What’s on Sale? A Discourse Analysis of Four Distinctive Online Escort Advertisement Websites.
Technological advances have contributed to the changing structure and organisation of sex work, heralding a dramatic growth in sex workers soliciting and advertising the selling of sex via the Internet. This study was concerned with four distinctive, independent online escort markets—male heterosexu...
| Published in: | Sexuality & Culture Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 316 - 336 |
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Mar2018
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