ABSTRACT
Research in other areas of sexuality has shown that attitudes influence sexual decision-making and sexual behavior. One hundred and forty men who were arrested for alleged prostitution use were evaluated with the Attitudes toward Prostitution Scale (ATPS). The ATPS scale was designed to sample attitudes toward prostitution and the prostitute, common beliefs about the prostitute and prostitution, and attitudes toward marriage and family behaviors. The ATPS subscales were also compared to the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 scales for those men for whom we had these data to shed some light on their attitudes and mental health, as well as provide some concurrent validity data for the ATPS subscales. Men who reported enjoying sex with prostitutes were more likely to believe going to prostitutes had caused them problems, and if they believed it a problem, they were more likely to have attempted to stop going to prostitutes.
