Uncovering the Myth of the Male Sex Worker: A Comparative Study of the Lived Experiences of Male Sex Workers in Scotland and New Zealand

揭开男性性工作者的神话：苏格兰和新西兰男性性工作者生活经历的比较研究

• 批准号: 2604029
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Stirling
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2604029
• 关键词: Uncovering; Myth; Male; Sex; Worker

Male sex workers (particularly non-heterosexual or "queer" male sex workers, hereafter QMSWs) are vastly underrepresented in academic research and allied social policy as well as being generally invisible within wider societal discourses regarding sex work. I aim to develop and expand upon my previous research in this area by exploring the lived experiences of QMSWs in relation to client-perpetrated violence of an emotional, physical, or sexual nature, structural violence i.e. socio-political and economic violence (Galtung 1969; Shannon et al. 2007), as well as their experiences with the criminal justice system within the UK (as either victims, offenders, or both). This study is analytically informed by Goffmanian models of stigma and social performance (1956; 1963), theoretical interpretations of hegemonic and non-hegemonic masculinities (Connell 1995; Clarkson 2006; Eguchi 2006), and implements elements of queer theory in both its methodological and epistemological underpinnings i.e. queer ethnography (Rooke 2009). Although ethnographic studies of QMSWs are extant (cf. Luckenbill 1985; Bloor et al. 1990), ethnographic studies which seek to explore the lived experiences of violence(s) and the criminal justice system remains a relatively uncharted area, with studies particularised within a UK context being especially limited. This study seeks to bridge the theoretical gap within this nascent subfield by ethnographically exploring the lived experiences of QMSWs in relation to client-perpetrated violence, structural violence, and the criminal justice system, and ultimately aims to highlight the plethora of socio-structural inequalities faced by QMSWs within Britain today.

男性性工作者（特别是非异性恋或“酷儿”男性性工作者，以下简称QMSW）在学术研究和相关社会政策中的代表性大大不足，并且在更广泛的社会话语中通常看不到关于性工作的信息。我的目标是发展和扩大我以前在这一领域的研究，通过探索QMSW的生活经验，与客户实施的情感，身体或性暴力，结构性暴力，即社会政治和经济暴力有关（Galtung 1969; Shannon et al. 2007），以及他们在英国刑事司法系统中的经验（作为受害者、罪犯或两者）。本研究分析了Goffmanian污名和社会表现模型（1956; 1963），霸权和非霸权男性气质的理论解释（Connell 1995;克拉克森2006;江口2006），并在其方法论和认识论基础上实施酷儿理论的元素，即酷儿民族志（Rooke 2009）。虽然QMSW的人种学研究是现存的（参见。Luckenbill 1985; Bloor et al. 1990），试图探索暴力和刑事司法系统的生活经历的人种学研究仍然是一个相对未知的领域，在英国背景下进行的研究特别有限。本研究旨在弥合这一新生的子领域内的理论差距，通过民族志探索QMSW在客户端犯下的暴力，结构性暴力和刑事司法系统的生活经验，并最终旨在突出过多的社会结构不平等QMSW今天在英国面临的。