PSY BEH 118D Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Casual Sex, Economic Mobility, Robert Sternberg
23 May 2018
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Chapter 16: Sex for Sale
• prostitution
o prostitutes or commercial workers: engage in sexual acts in return for money or
drugs and do it in a promiscuous, fairly non-discriminating fashion
▪ call girl: most expensive and exclusive category of prostitutes
• often middle-class, may be a college graduate
• can earn a great deal
• heavy business expenses
• regular clients, new clients only on referral
▪ escort service
• referred to as an out-call service, since the escorts go to the clients
• required to telephone the service when they arrive and when they
leave
o contributes to their safety
o allows for monitoring of the amount owed
▪ visible sex worker
• streetwalker: lower-status prostitute or sex worker who walked the
streets selling sexual services
o generally less attractive
o imposes strict time constraints
o likely to be arrested
o role of third parties
▪ pimp: prostitute’s companion, protector, and master
▪ madam: a woman who manages a brothel, in-call, out-call, or escort
• sex trafficking
o recruitment, control of persons, by threat or use of force or deception, for the
purposes of sexual exploitation
▪ recruited in 3rd world countries
▪ promised a good job
▪ when women arrive, they find themselves captive
▪ controllers threaten physical harm if they disobey
▪ ~45,000-50,000 girls and women trafficked in the US
• career of a sex worker
o reasons for entry
▪ West: money, material goods, exciting lifestyle, upward economic
mobility
▪ force of coercion physically or psychologically by a husband
▪ involvement through a family member or friend who is already a sex
worker
• prostitution
o use of prostitutes has decreased dramatically over the past 50 years
o reflects the increased frequency of non-marital and casual sex
• why do men use these services?
o to satisfy sexual and erotic needs
o married men want more sex than their wives provide
o no commitment required
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