Contents
List of Figures
Notes on contributors
1 Speaking of sex work: Setting a research agenda
BENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND RODRIGO BORBA
2 ‘Why do you think a woman can’t enjoy sex as much as a man can?’: Discourses of women’s sexual desire, pleasure and agency in an online sex work forum
HOLLIE MCILHONE, ROBERT LAWSON, MATT GEE AND PELHAM CARTER
3 The pleasure of pleasing: a corpus-assisted small stories approach to male clients’ affective identity constructions of heterosexual desire in PunterNet reviews
SAGREDOS CHRISTOS
4 ‘I’m not a faggot, I’m a man’: How male sex workers doing masculinity talking sex
CIRUS RINALDI, MARCO BACIO AND RICCARDO CALDARERA
5 Polyvalent attribution and the discursive construction of Blackwomen’s sexual labor in The Boondocks
DEANDRE MILES-HERCULES AND MARIAH WEBBER
6 ‘Good evening you sex-hungry crowd!’: Discursive-corporeal performances and strategies of a black male sex worker on X/Twitter
GLENDA CRISTINA VALIM DE MELO
7 The narratives she lives by: Identity, intersection and agency in the many roles of a Filipina sex worker in Hong Kong
BENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND JASON POLLEY
8 Sissy hypno in a trans-affirming register: Shifting semiotics of pornography online
MAUREEN KOSSE AND KIRA HALL
9 Computable desires: Platformed sex work and the datafication of intimacy
EDUARDO MARTINS
10 Resisting discrimination against sex work/ers: A Critical Discourse Analysis of comments on YouTube
EVELIN NIKOLOVA
11 Sex workers’ place of enunciation: A Materialist Discourse Analytical approach
MARIA FERNANDA MOREIRA, KARINE DE MEDEIROS RIBEIRO AND LAURO BALDINI
12 Hyperbole for advocacy: Stereotypical and subversive sex work in Naty Menstrual’s writing
JOSE ANTONIO JÓDAR-SÁNCHEZ
13 The dynamics of agency in sex work: Discursive constructions of violence in transnational contexts
JILL MCCRACKEN AND RAN HU
14 ‘Foreign, illegal prostitutes’ and ‘New Zealand working girls’: Sex workers as villains and victims in media discourse
MATILDA NEYLAND
15 ‘I am not a victim of anything’: Minors identified as victims of human trafficking in Italy
TRINE MYGIND KORSBY
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