The Ethical Stripper, Stacey Clare
The Ethical Stripper, Stacey Clare
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The Ethical Stripper
Sex, Work and Labour Rights in the Night Time Economy

Author: Stacey Clare

Narrator: Stacey Clare

Unabridged: 11 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

Forget everything you think you know about strippers

In this powerful book, Stacey Clare, a stripper with over a decade of experience, takes a detailed look at the sex industry—the reality of the work as well as the history of licensing and regulation, feminist themes surrounding sex work, and stigma. Bringing her personal knowledge of the industry to bear, she offers an unapologetic critique and searing indictment of exploitation, and raises the rights of sex workers to the top of the agenda.

The Ethical Stripper rejects notions of victimhood, challenges stigma and shame, and unpacks decades of confusion and contradictions. It's about the sex-work community's fight for safety and self-determination, and it challenges you to think twice about every newspaper article, documentary, and film you have seen about stripping and sex work.

About Stacey Clare

Stacey Clare is the author of The Ethical Stripper: Sex, Work and Labour Rights in the Night-time Economy.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Zara on April 07, 2024

Good book! Truly terribly structuring and rather annoying author. My ongoing draft of a review changed about 1000 times as I was reading, swinging from love to hate and back with this book. It reads like a smart, well read, and opinionated woman with lived experience sat down and started writing in......more

Goodreads review by Gina on December 13, 2022

Honestly SO GOOD! Must read. Half autobiographical, half non-fiction - legislation and statistics but such a good read and really accessible language. We muuuust fully decriminalise sex work but she can explain why way better than me :p......more

Goodreads review by Gillian on June 30, 2024

Figured I'd pick up a non fiction for a change and this was a subject I was interested in learning more about. I found the way the author chose to write the book extremely interesting. With her research persona in normal script and with her lived experiences as a stripper in italics. It helped break......more

Goodreads review by Maddie on June 16, 2025

stacey clare delivers a detailed and extensively history of stripping in the uk, and makes an impassioned argument advocating for the humanisation of sex workers in the legal and social sense. this is such a must read for pretty much everyone, but specifically for anyone who thinks they know what se......more