TY - JOUR TT - Masculinities on Stage Clients and Representations in the Italian Sex Market AU - Abbatecola, Emanuela AU - Benasso, Sebastiano PY - 2016 DA - June JF - Masculinities: A Journal of Identity and Culture JO - Masculinities Journal PB - Murat GÖÇ WT - DergiPark SN - 2148-3841 SP - 79 EP - 109 IS - 5 KW - Seks Piyasası KW - İtalya KW - erkek cinselliği N2 - As known, masculinities on stage are plural (Connel, 1995; Ciccone, 2009), furthermore there is a continuity between the various expressions of being male, especially when considering interaction with female gender representations. Synthetically, some cultural influences contribute in a dichotomist system, amounting to a hierarchy and to the supremacy of male over female gender, which fact involves: a female citizenship always at risk, being its acknowledgement owed to the “sexual reputation”; disavowal of female physical pleasure; a collective, standardized and rhetoric imagination about Eros, crossing men and women, sex clients or not, and pinpointing highly diversified representations between male sexuality - outburst – and female one - service (Tabet, 2004). The paper is intended to a critical approach on various erotic models and on dynamics of physical pleasure legitimating “a certain way to be male” right because of the prerequisite of male domination (Bourdieu, 1998). It arises from the outcomes of a research by University of Genoa in 2013, in range of the ETTS, a European project on fight against sexual trafficking and tourism, with a special focus on consumers of the sex market. 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