Selling Sex as an Edgework: Risk Taking and Thrills in China’s Commercial Sex Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 1306-1329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Yuk-ha Tsang
Keyword(s):  
Risk Taking ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Female Sex Worker ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Selling Sex

Academic discussions of the sex industry need to consider sex worker’s experience within the conceptual framework of “edgework.” Edgework is voluntary risky activity that combines danger with excitement and emotional pleasure. This article argues female sex worker must weigh possible outcomes in terms of the resulting benefits or consequences. The notion of edgework articulated by Stephen Lyng proposed there is a fine line for risky behavior going from pleasurable and manageable to turning dangerous and chaotic. This description of edgework applies to female sex workers, and needs to be extended to individualization in the Chinese context. Research data collected from two distinct ethnographies in Dongguan (195 sex workers) and Hong Kong (39 sex workers). The research findings provide insights into the experiences and motivations of an underexamined niche segment of sex workers. A significant number of sex workers embody the perspective of edgework to maintain self-esteem in difficult circumstances. For example, edgework explains several aspects of sex work including notions of excitement and personal pleasure, developing skills within the craft, developing interpersonal networks with peers, and gaining personal happiness through fulfilling sexual desire.

scholarly journals Adjustment among Homosexual in Gujarat

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mukesh B Bhatt, ◽  
Dr. S. M. Makvana
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Total Sample ◽  
Statistical Technique ◽  
Female Sex Worker ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Male Patients ◽  
Level Of Significance

The present Study of adjustment among Homosexual – female sex-worker, social men and women and AIDS patient from Gujarat. Total sample of 360 people was taken according to variables. In which, 180 male and 180 female were taken. In 180 male in 60 homosexual, 60 social men and 60 AIDS male patients and female in 60 female sex workers, 60 social woman and 60 AIDS female patients From Gujarat. The sample was selected randomly. Adjustment Questionnaire Developed by D. J. Bhatt (1994) used for data collection. The collected data were analyzed by F- test statistical technique at 0.01 level of significance and 2×3×2 factorial design used. Results revealed significant difference between the male and female. There was significant difference in adjustment level found among homosexual-female sex workers, social men – women and AIDS patients.

scholarly journals The Risk Factors Analysis Occurrence of Chlamydia Infection to Direct Female Seks Workers (DFSW) in Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 01024
Author(s):  
Masayu Gemala Rabiah ◽  
Rini Mutahar ◽  
Rico Januar Sitorus
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Chlamydia Infection ◽  
Female Sex Worker ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
The Government

Chlamydia infection is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide. Based on data of IBBS 2015 in Indonesia, the highest prevalence of chlamydia occurred in direct female sex worker group (32.21%). This study a STIs to determine the risk factors for chlamydia infection in direct sex workers. This research uses Cross-Sectional study design. The population of this study were all direct female sex workers as many as 3,789 people with samples in accordance with inclusion and exclusion criteria as many as 3.114 people. The prevalence of direct female sex workers with chlamydia infection was 1.018 (32.4%). The result of the analysis showed that there was a relationship between age (PR: 0.541 95% CI: 0.456-0.643) and length of work as FDSW (PR: 1,.60, 95% CI: 1.087-1.512) chlamydia infection in female sex workers in Indonesia. most dominant variable has an effect on the incidence of chlamydia infection that is long working as FDSW after controlled by age (PR 1.282 95% CI: 1.087-1,.12). It is expected for the government to improve the implementation of prevention program of chlamydia not only among female sex worker but also proactive to customer.

New victimisations: female sex worker hate crime and the ‘ideal victim’

2018 ◽  
pp. 103-122
Author(s):  
Karen Corteen
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Worker ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
The Social

Female sex worker victim characteristics and their social, situational and interactive contexts have not substantially changed. Yet, the manner in which female sex worker victimisation is currently understood has changed in some quarters. This chapter documents the unusual inclusion of female sex workers into Merseyside police hate crime policy and practice. Given that female sex workers embody a ‘non-ideal’ victim identity the focus here is to consider what this development may mean for Christie’s (1986) ‘ideal victim’ thesis. In so doing the role (or lack of) emotion and compassion will be discussed. The chapter concludes that victims and victimisation have been reimagined and new victimisations have arisen. However, with regard to hate crime, and the social construction of, and criminal justice responses to the victimisation of female sex workers Christie’s ‘ideal victim’ thesis remains contemporarily relevant and predominantly intact.

scholarly journals Informal settlements, Covid-19 and sex workers in Kenya

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110446
Author(s):  
Rahma Hassan ◽  
Teela Sanders ◽  
Susan Gichuna ◽  
Rosie Campbell ◽  
Mercy Mutonyi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Workers ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Urban Poverty ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Urban Informal Settlements ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Selling Sex

This paper highlights the challenges faced by female sex workers living and working in the urban informal settlements in Nairobi, Kenya, during the Covid-19 outbreak and the aftermath of the pandemic. Using data collected through phone interviews during the immediate crisis, we document the experiences of urban poor sex workers, illustrating the acute problems they faced, including precarious housing with the reality of eviction and demolition. The paper highlights the ramifications of the Covid-19 crisis for the sex industry and predominantly women working within this informal, illegal economy. Through our empirical data we illustrate how the nature of selling sex has changed for sex workers in this context, increasing risks of violence including police abuses. We argue that examining the Covid-19 crisis through the lens of one the most marginalised populations graphically highlights how the pandemic has and will continue to deepen pre-existing structural urban inequalities and worsen public health outcomes among the urban poor. Sex worker communities are often located at the intersections of structural inequalities of gender, class, race and nation and the socio-spatial fragmentations of how they live make them some of the most vulnerable in society. We close with comments in relation to sexual citizenship, exclusionary state practices and the feminisation of urban poverty.

scholarly journals Selling sex in Luganville: Ni-Vanuatu sex workers' experiences of, and limits to claiming their sexual and reproductive health rights in Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kate Florence Burry
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Northern Island ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Health Rights ◽  
Selling Sex

<p>This thesis is a foundational piece of research into ni-Vanuatu sex workers’ experiences within the sex industry of Luganville, on the northern island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. This research identifies and unpacks ni-Vanuatu sex workers’ limits to claiming their sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR), limits which are intricately associated with gender paradigms and hierarchies in Vanuatu.  Those interviewed were male and female sex workers, an ex-sex worker, ‘middle men,’ who manage sexual transactions, a client and an ex-boyfriend of a local sex worker. Discussions focused on the technicalities of Luganville’s sex industry, as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights, and the extent to which sex workers are able to exercise agency during interactions with clients. Thus, this thesis reveals both the intricate workings of the sex industry in Luganville, and the considerable extent to which sex workers are limited in making decisions about their wellbeing, leading to significant accounts of abuse.  The theory of ‘body work’ informs this thesis’ analysis of how ni-Vanuatu sex workers’ bodies are understood as a constitution of their self. This analysis reveals the extent to which sex workers are divested of personhood, thereby limiting their ability to have their rights as persons realised. This thesis also draws on the complex process of, as the author conceptualises, gender and developman in Vanuatu; that is, the ways in which Vanuatu has mingled with, co-opted, and rejected introduced commodities, ways, and beliefs in particularly gendered ways. In this way, this thesis is not only unique in investigating the sex industry in Luganville. This thesis also provides a deep analysis of sex work as a part of gender and developman in Vanuatu, and what that process reveals about sex workers’ agency in particular, and modern configurations of gender in Vanuatu in general.</p>

scholarly journals KOMPLEKSITAS KEHIDUPAN (ANAK) PEREMPUAN PEKERJA SEKS: ANALISIS GEGURITAN ASIH PUNK ROCK KARYA WIJI THUKUL

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Joko Susilo
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Punk Rock ◽  
New Order ◽  
Female Sex Worker ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Female Sex

During new order regime in Indonesia, it was acclaimed that there were onlythree poets whose poetries raised the issue of regime oppression. One ofthem was Wiji Thukul who then suddenly disappeared and left no traces buthis poetries. Asih Punk Rock is one of his poetries that he wrote in Javanese.It tells a story about life of a female sex worker named Asih. By applyingMichael Riffaterre method in analyzing poetry, I discover that Wiji Thukulwere trying to raise the issue of sexual violence against women/girls anddiscrimination against female sex workers, an issue that was considered lessimportant during new order regime and even until today.

scholarly journals Selling sex in Luganville: Ni-Vanuatu sex workers' experiences of, and limits to claiming their sexual and reproductive health rights in Luganville, Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kate Florence Burry
Keyword(s):  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Northern Island ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Health Rights ◽  
Selling Sex

<p>This thesis is a foundational piece of research into ni-Vanuatu sex workers’ experiences within the sex industry of Luganville, on the northern island of Espiritu Santo in Vanuatu. This research identifies and unpacks ni-Vanuatu sex workers’ limits to claiming their sexual and reproductive health rights (SRHR), limits which are intricately associated with gender paradigms and hierarchies in Vanuatu.  Those interviewed were male and female sex workers, an ex-sex worker, ‘middle men,’ who manage sexual transactions, a client and an ex-boyfriend of a local sex worker. Discussions focused on the technicalities of Luganville’s sex industry, as well as sexual and reproductive health and rights, and the extent to which sex workers are able to exercise agency during interactions with clients. Thus, this thesis reveals both the intricate workings of the sex industry in Luganville, and the considerable extent to which sex workers are limited in making decisions about their wellbeing, leading to significant accounts of abuse.  The theory of ‘body work’ informs this thesis’ analysis of how ni-Vanuatu sex workers’ bodies are understood as a constitution of their self. This analysis reveals the extent to which sex workers are divested of personhood, thereby limiting their ability to have their rights as persons realised. This thesis also draws on the complex process of, as the author conceptualises, gender and developman in Vanuatu; that is, the ways in which Vanuatu has mingled with, co-opted, and rejected introduced commodities, ways, and beliefs in particularly gendered ways. In this way, this thesis is not only unique in investigating the sex industry in Luganville. This thesis also provides a deep analysis of sex work as a part of gender and developman in Vanuatu, and what that process reveals about sex workers’ agency in particular, and modern configurations of gender in Vanuatu in general.</p>

scholarly journals Faktor risiko servisitis pada wanita pekerja seks di kegiatan layanan infeksi menular seksual mobile

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Mayta Sari Dwianggimawati ◽  
Sunardi Radiono ◽  
Theodola Baning Rahayujati
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Worker ◽  
Transmitted Infection ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Sexual Transmitted Infection ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Risk Factor Data

Purpose: This study aimed to identify risk factors of cervicitis among female sex workers in the district of Cilacap. Methods: This study used a cross-sectional design. Total of respondents were 147 female sex workers who participated in the mobile sexual transmitted infection services. Demographic characteristic and risk factor data were collected by interviews using a structured questionnaire. Diagnosis of cervicitis was obtained by laboratory test with cervix swab. Data were analyzed using Poisson regression test with robust variance estimators.Results: Prevalence of cervicitis among female sex workers in the district of Cilacap were 70.75%. Multivariate analysis showed that the risk factors of cervicitis among female sex worker were: age ≤24 years old, income, childbirth history, number of clients per week, and inconsistent of condoms use.Conclusions: Results showed the need to increase awareness of condom use among female sex workers through health promotion and counseling in mobile sexual transmitted infection services by the teams of sexual transmitted infection clinics. Potential targets for outreach health promotions and counseling are younger female sex worker (≤30 years old).  

scholarly journals The Female Sex Work Industry in a District of India in the Context of HIV Prevention

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raluca Buzdugan ◽  
Shiva S. Halli ◽  
Jyoti M. Hiremath ◽  
Krishnamurthy Jayanna ◽  
T. Raghavendra ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Female Sex Workers ◽  
Work Setting ◽  
Vulnerability Factors ◽  
Modes Of Operation ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Work Settings ◽  
Female Sex ◽  
Female Sex Work

HIV prevalence in India remains high among female sex workers. This paper presents the main findings of a qualitative study of the modes of operation of female sex work in Belgaum district, Karnataka, India, incorporating fifty interviews with sex workers. Thirteen sex work settings (distinguished by sex workers' main places of solicitation and sex) are identified. In addition to previously documented brothel, lodge, street,dhaba(highway restaurant), and highway-based sex workers, under-researched or newly emerging sex worker categories are identified, including phone-based sex workers, parlour girls, and agricultural workers. Women working in brothels, lodges,dhabas, and on highways describe factors that put them at high HIV risk. Of these,dhabaand highway-based sex workers are poorly covered by existing interventions. The paper examines the HIV-related vulnerability factors specific to each sex work setting. The modes of operation and HIV-vulnerabilities of sex work settings identified in this paper have important implications for the local programme.

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