This article examines a developing trend in the prostitution industry in the western world, the boom in escort prostitution. Escort prostitution, operating through mobile phones and the Internet, is supplanting the brothel as the major form in which prostituted women are delivered to male...

Introduction: from pimping to a profitable market sector -- Feminists and the global sex industry : cheerleaders or critics? -- Marriage and prostitution -- The international political economy of pornography -- The strip club boom -- Military prostitution -- Prostitution tourism : women as men's...