From Physical Sex Therapy to Entertainment: The Motivations of Women Buying Sex in Australia

Caldwell, H. Stephen; Wit, John de

doi:10.1016/j.jsxm.2017.04.225

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“…The large majority dealt with women who traded sex abroad (k = 19) (Bergan, 2011;Chege, 2017;Dahles & Bras, 1999;Davidson & Taylor, 2005;De Albuquerque, 1998;Frohlick, 2013;Green, Scrase, & Ganguly-Scrase, 2017;Herold et al, 2001;Johnson, 2016;Karch & Dann, 1981;Kempadoo, 2001;Kibicho, 2004;Mai, 2017;Martis, 1999;Meiu, 2015;Nyanzi & Bah, 2010;Odunlami, 2009;Phillips, 2002;Press, 1978;Pruitt & Lafont, 1995;Taylor, 2001Taylor, , 2006. Additionally, two studies investigated women as clients of MSM-SW (Busari, Nakayima, & Busari, 2011;Smith et al, 2015), and the remaining ones examined the motivations of Australian women buying sex (Caldwell & de Wit, 2017), sugarmommy practices (Phaswana-Mafuya et al, 2014), male escorting (Taylor & Sunderland, 2003), and Japan's host clubscene (Takeyama, 2008).…”

Section: Studies In Which the Main Research Focus Was Women As Buyersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies that Did Not Involve Tourist Women. This section deals with the six studies that did not involve tourist women (Busari et al, 2011;Caldwell & de Wit, 2017;Phaswana-Mafuya et al, 2014;Smith et al, 2015;Takeyama, 2008;Taylor & Sunderland, 2003). Broadly, the two quantitative studies that investigated women as clients of MSM-SW recruited 144 men from Nigeria and Kenya and found that about 65% of the men's clients were women (Busari et al, 2011; Smith et al, 2015).…”

Section: Studies In Which the Main Research Focus Was Women As Buyersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One qualitative study was only available as an abstract: It described 21 Australian women's motivations for buying sex from men. About half cited sexual pleasure, eight stated it was for therapy, and two women did it for entertainment (Caldwell & de Wit, 2017). Another unique study was a critical discourse analysis of a men's lifestyle magazine article about a heterosexual male escort.…”

Section: Studies In Which the Main Research Focus Was Women As Buyersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Self-portrait of a young man for rent', by Sterry (2002), is a memoir of the author's experiences working as a teenage gigolo with a primarily female clientele in the early 1970s. Sterry recounts the circumstances leading up to his situation, characterized by desperation, need for love, and sexual assault. According to a recent comparative study (McCarthy, Benoit, & Jansson, 2014), both immediate circumstances like limited education, and negative experiences from early life, especially childhood poverty, abuse and family instability, are independently associated with adult sex work. According to reviews, paid male sexual services are largely invisible in the global sex trade, but in growing demand. Dennis (2008) concluded that in Western countries, more adolescent boys than adolescent girls participate in sex exchange for money, and men comprise about 20-30% of the individuals arrested as vendors of sexual services each year. Recently, a content analysis of 499 male escort websites across 60 countries found that while most escorts advertise to other men, 11% of the sites were specifically for female clients and 10% for heterosexual couples (Kumar, Minichiello, Scott, & Harrington, 2017). Another website survey found comparable numbers (Scott & Minichiello, 2017). Similarly, Lee-Gonyea, Castle, and Gonyea's (2009) review identified 17% of websites that advertised male escorts as catering to female clientele only and an ongoing study conducted in the UK found that 66% of escorts advertised to female clients (Smith & Kingston, in Kumar et al., 2017). Indications of a growing market for women who seek paid sexual services with men are not only found online. Since the 1990s, Japan has seen a rapid increase in the number of host clubsvenues where men work as hosts to 'entertain' a mostly migrant female clientelewith over 200 clubs in Tokyo alone (Mahdavi, 2018). The entertainment varies by club and location, but most hosts describe it as selling romance, love and sex to their clients (

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