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Discourses of Emotionality in Commercial Sex: The Missing Client Voice

Elizabeth W. Plumridge

Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand

S. Jane Chetwynd

Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand

Anna Reed

New Zealand Prostitutes Collective

Sandra J. Gifford

Centre for the Study of Sexually Transmissible Diseases, La Trobe University

This paper analyses the discourse of a group of men who buy sex from women, examining the way they explain and justify their pleasure in such sex. They do so through two sets of interpretations: on the one hand they assert that the commercial exchange is a mutual emotional and sexual relationship between clients and the women who provide sex, and on the other hand they assert that the payment of money discharges all larger obligations associated with relationships. The result is a profoundly self-serving interpretative schema in which women who provide sex are ascribed an identity and agency to position clients in an almost wholly benign light.

Feminism & Psychology, Vol. 7, No. 2, 165-181 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0959353597072002
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