1st Edition
Paying for Sex in a Digital Age US and UK Perspectives
Introduction: Understanding Sexual Consumption
Chapter 1. Knowledge About Consumers
Chapter 2. Law, Policy and Politics in the UK and US
Chapter 3. Advertising and Avenues of Access to Paying for Sex
Chapter 4. Who Are Clients and How Do They Buy? Purchasing Patterns, Customer Segmentation and the Economics of Sexual Consumption
Chapter 5. Beyond Middle-Aged, Straight, White Guys: Purchasing Patterns in Smaller Markets
Chapter 6. Sex Without Touch - Consumers of the Webcam Market
Chapter 7. Responsible Consumption? Client Attitudes, Self Regulation and Risks in an Underground Environment
Chapter 8. Conclusions: Market Diversity in a Digital Age
Appendix: Methodology
Biography
Teela Sanders is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester. She is a leading international scholar in research on the intersections between gender, regulation, governance and crime, specifically in the sex industry. Her latest book is Internet Sex Work: Beyond the Gaze (2018).
Barbara G. Brents is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada. She has published research in sexuality, gender and politics in market culture for more than 25 years. Brents is a co-author with Crystal Jackson and Kathryn Hausbeck Korgan of The State of Sex: Tourism, Sex and Sin in the New American Heartland (2010) a study of Nevada’s legal brothels.
Chris Wakefield is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada. Their focus is on intersections of criminal justice and mental health to constrain expressions of gender and sexual diversity, including non-normative sexual identities and transgender experience.
