Touching encounters : sex, work, & male-for-male internet escorting /

Touching encounters : sex, work, & male-for-male internet escorting /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Walby, Kevin, 1981-
Imprint:Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2012.
Description:1 online resource (x, 219 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Male prostitutes.
Prostitutes' customers.
Male prostitution -- Psychological aspects.
Escort services.
Queer theory.
Escort services.
Male prostitutes.
Prostitutes' customers.
Queer theory.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11142000
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:9780226870076
0226870073
1283550318
9781283550314
9780226870052
0226870057
9780226870069
0226870065
9786613862761
6613862762
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved in male-with-male-or m4m-Internet escorting, Touching Encounters is the first book to explicitly address how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial sex in this era of Internet communications. By looking closely at the sex and work of male escorts, Kevin Walby tries to reconcile the two extremes of m4m sex-the stereotypical idea of a quick cash transaction and the tendency toward friendship and mutuality. In doing so, Walby draws on the work of Foucault to make visible the play of power in these physical and commercial relations between men. At once a revelation to the sociology of work and a much-needed critical engagement with queer theory, Touching Encounters responds to calls from across the social sciences to connect Foucault with sociologies of sex, sexuality, and intimacy. Walby does this and more, retying this sexual practice back to society at large"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:Print version: Walby, Kevin, 1981- Touching encounters. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012, ©2012 9780226870052
Table of Contents:
  • Visions of sexuality and sex work
  • The faciality of male internet escorting: an excursus
  • Theorizing encounters
  • A note on method and storied encounters five lives: an excursus
  • Interviews as encounters: sexuality, reflexivity, and men interviewing men about commercial same sex relations
  • What male-for-male internet escorts say about what they do at work in sexual cities: an excursus
  • Touching encounters: male-for-male internet escorts and the feigning of intimacy : keeping secrets and feeling "washed up": an excursus
  • Aging and escorting: playing young, getting old, and overcoming the "best by" date
  • How bodies matter in male-for-male internet escorting: body work, body capital, and body trouble
  • Conclusion.

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