LOVE FOR SALE : A WORLD HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION

Book ID/图书代码： 04B04774

English Summary/英文概要： Nils Johan Ringdal delivers an authoritative and entertaining world history of this most maligned, and most persistent, form of human commerce, from the Whore of Babylon and Mary Magdalene to The Happy Hooker and the contemporary sex-worker movement.
Beginning with the epic of Gilgamesh, the Old Testament, and ancient cultures from Greece to India and beyond, Love for Sale takes the reader on a tour through the entire recorded history of prostitution around the globe up to the modern red-light district. It shows how different societies have viewed and dealt with prostitutes—for example, how ancient Greece and Rome incorporated them into several social echelons, even the priestess class; how the rise of the courtesan in nineteenth-century Europe shaped literature (with Zola’s immortal Nana), fashion, the arts, and the modern sensibility. It uncovers the first manuals of sex and seduction, and tells the stories of the British Empire’s campaigns against prostitution in India and about the "comfort women" who served the armies in the Pacific theater of World War II. It closes with the rise of the sex-workers’rights movement and "sex-positive" feminism, and a realistic look at the true risks and rewards of prostitution in the present day.
Love for Sale spans a wide historical swathe armed with a lively wit and no-nonsense grasp of sex that recalls Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 用性来换钱常常被称为“世界上最古老的职业”，而妓女则成为爱，性 特征，道德和性别这些常常在变化的概念的避雷针。本书从旧约中的记载，古希腊 和古印度的文化开始，叙述了各种不同的社会里对妓女的看法和态度。例如，古希 腊和罗马把妓女归入几个不同的社会等级，甚至还有一个女祭师等级；而19世纪的 欧洲则把高等妓女作为文学艺术的对象，是现代感的表现。书中一直写到第二次世 界大战中日本的慰安女，当代的红灯区，乃至性工作者权利运动

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About the Author/作者介绍： Nils Johan Ringdal是挪威人，写作的题材很广，从法律道德，文学文 化史，到第二次世界大战史。本书的起因是他的一个医生朋友为妓女做预防艾滋病 咨询。

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