Human Trafficking and Exploitation in the Scottish Sex Industry: Clients’ Accounts

Cornforth-Camden, Bryony

doi:10.1080/23322705.2017.1336367

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“…The men acknowledged that abuse and exploitation occurred but identified themselves as 'good' clients by distancing themselves from such activities and supporting responsible practices . Conversely, other studies have found that men who purchase sex use different techniques of neutralization that enable them to indulge in the socially stigmatized act of commercial sex, with denial of injury being the most commonly used neutralization technique (Lim & Cheah, 2020), and that they avoid exploited sellers primarily as a result of their own consumer experiences and a desire for the sexual encounter to be mutual (Cornforth-Camden, 2018). have argued that 'environments have a huge effect on how clients manage risk in an unregulated and stigmatized industry and one where privacy in a digital world is increasingly surveilled' (p. 187).…”

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“…In some cases, paying for sex is seen as a cost-effective behaviour of rational men, compared to (unpaid) courtship rituals and romantic interactions with women . Some scholars have argued that men's consumerist arguments for purchasing sex ignore sextrafficking, and that treating women who sell sex as a service or product dehumanizes them and entrenches men's powerful position (Cornforth-Camden, 2018;Prior & Peled, 2021;Senent Julián, 2019;Vaughn, 2019). Others have suggested that a neoliberal consumerist discourse is inherent in commercial sex as a social phenomenon, and may thus shape the self-perceptions of men who pay for sex into seeing themselves as legitimate service consumers in ways that are unrelated to any need to dismiss moral accusations (Pettinger, 2011).…”

Section: Understanding Individual Experiences Of Purchasing Sexmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Purchase of Sex: Perceptions, Experiences, and Social Work Practices

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The aim of this study is to explore sex buyers’ perceptions and experiences of purchasing sex, and to study how the purchase of sex is constructed as a social problem in Swedish social work practice. The empirical material consists of interviews with 30 men with experiences of purchasing sex and with ten social workers conducting counselling or outreach work with men who purchase sex. The dissertation is a compilation thesis that consists of four papers, that have been published in international peer-review journals. The first paper focuses on how men who buy sex as one-time visitors navigate between commercialization and intimacy in a national context criminalizing their actions. The paper explores the construction of meaning and intimacy in commercial relationships for Swedish men buying sex, and how these men describe relational practices and strategies used when they purchased sex. The second paper explores the construction of intimacy among men engaged in longterm transactional relationships with women. The paper focuses on the meaning of transactions for intimacy in long-term paid sexual relationships. The third paper explores how men who purchase sex in a context in which their activities are criminalized understand and perceive risk. The paper focuses on individual assessments of risk in relation to experiences of crime, exploitation, and stigma. The fourth paper aims at exploring social workers’ understanding of the purchase of sex as a social problem. The study focuses on social workers’ approaches to the purchase of sex in relation to values, professional practices, and political goals, and how they navigate these aspects in their encounters with individuals who purchase sex. The four papers show how individual experiences are understood, navigated, and conceptualized in relation to social interaction and social norms. The participants in both sub-studies navigate between their own experiences and perceptions, moral values, and social norms in regard to the purchase of sex in Sweden. Both the sex buyers and the social workers conceptualize and make sense of the purchase of sex based on their individual experiences as sex buyers or as social workers meeting sex buyers, but they also relate to normative ideas about the purchase of sex and about ‘sex buyers’.

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The Purchase of Sex: Perceptions, Experiences, and Social Work Practices

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Identity Construction of Men Who Pay Women for Sex: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis

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Peled

2021

The Journal of Sex Research

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Corporate social responsibility in Nigeria and multinational corporations in the fight against human trafficking in oil-producing communities

2019

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In Nigeria, human trafficking is a hidden crime, driven by the current economic situation of the country. The Nigerian government has demonstrated significant efforts to combating human trafficking in the country by creating the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). The incidents of human trafficking in the Nigeria's oil-producing communities have remained among the highest in the country and higher than the national average. The objective of this investigation was to determine the impact of a new corporate social responsibility (CSR) model of multinational oil companies (MOCs) on the fight against human trafficking in the host communities. A total of one thousand, two hundred households were sampled across the rural communities of Niger Delta. Results from the use of a combined propensity score matching and logit model indicated that MOCs hold the key to combating human trafficking by fostering effective partnership across different sectors, if highest CSR priority is assigned to reducing incidents of human trafficking in the oil-producing communities. Embracing the fight against human trafficking should form the foundation of General Memorandum of Understanding (GMoUs) practice, which in turn will provide the enabling environment for more widespread responsible business. As most of the human trafficking in the Niger Delta is exploited by relatives or friends; MOCs should involve traditional and religious leaders in the fight and set up GMoU clusters interventions specifically for anti-trafficking agencies including NAPTIP, the police and immigration to support their actions and improve efficiency.

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Human Trafficking and Exploitation in the Scottish Sex Industry: Clients’ Accounts

Cited by 5 publications

References 25 publications

The Purchase of Sex: Perceptions, Experiences, and Social Work Practices

The Purchase of Sex: Perceptions, Experiences, and Social Work Practices

Identity Construction of Men Who Pay Women for Sex: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis

Corporate social responsibility in Nigeria and multinational corporations in the fight against human trafficking in oil-producing communities

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