Economics, Sexuality, and Male Sex Work
Trevon D. Logan
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.
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Jahr:
2017
Verlag:
Cambridge University Press
Sprache:
english
Seiten:
340
ISBN 10:
1107128730
ISBN 13:
9781107128736
Datei:
PDF, 3.60 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017