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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.