When sex work isn't `work

Hospitality, gay life, and the production of desiring labor

Bibliographic Data

ID12697602
AuthorsDana Collins (California State University, Fullerton, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume7
Issue2
Pages115-139
Publication date2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTourist Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1468-7976 • E-ISSN: 1741-3206
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1468797607083498
OpenAlexW2132741786
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited22

This interview-based research explores the lived experiences of gay hosts who `work' in a gentrifying urban tourist district in the City of Manila, the Philippines. My analysis complicates research on sex work by highlighting the changing forms of sexual labor in a transnational and `gay' urban neighborhood, which is shaped by state initiatives on sustainable tourism and international gay travel. In place of treating hospitality as `work', I draw on the concept of emotional labor to understand hospitality as an expression of `gay' and local identities and as a celebration of desire and place. I propose that studies of sexual labor in urban spaces struggling with development must contend with expressions of desire rather than treating sexuality as a commodity exchanged in global tourism

Business · Commodity · Economic growth · Economics · Gentrification · Hospitality · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Human sexuality · Political science · Sex work · Sociology · Tourism · Work (physics · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Engineering · Gender Studies · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Sex work and related issues

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