Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Gender Studies and Sexuality, 2024
Year: 2024
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Online Queer Sex Work in Turkey
Rukaya Al Zayani
ABSTRACT:
This presentation explores the different forms of offline and online violence, violations, and harms effected by online queer sex workers in Turkey. The study considers the lived experiences of queer online sex workers in how they experience, narrate, and embody violations and harms in the online context. This presentation adopts spatiotemporal and sensorial modality as a theoretical framework to examine how violence is experienced, sensed, felt, and embodied in the online context and how it travels spatially without geographical limitations. The findings are based on five narrative interviews conducted with online queer sex workers in Turkey. The findings illustrate that forms of violence, abuse, and violations that take place online mirrors offline offences, such as the traditional aspects of gender-based violence, rape culture, coercion and blackmailing that are accelerated by hegemonic notions of masculinity and are experienced differently in the online context.
keywords: QueerSexWork-Genderedviolence-Queertheory