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Buying Sex

Domination and Difference in the Discourses of Taiwanese Piao-ke

Yen-Wen Peng

Shih Hsin University, Taiwan

In this article, I attempt to deepen feminists’ understanding of the power dynamics in the practice of client-prostitute relations by exploring how clients (in Mandarin, Piao-ke) make sense of their relationships with prostitutes. On the basis of tens of online and in-person interviews with Taiwanese Piao-ke, I explore the diverse and subtle details that surface in the clients’ narratives and that might otherwise have been neglected. Instead of totalizing Piao-ke as problematic, I suggest a postmodernist feminist understanding of the practice, namely, one founded on a distinction between acceptable from dominant practices and discourses that should be targeted.

Key Words: prostitution • client (Piao-ke) • postmodern feminism • masculinity • domination • Internet research • Taiwan

Men and Masculinities, Vol. 9, No. 3, 315-336 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X05284227
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