Queer Sex Work

<p>Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines as well as within legal medical moral feminist political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research exists but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men and ignores other performances practices meanings and embodiments in the contemporary sex industry. A queer agenda is important in order to challenge hetero-centric gender norms and to develop new insights into how gender sex power crime work migration space/place health and intimacy are understood in the context of commercial sexual encounters.</p><p><em>Queer Sex Work</em> explores what it might mean to ‘be’ ‘do’ and ‘think’ queer(ly) in the study and practice of commercial sex. It brings together a multiplicity of empirical case studies – including erotic dance venues online sex working pornography grey sexual economies and BSDM – and offers a variety of perspectives from academic scholars policy practitioners activists and sex workers themselves. In so doing the book advances a queer politics of sex work that aims to disrupt heteronormative logics whilst also making space for different voices in academic and political debates about commercial sex.</p><p>This unique and multidisciplinary volume will be indispensable for scholars and students of the global sex trade and of gender sexuality feminism and queer theory more broadly as well as policymakers activists and practitioners interested in the politics and practice of sex work in local national and international contexts.</p>