Sex Work Today : Erotic Labor in the Twenty-First Century.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barton, Bernadette.

Contributor:

Brents, Barbara G.

Jones, Angela.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex work.

Sex workers.

Prostitution.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2024.

Summary:

No detailed description available for ""Sex Work Today"".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part I: The Internet Changes the Game

1. Punishing Sex: How Financial Discrimination and Content Moderation Harm Online Sex Workers

2. Sugar Dating: What Counts as Sex Work

3. "Bitch Wanted a Woke White Medal": Racialized Emotional Labor and White Guilt in the Digital Sex Industry

4. "I Didn't Know I Was into Trans Men until I Saw You": Trans Men Reimagined through Pornography

5. Pornography with Heart: The Holistic Potential of Feminist Porn

Part II: Intersections

6. "It's Normal for Me": Structuring Sex Work around Disability

7. "I Was Too Fat": Anti-Fatness as a Workplace Access Issue

8. The "Big Beautiful Women" Awards: Fat Latinas in the Porn Industry

9. "Looking White": Sex Workers of Color Hacking White Supremacy

10. "Whorearchy": Racial Earnings Disparities in Webcam Modeling

11. Sex Worker Scholars: Navigating Outness in Academic Spaces

12. Ethical Sexual Services: Sexual Assistance for People with Disabilities

Part III: The Work of Sex Work

13. "My Brand Is Girl Next Door": Authenticity and Privilege among Transfeminine Porn Performers

14. Dominating Pleasure: High Job Satisfaction among Professional Dominatrixes

15. Not a Client, Not a Sex Worker: Dismantling the "Pimp" Stereotype

16. Masturbating to Capitalism: How Findom Challenges and Reinforces Patriarchal and Capitalist Relations

17. Gifts of Desire: The Erotics of Gift Exchange and Sex Worker Mutual Aid

Part IV: The State and Criminalization

18. "Beat 'Em at Their Game": The Strategic Deployment of "Victimhood" as Resistance

19. The Harms of Helping: An Indigenous Perspective on the Industrial Rescue Complex

20. "The Police Don't Protect Us!": Why Sex Workers Don't Trust the Police

21. Raids and Rescues: The Effects of Prostitution-Diversion Programs on Asian Women Massage Parlor Workers

22. Disability at the Revolving Door: Perspectives on Mental Illness and Predatory Policing

Part V: Sex Worker Activism

23. After Decriminalization: A Labor-Rights Agenda for the Sex Industry

24. It's Time to Sue for What: We Want The New Legal Tools for Strippers

25. Taking Our Words Right out of Our Mouths: The Appropriation of Sex Worker-Rights Language

26. "May There Be Evidence of My Life at My Disposal": Israeli Sex Workers Dismantling the "Whore" Stigma

Part VI: New Directions and Perspectives

27. The Field of Sex Work Studies: Past, Present, and Future

28. Were the Feminist Sex Wars Inevitable? Smashing the Binary

29. Following the Money: Kenyan Sex Workers' Strategies during Crisis

30. "I'll Take What I Can Get": Transmasculine and Nonbinary Sex Workers, Sexual Capital, and Trans Joy

31. Cybrothel: The World's First A.I. Sex Worker

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

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ISBN:

9781479821389

1479821381

OCLC:

1463064607