The ‘addict sexual script’

Addiction discourse among Israeli sex industry consumers

Bibliographic Data

ID18988207
AuthorsYeela Lahav-Raz (0000-0003-1753-3375, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume25
Issue8
Pages987-1005
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSexualities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1363-4607 • E-ISSN: 1461-7382
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/13634607211013283
OpenAlexW3159622289
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited73

This article discusses the sexual script of Israeli sex industry consumers who self-identify as addicts. It argues that the ‘addict sexual script’ provides both an explanation for out of control sexual behaviour and a channel for expressing the individual client’s ‘right’ to be acknowledged for their suffering in the process of buying sex. Thus, the addict sexual script becomes a coping strategy that, while internalising sex consumption as socially deviant behaviour, also serves as a strategic practice for negotiating and challenging masculine hegemonic ideals. It concludes that the willingness to stigmatise and victimise themselves as disempowered individuals becomes a turning point, which, paradoxically, empowers sex consumers as actors in the framework of consumer capitalism

Addiction · Capitalism · Hegemony · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Sexual Addiction · Sexual behavior · Social science · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology