What men say when apprehended for kerb crawling: A model of prostitutes clients' talkFootnote1

¹Requests for reprints to first author [email protected] at the School of Psychology, University of Leicester, LE1 7RH. This paper is based on work conducted for a doctoral thesis which was funded by the Economic Social and Research Council (award no. R0042974404). The second author was academic supervisor.

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