Free Sex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4439633 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Heather Berg (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 122 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 505-523 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | South Atlantic Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-2876 • E-ISSN: 1527-8026 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00382876-10644001 |
| OpenAlex | W4386123423 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 20 |
Grounded in sex worker theory, this essay explores paid sex as a confrontation with free sex. Sex worker theorists name an ambivalent relationship to radical feminist thought, finding theoretical affinities in radical feminism's critiques of unpaid heterosexuality while also disidentifying with its whorephobia, whiteness, gender essentialism, and narratives of false conscious. In an invitation for a radical feminism that commits to radical politics, they frame unpaid heterosexuality as a site of exploitation and romance as a bad deal. They articulate a critique of free sex with cis men, but one that is rigorously attentive both to questions of subjectivity and to the inadequacy of gender as a coherent analytic
Ambivalence · Epistemology · Essentialism · Feminism · Feminist theory · Heterosexuality · Homosexuality · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sociology · Subjectivity · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Death and Other Penalties
Brokered Subjects
Dangerous Sex, Invisible Labor
Policing Sexuality
Camming
Frottage
Funk the Erotic
Object Lessons
Sex at the Margins
Temporarily Yours
Toxic Positivity
Come Closer
"Service Work, Sex Work, and the "Prostitute Imaginary
The VanishingDialectic
Customer Service Representatives
Theorizing Pleasure
Sweetening the deal
Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings
The Stickiness of Sex Work
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |