Citation

Russell DEH. Women Ther. 1996; 19(4): 15-25.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1300/J015v19n04_04

PMID

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Abstract

This article focuses on gender differences in the respective services men and women are willing to purchase. In contrast to men, most women won't buy sex. They are, however, much more willing than men to pay for intimacy in the form of psychotherapy. The theory explicated here is that the selling of intimacy by therapists (including psychoanalysts, psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, marriage guidance counselors, and others who get paid to engage in psychotherapy) has become an increasingly successful business in the United States in part because it capitalizes on the fact that so many women are willing, or driven, to buy intimacy.