Participants do not have to be based in/from Toronto; however the body mapping and interviews are being conducted in Toronto at this time.

The Briefest of Background (End)

Yet, there is a significant lack of work on the transformative potential & value or meaningfulness of sex work & the literature that does exist is dated and/or purely theoretical (Califia 1994; Chapkis 1997; Queen 1997).

✨ Enter this research!✨

The Briefest of Background (Part 3/4)

Furthermore, the legitimization of sex work as not only work but valuable work that fulfills a social role is vital to decriminalization efforts (van der Meulen, 2011).

The Briefest of Background (Part 2/4)

Shaver (1994) writes that sex work needs to be assessed within the milieu of human sexuality.

Reportedly both a client and friend of sex workers in late 19th century Paris, Toulouse captured and portrayed sex work and workers in humanistic and intimate ways throughout his paintings - a feat itself at that time (and still to this day if we're being honest).

An etymology of the working title "Bounded and Embodied" (Part 2/2)

➡️'Embodied' refers to the embodiment framework being taken to study the complex, multi-dimensional, and at times messy, or contradictory mind-body, experiences of intimacy in companionship

The more you know!✨