Prabha Kotiswaran’s book takes forward her thesis on distributional effects of law, market and social normativity on the sex industry by working through the political economy and legal ethnography of sex work. It makes a case for decriminalisation and empowerment that develops from her earlier articles about the effects of criminalisation of sex work (Kotiswaran, 2008); and an argument for redistributive law reform for all sexual workers (Kotiswaran, 2010).