To browse Academia. Taking a point of departure in negotiations for access to a phone number for a brothel abroad, the article demonstrates how a group of pimps in Eastern Romania attempt to extend their local business into the rest of the EU. The article shows how the phone number works as a micro-infrastructure in its own right, providing an entry point into the wider infrastructure of transnational pimping. This interplay generates body techniques, which in turn cultivate and maximize uncertainty about themselves in others.
However, at the same time, mishandling the phone number can be dangerous and in that sense produce new doubts and uncertainties.
Nicola Mai. May-Len Skilbrei. Daniel Briggs. By accident, this study became a research project when I was employed by the manager to review porn forums offering feedback on the women that worked there and taught English to him. This has crudely mixed with cultural change in Spain in the wake of increased neoliberal economics which have hollowed out notions of family, tradition and intimacy.
Monica Massari. Kostia Lennes. Magaly Rodriguez Garcia. Ronald Weitzer. Studies of male sex workers are often confined to the individual level rather than exploring their work environment per se or the larger ecological context in which their business activities are embedded.
We know relatively little, for example, about the spatial location of erotic worksites apart from street-level work or the interactional dynamics of sellers and clients within such settings. This article presents an ethnographic study of bars and clubs in Prague and Berlin where male sexual commerce is transacted.
