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Gay Chav Erotic - Investment Clubs

Laurie Taylor reflects on the homosexual eroticization of class with Paul Johnson and Professor Jonathan Dollimore. They discuss how the 鈥榗hav culture鈥� has been appropriated for gay men.

GAY CHAV EROTIC
Laurie Taylor is joined by Paul Johnson, Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey and author of a recent paper Rude Boys: The Homosexual Eroticization of Class, published in Sociology, and Jonathan Dollimore, Honorary Professor at the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence at the University of Sussex to discuss how 鈥榗hav culture鈥� has also been appropriated in order to market a range of products and services to gay men.

INVESTMENT CLUBS
Ladies with Leverage, Men in Motion and Frocks for Stocks are American investment clubs where people club together to invest their monthly subscriptions for hard returns on the American stock market. Social scientist Brooke Harrington, author of a new book Pop Finance, explains the revelations of her new study of investments clubs in America.

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