Ethical intimacy: Relational work of male sex workers in Hong Kong

IF 2.1 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Sexualities Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI:10.1177/13634607231218115

David Kwok Kwan Tsoi

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Abstract

This article examines the boundary work of ethics in same-sex relationships between sex workers and clients in Hong Kong, a neoliberal cosmopolitan city that decriminalized homosexuality in 1991. Drawing on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork between August 2019 and June 2020, I investigate the changing same-sex relationships between masseurs and clients in and outside gay massage parlors in Hong Kong. From in-house payment for sex to different off-premise gift exchanges, masseurs and clients transition from a market economy as sex workers and clients to the moral economy as real-life romantic and business partners. I build on Viviana Zelizer’s theory of relational work to examine how various forms of intersections of intimacy and economy are made ethical at different stages of masseur–client relationships. A historically contingent form of ethical intimacy emerges from the same-sex sexual economy as a queer response to socioeconomic inequalities in neoliberal Hong Kong.

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伦理亲密关系：香港男性性工作者的关系工作

香港是一个新自由主义的国际大都市，1991 年将同性恋非刑罪化，本文研究了香港性工作者与顾客之间同性关系的道德边界工作。通过 2019 年 8 月至 2020 年 6 月期间 11 个月的人种学实地调查，我研究了香港同性恋按摩院内外按摩师与顾客之间不断变化的同性关系。从内部支付性费用到店外不同的礼物交换，按摩师和顾客从作为性工作者和顾客的市场经济过渡到作为现实生活中的浪漫和商业伙伴的道德经济。我以维维安娜-泽利泽（Viviana Zelizer）的关系工作理论为基础，研究在按摩师与客户关系的不同阶段，亲密关系与经济的各种交叉形式是如何实现道德的。一种具有历史偶然性的道德亲密关系形式出现在同性性经济中，作为对香港新自由主义社会经济不平等的一种同性恋回应。

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Sexualities SOCIOLOGY-

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4.20

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6.70%

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