Converging sexualities?

Kingston, Sarah; Hammond, Natalie; Redman, Scarlett

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“…Importantly, they work to increase the visibility of some—often the most vulnerable, such as street workers—while creating invisibilities for others. For example, research by Kingston, Hammond, and Redmand () shows that women clients feel they are ignored by policy makers because of their assumed non‐existence, in turn meaning that they can more easily evade police detection and prosecution in countries that have created a criminal offence of paying for sex. To be able to “go under the radar” is particularly important in contexts such as the UK, where legislation has made it a criminal offence to purchase sexual services from a forced or coerced person.…”

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“…Given that we found many couples advertising online, further studies on couples are needed. Although research has identified the experience of sex workers who provide services to couples and couples who have purchased sex, this has been somewhat limited (Kingston et al, ). In addition, the data on the geographical distribution of sex work online points to the need for more research on rural parts of the UK and elsewhere.…”

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“…For example, building up a client base takes time and, whilst a person might not be providing sexual services at the time of the research, this does not mean that they will not provide sexual services at some point. Kingston et al’s () research on women who pay for sexual services alone and as part of a couple, has shown that many men sex workers work part time and inconsistently, and thus may be misinterpreted as “bogus” sex workers when their inconsistent work patterns are not taken into account. (We define a bogus sex worker as someone who does not intend to sell, sexual services, nor works in the industry as an agent or manager, but creates a bogus profile for personal gratification or in order to victimize or exploit sex workers).…”

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Sex counts: An examination of sexual service advertisements in a UK online directory

Kingston

Smith

2020

British Journal of Sociology

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Internationally, sex work research, public opinion, policy, laws, and practice are predicated on the assumption that commercial sex is a priori sold by women and bought by men. Scarce attention has been devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ) sex working as well as women who pay for sex. This is as much an empirical absence as it is a theoretical one, for the ideological claim that women comprise the “vast majority” of sex workers is rarely, if ever, exposed to empirical scrutiny. Focusing on the UK, we address this major gap in evidence in order to challenge the gendered and heterosexist logics that underpin contemporary debates. We do so by presenting large‐scale data gained from the quantitative analysis of 25,511 registered member profiles of an online escort directory. Our findings point to heterogeneity rather than homogeneity in the contemporary sex industry including in terms of gender identity, sexual orientation, and advertised client base. For example, while two‐thirds of advertisements self‐identify as “Female,” one in four are listed as “Male;” less than half list their sexual orientation as “Straight;” and nearly two‐thirds advertise to women clients. Our study thus challenges prevailing heteronormative assumptions about commercial sex, which erase LGBTQ sex workers and other non‐normative identities and practices, and which we argue have important political, practical, and theoretical consequences.

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Sex counts: An examination of sexual service advertisements in a UK online directory

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2020

British Journal of Sociology

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“…For decades, the scholarship on full-service sex work has focused on cis women workers (Jones 2015;Weitzer 2009), cis men workers (Logan 2010;Walby 2012), and recently cis women buying sex (Kingston, hammond, and Redman 2020). In the sociology of sex work, only a handful of scholars document the market experiences of transgender sex workers.…”

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“It’s Hard Out Here for a Unicorn”: Transmasculine and Nonbinary Escorts, Embodiment, and Inequalities in Cisgendered Workplaces

Jones

2020

Gender & Society

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In this article, I draw from in-depth interviews with 34 transmasculine and nonbinary escorts who were assigned female at birth (AFAB) to explore the complicated relationship between gender, race, sexuality, embodiment, and workplace inequalities in what I have called cisgendered workplaces. Cissexism, transmisogyny, and racism are embedded in workspaces, brothels, agencies, and the websites escorts use for advertising, and clients operate based on cisgender principles. These analyses demonstrate how cisgender privilege operates in and buttresses cisgendered workplaces, in ways that disadvantage trans and nonbinary people. I show how shifting trans embodiments and spaces of transition in workplaces adversely affect transmasculine and nonbinary escorts’ wages and workplace experiences, but also disrupt cisgendered workplaces and challenge cisgender hegemony. Adopting the analytical frame of spaces of transition reveals critical insights into the role that embodiment (not just identity) plays in workplace inequalities.

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“…Indeed, the literature reports on different characteristics attributed to sexualised bodies in Africa [ 7 – 9 ], Asia [ 10 – 13 ], and Latin America [ 14 – 22 ], depending on specific sexual ideations that tourist from Europe and North America have. Besides, Europe [ 6 , 23 , 24 ] and North America also report [ 1 , 6 , 25 , 26 ] cases of sexual tourism. Besides the exploitation of bodies from the global south, the sexual tourism industry exposes local populations to specific diseases or potentiates the relationship between social inequalities, violence and health as seen in the sexual abuse of adults and children [ 11 , 15 , 22 , 27 ] and their heightened vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections [ 12 , 16 , 28 ].…”

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Social inequalities, sexual tourism and HIV in Cartagena, Colombia: an ethnographic study

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Background: Cartagena, Colombia's main port on the Caribbean Coast, reported an HIV incidence of 7.5 per 100, 000 inhabitants in 2007 with 90.0% transmission by heterosexual contact and 70 identified as women with a stable partner. Studies across Colombia illustrate that HIV infection relates to social inequalities; most people with HIV live in poverty and have minimal access to health care, education, and secure jobs. The purpose of this article is to analyse the relationship between social inequalities, sexual tourism and HIV infection in Cartagena, Colombia. Methods: Data come from a five-year participatory ethnography of HIV in Cartagena in the period 2004-2009, in which 96 citizens (30 of whom were living with HIV) participated in different data collection phases. Techniques included participant observation, in-depth interviews and thematic life histories. Out of this material, we selected three life histories of two women and a man living with HIV that are representative of the ways in which participants expressed how social inequalities make it virtually impossible to engage in safe sex practices. Results: At stake is the exchange of condomless sex for goods within the widespread sexual tourism networks that promote an idealisation of dark-skinned men and women as better sexual performers. Our results illustrate the complex interplay of social inequalities based on class, skin colour, gender and sexual orientation. Furthermore, they suggest a synergistic effect between poverty, racialization, and gender inequalities in the historical maintenance of social dynamics for a fruitful growth of a sexual tourism industry that in turn increases vulnerability to HIV infection. Conclusions: Although the convergence of social inequalities has been thoroughly reported in the literature on social studies of HIV vulnerability; distinctive dynamics are occurring in Cartagena, including a clear link between the contemporary globalised sexual tourism industries and a racialised social structure-both having historical roots in the colonial past- .

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Converging sexualities?

Cited by 4 publications

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Sex counts: An examination of sexual service advertisements in a UK online directory

Sex counts: An examination of sexual service advertisements in a UK online directory

“It’s Hard Out Here for a Unicorn”: Transmasculine and Nonbinary Escorts, Embodiment, and Inequalities in Cisgendered Workplaces

Social inequalities, sexual tourism and HIV in Cartagena, Colombia: an ethnographic study

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