“Getting Screwed sums up the many ways we get shafted by everyone, every day; by the cops, courts, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, politicians, preachers, prostitution aboli-tionists, radical feminists, academics, and so many others. For them, we are an endless source of revenue, political power, and academic achievement. Ms. Bass’s book serves up a much dif-ferent portrait of us—that of hearty individuals who are capable of speaking for ourselves and fighting for our rights.”—Norma Jean Almodovar, sex workers activist and author of Cop to Call Girl

“Alison Bass is a master storyteller. In Getting Screwed, she takes us convincingly inside the lives of sex workers. Their stories will make you laugh and maybe even cry, but more important, they will make you angry at the laws which unfairly persecute sex workers.”—Karen Osborn, author of The River Road

“Getting Screwed takes us behind the beaded curtain to meet the corporate professionals, mothers, grandmothers, and university students who are the real faces of prostitution in America today . . . Bass’s gripping, clear-eyed look at a margin-alized subculture will make you rethink assumptions about what consenting adults do behind closed doors.”—Deborah Halber, author of The Skeleton Crew

A vivid account of how current U.S. laws against prostitution harm sex workers, clients, and society

ALISON BASS is an award-winning author, journalist, and professor. A

longtime medical and science writer for the Boston Globe, Bass now teach-

es journalism at the Reed College of Media at West Virginia University. Her previous book, Side Effects: A Prose-

cutor, a Whistleblower, and a Bestsell-ing Antidepressant on Trial, won the

National Association of Science Writers’ Science in Society Award in 2009. For

more info, visit Alison’s websitewww.sexworkersandthelaw.com.

ON SALE OCTOBER 2015Getting Screwed:Sex Workers and the Lawby Alison Bass

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Weaving the true stories of sex workers with the latest research on prostitution into a gripping journalistic narra-tive, Alison Bass examines the impact of the sexual revolution, the rise of the Nevada brothels, the post-9/11 war on sex trafficking, and how prostitution has become a thriving industry in the global economy. Drawing on recent studies that show lower rates of violence and sexually transmitted diseases in regions where adult pros-titution is legal and regulated, Bass makes a powerful case for decriminalizing sex work and offers strategies for making prostitution safer for American sex workers and the communities in which they dwell.