caa a22 4500 60623196X CHVBK 20210128101223.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10508-014-0446-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10508-014-0446-4 Veteran Status and Paid Sex Among American Men: Results from Three National Surveys [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew London, Janet Wilmoth] Surprisingly little population-based, social scientific research directly examines the association between veteran status and ever paying for sex although there are theoretical reasons to expect that such an association might emerge across the life course. In this article, we examined the relationship between veteran status and ever paying for sex among American men who turned 18years old between 1922 and 2010 using data from three independent national samples: Wave 1 of the 2005-2006 National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP); the 1992 National Health and Social Life Survey (NHSLS); and pooled data from the 1991, 1993, 1994, and 2010 General Social Survey (GSS). In all three datasets, we found that veterans were significantly more likely than non-veterans to report ever having paid for sex: rates across the three sub-studies ranged from 10.86 to 14.57% among non-veterans and from 25.27 to 33.92% among veterans. In multivariate models that controlled for demographic and early-life factors to the extent possible with available data, the odds of ever paying for sex were estimated to be 2.25-3.10 times higher among veterans than among non-veterans. In a supplemental analysis using data from the GSS, we found that longer duration of service was associated with an increased odds of ever paying for sex. While these results do not demonstrate a causal relationship between serving in the military and ever paying for sex, the strength and consistency of the findings provide compelling evidence of an association that is worthy of further theorizing and empirical investigation. There is considerable room for advancing knowledge related to the influence of military service on the initiation, maintenance, frequency, and timing of paid sexual relationships in relation to other life events. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Veterans nationallicence Military nationallicence Paid sex nationallicence Prostitution nationallicence Life course nationallicence London Andrew Department of Sociology, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 302 Maxwell Hall, 13244-1020, Syracuse, NY, USA aut Wilmoth Janet Department of Sociology, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 302 Maxwell Hall, 13244-1020, Syracuse, NY, USA aut Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/4(2015-05-01), 997-1009 0004-0002 44:4<997 2015 44 10508 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0446-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-014-0446-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- London Andrew Department of Sociology, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 302 Maxwell Hall, 13244-1020, Syracuse, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wilmoth Janet Department of Sociology, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 302 Maxwell Hall, 13244-1020, Syracuse, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Archives of Sexual Behavior Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 44/4(2015-05-01), 997-1009 0004-0002 44:4<997 2015 44 10508