title: Limits, excesses and pleasures: practices and discourses of sex work in a Mexican rural community.
abstract: In Tomatlán, a small city on the Mexican Pacific Coast there is a tolerance zone in which a group of sex workers, separated from the rest of the city by a garbage dump, offer their services to local men. The women present themselves materially and symbolically as agents of regulation with respect to male sexuality, itself constructed as overwhelming and insatiable, which, were it not for services provided by the sex workers, would threaten the family-based social order. Through in-depth interviews with 19 sex workers and 5 municipal officials, this paper discusses how the sex gender system results in a series of borders that are both geographical and subjective. Such borders have to do with periphery and control, body and intimacy, and the boundaries of animality.
authors.affiliation: a Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales , Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana , Mexico City , Mexico.
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Parrini
authors.affiliation: a Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales , Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana , Mexico City , Mexico.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Amuchástegui
authors.affiliation: b San Miguel de Allende , Mexico.
authors.forename: Cecilia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Garibi
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D033161:Government Regulation; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D008800:Mexico; D057181:Pleasure; D012307:Risk Factors; D012424:Rural Population; D011477:Sex Work / Q000523:psychology*; D060386:Sex Workers / Q000523:psychology*; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D012747:Sexual Partners
keywords: Mexico; Sex work; heterosexuality; regulation; women