Abstract
The diversity of online working practices is reflected in the huge proliferation of online spaces used to facilitate commercial sex. These are broken down, in this chapter, into twelve distinct categories which enable the organisational features of online sex markets to be explored. Platforms and websites adopt varying business models, which in turn impact on how sex workers use and interact with these different spaces. The mapping of online sex work will be problematised based on the difficulties in accurately estimating both the numbers of online sex workers and the extent of the online sex industry. The role of online spaces to facilitate community support and, to some extent, political activism among sex workers is discussed.
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Sanders, T., Scoular, J., Campbell, R., Pitcher, J., Cunningham, S. (2018). The Digital Sexual Commerce Landscape. In: Internet Sex Work . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65630-4_2
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