To read this content please select one of the options below:

Men who Like Using and Abusing Women: The Perspective of Clients on Escort Agency Workers

Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Conflict and Cooperation

ISBN: 978-1-78441-856-4, eISBN: 978-1-78441-855-7

Publication date: 2 July 2015

Abstract

This chapter analyzes how men – both clients and bodyguards – interacting within the social world of the female escort industry see prostitutes within their professional context. It examines discursive scripts that stigmatize the activity at hand and, to some extent, legitimize both verbal and physical violence toward escorts from an angle not typically addressed in the literature regarding female prostitution. Drawing on in-depth interview data, this chapter is intended to shed light on how men attempt to construct their encounters with female escorts in ways that not only maintain but also transmit their understanding of paid sex, which is often referred to as one’s everyday consumption practice. A major objective of this contribution is to elucidate the unwritten norms about expected and satisfying exchanges within the prostitution sphere, on the one hand, and analyze its impact upon escorts’ professional self-meanings, on the other hand.

Keywords

Citation

Wojciechowska, M. (2015), "Men who Like Using and Abusing Women: The Perspective of Clients on Escort Agency Workers", Contributions from European Symbolic Interactionists: Conflict and Cooperation (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 45), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620150000045002

Publisher

:

Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2015 Emerald Group Publishing Limited