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Asking About “Prostitution”, “Sex Work” and “Transactional Sex”: Question Wording and Attitudes Toward Trading Sexual Services

Johansson Isabelle; Hansen Michael A.

dc.contributor.authorJohansson Isabelle
dc.contributor.authorHansen Michael A.
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-28T13:22:40Z
dc.date.available2022-10-28T13:22:40Z
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.utupub.fi/handle/10024/164743
dc.description.abstract<p>This study explored the impact of question wording on attitudes toward trading sexual services. There are no previous research agendas investigating how views on the trade in sex are susceptible to question word choice. We utilized an original survey to assess how three different concepts used to represent the exchange of sexual services impact on the reported level of acceptability among respondents. The concepts we selected were “prostitution,” “sex work”, and “transactional sex.” We also explored the contrasting effects of predictor variables based on question wording, such as general sexual attitudes and positive and negative associations with trading sex. We found that attitudes toward the trading of sex is partially a function of question wording. Respondents were more likely to translate negative associations with the exchange of sexual services into unacceptability when assigned a question using the term prostitution. The results indicated that prostitution is a stigmatized word, resonating more negatively with respondents as compared to sex work or transactional sex. When asked about transactional sex, respondents were less likely to translate an attitude into an assessment on acceptability, indicating that the term is vague. Sex work elicited more neutral responses on acceptability. The results suggest that sex work would be the most useful term to use in dialogue and debate regarding the trade in sexual services. Sex work does not appear to be imbued with the same sense of negativity as prostitution and the meaning of sex work seems clearer than transactional sex.<br></p>
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.titleAsking About “Prostitution”, “Sex Work” and “Transactional Sex”: Question Wording and Attitudes Toward Trading Sexual Services
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224499.2022.2130859
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi-fe2022102463053
dc.contributor.organizationfi=valtio-oppi|en=Political Science|
dc.contributor.organization-code2603202
dc.converis.publication-id176666270
dc.converis.urlhttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/Publication/176666270
dc.identifier.eissn1559-8519
dc.identifier.jour-issn0022-4499
dc.okm.affiliatedauthorHansen, Michael
dc.okm.discipline517 Valtio-oppi, hallintotiedefi_FI
dc.okm.discipline517 Political scienceen_GB
dc.okm.internationalcopublicationinternational co-publication
dc.okm.internationalityInternational publication
dc.okm.typeJournal article
dc.publisher.countryBritanniafi_FI
dc.publisher.countryUnited Kingdomen_GB
dc.publisher.country-codeGB
dc.relation.doi10.1080/00224499.2022.2130859
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Sex Research
dc.year.issued2022


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