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This chapter draws on ethnographic research carried out in sex shops1 located in London’s Soho, an area that has been at the heart of the capital’s sex industry for over 200 years. As a place of ‘backstreet industry and below stairs debauchery’ (Richardson, 2000: 57), the sex industry dominates both the actual and perceived character of Soho. The area occupies only a square mile of London’s West End, yet its political, economic and cultural reach is considerable, and the area continues to have a global association with commercial sex.
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Tyler, M. (2012). ‘Glamour Girls, Macho Men and Everything In Between’: Un/doing Gender and Dirty Work in Soho’s Sex Shops. In: Simpson, R., Slutskaya, N., Lewis, P., Höpfl, H. (eds) Dirty Work. Identity Studies in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230393530_5
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