Online Escorts: The Influence of Advertised Sexual Orientation

Capiola, August; Griffith, James D.; Balotti, Brandon; Turner, Ryan; Sharrah, Mark L.

doi:10.1080/15299716.2014.902785

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“…In contrast, some types of bisexuality are an important part of the practices present in organisations which commodify sexualities, particularly the sex industries (see, for example, Capiola et al, 2014). The chapter is underpinned by the observation that variations across these sectors are related to the operation of capitalism, together with heterosexism and mononormativity.…”

Section: Bisexuality Organisations and Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 94%

Bisexuality

Monro¹

2015

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Section: Bisexuality Organisations and Capitalismmentioning

confidence: 94%

Bisexuality

Monro¹

2015

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“…Concerning escorts and sex markets in particular, there has also been some limited study on information and signaling in such 'illegal' markets; e.g., Logan and Shah (2013) and Capiola et al (2014) are both relevant in this regard, as is the book by Sanders (2013). The honesty of sex workers, even about such matters as their sexual orientation and age, is not well understood.…”

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Network-theoretic modeling of complex activity using UK online sex advertisements

Kejriwal

2020

Appl Netw Sci

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Online sex has become a fast-growing business in both developing and developed network, with advertisements of (not necessarily unique) individuals numbering in the hundreds of millions across different Web portals. One such major hub of sex advertisement activity, before it was shut down by US federal agencies, was backpage.com. The backpage.com website was a classifieds-advertising portal that had become the largest marketplace for buying and selling sex by the time that federal law enforcement agencies seized it in April 2018. Since then, investigations have been actively underway. However, the data (which has recently been made available to us for research on UK Backpage) also offers valuable insights into the nature of the online sex business, including complex properties that can be best studied using network science. One of the challenges, however, is a rigorous modeling of the data as a network, since the primary data are web advertisements and metadata (backend database) on accounts that posted that ad. In this article, we conduct an empirical study of an important sample of the online sex marketplace using UK backpage, including presenting a methodology for constructing simple 'activity networks' that define some notion of real-world collaboration or connection between two entities (in our case, at the level of ad-posting accounts) and then studying the properties of these networks. We gather a set of insights into a domain that has not been studied at scale, let alone a national level, but that is continuing to be a growing social problem for many countries.

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“…One extreme of manufactured intimacy is what has been termed the ‘girlfriend experience’ (Capiola et al., 2014). Moving beyond pleasure, this mode of sex work performance includes personal intimacy such as cuddling, kissing and concern for the feelings and life of the client.…”

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‘It gets very intimate for me’: Discursive boundaries of pleasure and performance in sex work

Smith

2016

Sexualities

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Sex work has enjoyed a wealth of sociological interest over the last three decades. However, sexual pleasure experienced by women sex workers with their clients has been largely missing from the conversation. This article seeks to redress this gap by looking at the qualitative narratives of nine women who were working in sex work in Victoria, Australia in 2009. By viewing these narratives through Foucault's power/ knowledge/discourse nexus, together with his later work on ethics of care of the self, it posits that sex worker women draw on and resist various discourses around intimacy, performance, and pleasure in regards to their sex work and their personal lives. With this interplay in mind, the analysis supports the third feminist perspective that sex work is a complex space where dominant and subjugated discourses mingle to produce myriad experiences traversing the exploitation/empowerment binary represented by the feminist sex wars.

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Online Escorts: The Influence of Advertised Sexual Orientation

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

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Network-theoretic modeling of complex activity using UK online sex advertisements

‘It gets very intimate for me’: Discursive boundaries of pleasure and performance in sex work

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