This report draws on the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study to look at pornography use among over 4,500 young adults at 20 years of age. Pornography use was captured as part of a module of questions on different types of internet use. The rich information provided by the GUI study allows us to...

This report draws on the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study to look at pornography use among over 4,500 young adults at 20 years of age. Pornography use was captured as part of a module of questions on different types of internet use. The rich information provided by the GUI study allows us to...

We investigate the causal effect of the asymmetric criminalization of prostitution on sex tourism. We exploit legal reforms in five countries that switched from systems where prostitution was legal (Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Canada), or where only buying sex was legal (France), to the "Nordic...

Indian women street sex workers' legal rights and access to justice are examined in this study. It examines how sex work restrictions affect independent sex workers' right to justice. The study suggests using informal justice institutions, including mediation, to resolve these vulnerable women's...

We identify the substitution effect of the prostitution market on the marriage market. Our tests exploit the staggered country-level adoption of the Nordic model of prostitution regulation, which is the recent global trend of restraining commercial sex. We find that the Nordic model leads to a...

This research paper investigates the sex industry in Zamboanga City, Philippines, with a particular focus on the experiences and socio-economic conditions of sex workers. The findings reveal significant insights into the dynamics of the sex industry in Zamboanga City. The findings show that a...

We investigate the causal effect of the asymmetric criminalization of prostitution on sex tourism. We exploit legal reforms in five countries that switched from systems where prostitution was legal (Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Canada), or where only buying sex was legal (France), to the "Nordic...

This study investigates how the landscape of sex work in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, evolved in the context of the COVID-19 epidemic. Using a mixed-methods approach, the analysis triangulates data from quantitative and qualitative sources to quantify shifts in income, demand, and client frequency...

We discuss changes in the demand for paid sex accompanying the criminalization of prostitution in the United Kingdom, which moved from a relatively permissive regime under the Wolfenden Report of 1960, to a much harder line of aiming to crack down on prostitution with the Prostitution (Public...

In the Economic Theory, the study of the marriage market is relevant to understand how families are constituted and how changes in this market affect their decisions regarding consumption, savings, labor supply, and the human capital accumulation of its members. However, the marriage market is...

The robustness principle for vice regulation suggests that public policy towards addictive or vicious activities engaged in by adults should be robust with respect to departures from full rationality. That is, policies should work pretty well if everyone is well-informed and completely rational,...

Female sex workers (FSWs) are women who engage in sexual behavior with others for monetary compensation. The FSW community has comparable demographic characteristics to the overall population, with a focus on youth, low education, and high mobility. Some women engage in sex trafficking on...

We examine the impact of criminalizing sex work, exploiting an event in which local officials unexpectedly criminalized sex work in one district in East Java, Indonesia, but not in neighboring districts. We collect data from female sex workers and their clients before and after the change. We...

We use novel data on a cohort of female sex workers in Senegal to examine whether a large anticipated shock influences risky sexual behaviour. We study the effect of Tabaski, the most important Islamic festival celebrated in Senegal, in which most households purchase an animal for sacrifice. We...

Although urban growth historically depended on large inflows of migrants, little is known of the process of migration in the era before railways. Here we use detailed data for Paris on women arrested for prostitution in the 1760s, or registered as prostitutes in the 1830s and 1850s; and of men...

This paper studies the incidence, determinants and pricing of unprotected oral sex in the London sex services market. The analysis is based upon matched sex worker-client panel data, which were collected from "field reports" on PunterNet.com website over the 1999-2009 time period. We find a...

Foreword / Marla Renee Stewart -- Introduction / James C. Wadley -- Gig work for the sexuality professional / James C. Wadley -- Sexuality education consulting : the things they didn't teach in school / Tanya M. Bass and Melanie J. Davis -- Developing and implementing an intentional framework...

Public health interventions often involve a trade-off between improving health and protecting individual rights. We study this trade-off in a high-stakes setting: prostitution regulations aimed at reducing the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in Victorian Britain. These...

Purpose: Assess the impact of online platforms on the sex industry, focusing specifically on direct sex work, and evaluate what approaches to platform regulation is likely to align with the interests of sex workers.Design/methodology/approach: A review of interdisciplinary conceptual and...