Here is the most comprehensive empirical study ever published about male prostitutes and their clients. Written by one of the most distinguished international scholars in psychiatry and criminal justice, this book provides a carefully designed presentation of in-depth interviews with several hundred London rent boys. The interviews included a large sample of one-to-one conversations in a private room tape-recorded with the consent of the interviewees. Dr. West and his colleague, Mr. de Villiers, bring you squarely into the everyday lives of male prostitutes and cover little known details of their lives, such as entry into prostitution, threats of blackmail, violence, and murder by male prostitutes or their clients, attitudes and intentions of the male prostitutes, post-prostitution careers, legal and criminology issues, and personal fears, desires, and interests of male prostitutes.
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Donald West J
Inhalt
Contents
Preface
- Introduction
- I. Street Workers
- Early Backgrounds
- Sexual Orientation
- Sex Abuse in Childhood
- The Drift Into Homelessness
- Entry Into Prostitution
- Transacting the Business
- Transactions that Turn Sour
- More Problems
- Attitudes and Intentions
- A Supplementary Sample of Street Workers
- Later Careers of Street Workers
- II: Advertised Services
- The Scope of the Male Sex Industry
- Agency Operations
- Self-Employed Masseurs
- Characteristics of Sex Advertisers
- III: Social Issues in Commercial Sex
- The Clients
- Child Prostitution
- Legal Control
- Foreign Experience
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Glossary
- Appendix
- Indexes