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Comparing Sex Buyers with Men Who Do Not Buy Sex:
New Data on
Prostitution and Trafficking
Melissa Farley - Prostitution Research & Education,
San Francisco, California
Jacqueline M. Golding - University of
California, San Francisco
Emily Schuckman Matthews - San Diego State
University
Neil M. Malamuth - University of California, Los
Angeles
Laura Jarrett - Chicago, Illinois
Journal of Interpersonal Violence,
online
publication August 31, 2015
Abstract
We investigated attitudes and behaviors
associated with prostitution and sexual
aggression among 101 men who buy sex and 101
age-, education-, and ethnicity-matched
men who did not buy sex. Both groups tended to
accept rape myths, be aware of harms of
prostitution and trafficking, express
ambivalence about the nature of prostitution, and
believe that jail time and public exposure are
the most effective deterrents to buying sex.
Sex buyers were more likely than men who did not
buy sex to report sexual aggression
and likelihood to rape. Men who bought sex
scored higher on measures of impersonal sex
and hostile masculinity and had less empathy for
prostituted women, viewing them as
intrinsically different from other women. When
compared with non-sex-buyers, these
sefindings indicate that men who buy sex share
certain key characteristics with men at
risk for committing sexual aggression as
documented by research based on the leading
scientific model of the characteristics of
non-criminal sexually aggressive men, the
Confluence Model of sexual aggression.