Street-Based Sex Work in the Digital Age
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Oselin, Sharon S
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Weitzer, Ronald
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The Internet has revolutionized sex work. Yet most research on digital sex work has focused on indoor workers, including escorts and cam girls, rather than considering how the proliferation of online classified and phone apps may create more opportunities for street-based workers. In our interviews with 59 street-based workers in Washington, DC, three-quarters used Internet advertising either currently or in the past. Workers who stopped using online platforms cited safety, lack of privacy, and poverty as major barriers to continuing this work. Our findings call for researchers to reconsider the common practice of labeling workers by a “primary” marketplace.
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Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing on 22 November 2022, available online: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003228639. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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Sociology
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Jares, K; Oselin, S, Street-Based Sex Work in the Digital Age, Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and Erotic Dancing, 2022, 3rd