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- Title
Introduction to the Culture, Health & Sexuality Virtual Special Issue on sex, sexuality and sex work.
- Authors
Allman, Dan; Ditmore, Melissa Hope
- Abstract
This article provides an editorial introduction to a virtual special issue on sex work and prostitution. It offers a brief history of sex work studies as published in the journal Culture, Health & Sexuality; reflects on the breadth and scope of papers the journal has published; considers the contribution of the journal's papers to the wellbeing and sexuality of people who sell sex; and envisions future areas of inquiry for sex work studies. As authors, we identify major themes within the journal's archive, including activism, agency, context, discourse, hazard, health, legalisation, love, place, power, race, relationships, stigma and vulnerabilities. In particular, we reflect on how HIV has created an environment in which issues of culture, health and sexuality have come to be disentangled from the moral agendas of earlier years. As a venue for the dissemination of a reinvigorated scholarship, Culture, Health & Sexuality provides a platform for a community of often like-minded, rigorous thinkers, to provide new and established perspectives, methods and voices and to present important developments in studies of sex, sexuality and sex work.
- Publication
Culture, health & sexuality, 2016, Vol 18, Issue 12, pi
- ISSN
1464-5351
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1080/13691058.2016.1180855