The purpose of this paper is to gain a closer understanding of how security and vulnerability are experienced online when sexual services are conveyed and if the sex worker finds it unpleasant to be monitored online. The issues relating to safety, vulnerability and monitoring have been analyzed using theories like Foucault's "Panopticism" (1991), which is a social theory of monitoring and Amanda Lagerqvist's theory of "digital throwness" (2017) in which she touches the vulnerability the network puts us in. Previous research such as Oulasvirta's (2012) study of the ten Finnish families whose online use was monitored and the effects of this have become a contributing factor to my investigation to get more insight into how a sex worker feels online. The method chosen for the study is a qualitative analysis study. The emperic material is collected by means of an interview guide consisting of semistructured questions and these have been distributed using asynchronous email interviews. The results found indicate that the sex workers that have participated in this study generally feel safe online, and in some cases it is because they are at their computer or mobile phone and not in a vulnerable location or in close proximity with their purchaser. It is also possible to draw certain conclusions that the concern of monitoring makes the respondents conceal their identity online. These factors reinforce the feeling of not feeling so exposed and monitored.

Inledning: I och med den unika svenska sexköpslagen som infördes 1999 som innebär kriminalisering av köp av sexuella tjänster, har fokus hamnat på den köpande parten i prostitutionen. Vid sidan av kriminaliseringen framhålls vikten av att öka insatserna som riktas mot sexköparna. En av de befintliga insatserna för att bekämpa prostitution är psykoterapi/samtalsbehandling. Syftet med studien är att öka kunskapen om psykoterapi med målgruppen män som köper sexuella tjänster utifrån hur de behandlande psykoterapeuterna upplever behandlingsprocessen. Frågeställning: Hur upplever psykoterapeuter psykodynamiska terapier med män som köper sexuella tjänster? Metod: En kvalitativ metod med deskriptiv och explorativ ansats har använts. Sju psykoterapeuter som arbetar eller har arbetat med män som köper sexuella tjänster har intervjuats. Det transkriberade intervjumaterialet har analyserats med tematisk analys. Resultat: Studiens resultat presenteras med fyra teman där balansakt är ett övergripande tema. Förståelse med undertema förklaringsmodeller och förhållningssätt, förakt med undertema äckel, förförelse samt brottet. Diskussion: Resultatet diskuteras utifrån perversionsbegreppet. Motöverföringskänslor av förakt och äckel stämmer överens med tidigare forskning och teori. Temat förförelse diskuteras utifrån att det skulle kunna vara skamligt att som psykoterapeut känna sig förförd eller attraherad och förledd i relation till patienter. Balansgången mellan att acceptera och patologisera lagbrottet och det avvikande beteendet diskuteras. / Introduction: Sweden has since 1999 a prostitution legislation that prohibits sex purchase. Focus has shifted towards the buyer in prostitution. Apart from the criminalization of sexual purchase actions to reduce prostitution pointed at the buying part is highlighted. One of the available actions is psychotherapy. The objective of the study is to increase the knowledge about psychotherapy focused on males that purchase sexual services from the experience of psychotherapists treating them. Question: How do psychotherapists experience psychodynamic psychotherapy with men who buy sexual services? Method: A qualitative method with a descriptive and explorative onset has been used. Seven psychotherapists that work with or have worked with men that purchase sexual services have been interviewed. The transcribed material has been analyzed using thematic analysis. Result: The result of the study is presented with four themes with the balancing act as an overall theme; Understanding with sub-themes explanation models and approaches; Contempt with sub-theme disgust; Seduction and The crime. Discussion: The results are discussed from the perversion concept. Countertransference emotions of contempt and disgust agree with earlier studies and theories. The theme of seduction is discussed from the perspective that it is shameful for a psychotherapist to feel seduced or attracted and beguiled in relation to the patients. The line between accepting and pathologizing the illegality and the abnormal behavior is discussed.

Background. Despite the prevalence of sex work and strip clubs across Canadian urban geographies, few studies explore the occupational health and safety outcomes related to indoor male sex work, let alone male stripping whereby men dance for men. Moreover, the sexual service negotiation process in the sex work industry remains to be explored. In knowing that sexual practices with high HIV/STI rates occur in strip clubs (e.g., condomless oral, vaginal, and anal sex), as well as widespread psychoactive substance use among strippers, the purpose of this study was to explore the cultural features of male strippers’ work that impact their health and safety outcomes. Methodology. For this study, we recruited 14 male strippers working with male clients in a Canadian city. Critical ethnography was our espoused methodology. Through field observations, informal conversations, questionnaires, and semi-structured qualitative interviews, we explored the process of sexual transactions between strippers and clients. We used a postmodern angle to interpret our findings through the works of Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault. Findings. The male strip club is a social matrix produced by the intersection of motivational forces: the motivation to gain money, pleasure, or intimacy, and the motivation to abide by socio-cultural and legal norms. It is upon a matrix of financial necessity and socio-cultural and legal constraints that sex work transactions unfold in the club. Moreover, the club’s health and safety conditions and strippers’ transaction outcomes result from intersecting motivations. Finally, sexual service negotiation is a process of configuring motivational forces between social agents. The motivation for financial gain revealed itself to be the strongest and most consistent force; the focus on capital gain generated asymmetrical connections between strippers, clients, and business entrepreneurs, resulting in specific health and safety outcomes. Conclusion. The Canadian legal and political context surrounding male sex work negatively impacts male strippers’ occupational health and safety conditions by disabling safe connections with clients. Further, the emphasis on money-making activities encourages strippers to value financial gain over their physical and mental integrity. In short, the male strip club work environment is configured in a manner whereby capital gain is prioritized and strippers’ health and safety is undermined.