Healing Labor Koch Gabriele
Healing Labor Koch Gabriele Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo's sex industry,…
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Healing Labor Koch Gabriele
Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world's largest and most diversified markets for sex. Based on fieldwork with adult Japanese women in Tokyo's sex industry, Healing Labor explores the relationship between how sex workers think about what sex is and what it does and the political-economic roles and possibilities that they imagine for themselves. Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy--but whose work remains stigmatized and unmentionable.
In this nuanced ethnography that approaches sex as a social practice with political and economic Gabriele Koch reveals how Japanese sex workers regard sex as a deeply feminized care--a healing labor--that is both necessary and significant for the well-being and productivity of men.