Abstract
ABSTRACT This study focuses on professionals working in social services with men who buy sex in Sweden. Ten of these professionals have been interviewed, and the study explores how they construct and understand the experience of buying sex as a social problem and how men who buy sex are constructed as a client category. The results show how the professionals describe purchasing sex as an individual social problem that is harmful to the buyer. Furthermore, the results show how the concepts of sexuality and masculinity are used by the professionals to describe purchasing sex as grievances, expressed as problematic sexuality and broken relationships. To ‘translate’ these grievances into treatable social problems, the professionals describe and discuss purchasing sex as an addiction and an emotionally illiterate masculinity. It is when men who buy sex submit and adhere to this construction of the client category that they can become clients with the right to receive help.
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