Attitudes Toward Cisgender Women's Participation in Sex Work: Opportunity for Agency or Harmful Exchange?

H Puffer, G Hodson, E Prusaczyk - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2024 - Springer
Despite the stigmatization of sex work in society, little empirical research has examined
attitudes toward sex work, especially its modern incarnations (eg, sugar relationships …

Prostitution policies and attitudes toward prostitutes

H Bonache, N Delgado, A Pina… - Archives of sexual …, 2021 - Springer
The present study examined whether regulatory attitudes toward prostitution are related to
agency attributed to prostitutes and moral outrage. A Spanish sample (N= 391, aged 18–53 …

Youth doing politics in times of increasing inequalities

M Grasso, M Giugni - Politics, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Particularly in the current context of rapid political change, it is crucial to understand the
political participation of young people and what underpins their political engagement …

Support for prostitution legalization in Romania: Individual, household, and socio-cultural determinants

I Vlase, M Grasso - The Journal of Sex Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Romania is a major source country of labor migration to other EU countries, being commonly
perceived as a source country for sex workers operating in more prosperous economies …

Selling Sex in the States: Religious Fundamentalism, Christian Nationalism, and Public Acceptance of Moral Problems

P Begum, CH Seto - Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2025 - journals.sagepub.com
The extent to which commercial sex, particularly sex work, should be regulated is an
important and controversial policy conversation in the United States. Despite the salience of …

Neoliberalism's market morality and heteroflexibility: Protectionist and free market discourses in debates for legal prostitution

BG Brents - Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 2016 - Springer
In August of 1999, not too long before narratives of sex trafficking began to dominate
prostitution policy debates, the residents of a small town in Nevada debated closing the city's …

Why men (don't) buy sex: Purity moralization and perceived harm as constraints on prostitution offending

JR Silver, JT Pickett, JC Barnes, SR Bontrager… - Sexual …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This study explores the moralization of purity and perceptions of harm as constraints on sex
buying among men. Purchasing sex has long been considered an offense against public …

The Role of Moral Foundations in Support for Sex Work Decriminalization by Venue

K Cole - The Journal of Sex Research, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The criminal status of prostitution has received greater attention from policymakers and
advocates in recent years, but systematic policy change has yet to take root in the United …

Beyond marginalisation: The changing dynamics of communication post‐COVID‐19 among the female sex workers of Kolkata

B Bhattacharyya - Journal of Community & Applied Social …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The lives of sex workers feature varying issues of marginalisation. Regardless of the
geographical location and surrounding culture, sex work and sex workers face a huge …

The guilt that guides me: religiosity, sex guilt, and the demonization of sex workers

J Hackathorn, J Hodges, S Jones… - The Journal of Social …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Religiosity and sex-related attitudes are often correlated, and on occasion negatively. That
is, as religiosity increases, sexual attitudes tend to become more conservative or generally …