ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of Sydneys suburban sexscape is to highlight the geography and diversity of the commercial sex industry and the broad regulatory contours that surround it in order to ascertain the degree of cosmo-sexuality exuded by Australias largest city. For instance, it has been argued that men have turned to mail-order brides, particularly from Asia, partly because of the erosion of traditional hierarchical gendered relations within Western liberal democracies. Urban cosmopolitanism, when viewed through a cultural lens, tends to be conflated with the concept of multiculturalism and claims that the world can be found within a city. As a global and cosmopolitan city, Sydney provides a plethora of spaces for commercial sex related activities that are ultimately the product of global capitalist opportunism. In Australia, the bureaucratic regulatory domain of the sex industry lies predominantly with state and local governments. These regulations are particularly exclusionary when it comes to home occupation sex services premises (HOSSPs) land-uses.
