“Hunting on the Streets”: Masculine Repertoires Among Israeli Clients of Street-Based Sex Work

Lahav-Raz, Yeela

doi:10.1007/s12119-019-09636-0

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“…Birch argues that most clients do not exhibit hypermasculinity, and that clients, far from being unemotional, attend to their emotional needs by seeking providers (Birch et al 2017). Lahav Raz studied how clients in online forums talk about their exploits in seeking street workers and found that they performed power and validated their masculinity more in relation to other men than to women (Lahav-Raz 2019a). While client attitudes toward gender equality are but one component of masculine repertoires, they are key to understanding how certain groups of men may define themselves in relation to women.…”

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confidence: 99%

Are Men Who Pay for Sex Sexist? Masculinity and Client Attitudes Toward Gender Role Equality in Different Prostitution Markets

Brents

Yamashita

Spivak

et al. 2020

Men and Masculinities

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Prostitution clients’ attitudes toward gender equality are important indicators of how masculinity relates to the demand for commercial sexual services. Research on male client misogyny has been inconclusive, and few studies compare men in different markets. Using an online survey of 519 clients of sexual services, we examine whether male client attitudes toward gender role equality are related to the main methods customers used to access prostitution services (i.e., through print or online media vs. in-person contact). We found no differences among men in these markets in attitudes toward gender role equality in the workplace and home. This is in a context where all clients had more egalitarian attitudes toward women’s roles than the U.S. male population in the General Social Survey (GSS). However, clients in in-person markets were less supportive of affirmative action than in online markets in a context where all clients were less supportive compared to the national average. These findings point to need to rethink how masculinity and gender role attitudes affect patterns of male demand for paid sex.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Are Men Who Pay for Sex Sexist? Masculinity and Client Attitudes Toward Gender Role Equality in Different Prostitution Markets

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Yamashita

Spivak

et al. 2020

Men and Masculinities

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“…A recent systematic review of the qualitative literature about MWPWS suggests that their diverse experiences are at once gendered, sexual, intimate, consumerist, and related to power relations, and social stigma (Prior & Peled, submitted for publication B ). Thus, for example, studies show that SFP enables MWPWS to fulfill their sexual desires (Huysamen, 2019 ), and boost their sense of masculinity (Hammond & van Hooff, 2019 ; Lahav-Raz, 2019a ). However, other studies have found that MWPWS may also experience a sense of compromised sexual potency and flawed masculinity when paying for sex (Prior & Peled, 2019 ).…”

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Paying for Sex During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experiences of Israeli Men

Prior

2021

Sex Res Soc Policy

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Introduction This qualitative study explored the experiences of men who pay women for sex (MWPWS) during the COVID-19 pandemic, which poses radical and profound challenges to various aspects of people's intimate, sexual, and financial experiences. Methods The study was based on in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 10 Israeli MWPWS who regularly visit various prostitution venues. The interviews were conducted between April and July 2020, between the first and the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Israel. ResultsThe findings focus on four major aspects of the participants' experiences: the participants' inability to pay for sex, the difficulties imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic to participants' sex-for-pay experiences, the positive effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their sex-for-pay experiences, and the insignificance of COVID-19 pandemic to their sex-for-pay experiences. Conclusions I conclude that COVID-19 pandemic triggers various sexual, emotional, and gendered experiences for MWPWS. Accordingly, MWPWS may reevaluate their engagement in sex-for-pay, and their experiences of it may be reshaped in light of the pandemic. I discuss the findings' contribution to sexuality and masculinity studies, and the methodological possibilities that they raise for qualitative scholars studying social phenomena during the COVID-19 pandemic. Policy Implications The study highlights the significance of developing ad hoc prostitution policy that supports the individuals involved in the sex industry-both MWPWS and the women who are paid for sex-during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, it suggests that prostitution policy should address the diverse experiences of MWPWS, beyond viewing them as merely offenders who should be punished, or re-educated.

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“…Coy et al (2007) have found that attitudes of male entitlement may play a role in how men justify the commodification of sex, as buyers often explain that sex is something “to be expected and accepted” when asked why they purchase sex. Researchers investigating an Israeli online platform identified johns referring to themselves as “hunters” when discussing their sexual encounters with women (Lahav-Raz, 2020). The attitude that they are “hunting” women suggests a gendered belief in a biological need for sexual pleasure (Lahav-Raz, 2020).…”

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Sex as a Commodity Scale: Development and initial validation.

Cavalhieri¹,

Conzemius²,

Heavner³

et al. 2022

Psychology of Men & Masculinities

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The purpose of this study was to develop a scale to measure the degree to which men perceive sex as a commodity. Using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) as a guide, the Sex as a Commodity Scale (SACS) was created to provide a multidimensional measure to best predict whether men perceive sex as a commodity, and to differentiate between men who do and do not buy sex. In Study 1, we conducted an exploratory factor analysis on a sample of 200 men (107 sex buyers), revealing interrelated factors associated with the TPB framework: (a) attitudes, (b) norms, and (c) perceived control toward buying sex. In Study 2, a confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on a distinct sample of 244 men (113 sex buyers), providing further support for the bifactor structure of the SACS. Significant bivariate correlations with attitudes toward prostitution, sexual economics, and sex buyers provided support for the SACS' criterion validity. Furthermore, the SACS was able to significantly differentiate between men who did and did not buy sex. Our findings imply that the SACS is a beneficial scale that can be used to further inform intervention programs, preventative sex education, and future research on the behavior of men who purchase sex. Public Significance StatementThis study outlines the development of an instrument that can be used to measure whether men perceive sex as a commodity, which is a significant predictor of whether they would buy sex. The findings indicate the scale can reliably differentiate between men who do and do not buy sex, and may help in evaluating the effectiveness of intervention programs to prevent reoffense of men who buy sex, aiding in the development and evaluation of preventative sex education curriculums, and aiding practitioners and researchers working with men who buy sex.

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“Hunting on the Streets”: Masculine Repertoires Among Israeli Clients of Street-Based Sex Work

Cited by 12 publications

References 56 publications

Are Men Who Pay for Sex Sexist? Masculinity and Client Attitudes Toward Gender Role Equality in Different Prostitution Markets

Are Men Who Pay for Sex Sexist? Masculinity and Client Attitudes Toward Gender Role Equality in Different Prostitution Markets

Paying for Sex During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Experiences of Israeli Men

Sex as a Commodity Scale: Development and initial validation.

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