“Buyer's Lack of Remorse: A Review of Sex Buyer Profiles and Activities Online”

2019 Coalition to End Sexual Exploitation Global Summit. Washington, DC. 2019.

The 2019 CESE Summit brought together 600 leaders in-person from 15 countries, with more than 37,000 joining online, for the annual meeting of the movement to end sexual exploitation.

This presentation analyzes the online activity of sex buyers to reveal trends in sex buyer communities, grooming, and extorting for the purpose of sexual exploitation. This includes a review of existing literature combined with an original content analysis of nearly 900 online posts on sex buyer review boards. This presentation will explore the manifestations of hegemonic male bonding, pornographic trophyism, sexual consumer-mentality, and the online migrating patterns of sex buyers after FOSTA-SESTA legislation.