1st Edition

Not Sex Work Queer Intimacy, Post-identity, and Incidental Encounters in the Digital Era

By Max Morris Copyright 2025
194 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

194 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the parallel histories and intersecting politics of LGBTQ+ people and sex workers, including the role of digital media in shaping the experiences of both in the early twenty-first century. Drawing on the first empirical study with gay, bisexual, and queer young men who agreed to sell sex online without advertising or identifying as sex workers, it examines what the term... Read more

1. Defining Sex, Work, and Sex Work

2. The Study

3. Intimacy, Identity, and Selling Sex Incidentally

4. Beyond the Binaries and Boundaries of Sex

5. Visual Media on the Platform Economy

6. Reverse Discourses and Divergent Pathways

7. Sex/Work Studies in a Post-identity Paradigm

Biography

Max Morris is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Sociology in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, UK.