Cities of Pleasure: Sex and the Urban Socialscape

This book contains a collection of cutting-edge chapters that explore various connections between urban living, sexuality and sexual desire around the world. The key themes featured address a number of topical issues including:

• the controversies and debates raging around the evolution, defining patterns and appropriate regulation of commercial sex zones and markets in the urban landscape
• how gay public spaces, districts and 'gay villages' emerged and developed in various towns and cities ...