Toward a Typology of the Client: A Latent Class Analysis Approach to the Consumption of Sex Work in the United States.
Previous research on male clients of sex workers has emphasized the diversity of purchasing behaviors; however, we know little about how to organize or categorize this diversity quantitatively. I employed latent class analysis with survey data from cisgender male clients of primarily cisgender femal...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Sex Research Vol. 62; no. 6; pp. 993 - 1006 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2025
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