Rarely do depictions of prostitution in television overlap with feminism. In fact, according to most pop culture portrayals, prostitutes are anything but feminist. They are robotic sex machines in ...

Heaving bosoms, blotchy bums and dialogue so fruity you can taste it. These are just a few of the pleasures to be found in Harlots, a female-centric drama about two rival brothels fighting for ...

Norman Mailer’s new novel opens with a sequence so good you believe for a moment he may have written the book his friends and critics agreed was inside him. On the coast of Maine, lyrically described, ...

After the Great Fire in 1666, speculative building became one of London’s main economic activities and, according to Dan Cruickshank, what kept the building trade going was the sex industry. The ...