Exploring or Floundering in the Sex Industry? Understanding Sex Work as Job Explorations for Emerging Adult Sex Workers.
Based on in-depth interviews with 40 men involved in the Chinese sex industry, this study compared how engagement in sex work impacts, whether positively or negatively, the career development and transition to adulthood of middle-class and lower-class emerging adults. Most middle-class sex workers h...
| Published in: | Archives of Sexual Behavior Vol. 54; no. 2; pp. 519 - 535 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2025
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