The Brothers—Part II: Why Compensated Dating?

Cassini Sai Kwan Chu

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6974-1_4

The Brothers—Part II: Why Compensated Dating?

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This chapter highlights the unique social conditions and features of compensated dating (CD) that have attracted and encouraged men to engage in CD rather than other forms of commercial sex. Many Brothers, including those who have purchased sex from traditional forms of prostitution, have a sense of whore stigma and discriminate against the idea of prostitution, sex workers, and clients of prostitutes. The chapter shows how Brothers justify their CD behaviors by differentiating CD from prostitution, CCs from sex workers, and themselves from the clients of prostitutes. The chapter concludes by arguing that engaging in CD is a way for some men to reconstruct their hegemonic masculinity in response to the direct challenge of women’s emancipation and changing gender patterns in late modernity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Pages	77-103
Number of pages	27
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6974-1_4
Publication status	Published - 2018
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Gender, Sexualities and Culture in Asia
ISSN (Print)	2662-7884
ISSN (Electronic)	2662-7892

Keywords

Clients
Girlfriend experience
Hegemonic masculinity
Whore stigma

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