As prostitution and pornography increasingly saturate our lives and our communities, they are also becoming normalized and accepted as harmless entertainment for men and as legitimate, even liberating, forms of work for women. Not For Sale brings the feminist movement against prostitution and pornography into the 21st century, showing how these industries cause grievous harm to those within them while undermining the possibilities for gender justice, human equality, and truly diverse and joyful sexual relationships.

The essays collected here connect feminist perspectives on the sex industry with radical critiques of racism, poverty, militarism, and unbridled corporate capitalism, and show how the harms of prostitution and pornography are amplified by contemporary technologies of mass communication. Bringing together research, testimony, and theory by more than thirty writers and activists from different countries and generations, including a number of courageous industry survivors, Not For Sale is both a vital contribution to ongoing debates and a call to action and resistance.

The idea which this book explores is that of men's entitlement to abuse and profit from the abuse of women in prostitution. The Idea of Prostitution shows how this idea, central to male supremacist ideology, has been bolstered by masculine systems of thought such as sexology, sociology, historiography and queer theory. The feminist challenge to this idea has become more difficult in recent times because sexual liberalism, economic individualism and free 'choice' ideas have persuaded even some feminists that prostitution should be seen as 'just a job like any other'.

Jeffreys argues that it is important to recognise men's abuse of women in prostitution as a variety of male sexual violence and a violation of women's human rights.

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