Touching Encounters: Sex, Work, And Male-for-male Internet Escorting
by Kevin Walby /
2012 / English / PDF
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Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health
researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex
and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit.
Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved in
male-with-male—or m4m—Internet escorting,
Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health
researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex
and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit.
Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved in
male-with-male—or m4m—Internet escorting,Touching
Encounters
Touching
Encounters is the first book to explicitly address how
masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era
of Internet communications.
is the first book to explicitly address how
masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era
of Internet communications.
By looking closely at the sex and work of male escorts, Kevin
Walby tries to reconcile the two extremes of m4m sex—the
stereotypical idea of a quick cash transaction and the tendency
toward friendship and mutuality. In doing so, Walby draws on the
work of Foucault to make visible the play of power in these
physical and commercial relations between men. At once a
revelation to the sociology of work and a much-needed critical
engagement with queer theory,
By looking closely at the sex and work of male escorts, Kevin
Walby tries to reconcile the two extremes of m4m sex—the
stereotypical idea of a quick cash transaction and the tendency
toward friendship and mutuality. In doing so, Walby draws on the
work of Foucault to make visible the play of power in these
physical and commercial relations between men. At once a
revelation to the sociology of work and a much-needed critical
engagement with queer theory,Touching Encounters
Touching Encounters responds
to calls from across the social sciences to connect Foucault with
sociologies of sex, sexuality, and intimacy. Walby does this and
more, retying this sexual practice back to society at large.
responds
to calls from across the social sciences to connect Foucault with
sociologies of sex, sexuality, and intimacy. Walby does this and
more, retying this sexual practice back to society at large.