One of the interviewees told the researchers his story of buying an African woman woman for sex. She was frightened and nervous, and she told the man she had been tricked. He had sex with her anyway, and when she accepted the money, he decided she must have been lying about being tricked.

Additionally disturbing was the belief of many men that once a transaction of prostitution began, the woman no longer had a right to refuse sex. Over half of them also believed that prostitution was a form of "rape prevention," and that if prostitution were no longer available they would end up raping women to compensate. But perhaps the most surprising finding of this study is that 71% of the men questioned felt ambivalent at best about buying sex, and many felt downright bad about it.

So if men think that the majority of women in prostitution aren't there of their own fruition, and they don't really feel good about buying sex, why do they? The most popular response on this survey was to satisfy a sexual urge. A lot of the men also thought that buying commercial sex was much more popular among their peers than it is. Many of them identified themselves as struggling with sexual addiction.
But whatever their reasons, this study has shown that men who buy sex know about human trafficking, pimp control, and children being pushed into prostitution. So how do we make them care?

( from Amanda Kloer blogging Jan 19, 2010 at change.org)

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