University Students Who Report Providing Sexual Services, Acts, or Materials for Financial Compensation: Survey Results at a Public, Midwestern University

IF 2.6 3区心理学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Interpersonal Violence Pub Date : 2025-04-12 DOI:10.1177/08862605251331079

Lara B. Gerassi, Laura Zimmerman, Kate Walsh

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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 ( M age = 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.

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报告提供性服务、行为或材料以获取经济补偿的大学生：一所中西部公立大学的调查结果

年轻人提供性服务、行为或材料以获得报酬或经济补偿（SSAMP），包括面对面（如接触）、虚拟（如视频）和材料（如内衣）形式。在美国，大学生是否以及如何提供SSAMP还没有得到很好的理解，主要是因为缺乏基于调查的研究，在大学背景下使用方法严格的措施。因此，我们试图了解本科生和研究生提供SSAMP的特点和条件。我们对中西部一所公立大学的学生进行了一项横断面调查。参与者为875名本科生和研究生（M年龄= 21.88岁[SD = 4.77]）；异性恋女性占57.4%；64.1%的白人)。我们使用多项SSAMP措施进行了描述性分析，以评估SSAMP的行为、原因、补偿、减少伤害策略以及感知健康、暴力、人际关系和财务后果。120名（占样本的13.7%）报告有任何SSAMP的学生更有可能是第一代大学生、跨性别或非双性恋、LGBQ+、残疾人，并报告难以满足基本需求。在提供SSAMP的人中，42%的人表示自己获得了个人授权，但约三分之一的人表示这样做是为了取悦某人和/或因为他们受到了无法拒绝的压力，最常见的是来自亲密伴侣。一半的人报告说获得了基本需求的补偿。学生报告说，使用减少伤害的策略来提供SSAMP，并经历了各种后果，如增加自尊或自信（27.6%），发现性行为的各个方面（26.5%），心理健康状况恶化（25.5%），约会困难（25.3%），感觉被恋物（23.5%）和不想要的性接触（22.3%）。据我们所知，这是第一个使用多项目调查方法对大学生SSAMP进行细致入微理解的研究。未来的研究应该在不同的大学背景下进行复制，并进行纵向研究，以更好地为减少伤害的实践和政策提供信息。

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Journal of Interpersonal Violence Multiple-

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

12.00%

发文量

375

期刊介绍： The Journal of Interpersonal Violence is devoted to the study and treatment of victims and perpetrators of interpersonal violence. It provides a forum of discussion of the concerns and activities of professionals and researchers working in domestic violence, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault, physical child abuse, and violent crime. With its dual focus on victims and victimizers, the journal will publish material that addresses the causes, effects, treatment, and prevention of all types of violence. JIV only publishes reports on individual studies in which the scientific method is applied to the study of some aspect of interpersonal violence. Research may use qualitative or quantitative methods. JIV does not publish reviews of research, individual case studies, or the conceptual analysis of some aspect of interpersonal violence. Outcome data for program or intervention evaluations must include a comparison or control group.