Paying for sex in a digital age : US and UK perspectives /
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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?
- 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