This book offers insights into why engagement in commercial sex is prolific as sexual culture is transformed in late modernity. Drawing on original empirical data with men who buy sex, the book explores not only 'why men buy sex', but also the sociological and psychological processes that men encounter in order to enter an assumed 'deviant' sexual behaviour as part of their everyday lives.

Preface 1. The Genesis of the Study 2. Researching Men Who Buy Sex 3. Client Conduct: Motivations, Markets and Morality 4. Buying Sex Online: Virtual Regulation 5. Buying Intimacy: Pleasure, Commerce and the Self 6. Against Respectability: Stigma, Secrecy and the Self 7. Criminalizing the Customer: Moral Messages 8. Moral Panic: The 'Punter' as Danger 9. Shifting Sexual Cultures, Moving Masculinities. Appendix: List of Interviewees

Teela Sanders is a Reader in Sociology at the University of Leeds. Her research explores the inter-relationship between human sexuality and socio-legal structures. Her books include Prostitution: Sex work, policy and practice (Sage, 2009), and Sex Work: A risky business (Willan, 2005).