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Recommended Books
This page provides a list of recommended books about prostitution, pornography, the global sex trade, and surrogacy.
Prostitution
Pornography
Surrogacy
By and for men
Sex dolls
Prostitution
ANY GIRL by Mia Döring
“Any Girl is a ferociously honest, intensely tender and utterly unforgettable book that is as thought-provoking as it is timely.”
BODY SHELL GIRL by Rose Hunter
“Body Shell Girl is incredible. It is a captivating and honest account of a woman’s experiences, thoughts, and feelings in the sex trade.” – Cherry Smiley
The Sex Economy by Monica O’Connor
Drawing on extensive research, O’Connor challenges the idea that the sale of women’s bodies as commodities is acceptable and that men have a right to buy sexual acts from another person. She shows that ‘sex work’ is not a lucrative occupation for impoverished women and girls, and exposes the harm that normalising the sex trade does on women’s lives, gender equality and society as a whole.
Being and Being Bought by Kajsa Ekis Ekman
“This is a riveting analysis of prostitution and surrogacy that shatters the great wall of lies about these two institutions. Brilliantly analyzing the parallels, Kajsa Ekis Ekman wages a multi-pronged attack on sexism and classism that leaves the reader with hope for change.” Melissa Farley, PhD.
See: A brief history of the ‘Sex work is work’ movement
Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution by Rachel Moran
“The best work by anyone on prostitution ever, Rachel Moran’s Paid For fuses the memoirist’s lived poignancy with the philosopher’s conceptual sophistication. The result is riveting, compelling, incontestable. Impossible to put down. This book provides all anyone needs to know about the reality of prostitution in moving, insightful prose that engages and disposes of every argument ever raised in its favor.” Catharine A. MacKinnon
Last Girl First! Prostitution at the intersection of sex, race & class-based oppressions
A study into how all over the world and throughout history, women and girls from the most discriminated communities are over-represented in prostitution. Poor, Indigenous, migrant, asylum-seeking, displaced women, those from the lowest castes and from ethnic, religious and racial minorities are the first victims of pimps and sex buyer
Pimp State: Sex, money and the future of equality by Kat Banyard
Skilfully weaving together first-hand investigation, interviews and the latest research, Pimp State powerfully argues that sex trade myth-makers will find themselves on the wrong side of history.
Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade edited by Melinda Tankard Reist and Caroline Norma
This book documents the reality of prostitution through the lived experience of women who have survived it.
Exit! by Grizelda Grootboom
Grizelda Grootboom’s life was dramatically changed when she was gang raped at the age of nine by teenagers in her township. Her story starts there. It is a story about the cycle of poverty, family abandonment, dislocation and survival in the streets of Cape Town. She reveals the seedy and often demonised life of a prostitute and her ultimate escape from it.
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Body for Rent by Anna Hendriks and Olivia Smit
Childhood best friends Anna and Olivia were just 15 years old when they met Ricardo. He was older, charming and good-looking – and Anna and Oliva were easy prey. Manipulated, groomed and abused, within three years he had pimped the girls into the neon-lit windows of Amsterdam’s red light district.
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Shadow’s Law: The True Story of a Swedish Detective Inspector Fighting Prostitution by Simon Häggström
Detective inspector Simon Häggström is head of the Stockholm Police Prostitution Unit. He tells the true stories of the people he meets every day; young girls facing dangers they did not foresee, seven foreign women working and living together in a one bedroom apartment, Lovisa, born into a life of drugs and prostitution, and of course, the men who buy sex.
Not a choice, Not a job by Janice G Raymond
“This book dispels the smoke and mirrors and uncovers the horrific and complex truths of prostitution and the global sex trade. This is a must read for those who want to understand the facts about the harsh realities that so many experience.” Vednita Carter
The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth by Julie Bindel
“Bold, brilliant and brave. This is Julie Bindel at her best, demolishing the myths around prostitution and asking us to listen to survivors, the women and men who know the ugly reality first-hand.” Joan Smith
The Nordic Model by Trine Rogg Korsvik and Ane Stø
In this book, feminists activists write about their enduring struggle for the abolition of prostitution. The authors offer valuable insights into the movement’s strategies, as well as its allies and opponents. The book unmasks the pro-prostitution lobby and confronts the myth that the Nordic model is harmful to women in prostitution.
River of Flesh and Other Stories edited by Ruchira Gupta
Twenty-one stories about trafficked and prostituted women by some of India’s most celebrated writers: Amrita Pritam, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Indira Goswami, Ismat Chughtai, J. P. Das, Kamala Das, Kamleshwar, Krishan Chander, Munshi Premchand, Nabendu Ghosh, Qurratulain Hyder, Saadat Hasan Manto and Siddique Alam, among others.
Not for Sale: Feminists resisting prostitution and pornography edited by Christine Stark and Rebecca Whisnant
This collection of essays connect feminist perspectives on the sex industry with radical critiques of racism, poverty, militarism, and unbridled corporate capitalism, and shows how the harms of prostitution and pornography are amplified by modern technologies.
The Natashas: Inside the new global sex trade by Victor Malarek
They’re the third most profitable black market commodity, after illegal weapons and drugs. They are women and girls, some as young as 12. They are sold into prostitution and kept enslaved; those who resist are beaten, raped, and sometimes killed as examples. In many cases, the men who should be rescuing them –from immigration officials to police officers and international peacekeepers – are among their aggressors.
The Johns: Sex for sale and the men who buy it by Victor Malarek
This book dispels the myths that justify prostitution and puts on display the rationales of ordinary johns, their beliefs, their behaviours, and their astounding brotherhood. It also shows us the darker side: the rise of sex tourism, the predators, the role of the Internet. Lambasting the pro-prostitution lobby, he explains why legalising prostitution can lead only to the greater enslavement of women.
The Industrial Vagina by Sheila Jeffreys
“This is an insightful analysis into the globalization and industrialization of the modern sex industry. Sheila Jeffreys makes the connections between prostitution, marriage, pornography, strip clubs, and sex tourism and how they all combine to exploit women who are most harmed. This book opens a window on global sexual exploitation and the institutions that support it.” Janice G. Raymond
The Idea of Prostitution by Sheila Jeffreys
This book investigates the claims of the pro-prostitution movement and the burgeoning sex industry, arguing that the sex of prostitution is not just sex; the work of prostitution is not ordinary work; and prostitution is a choice for the men who abuse rather than for the prostituted women.
See The Idea of Prostitution: Q&A with Sheila Jeffreys and Rose Hunter.
And Life Continues: Sex Trafficking and My Journey to Freedom by Wendy Barnes
Wendy Barnes was introduced to sex trafficking by her first love, the father of her children. And Life Continues is her story: how she became a victim of human trafficking, why she was unable to leave the man who enslaved her for fifteen years, and the obstacles she overcame to heal and rebuild her life after she was rescued.
Pornography
Pornland: How porn has hijacked our sexuality by Gail Dines
“Dines brilliantly exposes porn’s economics, pervasiveness, and impact with scholarship as impeccable as her tone is reasonable. This book will change your life. Ignore it at your peril.” Robin Morgan
He Chose Porn Over Me edited by Melinda Tankard Reist
“Shattering the popular myth that porn is harmless, the personal accounts of 25 brave women in “He Chose Porn over Me” reveal the real-life trauma experienced by women at the hands of their porn-consuming partners – men who were supposed to care for them.”
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Your Brain on Porn by Gary Wilson
“Your Brain on Porn is written in a simple clear language appropriate for expert and layperson alike and is rooted firmly within the principles of neuroscience, behavioural psychology and evolution theory … As an experimental psychologist, I have spent over forty years researching the bases of motivation and I can confirm that Wilson’s analysis fits very well with all that I have found.” Professor Frederick Toates, Open University.
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Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry edited by Abigail Bray and Melinda Tankard Reist
“With contributions from leading world experts and activists, Big Porn Inc offers a cutting edge exposé of the hidden realities of a multi-billion dollar global industry that promotes itself as a fashionable life-style choice.
“Unmasking the lies behind the selling of porn as ‘just a bit of fun’ Big Porn Inc reveals the shocking truths of an industry that trades in violence, crime and degradation. This fearless book will change the way you think about pornography forever.”
Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity by Robert Jensen
In our culture, porn makes the man. So argues Robert Jensen in Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Jensen’s treatise begins with a simple demand: “Be a man.” It ends with a defiant response: “I chose to struggle to be a human being.” The journey from masculinity to humanity is found in the candid and intelligent exploration of porn’s devastating role in defining masculinity. You can download a free PDF of this book from Robert Jensen’s website.
Surrogacy
Surrogacy: A Human Rights Violation by Renate Klein
A radical feminist introduction to the reality of surrogacy as the commissioning / buying / renting of a woman into whose womb an embryo is inserted and who thus becomes a ‘breeder’ for a third party and how it is being heavily promoted by the stagnating IVF industry which seeks new markets.
Towards the Abolition of Surrogate Motherhood edited by Marie-Josèphe Devillers and Ana-Luana Stoicea-Deram
“In this eloquent and blistering rejection of surrogacy, a range of international activists and experts in the field outline the fundamental human rights abuses that occur when surrogacy is legalised and reject neoliberal notions that the commodification of women’s bodies can ever be about the ‘choices’ women make.”
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By and for men
The End of Patriarchy: Radical Feminism for Men by Robert Jensen
“The End of Patriarchy asks one key question: what do we need to create stable and decent human communities that can thrive in a sustainable relationship with the larger living world? Robert Jensen’s answer is feminism and a critique of patriarchy. He calls for a radical feminist challenge to institutionalized male dominance; an uncompromising rejection of men’s assertion of a right to control women’s sexuality; and a demand for an end to the violence and coercion that are at the heart of all systems of domination and subordination. The End of Patriarchy makes a powerful argument that a socially just society requires no less than a radical feminist overhaul of the dominant patriarchal structures.”
The Macho Paradox: Why some men hurt women and how all men can help by Jackson Katz
“With integrity and courage, Jackson Katz has taken his message – that the epidemic of violence against women is a men’s issue – into athletic terms, the military and frat houses across the country. His book explains carefully and convincingly why – and how – men can become part of the solution, and work with women to build a world in which everyone is safer.” Michael Kimmel.
Sex dolls
Sex Dolls, Robots, and Woman Hating by Caitlin Roper
“Sex Dolls, Robots and Woman Hating exposes the inherent misogyny in the trade in sex dolls and robots modelled on the bodies of women and girls for men’s unlimited sexual use. From doll owners enacting violence and torture on their dolls, men choosing their dolls over their wives, dolls made in the likeness of specific women and the production of child sex abuse dolls, sex dolls and robots pose a serious threat to the status of women and girls.”
The Macho Paradox: Why some men hurt women and how all men can help by Jackson Katz
“With integrity and courage, Jackson Katz has taken his message – that the epidemic of violence against women is a men’s issue – into athletic terms, the military and frat houses across the country. His book explains carefully and convincingly why – and how – men can become part of the solution, and work with women to build a world in which everyone is safer.” Michael Kimmel.
#Nordic model#Any Girl#Mia Döring#Body Shell Girl#Rose Hunter#The Sex Economy#Monica O’Connor#Being and Being Bought#Kajsa Ekis Ekman#Paid For: My Journey Through Prostitution#Rachel Moran#Last Girl First! Prostitution at the intersection of sex#race & class-based oppressions#Pimp State: Sex#money and the future of equality#Kat Banyard#Prostitution Narratives: Stories of Survival in the Sex Trade#Melinda Tankard Reist#Caroline Norma#Exit!#Grizelda Grootboom#Body for Rent#Anna Hendriks#Olivia Smit#Shadow’s Law: The True Story of a Swedish Detective Inspector Fighting Prostitution#Simon Häggström#Not a choice Not a job#Janice G Raymond#The Pimping of Prostitution: Abolishing the Sex Work Myth#Julie Bindel
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Gale: That's Tara - loyal, intelligent, brave, and apparently unwilling to follow even the most basic of instructions when her own safety is at stake. I wouldn't have her any other way.
#bg3edit#baldur's gate 3#bg3#baldurs gate 3#gale dekarios#gale of waterdeep#gale x tav#tav x gale#otp: a soul that steels my own#otp: you give me hope#otp: celestial bodies#ch: gale dekarios#vg: baldur's gate 3#series: baldur's gate#gif: mybg3#devnote: genuine excited in a quite sweet way lives rent free in my head
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"Nikolai had shattered Yegerov's friend's skull with the wrench propped up against the wall nearby. The blood had spattered up his bare torso, matting his chest hair, stained the side of his face. Shirtless, with a buzzcut he hadn't worn since his time in the Russian Air Force, he looked every part the madman he had become."
From this fic by @on-a-lucky-tide
As you can see, the image staid with me.
Alternate versions ( No blood, Nik with hair, lineart) under "keep reading" ⬇️⬇️⬇️
#cod#cod nikolai#nikolai cod#tw blood#call of duty#I hope I got the vibe right because WOOOO this image of Nikolai with nothing but anger left behind his eyes is living rent free in my brain#Paragraph that make you open CSP immediately 😔✌️#big lad innit#he looks line an entire different man without his long hair this is wild#you know what isn't easy to draw? BLOOD SPLATTER#I hope it looks good#I really like this piece#didn't take me too long either all things considered#the lineart is here just to show off the body hair let's be honest#anyway hope you'll like it :3c#Thank you again from writing something with my prompt Rawr !!!#my art
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The sexiest touch in movie history and no, nothing's ever gonna change my mind.
#clannibal#clarice starling#hannibal lecter#silence of the lambs#anthony hopkins#hannibal x clarice#dr hannibal lecter#gifs#movie gifs#did you get that 'no' reference lol#Sir Anthony going 'nO' lives in my head rent free all day long#but back to them can we just appreciate anything about this scene please and thanks#I just know it's not solely me having shivers all over my body when watching/reading that scene right#Clannibal supremacy#Him breathing out “Goodbye Clarice” is not a final passage but a promise for what might follow soon enough#I'm again being so normal about them#If there were no bars between them Asfkkhxdr
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"Do you need another hug?"
"I don't think that will help this time."
#BG3#Baldur's Gate 3#bg3 tav#tav x the emperor#bg3 emperor#artists on tumblr#Art#I need a better art tag#Glazed#The scene with this conversation lives rent free in my mind at all times#I could write a 500 page essay about how this game uses body language#And how much is said in how the characters physically react to the things Tav says to them#It's fucking insane#Squidposting#As usual Glaze eats the quality so click for details
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I too am obsessed with @pakhnokh 's DTIYS
#character B getting absolutely bodied by character A illuminated by the sun??????? absolutely always lives in my brain rent free#its my favourite visual trope#mdzs#wangxian#mxtx#mo dao zu shi#modao zushi#the grandmaster of demonic cultivation#wei wuxian#lan wangji#dtiys#ive been sick with a bad cold and drew this immediately upon emerging from a 5 day haze of brain fog#tenmastrousers
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original thief series basso & garrett :)
ngl, it's about quality over quantity for me. an npc can have a total of three minutes of screen time, but if they have a cool name, they can live rent free in my head and I'll spend several hours trying to decipher drawable features from a blurry screenshot of pixels
there is a vague hint of a story here, and that's because every time I try to play thi4f, I get incredibly frustrated with how Not Fun the game play is. like, is the story good? well. but it has a PLAGUE. that should've given it instant 'I'll replay this once a year' status in my heart, but the game play sucks so bad that I've never finished it. I can't believe Not Fun gameplay beat out my obsession with narrative plagues.
anyway, the idea is basically if the original era had a game with a plague centric narrative and some other stuff I liked out of thi4f thrown into a narrative blender, with a heavy dash of horror thrown in because some parts of the thief games were scarier to me than entire dedicated horror genre games.
⭐ places I’m at! bsky / pixiv / pillowfort /cohost / cara.app
#if i had a laptop and the skillset i would attempt a story mod because the thief modders who create whole mission stories#are GENIUS and also somewhat terrifying. love them! xoxox#anyway im actually kind of obsessed with parts of thi4f but its also like. not at that sweet spot of almost good enough to be fun#to talk about. which. for the record. has not stopped me from talking about it at length to people#the city itself actually fucking fascinates me. its almost alive and im SO mad that not a single part of that game is actually terrifying#it should be gnarlier and instead it feels a bit like it doesn't quite want to be trapped in the story it has to tell?#but between the level that has the bodies on the meathooks#and the scene with the bodies hanging from the rafters or whatever that was and garrett living in a clock tower#because the game is very much ALMOST about changing times and authoritarian violence and capitalism#(like. by virtue of how the story sort of spins out i think it misses it's mark on a lot of stuff here#in the sense that i dont feel like it actually wants to tell that story. it wants to. go in a different direction. or at least walk on top#of those themes instead of through it)#ANYWAY between all of those things. it does kind of live in my head rent free. they did create a compelling setting#SHAME THEY DIDNT WANT TO ACTUALLY EAT ANY OF IT#unrelated but i would've given thi4f a 10/10 if they kept garrett's fucking nail polish from the concept art. cowards. unforgivable#thief the dark project#i still have no idea how to tag the game series as a whole RIP#sorry for the dedicated dark project fans. if you know what the general series tag is. please let me know#garrett thief#basso thief
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TWILIGHT: NEW MOON
✨the bedroom scene ✨
#THEEEE bedroom scene#this scene lives rent free in my head#I’m currently writing about this scene rn#and it’s just reminding me HOW ALONE I AM#but i don’t see many gif sets about this#and matter of fact i don’t see enough people talk about this scene#this scene counts as a body idc#twilight#taylor launter#kristen stewart#new moon#bella swan#jacob black#jacob x bella#bella x jacob#twilight gif set
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vierapril day 26--weapon
"and failing that, i'll have my trusty warrior of light box the ears of all concerned."
#ffxiv#vierapril#vierapril24#oc: eyrie kisne#i should have a gpose tag#me grabbing the microphone this line of alphinaud's lives rent free in my head#do you ever think about how he treats them like a tool? like they are a puzzle piece in a game?#do you think about how his idealism was taken advantage of but also that alphinaud was already kinda an asshole?#not saying that he is evil or anything of that nature#but an asshole of a conceited young man who sees politics as a game he has won thus far#without the reprocussions of what it means that these are people with lives and families?#I THINK ABOUT IT A LOT#how much this one piece of dialogue shapes so much of his and WoLs relationship#anyway the dead bodies are livia + wilred + minfilia for reasons im still kinda rotating#something of livia representing the death of the empire as its great evil#but wilred and minfilia as innocents#wilred as the innocent who wanted the best for his people#and minfilia trapped as a victim to her dream of a greater tomorrow and the loss of humanity#anyway ARR right?
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TW: fatphobia, transphobia
Hoffman isn’t my favorite but what the actual fuck??
I’ve been seeing so many people being so fatphobic towards him, along with a lot of transphobic comments towards people’s interpretation of his character especially on sawtwt too.. anyways fat and trans hoffman for the win :3
this rhetoric shouldn’t be okay nor normalized at all
#fat trans mark hoffman lives rent free in my mind tbh#let people enjoy things#body representation is important#also zipper tits??#that’s FOUL#reminder that you can be fit and fat#mark hoffman
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Your body, my temple, baby
Not too sure how I feel about this one but I’ll post it anyway
#the book of bill#ford pines#bill cipher#gravity falls#will wood lyrics#your body my temple by will wood#very rushed#they live in my head rent free#billford#i think?#toxic yaoi save me
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#re6edit#reedit#helena harper#leon kennedy#leon s kennedy#gamingedit#videogameedit#dailygaming#my gifs#This line lives rent free in my head#6 is still one of my favorite re games and always will be#honestly favorite games in general#not even gonna lie those are my favorite C-virus BOWs#re#re6#flashing tw#body horror tw
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these are probably my favorite enemies in the game, but you won't encounter them until later on
#vollema#gamedev#game dev#game development#indie game#indiedev#indie dev#body horror#every now and then i have to remind myself to post something mildly weird or creepy again so i dont get stuck labeled a Wholesome Artist#like firing off shots into the air every few months to keep the rent low or whatever#i wouldnt call Vollema horror at all but its got some darker themes than my other games since im actually trying to tell a story this time
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Keeping you guys well feed! 🏃🏽♂️
#Yoichis soul left his body#duo holders#ichinii#my hero academia#boku no my hero academia#yoichi shigaraki#shigaraki#2nd user#ofa#bnha afo#bnha season 6#bnha#second user#second user of one for all#one for all#they live rent free in my head#僕のヒーローアカデミア#bkdkbk
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I will do all this, I will get all this blood on my hands, and you are able to plead naivety.
#welighttheway#hotdedit#larys x alicent#larys strong#alicent hightower#larycent#alicent x larys#alicenthightowerdaily#hotd#matthew needham#i fuckng need to tag the man himself because all those quotes? still! so! striking! HONESTLY i pepper his brain with kisses#'he makes himself indispensable to her ties them together in blood in this extraordinary act of will'#'he can see what she’s capable of and he wants to draw it out. they’re both outsiders among the natives'#'she gets to say 'i didn't want it' and i KNOW she did'#'that’s the thing about assault like that it makes the victim’s body the scene of the crime'#rent fckng free forever#larys wants her to feel the same shame wants to break her chaste royal placid exterior and peel the layers off. manually#he wants to creep inside of her mind and rearrange what he finds there#and mr needham is the only larycent fan who gets it to the core!!!!!!!!#THE matthew of the cast i'm so sorry *or am i??*#is this my way to ignore the leaks??? who knows#tbh i was overwhelmed by the urge to give our tiny larycent circle SOMETHING before the new season starts#for better or for worse i am not sorry for my crime#sooooo i'm afraid this post is not for normies it's for sickos#LIKE CALLS TO LIKE#dolores <3 mariana <3 alyssa <3 bia <3 val <3 nina <3#trashfam *affectionate*#game of thrones#shitty things i do for love#me in s1 DON'T FEED THE RAT ALICENT!!!! me now: FUCKNG FEED THE RAT ALICENT *before this particular determined rat chew its way through*
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do u think neil develops an emotional attachment to pictures. he was never allowed to be permanent before and the only photos of him before palmetto are from forced posed portraits to appear proper and “normal” while in baltimore and then temporary passports and ID’s that hid who he was and were tossed the moment his identity changed, and then he’s a fox and he’s permanent and legal and real and he can have pictures of himself pinned up on the fox wall he can take photos with his foxes and have selfies and polaroids and evidence that not only does he exist but he also gets to stay.
#aftg#all for the game#neil josten#he takes a photography course at psu at some point#the final project is like self portraits#something something reclaiming his body and his scars and his identity through pictures of himself that dont have to be burned#neil lives in my brain rent free literally all the time
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