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The Practices of Male “Clients” of Prostitution: Influences and Orientations for Social Work

Document number
1500
Date
2003
Title
The Practices of Male “Clients” of Prostitution: Influences and Orientations for Social Work
Author/publisher
Sven-Axel Månsson, Gothenburg University
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Demand, Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Prostitution; Sex work; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism,
Summary
This article analyses some research results found in Sweden and in other Scandinavian countries about the clients of prostitutes. The author also aims to compare these results with studies done in other countries. The demand for prostitutes should be approached in a global manner. Therefore, it is impossible to limit ourselves only to the research done in Sweden. Indeed, the observations made in other Scandinavian research allow us to understand the role of men in prostitution in a more general way. Four main questions are asked here: (1) Who are the men looking for prostitutes? (2) What are their motivations? (3) How to interpret these motivations in the context of the change in sexual social rapport? And (4) how these masculine practices in prostitution can affect social work?
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