Impassioned as Mason ' s rhetoric on this subject was , it paled beside that of one of his supporters , who wrote from the upriver town of Jiujiang : For good and righteous cause did the Creator put the barbed wire of abominable disease ...
This pioneering work examines prostitution in Shanghai from the late nineteenth century to the present.
"Renee Matthews is starting over. Free of a demanding ex-husband who left her feeling worthless, she's ready for a purely physical connection, on her terms..." --P. [4] of cover.
A widow and stay at home mother of five children, Annie Miller struggles with the difficult realities of her life, until she wins the grand prize in a contest sponsored by The Channel, a network that caters to women's fantasies, a prize ...
Control is a dangerous pleasure.
Dangerous Pleasures: A Decade of Stories
Over the past century, prostitution has been understood in many ways: as a source of urbanized pleasures, a profession full of unscrupulous and greedy schemers, a changing site of work for women, a source of moral danger and physical ...
DANGEROUS. PLEASURES. for. Audrey. Williams. The breath was now coming so slowly from Shuna's mouth that Shirley found herself beginning to count in between each painful, creaking exhalation. 'Not long now,' she thought and found she ...
No Names.
Collected here, in DANGEROUS PLEASURES for the first time, are Patrick Gale's most brilliant pieces of short fiction.