The purpose of this study was to compare demographic variables, drug or crime records, socio-psychological attributes, attitudes towards sex and its trade between those entrusted to John School and ordinary male adults, and thereupon, analyze our adul...
The purpose of this study was to compare demographic variables, drug or crime records, socio-psychological attributes, attitudes towards sex and its trade between those entrusted to John School and ordinary male adults, and thereupon, analyze our adults' sex-buying practices to provide for some basic data for the sex-trading prevention education.For this purpose, the researcher sampled 245 males (test group) entrusted to John School for their sex-trading together with 258 ordinary male adults (control group) in Kyonggi and Chungbuk provinces and thereby, surveyed both groups for the period from January 1 through April 7, 2006. The questionnaire consisted of a total of 113 items: 7 about demographic variables, 10 about self-control, 20 about legal awareness and leniency to violence, 20 about sex addiction, 6 about drug & crime records, 15 about cognition of gender roles, 2 about gender identity, 23 about attitude towards sex-trading and 4 about experiences of buying sex. The collected data were processed using the SPSS 12.0 statistical program for main factor analysis, frequency analysis, cross analysis and One-way ANOVA.The results of this study can be summarized as follows;First, as a result of analyzing test group's demographic variables, it was found that the test group was represented by those married male adults in their 30's with high school or higher academic background, 1.2 ~ 2.4 million won monthly income for their office work or sales/service job and no religion.Second, it was disclosed that 64.1% of the male adults had once or more bought sex and about 20% of them had bought sex more than 10 times. 75% of them had bought sex before in their 20's, being motivated most by 'curiosity', followed by 'because of drinking', 'being urged or pressured by colleagues' in their order.Third, the test group and those who had 'bought sex' (control group 1) started smoking earlier than those who had never 'bought sex' (control group 2), and their smoking and drinking habits were less desirable than two control group members in term of frequency and quantity.Fourth, it was found that the test group members were less self-controlled, aware of law and more violence-permissive than both control groups.Fifth, the test group members perceived more that they were less masculine than two control group members, while scoring lowest on 'their satisfaction with having been born as males' and 'dominant masculinity'. Control group 2 score highest on 'obedient femininity', which suggesting that they maintain the traditional belief that women should be obedient.Sixth, test group and control group 1 members showed more positive attitudes towards 'need for sex-trading', 'harms of sex-trading', 'voluntarily sex-selling women' and 'sex-buying males' than control group 2, and such attitudes were far more positive in those who had bought sex more than 10 times. Such findings suggest that the more a male adult buys sex, he may have more positive attitudes towards sex-trading, tending more to buy sex afterwards.