Kelberga Kelberg Anna, Martinsone Baiba
Department of Psychology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
Front Psychol. 2023 Jul 4;14:1173902. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1173902. eCollection 2023.
In this study, the motivations of 80 sex workers who provide camming services (76 females and 4 non-binary/trans/gender fluid individuals; aged from 20 to 49 years, M = 30.68, SD = 6.43; 56.2% married or in a committed relationship, 18.8% in a non-committed relationship and 25% - single) were compared in terms of engaging in sexual activity with their real-life partners versus their virtual partners (predominantly kink-oriented clients). Presented with 16 reasons to engage in sexual activity, the respondents rated the frequency to engage in sex for each of these reasons with their real-life and virtual partners. Results showed that there were five reasons in which there were differences in motivation to engage in sex with real-life versus virtual partners and 11 reasons showed no differences. Specifically, respondents reported engaging in sex more often with their to get resources and to experience a specific type of sex (kink), while they reported engaging in sex more often with their partners to experience physical pleasure, motivated by physical desirability of a partner and to express love and commitment. However, for all other reasons that motivate people to engage in sex, including stress reduction, experience seeking, self-esteem boost, social status, revenge, utilitarian reasons, emotional expression, duty or pressure, thrill of the forbidden, mate guarding, and desire to have sex with a person of other gender, respondents engaged in sex equally frequently with their real-life and virtual partners (clients) and there were no statistical differences. This study adds to the existing research on sex work by providing insights into the motivations of sex workers to engage in sex with different partners and demonstrates that apart from common sense differences the reasons to engage in sex with clients and real-life partners are vastly similar.
在本研究中，对80名提供视频聊天服务的性工作者（76名女性和4名非二元/跨性别/性别流动者；年龄在20至49岁之间，M = 30.68，SD = 6.43；56.2%已婚或处于稳定关系中，18.8%处于非稳定关系中，25%单身）与现实生活中的伴侣和虚拟伴侣（主要是有特殊癖好的客户）进行性行为的动机进行了比较。在列出的16条进行性行为的理由中，受访者对基于这些理由与现实生活中的伴侣和虚拟伴侣发生性行为的频率进行了评分。结果显示，有五个理由在与现实生活中的伴侣和虚拟伴侣发生性行为的动机上存在差异，11个理由没有差异。具体而言，受访者报告称，为了获取资源和体验特定类型的性行为（特殊癖好），他们更常与虚拟伴侣发生性行为，而他们报告称，为了体验身体愉悦、受伴侣身体吸引力驱使以及表达爱意和承诺，他们更常与现实生活中的伴侣发生性行为。然而，对于所有其他促使人们进行性行为的理由，包括减压、寻求体验、增强自尊、社会地位、报复、功利性理由、情感表达、责任或压力、禁忌的刺激、伴侣守护以及与其他性别的人发生性行为的欲望，受访者与现实生活中的伴侣和虚拟伴侣（客户）发生性行为的频率相同，且无统计学差异。本研究通过深入了解性工作者与不同伴侣发生性行为的动机，为现有的性工作研究增添了内容，并表明除了常识性差异外，与客户和现实生活中的伴侣发生性行为的理由极为相似。
