Each year, more than 800,000 women and children are lured, tricked, or forced into prostitution to meet an apparently insatiable demand, joining an estimated 10 million women already ensnared in the $20 billion worldwide sex trade. To date, most research on the subject has focused on the various issues that propel these women into the trade, but little has been investigated, or written, about … those who trigger the demandthe Johns.” In this hard- hitting expose´, Victor Malarek ranges worldwide, unmasking the kind of menand organizationsthat foster and drive the sex trade, from America to Europe, Brazil to Thailand, Phnom Penh to St. Petersburg and Costa Rica.
From socioeconomic background to emotional stability, Malarek investigates the root of the cause and attacks the idea that prostitution is a victimless crime. He explores the efficacy of Sweden’s outlawing the buyingrather than the sellingof sex, and its dramatic impact on the country’s prostitution rates. The Johns is a chilling look into a dark corner of the world that these men have created at the expense of countless women and children.
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pretty boring
Revealed the male side of prostitution and the trafficking of females and young children of both sexes. Very thought-provoking. Without demand, there would be sex trade. Men seem to feel entitled to cavort with a hired woman.
Very interesting and sand scary. Convinced me that Johns need to be held accountable and prosecuted!
It’s a waste of time… it’s the same sad story over and over, page after page; nothing but a change of Johns.I should ask for a refund
Very interesting
Author convincingly leads the reader to rethink standard societal opinions.
A little one sided but very informative, eye opening and very Wii written.
There was much good information in this book. Unfortunately, the author appears to begin with an unstated assumption that sex is bad on principle, and therefore seems to put child rape and human trafficking on the same level as legalized prostitution, pornography, and even masturbation. Throughout the book, he uses emotionally loaded terms in an apparent attempt to sway the reader’s judgment to a certain viewpoint. And while he cites some statistics to back up some of the claims, many of his statements are justified by “numerous studies have shown” or like statements that attempt to give authority without actually demonstrating. This habit throughout the book leads me to believe he has cherry-picked data that supports his claims while leaving out anything counter to it.
It appears more a call to arms than an informative piece, which is what I was looking for.
All that being said, I found the book entertaining and informative, and it encouraged me to read elsewhere for more on the topic.
It would be really great if some of the mainstream feminists who go around pejoratively calling feminists who are critical of the sex industry “swerfs” would read this book. It does a good job of illustrating that the problems with the sex industry go beyond mere stigma. That said, as someone who’s been involved in radical feminist circles for a few years, there was very little information I didn’t already know.
My main concern is that it doesn’t get into hard evidence on anything until the last few chapters. If someone’s really set on being pro-sex industry they’ll read the first few chapters, say to themself “he only looked at a bad subset of johns” and put it down unfinished with their original opinion intact. There are statistics about the prostitutes themselves and the efficacy of different legal approaches to prostitution that make it clear that a significant percentage of johns must be pretty messed up, particularly in the last few chapters, but there’s not much about the johns in the first few chapters that can’t be dismissed with an “oh, it’s just some bad individuals that don’t represent all.” There have been some studies on the Johns themselves since this book was published that indicate that the men Malarek observed were pretty typical, but obviously those aren’t included in this book since the data hadn’t been collected yet.
Meh. It was slow and difficult to get into form a leisure reading perspective.
Difficult read!
author’s biased view comes through too strongly.
A view of the world everyone needs to understand. Human trafficking and the abuse of power over the weak is closer around you than you think.
This book was horrible. It seemed the author was for prostitution rather than against it. I put it down after just a few chapters.