Temporarily Yours
Intimacy, Authenticity, and the Commerce of Sex
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

1 Sexual Commerce in Postindustrial Culture
2 Remapping the Boundaries of "Vice"
3 Modern Prostitution and Its Remnants
4 The Privatization of Public Women
5 Desire, Demand, and the Commerce of Sex
6 The State, Sexuality, and the Market
7 Sexuality Debates and Pleasure Wars
Appendix: Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
"This is an ambitious book—highly readable, compelling, and original. Bernstein’s claim is that the character and organization of sex work has shifted between the modern industrial to late-capitalist periods. Whereas the signature form of sex work used to be the non-white streetwalker working in largely marginal neighborhoods, today, she reveals, sex work is largely private, relying heavily on the Internet, and provided by someone that is as often white and middle-class as non-white and poor."
“Combining bold claims about changes in the global sexual economy with deep empathy for sex workers themselves, Elizabeth Bernstein uses perceptive ethnography in San Francisco, Stockholm, and Amsterdam to illuminate contemporary change and variation in the sale of sexual services. We begin to see that in the world of commercial sex new forms of intimacy are emerging.”
ASA Sex and Gender Section: Distinguished Book Award
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"2009 Distinguished Book Award" from the ASA Sex and Gender Section
Norbert Elias Foundation: Norbert Elias Prize
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Sociology of Sexualities section, American Sociological Association: Sociology of Sexualities Section Book Award
Won
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