Dangerous Love: Sex Work, Drug Use, and the Pursuit of Intimacy in Tijuana, Mexico

The relationships between female sex workers and their noncommercial male partners are often assumed to be coercive and anchored in risk, dismissed as "Pimp-prostitute" arrangements by researchers and the general public alike. Yet, these stereotypes unjustly erase the complexity of lives we imagine to be consumed by social suffering. Dangerous Love centers a framework of love to rethink sex workers' intimate relationships as commitments to collective solidarity and survival in contexts of o...