Internet Sex Work - Beyond the Gaze

This book takes readers behind the screen to uncover how digital technologies have affected the UK sex industry. The authors use extensive new datasets to explore the working practices, safety and regulation of the sex industry, for female, male and trans sex workers primarily working in the UK. Insights are given as to how sex workers use the internet in their everyday working lives, appropriating social media, private online spaces and marketing strategies to manage their profiles, businesses and careers. Internet Sex Work also explores safety strategies in response to new forms of crimes experienced by sex workers, as well as policing responses. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of social science disciplines, including gender studies, socio-legal studies, criminology and sociology.

List of contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Digital sex markets: platforms, forums, and profiles.- 3. Working practices of online sex workers.- 4. Purchasing Sex in a Digital Age.- 5. Regulating the online industries: policing, crimes and self-regulation.- 6. Support online, advocacy and activism.- 7.The future of online markets.

Summary

This book takes readers behind the screen to uncover how digital technologies have affected the UK sex industry. The authors use extensive new datasets to explore the working practices, safety and regulation of the sex industry, for female, male and trans sex workers primarily working in the UK. Insights are given as to how sex workers use the internet in their everyday working lives, appropriating social media, private online spaces and marketing strategies to manage their profiles, businesses and careers. Internet Sex Work also explores safety strategies in response to new forms of crimes experienced by sex workers, as well as policing responses. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of social science disciplines, including gender studies, socio-legal studies, criminology and sociology. 

Product details

• Authors: Rosie Campbell, Stewart Cunningham, Jane Pitcher, Teela Sanders, Jane Scoular
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2018
• EAN: 9783319880693
• ISBN: 978-3-31-988069-3
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 20 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 258 g
• Illustrations: XI, 180 p. 14 illus.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; C, Women, Gender Studies, Social Sciences, Gender identity, Sociology: work & labour, Crime & criminology, Socio-Legal Studies, Sociology of Work, Industrial sociology, Gender, Sexuality and Law, Law & society, gender issues, Sex and law, Gender and Sexuality, Gender studies: women & girls, Women's Studies, Criminal Behavior, criminology;activism;sex markets;sociology;policing;safety