Touching encounters [electronic resource] : sex, work, & male-for-male internet escorting / Kevin Walby.
Walby, Kevin, 1981-
2012
HQ119 .W35 2012eb
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Title Touching encounters [electronic resource] : sex, work, & male-for-male internet escorting / Kevin Walby.
Author Walby, Kevin, 1981-
ISBN 9780226870076 electronic bk
0226870073 electronic bk
9780226870052 (hardcover)
0226870057 (hardcover)
9780226870069 (pbk.)
0226870065 (pbk.)
Publication Details Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2012.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 219 pages)
Call Number HQ119 .W35 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.740811
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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