Dangerous Love Sex Work, Drug Use, and the Pursuit of Intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico

The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as "pimp-prostitute" arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet, these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of lives w...

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Main Author: Syvertsen, Jennifer Leigh (auth)
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Language:English
Published: University of California Press 2022
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