Chapter 38: Artificial Love: The Secret Worlds of iDollators ; Nancy J. Herman-Kinney, David A. Kinney, Kara Taylor and Ashley M. Miller

iDollators’ Motivations:

1. Sexually Curious

2. Physically Disqualified

3. Rejected and Wary

4. Sad

5. Handicapped

6. Sexually Unfulfilled

7. Fearful

8. Ashamed

iDollators’ Real Doll Functions:

1. combat their loneliness, sadness, and/or grief.

2. deal with their past (or anticipated) anxiety and difficulties

3. improved their self-images and identities

4. allowed sexually-prohibited behavior, while avoiding deviant stigma

5. (not described in this chapter) engage in artistic expression

How did the men discussed in this chapter use these dolls in their search for meaning and acceptance? How are they similar to or different from others in search of sex and/or relationships?

Chapter 39: Trading Sex for Crack: Gender and Power ; Paul J. Draus and Robert G. Carlson

Two Myths:

1. Addictive Power

2. Hypersexuality

Six Features of the Sex for Crack Exchange

1. Drug Effects and Gender

2. Negotiations

3. Crack, Sex, and Violence

4. Dope Boys and Sugar Daddies

5. The Lure of Sex, the Lure of the Drug

6. The Game Turns on You

~dynamics of power

Chapter 40:  Selling Excitement: Gender Roles at the Male Strip Show ; Maren T. Scull

Gender Roles Reversed or Reinforced?

Gender role transcendence

Physical Interactions with Customers:

1. Dominating

2. Aggressive Touching

3. Humiliating

Dancers’ Hypermasculine Presentation of Self: body technologies

1. Outfits

2. Diet and exercise

3. Steroids

4. Skin

5. Erections

Aggressive Women:

How do some women try to achieve gender role transcendence?

Are they successful or not? Why?