and watches Chinese streetwalkers turn away clients because their SUVs aren't nice enough. With verve and clarity, she shows the general reader how her profession really works; how easy it is to draw wrong conclusions from "objective" data; and, shockingly, how much money is spent so very badly. "Exhibit A": the 45 billion taxpayer dollars the Bush administration is committing to international AIDS programs. 12 illustrations..
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This comic masterpiece reimagines the American Revolution with a one-eyed spy, a heroic whorehouse madam, and a cunning George Washington

Praised for one of the most "singular and remarkable [careers] in American literature" (Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World), Jerome Charyn now delights with this picaresque tour de force. He reanimates a war-torn Manhattan overrun by Redcoats and deserted by all but the Loyalists—and Mrs. Gertrude Jennings, the tempestuous, redheaded queen of Manhattan's most spectacular bordello. When the novel opens, young double agent John Stocking is being interrogated by Washington, a rebel commander far removed from the dour, silent man of most history books. As Johnny seeks to unlock the mystery of his birth and grapples with his allegiances, he falls in love with Clara, a gorgeous, green-eyed octoroon, the most coveted harlot of Gertrude's house. The wild parade of characters he encounters includes Benedict Arnold, the Howe brothers, "Sir Billy" and "Black Dick," and a manipulative Alexander Hamilton.

Not since John Barth's The Sotweed Factor and Gore Vidal's Burr has a novel so dramatically re-created America's historical beginnings..
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The mystery does not always end when the crime has been solved. Indeed, the most insolvable problems of crime and punishment are not so much who committed the crime, but how to see that justice is done. Now, in this illuminating volume, one of America's great legal thinkers, Norval Morris, addresses some of the most perplexing and controversial questions of justice in a highly singular fashion--by examining them in fictional form, in what he calls "parables of the law."

The protagonist of these stories, the figure who must see that justice is done, is Eric Blair, a name familiar to most readers: it's the real name of George Orwell. In fact, Morris has set his tales in the time and place of Orwell's famous essay, "Shooting an Elephant," in Moulmein, Burma, in the 1920s. What might seem a curious strategy at first glance--borrowing Orwell's persona to narrate these tales--is actually a brilliant stroke. For in Eric Blair we have an ideal narrator to highlight the complexities of justice: an untrained police lieutenant and junior magistrate, uncertain of judgement--and all the more likely to anguish over judgement, and to examine every facet of a case before deciding. And in 1920s Moulmein we have a neutral time and space in which to consider--free of our own political, religious, or social prejudices--a set of contemporary legal and moral questions that rarely find so calm an arena. And these stories certainly address some highly charged issues--capital punishment, insanity as a murder defense, the "battered wife syndrome" as a murder defense, child custody, "parental neglect" due to religious conviction--to name a few. In each tale, Norval Morris excels at placing Blair at the center of a controversy that has no easy answer, and that he and he alone must decide. In the title story, for instance, a retarded boy, whose only understanding of sex comes from the brothel in which he works, accidentally murders a young girl while raping her, his only defense being "Please sir, I paid her." Blair can see that the boy doesn't realize that he has committed a crime, but both the Burmese and the European community of Moulmein demand the boy's execution. Does capital punishment make sense in such an instance? Does it ever make sense? To broaden our understanding of these intricate cases, Morris concludes each story with a perceptive and often provocative commentary on each issue. After "Brothel Boy," for instance, Morris points out that no reputable study has ever shown capital punishment to be an effective deterrent to future murders, and more surprisingly, that paroled murderers commit proportionately fewer homicides than paroled felons who used a firearm in the commission of their crime.

Norval Morris is one of America's foremost experts on crime and punishment, and the stories collected here represent the culmination of a lifetime of thought on the major criminal law debates of our time. A reader of these tales will come away with a deeper understanding of these debates and with a profound respect for the intricacies of justice and the complexity of the law..
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The documentary film "Born into Brothels," by Ross Kauffman and Zana Briski, won for Best Documentary at the 77th Academy Awards®. "Born into Brothels" has won more than 20 film festival awards in 2004, including the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award, Best Documentary at the National Board of Review, and the LA Critics Awards. The Born Into Brothels companion book is a powerful story that unfolds in the red-light district of Calcutta; of a photographer that becomes a teacher, and the extraordinary children she meets who learn to dream with cameras in their hands. In the red-light district over 7,000 women and girls work as prostitutes. Only one group has lower standing: their children. In the face of abject poverty, abuse, and despair, these kids have little possibility of escaping their mother’s fate and creating another kind of life. Briski became involved in the lives of these children seven years ago while she was photographing in the red-light district. Spending time with them, Briski realized that their fascination with her camera could become a creative outlet. She began holding photography workshops to teach the basics of photography, from lighting and composition to editing and narrative sequencing. The results of their work together are documented in this book, which features short biographies of and photographs taken by the children, film stills from the documentary, and commentary by the co-directors Kauffman and Briski. The story they tell is one of the collaborative triumph of self-expression in a complicated reality..
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You know you're curious. Everyone is. You want to know what happens inside a Nevada brothel, where almost anything goes - and it's legal!


Laraine Russo Harper has the answers. In Legal Tender, she provides a firsthand look behind the scenes at a renowned legal house of prostitution. This fascinating and funny memoir uncovers it all: the working girls, the customers, the practices and pitfalls of a unique industry.


More important, Legal Tender puts a human face on the women who sell sexual services and the men who buy them..
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Gilded Age cities offered extraordinary opportunities to women--but at a price. As clerks, factory hands, and professionals flocked downtown to earn a living, they alarmed social critics and city fathers, who warned that self-supporting women were just steps away from becoming prostitutes. With in-depth research possible only in a mid-sized city, Sharon E. Wood focuses on Davenport, Iowa, to explore the lives of working women and the prostitutes who shared their neighborhoods.

The single, self-supporting women who migrated to Davenport in the years following the Civil War saw paid labor as the foundation of citizenship. They took up the tools of public and political life to assert the respectability of paid employment and to confront the demon of prostitution. Wood offers cradle-to-grave portraits of individual girls and women--both prostitutes and "respectable" white workers--seeking to reshape their city and expand women's opportunities. As Wood demonstrates, however, their efforts to rewrite the sexual politics of the streets met powerful resistance at every turn from men defending their political rights and sexual power..
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