ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the ways in which women clients find and book the services of a sex worker. It explores how clients search for sexual services, how they make a booking, who makes the arrangements, as well as when clients book the services of a sex worker and what takes place in the run up to the booking. The internet has become a central site of sex worker advertisement and promotion internationally. Research on lesbian sexual scripts has also shown how some women adopt a sexually explicit script which celebrates the pursuit of sexual pleasure. Claims that women clients are distinct from men who pay for sex continued to be made by some providers. Research on one-nights stands has shown that in heterosexual couplings women are more negative than men when asked to rate their ‘morning after feelings’, and feel greater regret that they have been ‘used’ by men.
