This paper draws on 24
in-depth interviews and 2 focus-group discussions conducted since 2012 with
Hong Kong heterosexual men who buy sex in order to examine men's level of
physical and emotional engagement with sex workers under two dominant sexual
scripts in contemporary Hong Kong.
Torn between companionate sexuality, with
its companionate model of relationships, and recreational sexuality, with its
promiscuous model of sexual pleasure, Hong Kong male clients seek to satisfy
their sexual and affective needs through commercial sexual relationships. The
term (meaning 'chicken worm', connoting a 'McSex' form of masculinity) refers
to those men who seek impersonal sexual release with as many women as they
wish, while the term (meaning 'sunken boat' and connoting a 'Titanic' form of
masculinity) refers to those men who seek an intense level of emotional
intimacy with sex workers. Between these two contrasting types, the majority of
respondents fall into a form of 'bounded' masculinity characteristic of men who
emphasise control and balance by seeking emotionally responsive women in a
time-bound romance.
By comparing clients' variations in the level of physical
and emotional engagement with sex workers, this paper seeks to understand
individual differences in client types and offers a new understanding of
Chinese male sexuality and relationship formation, and the corresponding health
risks (e.g., sexual, emotional) associated with each type.
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- 1 Department of Sociology , University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong.
- Cult Health Sex. 2015;17(7):810-24. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2015.1004197. Epub 2015 Feb 17.
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