Among the many policies implemented to eradicate trafficking in the sex industry, US government agencies have targeted online platforms that market and facilitate sex work. In this paper, I consider two instances of this activity: the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2014 raid and subsequent closing of MyRedbook.com, and the Department of Homeland Security’s 2015 raid and closing of Rentboy.com. Drawing from a qualitative-interpretive analysis of the media coverage of these raids, I show that the responses to them emphasised how the sites’ closures increased both men’s and women’s economic vulnerability, but the similarities largely ended there. Instead, I argue broadly that public responses to these events reflected and reinforced gendered notions of women’s vulnerability and men’s agency in the sex industry. While these responses may seem unsurprising, they are also potentially productive, calling into question the limits of respectability politics and signalling new solidarities in the struggle for sex worker rights.

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相识又有差别？MyRedBook和Rentboy关闭中的性别，性工作和受人尊敬的政治

在为杜绝性行业贩运而实施的众多政策中，美国政府机构的目标是销售和促进性工作的在线平台。在本文中，我考虑了此活动的两个实例：联邦调查局在2014年对MyRedbook.com进行突袭和随后关闭，以及国土安全部在2015年对Rentboy.com的突袭和关闭。通过对媒体对这些突袭的报道进行定性解释分析，我发现对这些突袭的回应着重强调了这些场所的关闭如何增加了男女的经济脆弱性，但相似之处到此为止。相反，我广泛地认为，公众对这些事件的反应反映并加强了性别观念，即妇女在性行业中的脆弱性和男子代理权。