Prostitution on demand: Legalizing the buyers as sexual consumers

Violence Against Women

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1156-1186

  Raymond, Janice G ^a,b  

^a Coal Against Trafficking in Women ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Male buyers of prostitution; Prostitution; Sex trafficking

Indexed keywords

EID: 4744340454     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801204268609     Document Type: Review

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