Gerassi Lara B, Zimmerman Laura, Walsh Kate
University of Wisconsin-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, Madison, WI, USA.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Psychology/Gender & Women's Studies, Madison, WI, USA.
J Interpers Violence. 2025 Apr 12:8862605251331079. doi: 10.1177/08862605251331079.
Young adults provide sexual services, acts, or materials for pay or financial compensation (SSAMP), which include in-person (e.g., contact), virtual (e.g., videos), and material (e.g., underwear) forms. Whether and how university students provide SSAMP in the United States is not well understood primarily because of a lack of survey-based research using methodologically rigorous measures in university contexts. Therefore, we sought to understand the characteristics of and conditions under which undergraduate and graduate students provide SSAMP. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of students at a public, Midwestern university. Participants were 875 undergraduate and graduate students ( = 21.88 years [SD = 4.77]); 57.4% cisgender women; 64.1% white). We conducted a descriptive analysis using a multi-item SSAMP measure to assess acts, reasons, compensations, harm-reduction strategies, and perceived health, violence, interpersonal, and financial consequences of SSAMP. The 120 students (13.7% of the sample) who reported any SSAMP were more likely to be first-generation university students, trans or nonbinary, LGBQ+, disabled, and reported difficulty meeting basic needs. Among those who provided SSAMP, 42% reported being personally empowered but about a third reported doing so to please someone and/or because they were pressured in a way that they could not say no, most commonly by an intimate partner. Half reported receiving compensation for basic needs. Students reported using harm-reduction strategies to provide SSAMP and experiencing diverse consequences such as increased self-esteem or confidence (27.6%), discovering aspects of sexuality (26.5%), worse mental health (25.5%), difficulty dating (25.3%), feeling fetishized (23.5%), and unwanted sexual contact (22.3%). To our knowledge, this is the first study to provide a nuanced understanding of SSAMP among university students using multi-item survey measures. Future research should replicate in different university contexts and conduct longitudinal research to better inform harm-reducing practices and policies.
年轻人为获取报酬或经济补偿而提供性服务、性行为或性相关物品（SSAMP），其中包括当面形式（如接触）、虚拟形式（如视频）和实物形式（如内衣）。在美国，大学生是否以及如何提供SSAMP尚不清楚，主要原因是在大学环境中缺乏使用方法严谨的测量手段进行的基于调查的研究。因此，我们试图了解本科生和研究生提供SSAMP的特征及相关条件。我们对一所位于美国中西部的公立大学的学生进行了横断面调查。参与者为875名本科生和研究生（平均年龄=21.88岁[标准差=4.77]）；57.4%为顺性别女性；64.1%为白人）。我们使用多项目SSAMP测量方法进行描述性分析，以评估行为、原因、报酬、减少伤害策略，以及SSAMP的感知健康、暴力、人际和经济后果。报告有任何SSAMP行为的120名学生（占样本的13.7%）更有可能是第一代大学生、跨性别或非二元性别、LGBQ+群体、残疾学生，并且表示难以满足基本需求。在那些提供SSAMP的学生中，42%表示个人有自主权，但约三分之一的人表示这样做是为了取悦某人，和/或因为他们受到某种压力而无法拒绝，最常见的是来自亲密伴侣的压力。一半的人报告称因基本需求而获得报酬。学生们报告在提供SSAMP时使用了减少伤害的策略，并经历了各种后果，如自尊心或自信心增强（27.6%）、发现性取向方面的问题（26.5%）、心理健康变差（25.5%）、约会困难（25.3%）、感觉被 fetish化（23.5%）以及遭遇不必要的性接触（22.3%）。据我们所知，这是第一项使用多项目调查手段对大学生中的SSAMP进行细致入微了解的研究。未来的研究应在不同的大学环境中进行重复研究，并开展纵向研究，以便更好地为减少伤害的实践和政策提供信息。
