Harlots, Whores and Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale by Kate Lister

Harlots, Whores and Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

Kate Lister

256 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced
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The history of selling sex is a hidden one--and too often its practitioners are pushed to the margins of history. This book redresses the balance, revealing the history of the sex trade through the eyes of sex workers, from medieval streets to Wil...

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