Trevon D. Logan (Ohio State University)

Economics, Sexuality, and Male Sex Work

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first economic analysis of the male sex work market. Competition, the role of information, pricing strategies and other economic features of male sex work are analyzed using the most comprehensive data available, and market effects of social concepts such as desire and masculinity are uncovered.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 346
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781107569577
• ISBN-10: 1107569575
• Artikelnr.: 46496692

Autorenporträt

Trevon D. Logan is Hazel C. Youngberg Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio State University and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has won the American Sociological Association's Section on Sociology of Sexuality's Best Article Award. He is a member of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession at the American Economic Association and member of the Executive Board of the North American Association of Sports Economists. He is a former president of the National Economic Association, was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan, and former chair of the Economic History Association Committee on Data and Archives.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: economics, sexuality, and male sex work; Part I. The History
and Economics of Male Sex Work: 1. Male sex work: antiquity to online; 2.
Face value: how male sex workers overcome the problem of asymmetric
information; 3. Market movers: travel, cities, and the network of male sex
work; Part II. Male Sex Work and Sexuality: 4. Illicit intersections: the
value of sex work services; 5. Show, tell, and sell: self-presentation in
male sex work; 6. Service fees: masculinity, safer sex, and male sex work;
Conclusion: every man a sex worker: commercial and non-commercial gay
sexuality.