Live Sex Acts: Women Performing Erotic Labor

About this book

Drawing on more than fifty interviews in both the US and the Netherlands Wendy Chapkis captures the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labor and offers a complex multi-faceted depiction of sex work. Her expansive analytic perspective encompasses both a serious examination of international prostitution policy as well as hands-on accounts of contemporary commercial sexual practices. Scholarly but never simply academic this book is explicitly grounded in a concern for how competing political discourses work concretely in the world--to frame policy and define perceptions of AIDS to mobilize women into opposing camps to silence some agendas and to promote others.