Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- 2.Researching public sex performance -- 3.The visual politics of female desire -- 4.Producing desire -- 5.Women, tourism, and the spaces of desire: making the familiar strange -- 6.Ontologies of difference: the low-Other -- 7.The power and politics of the gaze -- 8.Disgusting Others: inscribing difference as disgust -- 9.Constructing the Other: the politics of respectable femininities, prostitution, and stigma