Invisible Offenders: Estimating Online Sex Customers

Don’t Want to Get Caught? Don’t Say It: The Use of EMOJIS in Online Human Sex Trafficking Ads

“…facilitates their ability to prevent them from building connections and familiarity with a region as this might cause them to feel more comfortable seeking help [6]. Additionally, Roe-Sepowitz, et al [15] explored demand in the online commercial sex industry by collecting data on responses to decoy online sex ads in 15 different cities. Their finding estimate that 1 of 20 males is soliciting sex online.…”

“…Their finding estimate that 1 of 20 males is soliciting sex online. For San Diego the estimated market size of for online sex trafficking consists of roughly 36,890 men with populations as high as 169,920 johns in some markets [15].…”

The Effect of Measures Taken by Craigslist to Screen Online Ads for Commercial Sex

“…While some cases included adults who may have been trafficked, law enforcement officials tended to focus on minors not only in light of their vulnerability to potential traffickers but also due to practical factors. For example, minors may be easier to identify than adults, although the age of individuals featured in online commercial sex ads is difficult to verify (see Roe-Sepowitz et al, 2012). In addition, cases involving minors tend to be easier to prosecute than those involving adults for whom proof of “force, fraud, or coercion” may be required (see Bouche et al, 2016; Smith, Walters, & Satija, 2017).…”

Sex Workers Who Provide Services to Clients with Disability in New South Wales, Australia

“…Conjectures about who clients are and what they seek from sex workers have generally been framed in the negative, based on moralistic and religious beliefs assuming that clients are violent, disrespectful and antisocial men who are perverse, deviant and predators of vulnerable women (Birch, 2015;Kinnell, 2006aKinnell, , 2006bPrieur & Taksdal, 1993). This analysis is exacerbated by the over reliance of exceedingly skewed data samples primarily taken from arrest rates of clients from targeted police operations in street-based sex working areas (Brewer, Potterat, & Woodhouse, 2007;Hanson, 2016), reports focussed on the deterrent effect of interventions such as police arrest and "Johns Schools" (Alter, 2015a(Alter, , 2015bRoe-Sepowitz, 2013) as well as continuous media coverage agitating for heightened law and order proposals while sensationalising the deaths and murders of sex workers (Buchan, 2016;Prosser, 2016;P. Sims, 2016).…”