89% of sex buyers said they would be deterred from buying sex if their name were to be added to a sex offender registry.
90% of sex buyers said they would be deterred from buying sex if a $1,000-$2,000 penalty were imposed.
100% of sex buyers said they would be deterred from buying sex if a one month jail term were imposed.
“Comparing Sex Buyers with Men Who Don’t Buy Sex,”
http://iwantrest.com/2013/04/30/ten-things-you-might-not-know-about-men-who-buy-sex/
This study was put out by a group called Prostitution Research and Education: in their own words “PRE’s goal is to abolish the institution of prostitution.” This agenda is prone to create extreme political confirmation bias both in cherry picking survey respondents and manipulating the data to confirm the hypothesis. The survey was only of men in Boston. The questions were leading and involved misinformation about probabilities of sexual violence and false correlation between voluntary sex work and coerced sex work. And regardless of these mens’ perceptions, it is well known that prohibition does little to nothing to end demand.