Introduction: Sex, consumption and commerce in the contemporary city

Hubbard, Phil; Collins, Alan; Gorman‐Murray, Andrew

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“…As Gillian Rose () has pointed out, the human element of hybrid assemblages is key to understanding digitally mediated spaces, even if posthumanist thinking tends to deprioritise human agency. For example, the spatial context of sex work, physically located in urban red‐light districts, has been challenged by, and forced to negotiate with, increasingly sophisticated online spaces in which individuals and companies can sell sex (Hubbard, Gorman‐Murray, & Collins, ; Sanders, ). Similarly, the overlap between pornography and home videos is progressively blurring as societies increasingly crowdsource online content.…”

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Still getting it on online: Thirty years of queer male spaces brokered through digital technologies

Miles

2018

Geography Compass

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Research across the social sciences testifies to an ongoing relationship between queerness and digital technology. This article tracks how different online spaces for queer men 1 have changed as the internet has developed over the past 30 years. It argues that queer spaces have become increasingly dominated by, and predicated on, internet technology. I review early interpretations of cyberspace as a liberatory space freed from heteronormativity and later more critical assessments of its potential, positioning arguments for and against the internet's status as a protective space. I then evaluate the huge popularity of mobile phone-based dating and hook-up apps such as Grindr and Tinder. These platforms have developed from static desktop offerings including Gaydar and PlanetRomeo, but emphasise a distinctly hybridised socio-technical experience in partner seeking.Finally, I consider the impact of locative media on more traditional queer concepts of cruising and community, concluding that contemporary apps refigure both structures in distinctive ways reflecting larger changes in sexuality and space studies.

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Still getting it on online: Thirty years of queer male spaces brokered through digital technologies

Miles

2018

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“…Polygamy and early marriages are some of the traditional risky practices that have so far been 'modernized' into concurrent relationships and the concept monetization of sex. According to Hubbard (2017) commodification and consumption of sex in exchange of a legal tender either by sex workers or their consumers into business spaces calls for ethical continuance. These high-risk behaviours are fuelled by among other factors poverty and a search for 'self-actualization'.…”

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An Ethical Claim for Administration of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PREP) in HIV and AIDS Burdened Africa

Musili¹,

Josephin²,

James³

2019

AFRREV IJAH: Int J. Art and Humanities

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It is morally justifiable for every person of good will to venture into HIV and AIDs prevention among the populace. Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) administration promises to help meet the promise of this moral claim, which is founded on two ethical principles of ensuring wellbeing and justice for all. In spite of the efforts, challenges abound, especially in Africa. Some African tenets of sexuality, unavailability of contextualized and harmonized African sexuality theory as well as Africa's poor economic standing are major threats to the administration of PrEP. This paper highlighted the major challenges and calls for their resolution if PrEP administration is to be of help to the poor and HIV burdened Africans.

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“…This section is to be understood twofold. First, it is about sex workers' own processes of reflective subversion, empowerment and self-identification, and as such it would very much fall into the aforemen- (Hubbard 1999(Hubbard , 2000(Hubbard , 2008Hubbard, Gorman Murray, and Collins 2016;Hubbard, Gorman Murray, and Nash 2015;Hubbard and Prior 2012). 20 The researcher herself further engages with some of her respondents' feelings regarding the so-called 'girlfriend experience', which is "one extreme [example] of manufactured intimacy" that "includes personal intimacy such as cuddling, kissing, and concern for the feelings and life of the client" (Smith 2017: 347, 359).…”

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Female Subversion through Sex Work: Transgressive Discourses

Olasik

2018

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The main objective of this article is to provide a multi-faceted and spatially-sensitive reflection on sex work.Taking as a point of departure subversive feminist politics on the one hand and the much contingent notion of citizenship on the other, I intend to present various forms of prostitution as potentially positive and empowering modes of sexual and emotional auto-creation. Informed by the leading research of the subject, as well as inspired and educated by Australia-based Dr Elizabeth Smith from La Trobe University in Melbourne, who had researched and presented female sex workers as self-caring and subversive subjects who make own choices and derive satisfaction from their occupation, I wish to seek academic justice for all those women (and men or trans people, for that matter) in the sex industry who feel stigmatized by political pressure and ultra-feminist circles across Europe. Translating Dr Smith's significant research into European (and Polish) social realities would be a valuable contribution to the local discussions on gender and sexuality, and axes they intersect with. More importantly, however, a framework of a conceptual interdisciplinary approach needs to be adopted-one in which a specific queer form of lesbian feminist reflection is combined with human geography, both of which have much to offer to various strands of sociological theory and practice. Therefore, as a queer lesbian scholar based in Poland, I would like to diverge a bit from my usual topic in order to pay an academic and activist tribute to the much neglected strand of sociology of sex work. However, my multi-faceted and interdisciplinary academic activity allows me to combine the matter in question with the field of lesbian studies. Both a female sex worker and a lesbian have been culturally positioned through the lens of what so-called femininity is, without a possibility to establish control over their own subjectivities. Hence, on the one hand the article is going to be an academic re-interpretation of sex work as such, but on the other, methodological possibilities of acknowledging and researching lesbian sex workers will be additionally considered with special attention to feminist epistemologies and praxis. While a sensitivity to a given locality is of utmost importance when dealing with gender and sexuality issues, I would like to suggest a somewhat overall approach to investigating both female empowerment through sex work and lesbian studies inclusive of sex workers. Importantly, the more common understandings of the sex industry need to be de-constructed in order for a diversity of transgressive discourses to emerge. Abstract Keywords

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Introduction: Sex, consumption and commerce in the contemporary city

Cited by 28 publications

References 59 publications

Still getting it on online: Thirty years of queer male spaces brokered through digital technologies

Still getting it on online: Thirty years of queer male spaces brokered through digital technologies

An Ethical Claim for Administration of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PREP) in HIV and AIDS Burdened Africa

Female Subversion through Sex Work: Transgressive Discourses

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