The state of sex : tourism, sex, and sin in the new American heartland /

How have Nevada's legal brothels survived, while the rest of the country criminalizes prostitution? How do brothels operate? Who works in them? This book brings social theory on globalizing economies, politics, leisure consumption, and emotional labor in interactive service work together with resear...

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Main Author:	Brents, Barbara G.
Other Authors:	Jackson, Crystal A., Hausbeck, Kathryn M.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 2010.
Series:	Contemporary sociological perspectives series.
Subjects:	Prostitution > Nevada. Brothels > Nevada. Sex workers. Sex industry > Nevada. Prostitution. Sextourismus. Erotik. Nevada. Brothels. Sex industry.
Summary:	How have Nevada's legal brothels survived, while the rest of the country criminalizes prostitution? How do brothels operate? Who works in them? This book brings social theory on globalizing economies, politics, leisure consumption, and emotional labor in interactive service work together with research on contemporary prostitution and sexual commerce. The authors employ an innovative, multi-method sociological approach, combining historical analysis of how the brothels came to be with over a decade's worth of ethnographic research on the current state of the industry.