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Pour yourself a cup of tea and get cozy in your favorite armchair because Captive Daughters proudly presents a wealth of excellent reading material for your perusing pleasure!

In addition to the academic and legal documents presented elsewhere on our site, we wanted to also provide more mainstream literature that is educational, entertaining and thought-provoking to appeal to a wider audience of readers.

This section will be regularly updated with original essays, book excerpts and fiction peices. Check back often to see what is new in the CD Salon.

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Featured reading: Sold by, Patricia McCormick

From Booklist: Lakshmi, 13, knows nothing about the world beyond her village shack in the Himalayas of Nepal, and when her family loses the little it has in a monsoon, she grabs a chance to work as a maid in the city so she can send money back home. What she doesn't know is that her stepfather has sold her into prostitution. She ends up in a brothel far across the border in the slums of Calcutta, locked up, beaten, starved, drugged, raped, "torn and bleeding," until she submits. In beautiful clear prose and free verse that remains true to the child's viewpoint, first-person, present-tense vignettes fill in Lakshmi's story. The brutality and cruelty are ever present ("I have been beaten here, / locked away, / violated a hundred times / and a hundred times more"), but not sensationalized. An unexpected act of kindness is heartbreaking ("I do not know a word / big enough to hold my sadness"). One haunting chapter brings home the truth of "Two Worlds": the workers love watching The Bold and the Beautifulon TV though in the real world, the world they know, a desperate prostitute may be approached to sell her own child. An unforgettable account of sexual slavery as it exists now. Hazel Rochman

•Essay: "Poverty & Sex Trafficking: How will Warren Buffett's $30.7 billion donation to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, earmarked to fight poverty, affect global sex trafficking, the cause of which is rooted in poverty?" by, Sarah M. Gonzales. Captive Daughters. July, 2006.

• Article: "Sex Trafficking: The Real Immigration Problem" by, John W. Whitehead, posted on The Rutherford Institute's website, April, 2006.

• Article: "Debate Roars Over Anti-Trafficking Funds" by, Jennifer Friedlin, posted on Women's eNews, April 2006.

• Op/Ed: "The World Cup and the johns" by, Jessica Neuwirth, originally posted on the International Herald Tribune, April 2006.

• News Article: "Sex Trade: A Career Choice or Act of Violence?" by, Gilbert A Bouchard, originally published on Univ. of Alberta's Express News, 2006.

• Book Review: "The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade" by, Victor Malarek; reviewed in Szirine Magazine, 2005.

• Interview: "Tavis Smiley Speaks With Mira Sorvino" about her Lifetime miniseries, Human Trafficking, originally aired on Tavis Smiley, 2005.

• Essay: "Prostitution: 'The Oldest Profession in the World' - Is it Possible to Reduce Demand?" by, Lisa Howard, originally published in 2003 for the Demand Dynamics Conference.

• Essay: "Let's Put Pornography Back in the Closet" by, Susan Brownmiller, originally published in Newsday in 1979.

• Essay: "When Women Defend Pornography" by, Dorchen Leidholdt, originally published in The Sexual Liberals and The Attack on Feminism in 1990.

• Essay: "Globalized Female Slavery" by, Onnie Willson, originally featured on Said It: Feminist News, Culture & Politics in 2000.

• Essay: "The Effects of Prostitution" by, Katherine M. DePasquale, originally featured in Feminista! in 1997.

• Essay: "The Demand for Prostitution" by, Melissa Farley, Ph.D.

• Interview: "A Conversation with Catherine MacKinnon" about pornography and sexism, featured on PBS' talk show "Think Tank" in 1995.

• Essay: "Sex: From Intimacy to 'Sexual Labor' or, Is it A Human Right to Prostitute?" by, CATW-Asia Pacific, as featured on the CATW, Int'l website.

• Essay: "Every Woman Has a Right Not to Be Prostituted" by, Off Our Backs, 2001.