School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 45221, USA.
Department of Criminology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2024 Oct;53(9):3609-3624. doi: 10.1007/s10508-024-02951-0. Epub 2024 Aug 13.
Access to social services like healthcare, education, housing, and welfare are integral to creating an equitable society. While many populations inherently benefit from these services, sex workers are often denied these rights and services because of the nature of their work. The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of deservingness of sex workers for a wide range of rights and services. This study distinguished those attitudes across legal and illegal forms of sex work, identified attitudinal and demographic correlates associated with those perceptions, and examined potential interactions between respondents' gender and age. Participants included a nationwide sample of adults from the USA (n = 549). Results indicated that participants perceived legal sex work as more deserving of rights and services compared to illegal sex work. Perceptions of deservingness were associated with attitudes toward abortion, LGBTQ+ rights, and perceptions of government legitimacy. Overall, older individuals were less willing to extend rights and services to sex workers and women were more likely to perceive sex workers as deserving of rights and services. There was an interaction between gender and age. For illegal sex work, gender differences in perceptions converged as participants aged, whereas for legal sex work, gender differences were exacerbated with age, with men reporting particularly restrictive perceptions of deservingness.
获得医疗保健、教育、住房和福利等社会服务对于建立公平社会至关重要。尽管许多人群天生就可以享受这些服务，但性工作者由于工作性质往往被剥夺了这些权利和服务。本研究旨在探讨对性工作者享有广泛权利和服务的应得感的看法。本研究区分了合法和非法形式的性工作之间的态度，确定了与这些看法相关的态度和人口统计学因素，并研究了受访者的性别和年龄之间的潜在相互作用。参与者包括来自美国的全国性成年人样本（n=549）。结果表明，与非法性工作相比，参与者认为合法的性工作更应享有权利和服务。应得感与对堕胎、LGBTQ+权利和对政府合法性的看法有关。总体而言，年龄较大的人不太愿意将权利和服务扩展到性工作者，而女性更倾向于认为性工作者应该享有权利和服务。性别和年龄之间存在相互作用。对于非法性工作，随着参与者年龄的增长，对看法的性别差异趋同，而对于合法的性工作，性别差异随着年龄的增长而加剧，男性对应得感的看法尤其具有限制性。
