Sex Work in a Digital Era
Sex Work in a Digital Era
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DOI：
10.1111/soc4.12282
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发表时间：
2015-07-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Jones, Angela
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作者：
Jones, Angela
近年来，学者们开始研究数字技术，即互联网在促进性商业增长方面的作用。最近的研究调查了互联网如何塑造性工作者的经历，以及性工作者如何利用互联网来最大限度地提高利润和减少风险。总的来说，学者们从可供性的角度战略性地构建了数字时代的性工作。在这样做时，他们可以注意到这些工人的工作经验发生了积极的变化。然而，我认为这些文献完全过于乐观，并且主要关注基于互联网的性工作的可供性，这些学者忽视了在线出现的新危险。此外，这些学者只关注在线伴游的做法，描绘了一幅数字性工作的同质化画像，忽视了性工作者所从事劳动的多样性。这些文献也忽视了性工作者本身的多样性（例如，种族、民族、阶级、性别、年龄和能力）。为了解决这些局限性，我提出了九个具体的建议，为未来的调查路线。
In recent years, scholars have begun to investigate the role of digital technologies, namely the Internet, in facilitating growth in sexual commerce. Recent studies investigate the ways the Internet shapes the experiences of sex workers and how sex workers use the Internet to maximize profits and reduce risk exposure. Overall, scholars strategically frame sex work in a digital era in terms of affordances. In doing so, they can note the positive changes in the work experiences of these workers. However, I argue that this literature is altogether too optimistic, and in focusing primarily on the affordances of Internet-based sex work, these scholars neglect the new dangers that emerge online. In addition, by focusing only on the online practices of escorts, these scholars paint a homogenized portrait of digital sex work and neglect the diversity of labor performed by sex workers. This literature also neglects the diversity among sex workers themselves ( e.g., race, ethnicity, class, gender, age, and ability). In order to address these limitations, I make nine specific suggestions for future lines of inquiry.