Sex Work and Language

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Benedict J.L. Rowlett is Associate Professor in the Academy of Language and Culture at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Rodrigo Borba is Associate Professor and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme in Applied Linguistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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This collection brings together established and exciting new voices to shed light on the language of and about sex work, offering an empirically nuanced understanding of commercial sex through language.

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Contents

List of Figures

Notes on contributors

1 Speaking of sex work: Setting a research agenda

BENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND RODRIGO BORBA

2 'Why do you think a woman can't enjoy sex as much as a man can?': Discourses of women's sexual desire, pleasure and agency in an online sex work forum

HOLLIE MCILHONE, ROBERT LAWSON, MATT GEE AND PELHAM CARTER

3 The pleasure of pleasing: a corpus-assisted small stories approach to male clients' affective identity constructions of heterosexual desire in PunterNet reviews

SAGREDOS CHRISTOS

4 'I'm not a faggot, I'm a man': How male sex workers doing masculinity talking sex

CIRUS RINALDI, MARCO BACIO AND RICCARDO CALDARERA

5 Polyvalent attribution and the discursive construction of Blackwomen's sexual labor in The Boondocks

DEANDRE MILES-HERCULES AND MARIAH WEBBER

6 'Good evening you sex-hungry crowd!': Discursive-corporeal performances and strategies of a black male sex worker on X/Twitter

GLENDA CRISTINA VALIM DE MELO

7 The narratives she lives by: Identity, intersection and agency in the many roles of a Filipina sex worker in Hong Kong

BENEDICT J. L. ROWLETT AND JASON POLLEY

8 Sissy hypno in a trans-affirming register: Shifting semiotics of pornography online

MAUREEN KOSSE AND KIRA HALL

9 Computable desires: Platformed sex work and the datafication of intimacy

EDUARDO MARTINS

10 Resisting discrimination against sex work/ers: A Critical Discourse Analysis of comments on YouTube

EVELIN NIKOLOVA

11 Sex workers' place of enunciation: A Materialist Discourse Analytical approach

MARIA FERNANDA MOREIRA, KARINE DE MEDEIROS RIBEIRO AND LAURO BALDINI

12 Hyperbole for advocacy: Stereotypical and subversive sex work in Naty Menstrual's writing

JOSE ANTONIO JÓDAR-SÁNCHEZ

13 The dynamics of agency in sex work: Discursive constructions of violence in transnational contexts

JILL MCCRACKEN AND RAN HU

14 'Foreign, illegal prostitutes' and 'New Zealand working girls': Sex workers as villains and victims in media discourse

MATILDA NEYLAND

15 'I am not a victim of anything': Minors identified as victims of human trafficking in Italy

TRINE MYGIND KORSBY

Index