Queer Sex Work by Laing, Mary -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Being, thinking and doing ‘queer’ in debates about commercial sex

Queering sex work: theories, practices, methodologies Structure of the book Concluding remarks Acknowledgements References

Part I: Sex, work and queer interventions

2. Queer in/and sexual economies

Introduction The political economy of commercial (hetero)sex Queer/ing sexual economies Concluding remarks Acknowledgements References

3. Sex, work, queerly: identity, authenticity and laboured performance

Introduction: sex work, queerly Gay for pay, queerly Gay-not-for-pay: discourses of non-work Conclusion Notes References

4. After the image: labour in pornography

Introduction: invisible labour Positions on porn Positions as perspectives Disciplinary genealogies Conclusion: after the image Notes References

5. ‘Serving it’: werq queers our sex, $ex queers our work

References

6. Beyond the stigma: the Asian sex worker as First World saviour

Introduction Transnational literature and queer of colour analysis The queer ancestor in This Place Called Absence The entrepreneurial sex worker in Platform Acknowledgements Note References

Part II: Queer embodiments, identities, intersections

7. Critical femininities, fluid sexualities and queer temporalities: erotic performers on objectification, femmephobia and oppression

Introduction

Methodology: making community Combating oppression: organising, strategising and mobilising change Peer education, skill sharing and consciousness raising Too much make-up? Glamour, beauty, excess and femmephobia Transgression, armour, camp: critical femininities Resisting discourses of objectification: ownership, boundaries and representation Security guards, sarcasm and standing up for oneself: negotiating boundaries ‘Every man’s fantasy is a lie’: taste, desire, diversity Muscles, flexibility, athleticism: inverting gender norms and stereotypes Straight for pay? Fluid identities and queer effects ‘Stripper time’, queer temporalities and interclass contact Conclusion: erotic labour as queer References

8. Being paid to be in pain: the experiences of a professional submissive

Introduction Why I do what I do Conflating perception and reality The gaps in the argument and the problem of the ‘other’ Closing the gap Notes References

9. Kinks and shrinks: the therapeutic value of queer sex work

Whorestory Sex work as potentially healing Another reason to be kinky: kinksters have better mental health outcomes Communities as healing agents Parallels between queer and sex worker communities Queering sex work Conclusion Notes References

10. Dangerous curves: the complex intersections between queerness, fatness and sex work

References

11. Older age, able-bodiedness and buying commercial sex: reclaiming the sexual self

Introduction Queering sex work Qualitative research: extracting stories from men who buy sex The complexity of buying sex Conclusion: narratives of active sexuality in the project of ‘the self’ Acknowledgements References

12. Disability and sex work

Further information Notes References

Part III: New spaces of/and queer sex work

13. Queering tourism: exploring queer desire and mobility in a globalised world

Introduction Gay tourism contextualised within neo-liberalism Transnational sexualities framework Conclusion Note References

14. Subverting heteronormativity in a lesbian erotic dance venue? Queer moments and heteronormative tensions

Introduction: situating heteronormativity and erotic dance Methodology ‘Lippy’ and sexual politics Normative performances? Bodies out of place? ‘Policing’ a ‘women’s space’ Touching and ‘gazing’ Concluding thoughts Acknowledgements Notes References

15. M$M@Gaydar: queering the social network

Introduction: queer images, queer consumers Queer | sex work | advertising Queer advertising Method of investigation Gaydar and ‘commercially sited sex’ ‘One way or another, everybody pays’ Homonymity in MSM and M$M profiles When is an advertisement not an advertisement? Conclusion Notes References

16. Troubling the margins between intimacy and anonymity: Queer(y)ing the virtual sex industry in Second Life

Introduction Context Que(e)r(y)ing sex work in SL Anonymous intimacy in sexual (re)scripting Conclusion Notes References

Part IV: Commercial sex and queer communities

17. Community sex work: a conversation with Nenna Feelmore Joiner

References

18. Queering porn audiences

Introduction Motives and methods Methodological issues Some basic indicators What makes queer pornography queer? Consuming queer porn Concluding remarks Notes References

19. Outdoor brothel culture: the un/making of a trans stroll in Vancouver’s West End, 1975–84

Introduction Bankrolling glamorous femininity and working it Barred from ‘gender-appropriate’ work Money, money, money: economic and community development The legally mandated dissolution of community Surviving the civic war against hookers The death zone of the downtown eastside Acknowledgements Notes References

20. ‘Mates from the pub’: the unsettling of sex work through stories of exchange among men ‘doing business’ in Manchester

Introduction The pub David and Ron Unsettling sex work Notes References

Part V: Activism and policy

21. The best parties happen under the bus: the impact of lesbian institutions on queer sex workers in Australia

A Note On Methodology Introduction Sex work as ‘heterosexual’ Lesbian institutions Queer sex workers in Australia and cultural appropriation Concluding thoughts on queer performance in Australia Concluding thoughts on gay and lesbian institutions in Australia Notes References

22. Queering whiteness: unpacking privilege within the US sex worker rights movement

Introduction Queering whiteness Theoretical framework Intersectionality Sex work activism at the intersections of other social movements Queering whiteness within sex worker activism Whiteness within expectations around organising approaches Whiteness within organising agendas and priorities Whiteness within allyship Conclusion Notes References

23. Male escorting, safety and National Ugly Mugs: queering policy and practice on the reporting of crimes against sex workers

Introduction The absence of male sex workers in research and policy The ‘National Ugly Mugs’ scheme NUM membership Male sex worker engagement with NUM Discussion and conclusion Notes References

24. ‘Someone you know is a sex worker’: a media campaign for the St James Infirmary

Notes References

25. Speaking out: working with gay, bi and queer men who experience sexual assault

Notes References

26. Afterword

References

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