Touching encounters
Subtitle: sex, work, & male-for-male internet escorting
By: Kevin Walby
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226870052; 9780226870069; 9780226870076
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Male prostitution; Psychological aspects; Prostitute-client relationships; Prostitutes' customers; Male prostitutes; Queer theory; Escort services
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Visions of sexuality and sex work; title: The faciality of male internet escorting: an excursus; title: Theorizing encounters; title: A note on method and storied encounters five lives: an excursus; title: Interviews as encounters: sexuality, reflexivity, and men interviewing men about commercial same sex relations; title: What male-for-male internet escorts say about what they do at work in sexual cities: an excursus; title: Touching encounters: male-for-male internet escorts and the feigning of intimacy : keeping secrets and feeling "washed up": an excursus; title: Aging and escorting: playing young, getting old, and overcoming the "best by" date; title: How bodies matter in male-for-male internet escorting: body work, body capital, and body trouble; title: Conclusion.