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Prostitution in the Digital Age: Selling Sex From the Suite to the Street explores the sex trade in modern times. For those without direct experience with the seamy, real-life world of prostitution, it can be easy to accept the glamorized depictions of the sex-for-sale industry as it is often portrayed in fiction and Hollywood or sensationalized in the media. In reality, the business of sexual exploitation such as prostitution, sex trafficking, pornography, and sex tourism is far from attractive and, in many instances, can be dangerous, if not deadly.

Sidika Boskurt expected promises of a better life to be kept when she immigrated to America from her home in Turkey where brutality against women was rampant. For a time, life was safe for Sidika in her new home in Connecticut. But when the promises she expected from her marriage were broken, who would help her? When the promises to protect her made by the police and the court system were broken, who could Sidika turn to for justice? Jamie Carson was a Big Law litigator famous for his courtroom skills. Would he and his team be skilled enough to win a lawsuit for his most vulnerable client?