Drawing on more than 50 interviews in both the criminalized sex industry of the United States and in the free and open trade in the Netherlands, this volume aims to capture the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labour and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work. The analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as a hands-on account of such contemporary commercial sexual practices as an "erotic yoni massage ritual".