{"title":"What Sex Workers Do: Associations Between the Exchange of Sexual Services for Payment and Sexual Activities","authors":"Isabelle Johansson, Michael A. Hansen","doi":"10.1007/s12119-023-10148-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10148-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study investigates people’s associations between the exchange of sexual services for payment and different sexual activities. Sex work entails a range of activities, from in person services to online performances. To date, no study has asked about the activities individuals associate with the exchange of sexual services for payment. The relationship between the exchange of sexual services for payment and specific activities is an important area for inquiry, as there exists considerable variance in people’s views on sex work and associations are impacted by a range of attitudes. Using an original survey involving a substantial sample size of adults in the U.S. (n = 1,034), respondents are asked their level of association between the exchange of sexual services for payment and seven activities: pornographic photos, pornographic videos, webcamming, erotic dancing, erotic massages, oral sex, and sexual intercourse. The results reveal that respondents are more likely to associate the exchange of sexual services for payment with activities requiring in person and physical contact between sex workers and clients than non-physical activities. In addition, we find that conservatives are more likely to associate the exchange of sexual services for payment with non-physical activities than liberals. Moreover, we find that people who view the exchange of sexual services for payment as acceptable are more likely to recognize a broader range of activities as associated with such exchanges than are those who hold more negative attitudes. Views on acceptability are more important than are previous experiences of paying for sexual services. Our findings offer valuable insights for policymakers, researchers, and advocates seeking a comprehensive grasp of the complexities surrounding sex work in contemporary society.","PeriodicalId":47228,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136294974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Homotolerant versus Homophobic? Swedish Sexual Exceptionalism and the Russian Other","authors":"Kirill Polkov","doi":"10.1007/s12119-023-10149-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10149-0","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores how discourses of LGBTQI rights, homophobia, and homotolerance intersect in specific nation-state contexts. Focusing on Sweden’s self-image of homotolerance, the author shows how this image has depended on the construction of non-tolerant and sexually backward Russia since 1991. This article suggests sexual exceptionalism as a more precise term to understand the relationship between Sweden and Russia in terms of geopolitics of sexuality. To do so, it examines the construction of Russia in the Swedish media discourse, with a focus on the position of LGBTQI people, and analyzes how this discourse, in turn, constructs the Swedish Self as exceptional and tolerant. My conclusions are based on a material consisting of around 500 articles from the five largest Swedish newspapers, published from 1991 to 2019. I show how the Swedish newspapers’ portrayals of attitudes towards the LGBTQI subjects in Russia have relied on constructions of temporal difference and geographical closeness between the two nations and exhibited little change throughout the period. The article contributes to scholarship on global sexualities by demonstrating how the constructions of the homophobic Other become embedded in existing historical discourses on othering by helping produce notions of the sexual-politically exceptional Self.","PeriodicalId":47228,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135093612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the Effect of Celebrity Status on Tolerance for the Sexualization of a Teen Girl in the Media: An Experiment","authors":"Samaha Ghani, Elizabeth L. Cohen","doi":"10.1007/s12119-023-10147-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10147-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47228,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135894914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lawfare and the Global Dialectics of Homophobia and Homonationalism in Trinidad and Tobago","authors":"Keith E. McNeal","doi":"10.1007/s12119-023-10152-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10152-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47228,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136341488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are Claims of Fairness Toward Women in the Academy “Manufactured”? The Risk of Basing Arguments on Incomplete Data","authors":"Stephen J. Ceci, Wendy M. Williams","doi":"10.1007/s12119-023-10133-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10133-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47228,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136341910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“I have come to this Country to be happy”: Homonationalism as Infrastructure of post-Soviet Queer Migration to the United States","authors":"Alexandra Novitskaya","doi":"10.1007/s12119-023-10151-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10151-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47228,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135244019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Appeal of Abuse: The Public Popularity of Online Image-based Abuse in the Early 2010s","authors":"Paul Bleakley, Kylie McCarthy","doi":"10.1007/s12119-023-10158-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10158-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47228,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135385331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shelby Astle, Kara Langin, Jared R. Anderson, Amy C. Moors
{"title":"Understanding Relationship Labels: A Content Analysis of Consensual Non-monogamous Relationship Agreements","authors":"Shelby Astle, Kara Langin, Jared R. Anderson, Amy C. Moors","doi":"10.1007/s12119-023-10141-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10141-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47228,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135420783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Spring Chenoa Cooper, Kateryn Ferreira, Raz G. Edwards, Julia Keegan, Nika Norvila, Larissa Lewis, Kath Albury, S. Rachel Skinner
{"title":"A Qualitative Exploration of Young Australians’ Lived Experiences of Social Media Use and Sexual Agency","authors":"Spring Chenoa Cooper, Kateryn Ferreira, Raz G. Edwards, Julia Keegan, Nika Norvila, Larissa Lewis, Kath Albury, S. Rachel Skinner","doi":"10.1007/s12119-023-10131-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-023-10131-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47228,"journal":{"name":"Sexuality & Culture-An Interdisciplinary Journal","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135385337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}