This learning session explores these questions through the perspectives of those who purchase sex. Drawing on sex buyer reviews, it discusses the dynamics of commercial sexual transactions and considers how unequal power between buyers and sellers contributes to the asymmetrical risks faced by women.

Importantly, the session argues that dominant narratives around the sale of sex tend to focus on reducing interpersonal violence. In doing so, they often overlook issues such as objectification and other more routine, lower-level harms that can escalate into serious incidents and should be recognised as harmful in their own right.