RT Article
T1 Buying Sex as Edgework: Hong Kong Male Clients in Commercial Sex
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 56
IS 1
SP 105
OP 122
A1 Kong, Travis
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1694154378
AB Commercial sex is a risky business and men who buy sex engage in a form of voluntary risky behaviour. Using Stephen Lyng’s notion of edgework, this qualitative study examines Hong Kong men who buy sex in Hong Kong/China and argues that these men’s engagement can be understood as a form of leisure edgework which balances risk and pleasure by negotiating the boundary between order and chaos. This article concludes that men buying sex can be seen as a form of resistance to normative companionate sexuality and the skills they exercise are key cultural principles needed in late-modern society. Edgework therefore plays an important role in modern intimacy, especially in shaping masculinity and men’s sexual scripts
K1 Edgework
K1 Men who buy sex/male clients
K1 Chinese masculinity
K1 Companion-ate/recreational sexuality
K1 Commercial sex
DO 10.1093/bjc/azv040