FREE LECTURE: World Cities of Sex

In this presentation, Professor Hubbard will explore the ways in which cities have become hubs in an international sexual economy that is increasingly important as a driver of global economic change. Focusing on the intersections between business travel, sex tourism, prostitution and pornography, the paper sets out an agenda for mapping world city networks of sex and considers the overall significance of sex for the economies - and geographies - of world cities. In so doing, the paper argues that the sex industry should no longer be considered as a form of ‘globalization from below’ and instead is integral to the construction of a global ‘space of flows’.