Sex Work and Language

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 JODAR-SANCHEZ

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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