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Fragwürdige Schottische und int. Studie von der US-Prostitutionsgegnerin Melissa Farley:
"Challenging Man's Demand for Prostitution in Scotland"
Study reveals ‘naming and shaming’ would deter men using prostitutes
By John Bynorth
A SCOTTISH study of men who buy sex from prostitutes has found most would be deterred if their names were put on the sex offenders register as punishment.
Preliminary findings from interviews with more than 100 men aged 18-77, who had kerb-crawled, used saunas and illegal brothels for sexual services, found 88% would stop using prostitutes if "named and shamed" on the register, used to identify anyone cautioned, convicted or released from prison for sex offences.
The Glasgow-based Scottish Women's Group, which campaigns to protect women and children, paid the "punters" £20 each to be interviewed after they responded to adverts in newspapers.
They were questioned about circumstances in which they bought sex, their personal relationships, views about women in the sex trade and what they thought were the most effective punishments. It formed part of an international study, including research into male users in India, Spain and the US.
Researchers found 85% of men would be deterred if their photographs and/or names were displayed on billboards following conviction for kerb-crawling, which became an offence under laws brought into force last week. Some 83% said they would not seek paid sex if their details were published in local newspapers, and 77% said they same if they were "named and shamed" on the internet.
Researchers found 68% and 69% of men respectively would be deterred by heavier fines, such as those introduced with the new laws, or if their vehicles were impounded.
However,
55% said being forced to attend an educational scheme to learn about the damage prostitution does to women would not stop them.
Jan Macleod, development officer with the Women's Support Project, warned prostitutes face being criminalised if the register was used for kerb-crawlers and other sex users.
She said: "Naming and shaming men would clearly have a huge impact, but I would not like to see women put on the register."
One "punter" said: "Police came and said move out or we'll get your number plate and write to your wife. Last time I went, in fact - it was a strong deterrent for me."
The study revealed
85% of the men believed women were forced into sex, and were aware of the harm it caused to women, families and communities. Despite that, a similar percentage wanted prostitution to be legalised in Britain.
One man who took part in the study said: "They've got to go out and out earn money, the majority of time that's the only way they can make money. They maybe need money for a drug problem or maybe get enough for another job."
Another male "punter" said prostitutes "are just there to satisfy your sexual urges".
Lynn Anderson, of the Scottish Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation, who interviewed many of the men, said: "They don't see the harm of women having unwanted sex day in, day out, and that such legalisation is not just about reducing the risk of sexually transmitted diseases."
Almost half the men, who were an average age of 37, had marriages or partners and many claimed prostitutes shored up their relationships by satisfying their need for sex.
A breakdown of the preliminary results found
76% bought sex indoors and 56% outside;
53% were Christian, 1% Muslim and 5% had other religious affiliations, although 40% had no beliefs.
The survey was carried out for
Dr Melissa Farley of the Prostitution, Research & Education (PRE) group in San Francisco.
Pauline McNeill, Labour's shadow justice secretary, described the research as interesting. She said: "The focus must be on encouraging the courts to use the full powers made available to them. I also expect there to be more convictions as a direct result."
Elaine Smith, Labour MSP and gender reporter to the Scottish Parliament's equal opportunities committee, said it showed the need to "educate and find out from men what lies beneath these attitudes". She added: "Work like this helps challenge demand when they start thinking it's more than simply a business deal or money changing hands."
The government is currently consulting focus groups of men who use prostitutes for a campaign. A spokesman said no date had been set for its launch.
The preliminary results of the study will be released at Challenging Demand 2, a conference organised by the Scottish Women's Group on Wednesday in the Teacher Building, St Enoch Square, Glasgow. For details contact 0141 552 2221.
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Challenging Men’s Demand for Prostitution in Scotland
17 April 2008 in Prostitution, Research, Scotland
Launch of research into attitudes of men who have bought sex
Monday 28th April 2008 from 9.30am - 12.30pm
The Teacher Building, 14 St Enoch Square, Glasgow
The Women’s Support Project, in conjunction with Prostitution Research & Education, completed research interviews in Scotland with 110 men who have bought sex in prostitution.
Findings include demographics, buyers’ attitudes toward and justifications for prostitution, acceptance of rape myths, sexual behaviours, commission of sexually coercive behaviour toward prostitute and non-prostitute partners, likelihood-to-rape, history of using women in prostitution, evaluations and perceptions of women in prostitution, first use of women in prostitution, views on what would have to change to end prostitution, and what would deter them from buying sex. The findings will be used to inform education and prevention work.
Please note that places are limited, and that you should register as soon as possible, either by telephoning 0141 552 2221 or by email You will then receive confirmation that you have a place.
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Sex industry in Scotland: Inside the deluded minds of the punters
Apr 28 2008 By Annie Brown
ALMOST half the punters who use prostitutes in Scotland are so deluded that they believe the women actually enjoy having sex with them.
A shocking 10 per cent of them admitted they would rape a woman if they thought they wouldn't get caught.
And just under half the men who buy sex aren't sad loners - but have a wife or girlfriend back home.
Today, the Daily Record looks into the minds of the Scotsmen who use prostitutes.
In a groundbreaking research project, 110 punters gave a revealing insight into what drives a man to pay for sex.
Many of the men considered
prostitution to be a career choice, with one even claiming: "They're just doing a job. It's not a hard job - they enjoy it, they make money."
The Scottish report is the first in a string of surveys to be completed from countries around the world, including England, the US, India and Cambodia.
The report, Challenging Man's Demand for Prostitution in Scotland, is a collaboration between the Women's Support Project in Glasgow and the US organisation Prostitute Research and Education.
It will contribute to the ongoing debate in Scotland on how best to tackle the
£200million vice trade. The researchers spoke to men who bought sex in Edinburgh and Glasgow - but the punters came from across Scotland.
They also asked the punters what would stop them from using prostitutes.
A huge percentage said
one step to deter them would be placing punters on the sex offenders' register.
The report also claimed that
the more men use prostitutes, the more likely they were to rape other women.
Melissa Farley, of PRE, said: "The men were candid and open. We assured them their identity would never be revealed.
"Some of the quotes are mind-boggling. They are chilling. These are not just naughty boys who need their wrists slapped. They could be more accurately described as predators [Raubtier, Feind].
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The more often they are using those women, the more often they are telling us they are sexually abusive with their non-prostitute partners.
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Prostitution not only harms the women who are in it but also the partners of the punters and the women around them."
The report dispels a number of myths, including the
misconception that men buy sex because it is their only option.
In fact almost half - 48 per cent - of the punters had wives and girlfriends.
Since kerb crawling became an offence in Scotland last October, 80 men have been arrested and the majority were professionals with wives and partners.
In the research, two thirds of the punters had more than 16 sex partners over their lifetime. And
the more sex partners they had, the more likely they were to have paid for sex.
Some men first used a prostitute at the age of 14. More than a third first bought sex between 18 and 20.
One man claimed: "It is uncomplicated, it's a good way to have your first sex."
Another revealed: "There was pressure to go along with the guys. It was a common experience for young guys, for their 16th or 18th birthday."
Another punter remembered being taken to a brothel on his 18th and "shoved" through the door where he had sex with one of the women.
He said: "I always wished I hadn't and just pretended to my friends that I had done it."
Melissa said it was frightening that
men got their sex education in their formative years through prostitutes.
She said: "They are treating these women as if they are sub-human because they have paid her. Punters are learning how to treat women like a piece of meat.
"That attitude - that women are for sex and nothing else - gets transferred to the other women in society."
While
52 per cent of the punters earned £20,000 or less, almost a third earned more than £30,000 a year.
The
average age of the men was 37 but 13 per cent were over 50 and 15 per cent were aged 18-25. One in 10 said they were bisexual.
The research also found that
it was par for the course for men in the armed forces to buy sex.
Twenty per cent of those questioned had been in the armed forces and half of those had used prostitutes while serving.
One punter said: "The girl was a present from the sergeant, a thank you. In Belfast, it was organised through the sergeant. We'd ask him and he would set it up.
"It was nothing, a necessary part of working life. In Edinburgh, I've seen squaddies sneaking prostitutes out in the morning."
A sailor spoke of
docking in Hamburg and using the notorious red light district known as the Reeperbahn.
He said: "It was the norm. About 90 per cent of the guys would go."
But it's not just the armed forces who buy sex abroad - 56 per cent of those questioned use prostitutes in 40 countries over six continents.
The men bought sex when they were travelling on business, on holiday with mates and when they went to big sporting events such as football tournaments.
The most popular foreign destination for men who used prostitutes was
Amsterdam.
One punter revealed: "Eight of us specifically went to get the puff and prostitutes. It was a rite of passage. We went to prostitutes three times a day. We were like pigs in s***."
Another said he had taken Viagra before visiting a brothel, claiming: "I wanted to do my football team proud."
Some men even bought
internet package holidays where the women were included as part of the deal, neatly prepaid by credit card.
A frequent sex tourist exposed his disregard for the women and children forced into prostitution in Thailand and Cambodia.
He said: "I don't get pleasure from other people's suffering. I struggle with it but I can't deny my own pleasures.
"In Cambodia, I knocked back a lot of children. It makes it hard to sleep at night but I don't see the point in taking a moral stance."
In a startling example of delusion,
half of the men actually thought the women were sexually satisfied by the punters' performance most of the time.
By contrast,
many prostitutes describe being on the game as "paid rape".
Other men actually claimed that it would help their marriage.
One said: "Maybe the wife is at home with the kids, working all day and she doesn't feel up to being affectionate with her husband. Men can go to a prostitute then still go home to their wife and family."
Almost half thought that having sex with prostitutes would make them a better lover for their partners.
Most of the men -
79 per cent - said it was easier to ask a prostitute to do certain sex acts, such as sado-masochism, than asking their wives.
Only 16 per cent of the men interviewed said that they had any kind of emotional relationship with the women they bought sex from [Anm.: Die Kurtisanen und high-clas Escorts, die nicht nur ihre Zeit verkaufen sondern evt. auch Zuneigung verschenken, sind halt genauso selten, wie sie teuer sind].
One punter said: "I am paying for the sex but not having to pay for all the other stuff, presents, go out on dates, go on holidays. I am paying for anonymity."
All the men considered themselves above the typical "scum" that used prostitutes, with one claiming: "I am respectable but you get seedy b*****ds [bastards Arsch, Miststück] that aren't safe."
Incredibly, the punters said that they thought the women were enjoying the experience 45 per cent of the time.
In previous studies,
prostitutes said they only felt any kind of positive feeling for around nine per cent of the time they were engaged in their work - for 77 per cent of the time, they felt bad.
While
58 per cent of men said they felt good before and after buying sex, four out of 10 said they felt bad about it - often dirty and disappointed.
A third justified using prostitutes as simply a means of satisfying their needs.
As one explained: "It is the freedom to do anything they want in
a consequencefree environment."
One claimed: "We would have to become hermaphrodites, become one sex, that's the only way to stop prostitution."
Another punter said: "There will always be supply and demand. If everyone was rich, how would you get a cleaner for the hotel toilet?"
In their minds,
the punters sometimes painted the women as "free spirited" or "morally different".
But the punters often contradicted themselves without realising it.
While 28 per cent said prostitutes enjoyed the job, 85 per cent admitted that they didn't think the women did it because they like sex. [Was soll uns das sagen? Die Prostitutionskunden sind alle dumm? Oder die Studie hat nicht genau nachgefragt und konnte nicht wirklich die Feinheiten der geldgesteuerten Intimkommunikation evaluieren?]
48% of the men who bought sex had girlfriends or wives
80% said it was easier to ask a prostitute to do certain acts, rather than ask their wives
A third thought that using prostitutes was just a means of satisfying their needs
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Make Pervs Pay For Crime
Apr 28 2008
NEW research has revealed frightening insights into the minds of men who buy sex from prostitutes.
It also dispels the myth that men pay for sex because it is their only option.
Almost half of them involved in the research programme were married or had a girlfriend.
A major concern was that four out of 10 of those interviewed believed that, by using prostitutes, they were less likely to commit rape.
One in 10 admitted they would rape a woman if they knew they wouldn't be caught.
More disturbing still were the attitudes shown by those surveyed.
A third thought rape was just men getting carried away,
12 per cent thought it impossible to rape a prostitute and
10 per cent thought rape laws didn't apply to these women [Das ist die Wirkung des "Hurenstigmas"].
More than half of those who frequently used prostitutes also admitted being sexually aggressive with other partners.
Last year, the old Scottish Executive brought in anti-kerb crawling legislation in a bid to reduce prostitution.
For the first time, men faced criminal action as well as the women they exploit.
It was a bold move and one that was frankly long overdue.
Now women's support workers, who helped with the latest research, want the legislation to go further.
They want paying for prostitutes to be made a sex crime - and convicted offenders named and shamed by being placed on the sex offenders' register.
According to the latest research, that would stop nine out of 10 Scots from using prostitutes.
In fact, eight out of 10 admitted that a letter to their partner would be enough to stop them buying sex.
The only way to end this exploitation is to cut the demand - and if that means embarrassing some men, so be it.
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