“Elizabeth Bernstein’s Temporarily Yours is a first-rate piece of sociological investigation that reads like a novel. We will never look at commercial sex in the same way again.”--Kristin Luker, University of California, Berkeley, author of When Sex Goes to School

Kristin Luker

“A fascinating combination of ’macro’ analysis (i.e., the political economy of prostitution) and ’micro’ insights into a certain form of sex work--i.e., the kind that occurs indoors between middle-class/upper-class men and lower-to-middle class women.”

A.M Cesario and L. Chancer | Qualitative Sociology

“This rich and multidimensional book looks at how individual practices and cultural contexts are shaped by economic structures. . . . I hope Temporarily Yours finds a wide audience among those interested in labor, emotions, gender, sexuality, urbanizm, and globalization. And public policy experts as well. Temporarily Yours is a terrific book. That it could be written and published today marks the coming of age of sociological work on sexuality and the maturation, too, of gender studies.”

Arlene Stein | Culture and the Media

“Elizabeth Bernstein’s Temporarily Yours succeeds wonderfully (and seems to have aimed) at providing insights into the ‘big’ political economic picture as well as some women’s and men’s ‘micro’ experiences of sex work.... Perhaps she is at her best when turning, as few books before hers have done...to men and why they turn to prostitution.”

Qualitative Sociology