Demographic, Biometric, And Geographic Comparison of Clients of Prostitutes and Men in the US General Population (Report‪)‬

Introduction One of the first steps toward understanding the forces that underlie prostitution is to determine factors that differentiate men who patronize prostitutes from those who do not. Systematic research on this topic has involved three basic approaches: comparing convenience samples of clients with the general population, comparing clients of prostitute women who attend educational programs to discourage patronizing subsequent to their arrest or conviction for prostitution ("john schools") with men in the general population, and comparing clients who admit patronizing in surveys to those who do not. Each approach involves significant methodological problems that threaten the validity of results obtained from it.