ISBN:
9781316423899
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (xvii, 326 pages)
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DDC:
306.74/3
Keywords:
Male prostitutes / United States
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Male prostitution / United States / Economic aspects
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USA
Abstract:
Male sex work generates sales in excess of one billion dollars annually in the United States. Recent sex scandals involving prominent leaders and government shutdowns of escort websites have focused attention on this business, but despite the attention that comes when these scandals break, we know very little about how the market works. Economics, Sexuality, and Male Sex Work is the first economic analysis of male sex work. Competition, the role of information, pricing strategies and other economic features of male sex work are analyzed using the most comprehensive data available. Sex work is also social behavior, however, and this book shows how the social aspects of gay sexuality influence the economic properties of the market. Concepts like desire, masculinity and sexual stereotypes affect how sex workers compete for clients, who practices safer sex, and how sex workers present themselves to clients to differentiate them from the competition
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jan 2017)
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Introduction: economics, sexuality, and male sex work -- Male sex work: antiquity to online -- Face value: how male sex workers overcome the problem of asymmetric -- Information -- Market movers: travel, cities, and the network of male sex work -- Illicit intersections: the value of sex work services -- Show, tell, and sell: self-presentation in male sex work -- Service fees: masculinity, safer sex, and male sex work -- Conclusion: every man a sex worker? Commercial and non-commercial gay sexuality
DOI:
10.1017/9781316423899
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