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sex work; clients; sexuality; masculinity; online communities; sex work policy
Israel

Biography

Dr. Lahav-Raz is an Anthropologist specializing in digital anthropology and the anthropology of sex and sexuality. She is researching sex work regulations and politics, mainly in Israel, and the intersections of gender and sexual politics, technological developments, and stigmatized communities. In 2018 she received the ISF (Israeli Science Foundation) two-year postdoctoral fellowship and served as an honorary lecturer in the School of Criminology at the University of Leicester, UK. Since 2020 she is a senior lecturer at the Sociology & Anthropology Department at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 2024 she received the ISF four-year grant for her co-research dealing with digital sexual conduct.

Activities

Employment (6)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: Beer-Sheva, Southern, IL

2020-10-01 to present | Senior Lecturer (Sociology & Anthropology)
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: Beer-Sheva, Southern, IL

2020-01-10 to present (Department of Sociology and Anthropology )
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Tel Aviv University: Tel Aviv, IL

2020-05-01 to 2020-09-30 | Postdoc Researcher (Social Work)
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University of Leicester: Leicester, Leicestershire, GB

2018-09-01 to 2020-08-31 | Honorary Lecturer (Criminology)
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: Beer-Sheva, Southern, IL

2016 to 2018 | Teaching Fellow (sociologt and anthripology)
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University of Rhode Island: Kingston, RI, US

2017-09-01 to 2017-12-30 | Postdoctoral Fellow (Gender & Women's Studies)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: Beer-Sheva, Southern, IL

2010 to 2016 | PhD. (sociology and anthropology)
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Yeela Lahav-Raz

Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Jerusalem, Jerusalem, IL

2005 to 2009 | MA (Sociology & Anthropology. )
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Professional activities (1)

The Israeli association for the study of prostitution, sex work and sex trafficking: Tel-Aviv, IL

2019 to present | Co-founder
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Funding (6)

Digital Sexual Conduct: Towards a Theory of Post-Situational Digisexual Sociality

2024-10 to 2028-09 | Grant
Israel Science Foundation (Jerusalem, IL)
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2191/24

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Yeela Lahav-Raz

Culture, Society, and Technology

2022 to 2024 | Grant
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beer Sheva, IL)
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Yeela Lahav-Raz

The question of moral worth in controversial market: A case study of the sex industry

2020-10 to present | Grant
Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, IL, IL)
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Sex workers' aid organizations during and after the COVID-19 pandemic

2020-06 to present | Grant
Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation (IL, US)
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0611014701

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Yeela Lahav-Raz

Sex Tourism in the Middle East

2018-09 to present | Grant
Israel Science Foundation (Jerusalem, IL)
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45/18

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Yeela Lahav-Raz

Sex tourism: a comparative perspective

2017-09 to 2017-12 | Grant
Victor and Gussie Baxt Fund in Judaic Studies (Rhode Island, US)
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Yeela Lahav-Raz

Works (16)

The Question of Moral Worth in a Controversial Market: Moral Justification Regimes and Boundary Work Among Israeli Men Who Pay for Sex Abroad

The Journal of Sex Research
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Yeela Lahav-Raz; Ayelet Prior; Einat Peled
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When Trance-national becomes Trans-local: the Israeli Velvet Triangle and the Adoption of the Prostitution Prohibition Law in Israel

Law, Society, and Culture
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Yeela Lahav-Raz
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Israeli Masculinity, Sex Work, and Consumerism

Routledge
2023-10-10 | Book
Contributors: Yeela Lahav-Raz
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A novel socially assistive robotic platform for cognitive-motor exercises for individuals with Parkinson's Disease: a participatory-design study from conception to feasibility testing with end users

Frontiers in Robotics and AI
2023-10-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2296-9144
Contributors: Dor Raz; Shirel Barkan-Slater; Ilanit Baum-Cohen; Gal Vissel; Yeela Lahav-Raz; Amir Shapiro; Shelly Levy-Tzedek
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Helping individuals in the sex trade during COVID-19: The perspectives of Israeli aid organizations.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
2022 | Journal article
Contributors: Yeela Lahav-Raz; Ayelet Prior; Guy Shilo; Einat Peled
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The ‘addict sexual script’: Addiction discourse among Israeli sex industry consumers

Sexualities
2022-12 | Journal article
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The Sex Industry

Israeli Sociology
2021 | Encyclopedia entry
Contributors: Yeela Lahav-Raz
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Who Takes Part in the Political Game? The Sex Work Governance Debate in Israel

Sexuality Research and Social Policy
2021-09-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Stephanie Levy-Aronovic; Yeela Lahav-Raz; Aviad Raz
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Narrative struggles in online arenas: the Facebook feminist sex wars on the Israeli sex industry

Feminist Media Studies
2020-08-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Yeela Lahav-Raz
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“Hunting on the Streets”: Masculine Repertoires Among Israeli Clients of Street-Based Sex Work

Sexuality & Culture
2020-02-07 | Journal article
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The prosumer economy and the sex industry: the creation of an online community of sex prosumers

Journal of Cultural Economy
2019-11-02 | Journal article
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Screen Carnival: the Development of a Unique Jargon among Clients of the Israeli Sex Industry

Israel Studies in Language and Society
2017 | Journal article
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Empowering Marginalization: Hapoel Bnot Shaknin Football Team

Sport and Gender in Israel: Characteristics, Identities, and Representations
2015 | Book chapter
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Languaculture and Linguistic Sexuality among Young Women in Prostitution

Israeli Sociology
2014 | Journal article
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Halutzot: from Excluded Citizens to 'Good' Citizens – Hapoel Bnot Sakhnin

Israeli Sociology
2013 | Journal article
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The Game of Freedom: Hapoel Bnot Shaknin Football Team

Movement: Journal of Physical Education & Sport Sciences
2006 | Journal article
Contributors: Yeela Lahav-Raz
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Peer review (7 reviews for 5 publications/grants)

Review activity for American journal of orthopsychiatry. (2)
Review activity for Harm reduction journal (1)
Review activity for New media & society (1)
Review activity for Sexuality, gender & policy. (1)
Review activity for Social sciences. (2)