Paying for Sex in a Digital Age - Us and Uk Perspectives

List of contents

Introduction: Understanding Sexual Consumption; 1. Knowledge About Consumers; 2. Law, Policy and Politics in the UK and US; 3. Advertising and Avenues of Access to Paying for Sex; 4. Who Are Clients and How Do They Buy? Purchasing Patterns, Customer; 5. Beyond Middle-Aged, Straight, White Guys: Purchasing Patterns in Smaller Markets; 6. Sex Without Touch - Consumers of the Webcam Market; 7. Responsible Consumption? Client Attitudes, Self Regulation and Risks in an Underground Environment; 8. Conclusions: Market Diversity in a Digital Age; Appendix: Methodology.

About the author

Teela Sanders is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. She is a leading international scholar in research on the intersections between gender, regulation, governance and crime, specifically in the sex industry. Her latest book is Internet Sex Work: Beyond the Gaze (2018).
Barbara G. Brents is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada. She has published research in sexuality, gender and politics in market culture for more than 25 years. Brents is a co-author with Crystal Jackson and Kathryn Hausbeck Korgan of The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex and Sin in the New American Heartland (2010) a study of Nevada’s legal brothels.
Chris Wakefield is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada. Their focus is on intersections of criminal justice and mental health to constrain expressions of gender and sexual diversity, including non-normative sexual identities and transgender experience.

Summary

Providing one of the first comprehensive, cross cultural examinations of the dynamic market for sexual services, this book presents an evidence-based look at the multiple factors related to purchasing patterns and demand among clients who have used the internet.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Brents, Barbara G. Brents, Barbara G. (University of Nevada Brents, Sanders, Teela Sanders, Teela (University of Leicester Sanders, Teela Wakefield Sanders, Sanders Teela, Chris Wakefield, Chris (University of Nevada Wakefield, Wakefield Chris
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781138318724
• ISBN: 978-1-138-31872-4
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, United Kingdom, Great Britain, United States of America, USA, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects