This paper investigates racial and ethnic differences in sexual attitudes, beliefs about prostitution, childhood victimization, relationship issues, and attitudes towards sexual violence against women among men arrested for soliciting sexual favors from sex workers in four American cities. Using ANOVA for means comparison, this project will make an original and significant contribution to criminal justice policies that address clients of prostitutes rather than prostitutes themselves. Diversion programs such as the one employed in the cities under investigation must take into account the importance of culturally based differences among prostitute clients along the lines of race/ethnicity, attitudes toward women, and by extension female sex workers, and the sexual scripts they use in their interactions with prostitute women. This analysis will be important in the development of programs, training and education modules, as well as making a contribution to the paucity of literature in the social and behavioral sciences on clients of prostitutes.
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