| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
List of figures -- List of tables -- Note on authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: understanding sexual consumption -- Reframing the debate -- The economics of demand and clients as consumers -- Beyond individual motivations: situational factors affecting commercial sex markets -- The consumer climate -- Body work and sexual services -- Technology and the digital world of sex -- Sexual consumption and masculinity -- Introducing our surveys -- UK 'Beyond the Gaze' survey -- US 'Sexual Economy' survey -- Who was not included in our surveys -- race and the digital divide -- A note on language -- Outline of chapters |
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1. Knowledge about consumers -- Thinking about clients as consumers -- Existing data on prevalence and characteristics -- Prevalence -- Characteristics of clients -- Different types of clients? -- Age and life course -- Violence -- Consumers as perpetrators? -- Conclusion: looking at social processes -- 2. Law, policy and politics in the UK and the US -- Consuming sex: capitalism, consumption and carceral politics -- The global policy landscape -- neo-abolitionism -- The law: US and UK -- US law -- UK law -- How do consumers understand and react to the law? -- Conclusion: how the law matters -- 3. Advertising and avenues of access to paid sex |
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The consumer journey -- Advertising: physical methods -- Print advertising -- Word-of-mouth advertising -- Street visibility -- The digital world: the adult entertainment 'super highway' -- Mapping the online terrain -- Sex workers' safety and internet advertising -- Independents -- BDSM and kink -- Brothels, massage parlours and walk-up flats -- Escort agencies -- Street work -- Cross-sector marketing -- How service buyers use the internet -- Finding adult service providers -- Browsing the internet: "window shopping" and "cruising" -- Using the internet to communicate with providers -- Multi-method modes of contact -- What do review sites do for the community? |
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Limiting online advertising and US SESTA/FOSTA -- Conclusion: customers online -- browsing, buying and buddying -- 4. Who are clients and how do they buy? purchasing patterns, customer segmentation and the economics of sexual consumption -- Who buys sex and how? -- Overview of customers -- Age -- Relationship and living arrangements -- Race/Ethnicity -- Social attitudes -- Sexual-service markets -- Market choices in the UK and US surveys -- Frequency or consistency of using paid sexual services -- Buying sexual services and travel -- Regulars -- Comparing patterns among consumers -- Street customers: are they unique? |
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Types of consumers in the US -- Experimenters -- Frequent generalists -- Frequent Online Loyalists -- Legal Brothel Loyalists -- Types of consumers in the UK -- Online clients -- General clients -- Two typologies in dialogue -- The life course and cohort effects -- Services, finances and risk: economics of sexual-service buying -- Services -- Amount paid for services -- Conclusions: the trouble with typologies |
| Summary |
"Providing one of the first comprehensive, cross cultural examinations of the dynamic market for sexual services, this book presents an evidence-based look at the multiple factors related to purchasing patterns and demand among clients who have used the internet. The data is drawn from two large surveys of sex workers' clients in the US and UK. The book presents descriptive baseline data on client engagement with online platforms, demographics and patterns of frequency in different markets, information on smaller niche markets and client reactions to exploitation, safety and changes in the law. The book makes clear that the situational as well as individual factors affect the willingness and ability to purchase sexual services. The view that emerges shatters the stereotypes and generalizations on which much policy is based, and demonstrates the complexities surrounding who pays for sex and the contours of sexual consumption in consumer culture"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Teela Sanders is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. She is a leading international scholar in research on the intersections between gender, regulation, governance and crime, specifically in the sex industry. Her latest book is Internet Sex Work: Beyond the Gaze (2018). Barbara G. Brents is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada. She has published research in sexuality, gender and politics in market culture for more than 25 years. Brents is a co-author with Crystal Jackson and Kathryn Hausbeck Korgan of The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex and Sin in the New American Heartland (2010) a study of Nevada's legal brothels. Chris Wakefield is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada. Their focus is on intersections of criminal justice and mental health to constrain expressions of gender and sexual diversity, including non-normative sexual identities and transgender experience |
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebook Central, viewed on April 20, 2020) |
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Prostitution -- United States
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Prostitution -- Great Britain
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Internet -- United States
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Internet -- Great Britain
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Sex industry -- Information technology -- United States
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Sex industry -- Information technology -- Great Britain
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
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Internet
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Prostitution
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Great Britain
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Brents, Barbara G., author.
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Wakefield, Chris (Sociologist), author.
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| LC no. |
2019052879 |
| ISBN |
9780429454370 |
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0429454376 |
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9780429845512 |
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0429845510 |
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9780429845529 |
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0429845529 |
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9780429845505 |
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0429845502 |
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