MEN WHO BUY SEX

Men who buy sex

Men who buy sex

Introduction

Men's acceptance of prostitution is one of a cluster of attitudes that encourages and justifies violence against women. Violent behaviours against women have been associated with attitudes that promote men's beliefs that they are entitled to sexual access to women, are superior to women and are licensed as sexual aggressors. The purpose of the research was to assess men's attitudes toward women in prostitution and their awareness of and use of trafficking victims, with the goal of ultimately developing prostitution and trafficking prevention programmes.

A few studies have highlighted the range of physical locations where prostitution takes place (Kramer, 2003). Most studies focus on street prostitution, which is diminishing today in the UK (Matthews, 2008). A consequent aim of this research was to learn more about indoor locations where men buy sex.

This research is timely. Addressing the human rights violations in prostitution is being discussed in the UK and the EU today. Several Nordic countries have criminalised the sex buyer while at the same time decriminalising the person who sells sex and providing services. This research will hopefully bring some useful information about men who buy sex to the attention of the public and to policy makers as they address trafficking and the commercial sex industry.

Aims and objectives of the study

The aims of the study are

Brief over-view of the literature on men who buy sex from female sex workers

Evaluation of rehabilitation programmes

Why the re-focus on 'kerbcrawlers' in policy?

The impact of criminalisation

Objectives of the study

The main objectives of the study are

Why the increase in the problem?

To find the Prevalence of Men buying sex in the society

Who are the men that buy sex?

Coordinated Prostitution Strategy: Tackling Demand

Rehabilitation programmes would be a coherent approach to tackle the problem

Literature Review

In 2007, Eaves and Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) began a study of the attitudes and behavioural patterns of men who use women in prostitution. Both organisations have previously studied and reported on the violence that is integral to prostitution (Bindel and Atkins, 2008; Farley et al, 2003).

Kinnell (2008 p42-43) recently described the range and intensity of violence perpetrated against women in UK prostitution, including sexual assaults, physical assaults, robbery and verbal abuse. Also documented was the use against prostituted women of covert photography of the women during sex acts with buyers, blackmail, threatening letters and phone calls, people posing as police, verbal abuse, threats including with weapons, intimidation, stalking, mugging, thrown missiles (fireworks, stones, bottles, urine, dirty nappies, eggs), harassment by youth gangs and vigilantes, ejection from moving cars or assault by cars and kidnapping. Buyers also reportedly refused to use or tampered with condoms and forced acts that were not paid for.

When compared with the large number of studies of women in prostitution, it is apparent that men who buy women for sexual use are an under-researched group. There is a need for research that offers additional information on those who have been described as “the invisible subjects of the sex industry” (Marttila, ...