Niuanse atrakcyjności. Co to znaczy być atrakcyjną według pracownic agencji towarzyskich?
Nuances of attractiveness. What does it mean to be attractive according to workers of escort agencies?

Summary/Abstract: Purpose of the article is to reconstruct the meaning of an attractive woman and an attractive worker of an escort agency for women providing sex services, as well as to identify the actions that they undertake as a result of those definitions. The main problem questions, which the analysis is focused on are as follows: what does it mean to be an attractive woman when the main source of earnings is provision of sex services to men? How are the visions of attractiveness in the context of agency and women’s private lives different? What are the actions undertaken by the sex workers in order to achieve and maintain physical attractiveness and what are the consequences for their health? The empirical basis of the article is constituted by unstructured interviews carried out with 56 women providing sex services in escort agencies. The data were analyzed in accordance with procedures of the grounded theory methodology.

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