Comments on ‘Challenging Men’s Demand for Prostitution in.docVIP

A Commentary on ‘Challenging Men’s Demand for Prostitution in Scotland’: A Research Report Based on Interviews with 110 Men who Bought Women in Prostitution, (Jan Macleod, Melissa Farley, Lynn Anderson, Jacqueline Golding, 2008) Dr Teela Sanders, Sociology, University of Leeds Dr Jane Scoular, Reader in Law, University of Strathclyde Dr Michael Goodyear, Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Canada Dr Hera Cook, Department of Modern History, University of Birmingham Dr Nicola Smith, Political Science and International Studies,, University of Birmingham, Birmingham Michelle Farley, Service Manager, SHOC (Sexual Health on Call) Hilary Kinnell, author of ‘Murder made easy: the final solution to prostitution?’, Willan, Cullumpton, (2006) Dr Jo Phoenix, Reader, Criminology, School of Applied Social Sciences, Durham University Rosie Campbell, Loughborough University Dr Phil Hubbard, Professor of Urban Social Geography, Dept of Geography, Loughborough University Jane Pitcher, independent researcher Dr Belinda Brooks-Gordon, Reader in Social Policy, Birkbeck College, University of London Dr Elizabeth Anne Wood, Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Nassau Community College, New York Dr Petra M Boynton, Health Services Research, Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London. Dr Ron Roberts, Psychology, Kingston University, London Kate Hardy, Geography, Queen Mary, University of London. Dr Ronald Weitzer, Professor of Sociology, George Washington University, USA Lauren Casey, sex worker activist, British Columbia, Canada Prostitution Alternatives Counselling Education (PACE), British Columbia , Canada April 29th 2008. The reason that this report would not be accepted if it was subjected to ordinary academic peer review processes?is not because it is biased per se but that the particular form of bias is one that (i) translates the social, economic, political and ideological realities of commercial sex and the complexity of the relati