Description
How technology transformed the nature of sex work
The internet has revolutionized sex work perhaps more than any other profession. Today's sex workers go online to attract clients, shape personas, share information, screen potential clients, and build community. The Rise of Digital Sex Work is an intimate look into the changing face of the industry, telling the stories of workers themselves and revealing how they use the internet to share information, grow their businesses, and establish global communities. Kurt Fowler takes us inside the lives of sex workers who provide a variety of services: web-camming, dominatrix work, burlesque, and escorting. He provides insight into how race, class, and privilege affect their work and the role the internet has played in their professional journeys. Drawing on in-depth interviews with fifty workers from the United States, England, Canada, Germany, Australia, South Africa, and other industrialized countries, Fowler explores how they first entered the profession, how they manage their daily business and client relationships, their use of digital technology for safety and as a broader social resource, the role race plays in their work, and how they view their own level of risk and that of fellow sex workers. Fowler provides a look inside sex workers' digital worlds, as well as the complex meanings they attach to their experiences in their line of work.Author: Kurt Fowler
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 11/14/2023
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9781479824151
ISBN10: 1479824151
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)
- Social Science | Prostitution & Sex Trade
- Social Science | Media Studies