Backstreets is about prostitution. It allows the individuals who participate in it --- prostitutes, pimps, and those who buy sexual services --- to tell their own stories in their own words.

Including the latest research on prostitution and pornography, this essay anthology shows how the sex industries harm those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and stable sexual relationships.

A blistering, eye-opening look at the horrific global phenomenon of sexual trafficking. . . . This is 21st century slavery. On the black market, they’re the third most profitable commodity, after illegal weapons and drugs—the only difference being that these goods are human, though to their handlers they are wholly expendable. They are women and girls, some as young as twelve, from all over the Eastern bloc, where sinister networks of organized crime have become entrenched in the aftermath of the collapse of Communist regimes.