New Pleasures and Old Dangers: Reinventing Male Sex Work

Title
New Pleasures and Old Dangers: Reinventing Male Sex Work
Publication Date
2013
Author(s)
Minichiello, Victor
Scott, John
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9027-9425
Email: jscott6@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:jscott6
Callander, Denton
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Routledge
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1080/00224499.2012.760189
UNE publication id
une:12482
Abstract
Understandings of male sex workers (MSWs) shift with technological, conceptual, and social changes. Research has historically constructed MSWs as psychologically unstable, desperate, or destitute victims and their clients as socially deviant perverts. These perceptions, however, are no longer supported by contemporary research and changing societal perceptions of the sex industry, challenging how we understand and describe "escorts." The changing understandings of sexuality and the increasing power of the Internet are both important forces behind recent changes in the structure and organization of MSWs. The growth in the visibility and reach of escorts has created opportunities to form an occupational account of MSWs that better accounts for the dynamic and diverse nature of the MSW experience in the early 21st century. Recent changes in the structure and organization of male sex work have provided visibility to the increasingly diverse geographical distribution of MSW, the commodification of race and racialized desire, new populations of heterosexual men and women as clients, and the successful dissemination of safer sexual messages to MSWs through online channels. This article provides a broad overview of the literature on MSWs, concentrating its focus on studies that have emerged over the past 20 years and identifying areas for future research.
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Citation
Journal of Sex Research, 50(3-4), p. 263-275
ISSN
1559-8519
0022-4499
Start page
263
End page
275

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