Who Pays for Sex and Why? An Analysis of Social and Motivational Factors Associated with Male Clients of Sex Workers

2004/05/26 by Marian Pitts, Marian K. Pitts, Anthony M. A. Smith +4 · 113 citations
Medicine · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Casual #Condom #Demography #Family medicine #Gender, Feminism, and Media #Medicine #Psychology #Sex partners #Sex work and related issues #Sexual arousal #Sexual behavior #Sexual history #Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology #Social psychology #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1023/b:aseb.0000028888.48796.4f

published in Archives of Sexual Behavior 33(4), 353-358 (Springer Science+Business Media)

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