Sex workers in the online web

sites and dating apps in Campo Grande-MS

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https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v3i21.63290

Abstract

Studies on male sex work mediated by online environments have become increasingly necessary to understand the dynamics, visibility strategies, and ways of constituting and representing individuals in the paid sex markets. Given the limited research on sex work conducted away from major urban centers, this study aims to understand the online-based male sex work, such as through classified ad sites and dating apps, in the city of Campo Grande (MS). Thus, initiated in 2020 and concluded in 2023, this article is part of a broader study carried out through online ethnography. It involved cataloging ads, profiles, and informal conversations with some interlocutors. Among the various analytical possibilities, we highlight how negotiation occurs in the online realm and the strategies used to appropriate this universe, without disregarding the tensions, strategies, and articulations between social markers of difference. We demonstrate, among other configurations of sex work, how the relationship between body, eroticism, and technology establishes new connections, seductions, and amplifies desires.

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Alan Pereira Ribeiro , Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul

Social Scientist (UFMS). Master's Degree in Social Anthropology (UFMS). Professor of Sociology at the Mato Grosso do Sul State Department of Education.

Guilherme R. Passamani, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul

Doctorate in Social Sciences (Unicamp). Doctorate in Anthropology (ISCTE-IUL). Professor in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology (UFMS) and the Graduate Program in Anthropology (UFGD). Coordinator of the Néstor Perlongher Study Center.

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2025-06-20

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Pereira Ribeiro , A. ., & Passamani, G. R. (2025). Sex workers in the online web: sites and dating apps in Campo Grande-MS. Revista Periódicus, 3(21), 141–161. https://doi.org/10.9771/peri.v3i21.63290

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Vol. 3 No. 21 (2025): Defying monogamy: emergent biopolitics of relational dissidence

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