Dangerous love : sex work, drug use, and the pursuit of intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico /

"The relationships between female sex workers and their non-commercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as "pimp-prostitute" arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet, these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of...

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Main Author: Syvertsen, Jennifer Leigh, 1974- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND license. To view a copy of the license, visit
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Parejas
  • Where sex ends and emotions begin
  • Love in a war zone
  • Rewriting risk
  • (Not) lost to follow-up
  • Conclusion : love as a pathway to health equity
  • Afterword.