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Rarely addressed in academic scholarship, the puttan tour is a well-known form of entertainment in Italy where young men drive around in small groups with the aim of spotting street sex workers. On some occasions, the participants will approach the sex workers to strike up a conversation. On others, they will shout out insults from their car then drive away. This article aims to advance a detailed analysis of this underexplored cultural practice drawing on a diverse body of scholarship exploring the intersection of masculinity, leisure, and homosociality. By analyzing stories of puttan tours gathered mostly online, including written accounts and YouTube videos, our aim is to explore the appeal of the puttan tour through an analysis of how homosociality, humor, and laughter operate in this example of gendered fun. To this end, we look at the multiple and often equivocal meanings of this homosocial male-bonding ritual, its emotional and affective dynamics, and the ways in which it reproduces structures of inequality while normalizing violence against sex workers.

Introduction -- Sex for Sale and Service Provision in Africa, the Americas and Europe: -- Contexts, Historical Developments and Contemporary Landscapes -- Sex Work and Prostitution Third Sector Organizations in Africa -- Sex Work and Prostitution Third Sector Organizations in the Americas -- Sex Work and Prostitution Third Sector Organizations in Europe -- Conclusion.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Critical Interjections -- 2 Materialism, Micropolitics and the Sexuality-Assemblages -- 3 Ordinary Sexuality -- 4 'Counting' for Equality: Youth, Class and Sexual Citizenship -- 5 The Normative Account: Sexual Experiences and Constructions of Masculinity Among Young Moroccan Men in Europe -- 6 Practice Theory and Interactionism: An Integrative Approach to the Sociology of Everyday Sexuality? -- Part II Critical Methodologies -- 7 Making Space at the (Queer) Academic Table? -- 8 Challenges in Reflexive Research into Loneliness and Isolation in Older Lesbians -- 9 Reading Texts and Their Silences: Sexuality and the Autobiographical Method -- 10 Intimate Partner Violence in Lesbian Relationships: An Interactional-Structural Analysis -- 11 "Inside/Out": Researching Young Adults' Sexuality in a(n) (Un)Familiar Space. A Reflexive Approach -- Part III Critical Practices -- 12 Uncomfortable Bargains?: Networking Between Local Authorities and LGBT Associations in the Context of Neoliberalism -- 13 Transgender Offenders Within the Prison Estate: A Comparative Analysis of Penal Policy -- 14 Conducting Sex Work Research in a Politically Contentious Climate: Lessons from Ireland -- 15 Medicalized Virilism Under Scrutiny: Expert Knowledge on Male Sexual Health in Italy -- 16 Challenging the Use of Heteronormative Categories in Childlessness Studies -- Index

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his article unites the co-authors' years of empirical research with women in policed, stigmatized, and low-autonomy sex industry sectors in Brazil, China, Italy, and the United States to identify six prevalent forms of exclusion: economic, intersectional, health, safety, public vilification, and policing. We analyze the distinct manifestations of these exclusionary forces in all four sites to introduce criminal creep as theoretical shorthand for the global seepage of ideological, structural, and interpersonal exclusionary forces into social life, professional practice, and socio-legal procedures that marginalize women in the sex industry as victim- criminals in need of rehabilitation. Uniting and building upon literature on feminist engagement with and critiques of citizenship, conceptual uses of "creep", carcerality and crimmigration, and critical anti-trafficking studies, we argue that criminal creep facilitates a perfect storm of exclusion that promotes sex workers' de facto and de jure exclusion from citizenship through a set of wide-ranging set of harms. Furthermore, we identify "control creep" as a factor limiting – even radically – the political organization of and social scientific production regarding the vulnerable populations anti-sex work and anti-trafficking laws are supposedly designed to aid.

Abstract This article unites the co-authors' years of empirical research with women in policed, stigmatized, and low-autonomy sex industry sectors in Brazil, China, Italy, and the United States to identify six prevalent forms of exclusion: economic, intersectional, health, safety, public vilification, and policing. We analyze the distinct manifestations of these exclusionary forces in all four sites to introduce criminal creep as theoretical shorthand for the global seepage of ideological, structural, and interpersonal exclusionary forces into social life, professional practice, and socio-legal procedures that marginalize women in the sex industry as victim-criminals in need of rehabilitation. Uniting and building upon literature on feminist engagement with and critiques of citizenship, conceptual uses of "creep", carcerality and crimmigration, and critical anti-trafficking studies, we argue that criminal creep facilitates a perfect storm of exclusion that promotes sex workers' de facto and de jure exclusion from citizenship through a set of wide-ranging set of harms. Furthermore, we identify "control creep" as a factor limiting - even radically - the political organization of and social scientific production regarding the vulnerable populations anti-sex work and anti-trafficking laws are supposedly designed to aid.

Abstract This article unites the co-authors' years of empirical research with women in policed, stigmatized, and low-autonomy sex industry sectors in Brazil, China, Italy, and the United States to identify six prevalent forms of exclusion: economic, intersectional, health, safety, public vilification, and policing. We analyze the distinct manifestations of these exclusionary forces in all four sites to introduce criminal creep as theoretical shorthand for the global seepage of ideological, structural, and interpersonal exclusionary forces into social life, professional practice, and socio-legal procedures that marginalize women in the sex industry as victim-criminals in need of rehabilitation. Uniting and building upon literature on feminist engagement with and critiques of citizenship, conceptual uses of "creep", carcerality and crimmigration, and critical anti-trafficking studies, we argue that criminal creep facilitates a perfect storm of exclusion that promotes sex workers' de facto and de jure exclusion from citizenship through a set of wide-ranging set of harms. Furthermore, we identify "control creep" as a factor limiting - even radically - the political organization of and social scientific production regarding the vulnerable populations anti-sex work and anti-trafficking laws are supposedly designed to aid.