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Culturales
On-line version ISSN 2448-539XPrint version ISSN 1870-1191
Abstract
MORCILLO, Santiago. From experience to confusion. Masculinities, affections and emotions in the stories of men who pay for sex in Argentina. Culturales [online]. 2020, vol.8, e542. Epub Apr 23, 2021. ISSN 2448-539X. https://doi.org/10.22234/recu.20200801.e542.
his article addresses different narratives in the stories of men who pay for sex, focusing on the tensions that emotional and affective dimensions represent for the masculinities of these men. The article aims to complicate some stereotypes about men who pay for sex understanding the specificities of the sex market in order to think about power relations in the articulation between masculinity, emotions and affects. This analysis is the result of a virtual ethnography in two online forums of experiences of commercial sex, within a longer-term field work with different actors in the Argentinean sex market. Both types of stories are described, those most modeled, apparently devoid of emotions, as well as those, apparently exceptional, where affects and confusions that destabilize certain forms of masculinities emerge. In the final reading of these stories, the points of connection between the two emerge, highlighting the illusions that the logic of the sex industry produces.
Keywords : masculinities; prostitution; emotions; online forums.