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Griffith, James D.; Capiola, August; Balotti, Brandon; Hart, Christian L.; Turner, Ryan

doi:10.1177/1474704916651270

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“…However, out-calls are consistently more expensive than in-calls, with the median out-call 1.26 times larger than the in-call on average. The finding that out-calls are consistently more expensive than in-calls is corroborated by past research conducted on the advertisements of US sex workers (Griffith et al, 2016).…”

Section: Views Rates Ratings and Time Active On Platformsupporting

confidence: 56%

Selling Sex: What Determines Rates and Popularity? An Analysis of 11.5 Thousand Online Profiles

Mergenthaler

Yasseri

2019

SSRN Journal

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Sex work, or the exchange of sexual services for money or goods, is ubiquitous across eras and cultures. However, the practice of selling sex is often hidden due to stigma and the varying legal status of sex work. Online platforms that sex workers use to advertise services have become an increasingly important tool in studying a market that is largely hidden. Although prior literature has primarily shed light on sex work from a public health or policy perspective (focusing largely on female sex workers), there are few studies that empirically research patterns of service provision in online sex work. Little research has been done on understanding pricing and popularity in the market for commercial sex work. This study investigates the determinants of pricing and popularity in the market for commercial sexual services online by using data from the largest UK network of online sexual services, a platform that is the "industry-standard" for sex workers. While the size of these influences vary across genders, nationality, age, and services provided are shown to be primary drivers of rates and popularity in sex work.

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Section: Views Rates Ratings and Time Active On Platformsupporting

confidence: 56%

Selling Sex: What Determines Rates and Popularity? An Analysis of 11.5 Thousand Online Profiles

Mergenthaler

Yasseri

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…Similar association between age and other cues to female fertility have been found in a study of Polish prostitutes (Prokop et al, 2018): physical signs of fertility in female prostitutes predict the prices of sexual services, and women showing better signs of fertility offer their services at higher prices. A study conducted with American female escorts (a common euphemism for sexual services) found that younger women charged higher fees than their older counterparts (Griffith et al, 2016). The costs of sex are apparently higher for young escorts.…”

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confidence: 99%

Providing Sexual Companionship for Resources: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS)

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A sugar relationship is a transactional sexual relationship in which a younger partner (sugar baby/boy) offers companionship and sexual services to a much older partner (sugar daddy/mommy) in return for material compensation. One aim of the present study was to develop an attitude scale assessing young women's and men's acceptance of sugar relationships. Another aim was to explore the possible associations of the acceptance of sugar relationships with psychological functioning in an intimate partner relationship and in a sexual relationship and with certain socially undesirable personality traits. Two online studies were conducted with a total number of 2052 participants (1879 women; age = 18-28 years). The results show that the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS) is a reliable and valid measure of young people's attitude toward sugar relationships. The studies revealed that young women's and men's accepting attitude toward sugar relationships was positively associated with unrestricted sociosexuality, a game-playing love style (Ludus), selffocused sexual motivation (Study 1; N = 319; 272 women and 47 men), and with socially undesirable traits such as Machiavellianism, subclinical psychopathy, and a borderline personality organization (Study 2; N = 1733; 1607 women and 126 men). These findings suggest that a relatively high level of acceptance of sugar relationships is part of a mating strategy focused on opportunities of maximizing resources. This utilitarian, risktaking and exploitative attitude is characteristic to a fast life history strategy, and it is a fundamental organizing principle of psychological and sexual functioning in intimate partner relationships.

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“…While some temporal variations do exist (consistent with the fact that the waist-to-hip preference is a near-universal), the general hourglass effect holds across these studies. The commercial premium that men place on the hourglass figure was captured by Griffith et al (2016) in their analysis of online ads of female escorts. Specifically, online female escorts who advertise the hourglass figure charge higher fees.…”

Section: The Hourglass Figure: Socially Constructed Beauty Marker or mentioning

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The Epistemology of Evolutionary Psychology Offers a Rapprochement to Cultural Psychology

Saad

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Many detractors of evolutionary psychology (EP) presume that adaptive arguments are nothing more than whimsical and unfalsifiable just-so stories. The reality though is that the epistemology of EP is precisely the opposite of this antiquated canard in that it fixes the evidentiary threshold much higher than is typically achieved by most scientists. EP amasses evidence across cultures, time periods, disciplines, paradigms, methodologies, and units of analyses in validating a given scientific explanation. These nomological networks of cumulative evidence stimulate greater interdisciplinarity, lesser methodological myopia, and increased consilience (unity of knowledge). A component in building such nomological networks is to examine phenomena that are cross-culturally invariant (human universals) versus those that vary cross-culturally as adaptive responses (the domain of behavioral ecologists and gene-culture coevolution modelers). The epistemological efficacy of this unique approach is highlighted using two cases studies, the sex-specificity of toy preferences and men's preference for the hourglass figure.

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Online Female Escort Advertisements

Cited by 24 publications

References 53 publications

Selling Sex: What Determines Rates and Popularity? An Analysis of 11.5 Thousand Online Profiles

Selling Sex: What Determines Rates and Popularity? An Analysis of 11.5 Thousand Online Profiles

Providing Sexual Companionship for Resources: Development, Validation, and Personality Correlates of the Acceptance of Sugar Relationships in Young Women and Men Scale (ASR-YWMS)

The Epistemology of Evolutionary Psychology Offers a Rapprochement to Cultural Psychology

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