LABR 3Q95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Scapegoating, Sex Worker, Sex In Advertising
8 Jan 2016
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The selling of erotic entertainment or sexual services for money. Service work that markets, packages, and sells human experiences and emotions for profit . Emotional and erotic labour that strives to provide a seemingly authentic intimate relationship . Employer exercise control over workers" emotions through training and supervision. Not just exclusive to sex work but includes other forms of work. May be manipulating your own emotions to achieve this goal. Workers who engage in emotional labour engage in a variety of strategies that allow them to perform different emotions and portrayals of their personality for customers without psychological harm . Sex workers are labourers who earn money to perform sexual services or who provide erotic entertainment to clients individually or collectively. Study sex work in canada cecilia benoit. Certain groups overrepresented in certain types of sex work. Indigenous women overrepresented in street level sex work. Majority (approximately 70%) began after the age of 19.
