Live Sex Acts by Wendy Chapkis

[Marc of Frankfurt]

Best Academic Book on Sex Work:

Live Sex Acts by Wendy Chapkis

Sachbuch/Fachbuch 1997

Drawing on 50 interviews in both the criminalized sex industry of the United States and in the free and open trade in the Netherlands, this volume aims to capture the wide-ranging experiences of women performing erotic labour and offers a complex, multi-faceted depiction of sex work.





Rezension von $PREAD:

You may not be interested in what academics want to tell you about the sex industry, and it’s easy to see why; the distanced, sterile approach often assumed in academia rarely accurately portrays the work and workers, and more often than not is twisted to satisfy the researcher’s own agenda. Why turn to a university professor to teach you about the work you do every day? Live Sex Acts provides the answer.

Chapkis makes sense of the “sex wars” with precision as she outlines the various positions feminists and social activists adopt about the sex industry. Her overview is thorough and accurate, yet beyond merely providing a sex debate road map Chapkis adds a new dimension to the controversy with her meticulous inclusion of sex worker voices. She even devotes an entire chapter to sex worker self-advocacy when most academic tomes, indefensibly, do not even acknowledge the sex worker movement. This difference in quality and readability most likely stems from Chapkis’ honest interest in improving the sex work discussion rather than proving her own preconceived notions. By her own admission she “attempted to diminish the effect of my own bias” by including “perspectives different than my own,” and she has succeeded.

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