ABSTRACT
Julia O’Connell Davidson is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham. She has
spent more than a decade researching sex commerce in the affluent and developing world,
and has written extensively on prostitution, child prostitution, sexual tourism, and ‘‘traffick-
ing.’’ Her most recent book is Children in the Global Sex Trade (2005, Cambridge: Polity), and
she is currently involved in research on migrant domestic and sex workers in Britain and
Spain.
