McDonaldization of the Sex Industries: The Business of Sex

Document Type

Chapter

Publication Date

11-17-2009

Publication Title

McDonaldization: The Reader

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Edition

3

First page number:

102

Last page number:

118

Abstract

Taken together the topless or nude dance clubs, adult bookstores, adult movies, digital content for cell phones and other mobile devices, online sex in all its forms, sex toys, adult magazines, adult comics, erotic trading cards, adult pay per view TV, dungeons, phone sex services, escort services, street prostitutions, and legalized brothel prostitution constitute a huge and burgeoning sex industry in the United States.

Does this expansion of the sex industry reflect the same pattern of rationalization and McDonaldization that characterizes other rapidly growing segments of the service economy?

Keywords

Brothels; Escort services; Internet pornography; Pornography; Prostitutes; Prostitution; Sex-oriented businesses; Stripteasers; Telephone sex

Disciplines

Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies | Gender and Sexuality | Sociology | Women's Studies

Language

English

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