Not Sex Work

Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-38432-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Interdisciplinary Studies in Sex for Sale

This book explores the parallel histories and intersecting politics of LGBTQ+ people and sex workers, including the role of digital media in shaping the experiences of both in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on the first empirical study with gay, bisexual, and queer young men who agreed to sell sex online without advertising or identifying as sex workers, it examines what the term ‘incidental sex work’ means. Adopting queer methods and feminist theories to explore how definitions of ‘sex’ and ‘work’ have become increasingly unstable in the digital era, it considers how casual, occasional, and unprofessional forms of sex work are arranged on different platforms, from Grindr to OnlyFans. This book will appeal to students and researchers studying sex work and social media across a wide range of fields. It will also be useful for campaigners, policymakers, and healthcare practitioners interested in the implications of incidental sex work.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Morris, Max

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Defining Sex, Work, and Sex Work

2. The Study

3. Intimacy, Identity, and Selling Sex Incidentally

4. Beyond the Binaries and Boundaries of Sex

5. Visual Media on the Platform Economy

6. Reverse Discourses and Divergent Pathways

7. Sex/Work Studies in a Post-identity Paradigm

Über Autor(innen)

Max Morris is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, UK.