Tourist Attractions
Book description
While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In Tourist Attractions, Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that focuses on the personal lives and identities of male sex workers who occupy a…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Tourist Attractions as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
In my own work on male sex workers in the US, I found that race played a key role in the market—determining prices and popularity, for example.
While sex tourism can also play on race and ethnicity and their sexual stereotypes, most countries do not have the American system of race. This book was the one that showed me how male sex workers in another country with racial dynamics similar to those in the US.
But the biggest takeaway from this detailed ethnography is that sex work is work but also acting—sex workers are providing a service that requires them…
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