Travail sexuel pour classes moyennes

Drawing from fieldwork and interviews with middle-class sex workers, this essay considers the relationship between the class-privileged women and men who are increasingly finding their way into sex work and more generalized patterns of economic restructuring. How as the emergence of new communicatio...

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Main Author: Elizabeth Bernstein
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Language:fra
Published: Genre, Sexualité et Société
Series:Genre, Sexualité et Société
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/gss/1058
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description Drawing from fieldwork and interviews with middle-class sex workers, this essay considers the relationship between the class-privileged women and men who are increasingly finding their way into sex work and more generalized patterns of economic restructuring. How as the emergence of new communications technologies transformed the meaning and experience of sexual commerce for sex workers and their customers? What is the connection between the new “respectability” of sexual commerce and the new classes of individuals who now participate in commercial sexual transactions? This essay concludes by exploring some of the key transformations that are occurring within middle-class commercial sexual encounters, including the emergence of “bounded authenticity” (an authentic, yet bounded, interpersonal connection) as a particularly desirable and sought-after sexual commodity.
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Travail sexuel pour classes moyennes
Genre, Sexualité et Société
authenticity
class
postindustrialism
sex work
technology
title Travail sexuel pour classes moyennes
title_full Travail sexuel pour classes moyennes
title_fullStr Travail sexuel pour classes moyennes
title_full_unstemmed Travail sexuel pour classes moyennes
title_short Travail sexuel pour classes moyennes
title_sort travail sexuel pour classes moyennes
topic authenticity
class
postindustrialism
sex work
technology
url https://journals.openedition.org/gss/1058
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