"Living like a king": Conspicuous consumption, virtual communities, and the social construction of paid sexual encounters by U.S. sex tourists

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 210-230

  Katsulis, Yasmina ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

consumption; emotional labor; Internet; masculinity; Mexico; sex tourism; sexual self; subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650238978     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: 15526828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X09346813     Document Type: Article

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