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

男性性工作者（尤其是非异性恋或“酷儿”男性性工作者，以下简称QMSWs）在学术研究和相关社会政策中的代表性大大不足，而且在有关性工作的更广泛的社会话语中通常是隐形的。我的目标是通过探索qmsw与客户犯下的情感，身体或性暴力，结构性暴力（即社会政治和经济暴力）相关的生活经历（Galtung 1969; Shannon et al. 2007），以及他们在英国刑事司法系统中的经历（作为受害者，罪犯，或两者兼有），来发展和扩展我之前在这一领域的研究。本研究以戈夫曼的污名和社会表现模型（1956;1963）、对霸权和非霸权男性气质的理论解释（Connell 1995; Clarkson 2006; Eguchi 2006）为分析依据，并在方法论和认识论基础上运用酷儿理论的元素，即酷儿人种学（Rooke 2009）。尽管对qmsw的民族志研究已经存在（参见Luckenbill 1985； Bloor et al. 1990），但试图探索暴力生活经历和刑事司法系统的民族志研究仍然是一个相对未知的领域，在英国背景下的研究尤其有限。本研究试图通过民族志探索与客户犯下的暴力、结构性暴力和刑事司法系统相关的QMSWs的生活经历，弥合这一新兴子领域的理论差距，最终旨在突出当今英国QMSWs面临的过多的社会结构不平等。

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.