Economics, Sexuality, and Male Sex Work
Cambridge University Press, 1/11/2017
EAN 9781107128736, ISBN10: 1107128730
Hardcover, 320 pages, 23.5 x 15.7 x 2.4 cm
Language: English
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.
Introduction
economics, sexuality, and male sex work
Part I. The History and Economics of Male Sex Work
1. Male sex work
antiquity to online
2. Face value
how male sex workers overcome the problem of asymmetric information
3. Market movers
travel, cities, and the network of male sex work
Part II. Male Sex Work and Sexuality
4. Illicit intersections
the value of sex work services
5. Show, tell, and sell
self-presentation in male sex work
6. Service fees
masculinity, safer sex, and male sex work
Conclusion
every man a sex worker
commercial and non-commercial gay sexuality.