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Challenging Men's Demand for Prostitution in Scotland. A Research Report Based on Interviews with 110 Men Who Bought Women in Prostitution

Document number
1606
Date
2008
Title
Challenging Men's Demand for Prostitution in Scotland. A Research Report Based on Interviews with 110 Men Who Bought Women in Prostitution
Author/publisher
Jan Macleod, Melissa Farley, Lynn Anderson, Jacqueline Golding. Published by Women’s Support Project
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Demand, Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Prostitution; Sex work; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism, Prevention,
Summary
Public awareness of prostitution as a human rights issue has grown in recent years, along with an understanding of the harm resulting from sexual exploitation as commercial enterprise. There is also recognition of the need to understand prostitution in its cultural contexts, and the need to understand the social structures and the psychological articulation of misogyny that stimulates and sustains prostitution as a social institution. There has been considerable debate in Scotland on how best to address prostitution and other commercial sexual exploitation, including what is euphemistically termed adult entertainment. The Routes Out of Prostitution Partnership and other projects that have challenged prostitution in Glasgow in the past decade have been informed by an understanding of prostitution as commercial sexual exploitation and as a form of violence against women. Prevention of prostitution is a key aim of this work. The findings of this research will contribute to an understanding of and strategies for challenging men’s demand for prostitution. Standardised and validated questionnaires yielded both quantitative and qualitative data from the interviews. Questionnaires included a 100-item questionnaire that asked about buyers’ attitudes toward prostitution, acceptance of rape myths, sexual behaviours and condom use, pornography use, commission of sexually coercive behaviour toward prostitute and non-prostitute partners, likelihood-to-rape, and demographics. A second questionnaire asked 34 questions about hostile masculinity.
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