Share your interactive ePaper on all platforms and on your website with our embed function. All Rights Reserved. Table 1. Table 2. Interview Scheduling and Matching Variables Interviewer Training and Support Demographic Characteristics of the Boston men Table 3. Family Income Table 4. Table 5. Ethnic Identity Table 6. Table 7. Table 8. First use of women in prostitution Frequency of buying sex Where do Boston men locate women in prostitution for the purpose of buying sex?
Table 9. Use of strip clubs Drug and alcohol use of Boston sex buyers Military background of sex buyers Travel to other states and countries to buy sex Table Age and ethnic selection of women in prostitution Changes in sex buyers' sexuality over time as a result of prostitution Awareness of harms of prostitution Figure 1.
Figure 2. Figure 3. Figure 4. Awareness of pimping, coercion and trafficking Beliefs about differences between women who are and are not prostituted Myths about sexuality held by sex buyers and non-sex buyers Why men say they buy sex Belief that prostitution prevents rape Empathy for women in prostitution Interest in non-relational sex Hostile masculine identity Pornography Use Rape myth acceptance Why do some men choose not to buy sex?
Fear of rejection by women Self-reported behaviors and attitudes about violence against women Criminal History Limitations of this research Policy Considerations The problem of lack of enforcement of prostitution laws Interventions for sex buyers The men who participated in this study were matched in terms of age, ethnicity, and education level. The sex buyers and non-sex buyers differed in their self-reported likelihood to rape. They felt just as many negative feelings after buying sex as they did before.
This research was made possible by Hunt Alternatives Fund. Lina Nealon at Hunt Alternatives Fund was project coordinator. Catharine A. Angel Daniels managed and supervised data entry and data summary. Lindsay Markel contributed most of the sub-categories for the sex education items. Allison Briscoe-Smith, Ph. School of Psychology to participate in the research. Many others contributed to the data entry, data checking, and narrative compilation phase of the research. Research about men who buy sex is slowly emerging.
