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INVITED COMMENTARY

Prostitution Push and Pull: Male and Female Perspectives

Pages 11-16 | Published online: 03 Oct 2012
 

Abstract

Smith, Grov, Seal, and McCall's (2012) analysis, focusing on how young men become, and stay, involved in male escorting, is a welcome contribution to the still relatively thin male sex worker literature. For this study group, notably supportive working surroundings, effective coping strategies, and a growing sense of “self-efficacy” eventually turn sex work into an increasingly comfortable experience and viable moneymaking option. In this commentary, I add some reflections from a broader perspective to these insights. I also consider some evidence on the numbers of men and women in sex work and make some observations on male versus female positions related to push and pull factors, stigma, and the experience of sex work.

Notes

1I use the words prostitution and sex work interchangeably, although I endorse that sex work is the more correct and adequate descriptor (with prostitution useable mostly in a historical sense).

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