sex entrepreneurs in the new china

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...

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Published in:Contexts (Berkeley, Calif.) Calif.), 2012-07, Vol.11 (3), p.28-33
Main Author: kong, travis s.k.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chinese culture
Cities
Ethnography
Gay communities
Gay rights
Globalization
Homosexuality
LGBT
Male homosexuality
Males
Market economies
Men
Migrant Workers
Peoples Republic of China
Prostitution
Queer culture
Rural urban migration
Sex industry
Sex workers
Social Closure
Social research
Urbanization
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1536-5042
1537-6052
DOI:10.1177/1536504212456179