That the men who buy sex from trafficked girls are not moral pillars of the community is a shock to absolutely no one. The surprise coming from Malarek's The Johns Sex for Sale and the Men who Buy it is how brazen and unapologetic these men are for their actions. Some are even so diluted in their thought process that they actually believe that they are performing some sort of charitable action by giving a poor girl a miniscule amount of money that will go back to help feed her impoverished family in some third world country, therefore making the men heroes instead of disgusting pigs. Some reviewers have described this book as "man bashing." With all due respect, the men depicted within these pages are the prototypical man who would buy sex--a man who has hidden anger towards women or has been somehow conditioned to believe that women and children are a property to be owned.I was able to read this book in one day because it read very quickly painting a picture of this angry, insecure, man-creature, discontented with his own life who needs to buy the sex of a stranger to compensate for the failings of himself...or more often in the eyes of the Johns the failings of Western women. I wish that Malarek had balanced his study of the men with more stories of the young women he's met in prostitution and human trafficking, that way maybe it would not have seemed like he was gaining up on the men involved in the global sex trade. Malarek is correct however in pinpointing the men in the link of the global sex trade because without men willing to pay for the sex, the trafficking and exploitation of women would not be so profitable. In any business whether it be legal or illegal the key is profitability, there's a reason why pimps, brothel owners, and gangsters traffic women because there are men willing to pay for sex making it immensely profitable.