Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy &amp; Politics

Sanders, Teela; O’Neill, Maggie; Pitcher, Jane

doi:10.4135/9781529714944

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“…At the other end of the spectrum, a sex work rights approach acknowledges agency by those women and men who make a rational decision to take up an occupation in the sex markets (see for example, Sanders, O'Neill, and Pitcher ; Agustín ). Note that within this framework, the term sex work is used as a less derogatory and stigmatizing label for the act of prostitution (e.g.…”

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Student involvement in the UK sex industry: motivations and experiences

Sagar

Jones

Symons

et al. 2016

British Journal of Sociology

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The Student Sex Work Project was set up in 2012 in the United Kingdom (UK) to locate students who are involved in the sex industry, to discover their motivations and needs, and in doing so provide an evidence base to consider the development of policy and practice within Higher Education. As part of this initiative, a large survey was undertaken comprising students from throughout the UK. Reporting on the findings from this survey, the article sheds some light on what occupations students take up in the sex industry, what motivates their participation and how they experience the work. The study also offers a much-needed empirical input to the ongoing academic debates on the nature of sex work. The results suggest that there can be little doubt of a student presence within the sex industry in the UK. The motivations and experiences of student sex workers cover elements of agency and choice as well as of force and exploitation and it is suggested that student sex work is best understood from a polymorphous framework which leaves room for a wide variety of experiences and challenges.

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Student involvement in the UK sex industry: motivations and experiences

Sagar

Jones

Symons

et al. 2016

British Journal of Sociology

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“…This paper focuses on the meanings ascribed and shared by clients rather than on the more theoretical and political dilemmas of the sex industry. For analysis of the theoretical and political debates on sex work, see Bruckert and Hannem (), Bruckert and Parent (), Monto (), O'Neill (), Parent et al (), and Sanders, O'Neill, and Pitcher ().…”

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Escort Clients' Sexual Scripts and Constructions of Intimacy in Commodified Sexual Relationships

Jones

Hannem

2018

Symbolic Interaction

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This article draws on fourteen in‐depth semi‐structured interviews with men who hire female escorts to examine the role of intimacy in their interactions with sex workers. Using the concept of social scripting, we examine the cultural, interpersonal, and intrapsychic meanings that shape the commodified sexual interaction. Focusing on the clients' intrapsychic scripts, we argue that previous typologies of client behavior ignore the role of intimacy and the meaning that individuals ascribe to their own experiences and actions. We suggest a typology of clients that goes beyond previous classifications of “regular” and “non‐regular”—the latter referred to as a “hummingbird” client from the perspective of one sex worker. Our four‐part typology of committed regulars, hybrids, searchers, and industry insiders takes into account the role of intimacy along with the client's perception of frequency and motive, even in seemingly casual sexual encounters. A video abstract is available at https://youtu.be/IK_UiGzWT_E.

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“…This conceptualisation of desire as masculine forms an important aspect of the Madonna‐whore dichotomy, termed in Lagarde's work as a distinction between the status of a ‘bad woman’ and a ‘good woman’ (Lagarde, : 219). The moral judgment attached to any female who displays erotic agency of her own hinges on the issue of embodied desire and compounds the prejudice against sex workers, which contributes significantly to their exposure to violence (Sanders, O'Neill and Pitcher, : 11). Seeing this situation captured through the figure of a child calls into questions this dehumanising and ostracising morality.…”

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Photographing Children in Mexico City's Red‐Light Districts

Gasiorowski

2018

Bull Latin American Res

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This paper analyses Mexican photographer Maya Goded's representations of children living in one of Mexico City's red-light districts. Drawing on interviews with the photographer, the practical and ethical difficulties in portraying vulnerable children are analysed to examine the representational limitations of photography in confrontation with child sex exploitation. Through close visual analysis of the images, the paper examines the children's representations as both externalised repositories of their parents' aspirations and their keen imitators. The figure of the child becomes a locus for interpolating critiques of sex work, demonstrating how photographs forge a cultural space where they become politically salient records of vulnerability in the face of neoliberal deregulation and economic rationality.

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Prostitution: Sex Work, Policy & Politics

Cited by 74 publications

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Student involvement in the UK sex industry: motivations and experiences

Student involvement in the UK sex industry: motivations and experiences

Escort Clients' Sexual Scripts and Constructions of Intimacy in Commodified Sexual Relationships

Photographing Children in Mexico City's Red‐Light Districts

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