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Sexuality and Sexual Services in the Urban Economy and Socialscape: An Overview

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  • Alan Collins

    (Department of Economics, Portsmouth Business School, University of Portsmouth, Richmond Building, Portland Street, Portsmouth, POI 3DE, UK, alan.collins@port.ac.uk)

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Drawing primarily on some concepts in social theory, sociobiological reasoning and neo-classical economics, this paper provides an introductory overview to a collection of papers on an urban sexual theme. The papers address this theme from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives and each contribution examines various facets and dimensions of the interplay of sexual desire and urban living. A simple conceptual model is offered to provide some guiding framework to the discourse on urban sexual consumption, which is a central feature of this brief overview commentary and also of the entire collection of papers. A number of research gaps and suggestions, that may help further to advance this research agenda, are then highlighted for possible future attention.

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  • Alan Collins, 2004. "Sexuality and Sexual Services in the Urban Economy and Socialscape: An Overview," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 41(9), pages 1631-1641, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:41:y:2004:i:9:p:1631-1641
    DOI: 10.1080/0042098042000250842
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    1. Francesca Bettio & Marina Della Giusta & Maria Laura Di Tommaso & Sarah Jewell, 2016. "Stigmatising Prostitution: Some Evidence from the UK," Economics Discussion Papers em-dp2016-13, Department of Economics, University of Reading.
    2. Marina Della Giusta & Maria Laura Di Tommaso & Sarah Jewell & Francesca Bettio, 2021. "Quashing demand or changing clients? Evidence of criminalization of sex work in the United Kingdom," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 88(2), pages 527-544, October.
    3. Alan Collins, 2011. "Sexual Leisure Markets," Chapters, in: Samuel Cameron (ed.), Handbook on the Economics of Leisure, chapter 24, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. Alison L Bain & Julie A Podmore, 2021. "Placing LGBTQ+ urban activisms," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 58(7), pages 1305-1326, May.
    5. Marina Della Giusta & Maria Laura Di Tommaso & Sarah Louise Jewell, 2017. "Men buying sex. Differences between urban and rural areas in the UK," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(3), pages 713-729, February.
    6. Della Giusta, Marina & Di Tommaso, Maria Laura & Jewell, Sarah & Bettio, Francesca, 2019. "Quashing Demand Criminalizing Clients? Evidence from the UK," IZA Discussion Papers 12405, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    7. Phil Hubbard & Alan Collins & Andrew Gorman-Murray, 2017. "Introduction: Sex, consumption and commerce in the contemporary city," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(3), pages 567-581, February.
    8. Della Giusta, Marina & Di Tommaso, Maria Laura & Bettio, Francesca & Jewell, Sarah, 2018. "Criminalising clients: some evidence from the UK," MPRA Paper 91480, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    9. Amandine Chapuis, 2017. "Touring the immoral. Affective geographies of visitors to the Amsterdam Red-Light district," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(3), pages 616-632, February.
    10. Samuel Cameron (ed.), 2011. "Handbook on the Economics of Leisure," Books, Edward Elgar Publishing, number 13469.
    11. Alan Collins & Stephen Drinkwater, 2017. "Fifty shades of gay: Social and technological change, urban deconcentration and niche enterprise," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 54(3), pages 765-785, February.
    12. Collins, Alan & Judge, Guy, 2008. "Client participation in paid sex markets under alternative regulatory regimes," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 28(4), pages 294-301, December.

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