Prostitution 2.0: The changing face of sex work

Cunningham, Scott W.; Kendall, Todd D.

doi:10.1016/j.jue.2010.12.001

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“…One significant change is the growth of the industry through the internet [30]. In fact prostitution was among the first markets to develop online [31]. The great importance of the visual appearance in this phenomenon and the need for privacy among clients has led to a big growth of online demands for sexual services and that many new web sites now offer information -photos, health habits, services offered and their price-about the MSW before seeing him in real life [32].…”

Section: Future Challengesmentioning

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HIV Prevention Interventions for Young Male Commercial Sex Workers

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The sex industry, where men sell sexual services to other men or women, has grown in recent years. These men who offer sexual services are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection due to such factors as: frequency of risky sexual practices, number of sex partners, drug-taking, prevalence of sexually-transmitted infections (STI) and their specific situation of social exclusion which may hinder access shown by the health services. These multi-faceted realities faced by sex workers explain the burgeoning interest in new avenues of scientific research. There are too few preventive programs however aimed at this population group and the studies that evaluate their effectiveness are fewer still. In this article we survey more recent studies on the difficulties of implementing programs for HIV prevention in male sex workers (MSW), as well as the studies that have gauged the impact of preventive programs in this group.

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Section: Future Challengesmentioning

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“…We mostly relate to theoretical contributions highlighting the role of opportunity costs either through labor markets (Lee and Persson 2013) or the marriage market (Edlund and Korn 2002). Recent empirical contributions have analyzed the market for sexual services focusing on the role of disease risk and its compensating differential (Arunachalam and Shah 2013, Gertler et al 2005, Robinson and Yeh 2011, Rao et al 2003, Shah 2013, competition (Li et al Forthcoming) or technological improvements (Cunningham and Kendall 2011).…”

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War, Migration and the Origins of the Thai Sex Industry

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Lekfuangfu

Zylberberg³

2017

Journal of the European Economic Association

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This paper analyzes the determinants behind the spatial distribution of the sex industry in Thailand. We relate the development of the sex industry to an early temporary demand shock, i.e., U.S. military presence during the Vietnam War. Comparing the surroundings of Thai military bases used by the U.S. army to districts close to unused Thai bases, we find that there are currently 5 times more commercial sex workers in districts near former U.S. bases. The development of the sex industry is also explained by a high price elasticity of supply due to female migration from regions affected by an agricultural crisis. Finally, we study a consequence induced by the large numbers of sex workers in few red-light districts: the HIV outbreak in the early 1990s.

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“…Online escort advertisement websites have allowed escorts the opportunity to attract and match with clients who otherwise would not have patronised sex workers on the street (Cunningham and Kendall 2009;Ashford 2009), particularly female clients seeking either male or female sex workers (Burghart 2015). As a result, the individual escort could market more resourcefully, by specifically targeting his/her products or services directly to those interested clients they could serve well and most profitably (Holt and Blevins 2007: 334).…”

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“…Despite an extensive body of research focusing on the online escort industry, less attention has been directed at male to female, male to male and female to female online escort services, subsections of the sex industry that are experiencing significant growth (Levitt and Venkatesh 2007;Cunningham and Kendall 2009;Sharpe and Earle 2003;Weitzer 2010). As a result, we know relatively little with regards to the complex structural divisions and characteristics of the online escort population, in regards to gender, sexuality, age, education, cultural background and health and safety issues (Bernstein 2007;Ray 2007;Weitzer 2007;Young 2008).…”

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What’s on Sale? A Discourse Analysis of Four Distinctive Online Escort Advertisement Websites

Burghart

2017

Sexuality & Culture

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Technological advances have contributed to the changing structure and organisation of sex work, heralding a dramatic growth in sex workers soliciting and advertising the selling of sex via the Internet. This study was concerned with four distinctive, independent online escort markets-male heterosexual, female heterosexual, gay and lesbian. A discourse analysis was conducted on ten online advertisements from each escort sample, in order to analyse how different online escorts advertise their sexual services in relation to gender, sexuality and social class. The findings reveal core differences between each of the escort samples in relation to gender and power dynamics. Findings highlighted that maleness and masculinity-aspower play a role whether we are looking at men as the buyers or the sellers of escort services. In stark contrast, advertisements presented femaleness and femininity as objectified, submissive and/or vulnerable regardless as to whether we are looking at women as the buyers or the sellers of escort services.

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Prostitution 2.0: The changing face of sex work

Cited by 168 publications

References 40 publications

HIV Prevention Interventions for Young Male Commercial Sex Workers

HIV Prevention Interventions for Young Male Commercial Sex Workers

War, Migration and the Origins of the Thai Sex Industry

What’s on Sale? A Discourse Analysis of Four Distinctive Online Escort Advertisement Websites

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