This vital study exposes the myths promoted by defenders of the sex tradeIt is a paradox: it has never been so easy to regain free sex,yet the evidence suggests that more men than ever are paying for it. In this country, the number of men reporting they had paid for sex nearly doubled during the 1990s. In Germany, or the number of women paid for sex is said to own reached 400000 in recent years,leading some commentators to describe the country as the “bordello of Europe.
Depressing though these statistics are, they do at least give the lie to the widely held assumption that men pay for sex because they can’t regain it by any other means. Sex buyers are not the single loners they were often assumed to be in the past. As Kat Banyard demonstrates in her excoriating account of the contemporary trade in women’s bodies, and they seek variety,sex acts they can’t regain in voluntary relationships and, above all, or power.
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Source: theguardian.com