Offer of sexual services in exchange for money or other types of exchange

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Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde : depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'à nos jours / par Pierre Dufour [pseud].

London labour and the London poor : a cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work. / by Henry Mayhew.

La prostitution contemporaine : étude d'une question sociale / Léo Taxil.

Meegan, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.

De la prostitution en Europe depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à la fin du XVIe siècle / par M. Rabutaux. Avec une bibliographie, par M. Paul Lacroix. Planches hors texte, gravées par MM. Bisson et Cottard d'après les dessins fac-similé de M.A. Racinet fils, sous la direction artistique de Ferdinand Seré.

De la prostitution en Europe : depuis l'antiquité jusqu'à la fin du XVIe siècle / par M. Rabutaux ; avec une bibliographie par Paul Lacroix.

Cissy, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar.

Prostitution in London, with a comparative view of that of Paris and New York ... with an account of the nature and treatment of the various diseases, caused by the abuses of the reproductive function / By Michael Ryan.

Elia, a sex worker and her charges. Etching by a follower of Wenceslaus Hollar. 

De l'intervention du médecin légiste dans les questions d'attentats aux moeurs / par Louis Penard.

La prostitution à Paris et à Londres / par C.J. Lecour.

Fighting the traffic in young girls, or, War on the white slave trade : a book designed to awaken the sleeping and to protect the innocent a complete and detailed account of the shameless traffic in young girls ... / by Ernest A. Bell ; with special chapters by the following persons, Edwin W. Sims ... [and others] ; with an astounding report of Chicago's Vice Commission.

The Magdalenes : prostitution in the nineteenth century / Linda Mahood.

Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.

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Sex Work

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De l'intervention du médecin légiste dans les questions d'attentats aux moeurs / par Louis Penard.

La prostitution à Paris et à Londres / par C.J. Lecour.

The Magdalenes : prostitution in the nineteenth century / Linda Mahood.

Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.

Sex Work

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Images referencing Sex Work

Works from the collections

De l'intervention du médecin légiste dans les questions d'attentats aux moeurs / par Louis Penard.

La prostitution à Paris et à Londres / par C.J. Lecour.

The Magdalenes : prostitution in the nineteenth century / Linda Mahood.

Report of the Committee on Homosexual Offences and Prostitution.

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