RT Article
T1 “Mongering Is a Weird Life Sometimes”: Discourse Analysis of a Sex Buyer Online Community
JF Violence against women
VO 27
IS 9
SP 1448
OP 1474
A1 Alves, Catarina D. B.
A2 Cavalhieri, Klaus E.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/175909496X
AB The purpose of this study was to examine the narrative of sex buyers in an unmoderated online forum. Using a feminist critical discourse analysis (FCDA) and intersectionality approach, we investigated overt and subtle ways power inequalities were present in the discourse of men who bought sex in Chicago. Four main themes emerged: (a) toxic masculinity; (b) violence against women; (c) intersectionality of sexuality, race, and age; and (d) the need to maintain the community. Our findings imply that johns’ self-described monger identity is closely associated with maintaining, perpetrating, and minimizing violence against women.
K1 Commercial sexual exploitation
K1 women escorts
K1 feminist critical discourse analysis
K1 Johns
K1 sex buyer
DO 10.1177/1077801220930820