Touching Encounters

Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting

Kevin Walby

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Chicago University Press
15 September 2012

Society & Social Sciences; Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry; Gay studies (Gay men)

Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health

researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex

work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a

qualitative investigation of the practices involved in male-with-male—or

m4m—Internet escorting, Touching Encounters is the first book to

explicitly address how masculinity and sexuality shape male commercial

sex in this era of Internet communications. By

looking closely at the sex and work of male escorts, Kevin Walby tries

to reconcile the two extremes of m4m sex—the stereotypical idea of a

quick cash transaction and the tendency toward friendship and mutuality.

In doing so, Walby draws on the work of Foucault to make visible the

play of power in these physical and commercial relations between men. At

once a revelation to the sociology of work and a much-needed critical

engagement with queer theory, Touching Encounters responds to

calls from across the social sciences to connect Foucault with

sociologies of sex, sexuality, and intimacy. Walby does this and more,

retying this sexual practice back to society at large.

By: Kevin Walby
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 23mm, Width: 15mm, Spine: 1mm
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780226870069
ISBN 10: 0226870065
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 15 September 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kevin Walby is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Victoria. He is coeditor of Emotions Matter: A Relational Approach to Emotions and Brokering Access: Power, Politics, and Freedom of Information Process in Canada. He is also the Prisoners' Struggles editor for the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons.

Reviews for Touching Encounters: Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting

Strongly grounded in debates within sociology, Kevin Walby's work reaches beyond its disciplinary base by drawing on anthropology, psychology, and philosophy, as well as on literary/cultural theory and queer theory. Touching Encounters is very well-researched, well-organized, and well-written - an original and fascinating contribution to the new sociology of sex. (Tim Dean, University at Buffalo, SUNY)