Paper Title
Sex Entrepreneurs in the New China
Keywords
- travis s.k. kong
- male sex workers
- money boys
- rural-to-urban migration
- the hukou system
- male prostitution
- middle-class gay sensibilities
- reform china
- postsocialist china
- urbanization
- market economy
- gay community in china
- sexual economy
- sex industry
- queer labor
- social exclusion
- legal constraints
- cultural domination
- masculinity
- migrant identity
- erotic labor
- kink
- fantasy
- bdsm
- masturbation
- sex
- queer desire
- power relations
- stigma
- class and sexuality
- neoliberalism
- globalization
- queer china
- queer studies
Journal
Research Impact Tools
Publication Info
Volume: 11 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 28–33
Published On
August, 2012
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Abstract
Based on ethnographic research on the male sex industry in China since 2004, sociologist Travis S.K. Kong examines how male rural migrants become male sex workers (or “money boys”) and explains how to make sense of their lives within the context of China’s quest for urbanization, modernization, and globalization. Money boys have found opportunities opened up in new spaces by the development of the market economy, the burgeoning of the sex industry, and the emergence of the gay community in reform China; however, they are struggling in these new spaces of social exclusion, legal constraints, and cultural domination.
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