Men Who Sell Sex: Global Perspectives

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All over the world, men as well as women exchange sex for money and other forms of reward, sometimes with other men and sometimes with women. In contrast to female prostitution, however, relatively little is known about male sex work, leaving questions unanswered about the individuals involved: their identities and self-understandings, the practices concerned, and the contexts in which they take place. This book updates the ground-breaking 1998 volume of the same name with an entirely new selection of chapters exploring health, social, political, economic and human rights issues in relation to men who sell sex. Looking at Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and the Asia-Pacific, each chapter explores questions such as: * What is known about the different ways in which men exchange sex for money or other forms of reward? * What are the major contexts in which sexual exchange takes place? * What meanings do such practices carry for the different partners involved? * What are the health and other implications of contemporary forms of male sex work? Men Who Sell Sex seeks to push the boundaries both of current personal and social understandings and the practices to which these give rise. It is an important reference work for academics and researchers interested in sex work and men’s health including those working in public health, sociology, social work, anthropology, human geography and development studies. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 List of contributors......Page 8 Acknowledgement......Page 14 Foreword......Page 15 1 Male sex work: current characteristics and recent tranformations......Page 22 2 Lifestyle, work or easy money? Male sex work in the Netherlands today......Page 36 3 Surfing liquid modernity: Albanian and Romanian male sex workers in Europe......Page 48 4 Sex work at a crossroads: men who sell sex to men in Macedonia......Page 63 5 'Straight' rent boys and gays who sell sex in Istanbul......Page 75 6 Economies of masculinity: male sex work in urban Brazil......Page 89 7 Between the casa and the calle: Dominican male sex workers serving a tourist clientele......Page 103 8 Men who sell sex in Peru: evolving technology and sexual cultures......Page 116 9 Sexual-economic transactions among men who have sex with men in Africa......Page 130 10 'Cape Town is free': reflections on male sex work in Cape Town, South Africa......Page 141 11 Sexual life histories of male sex workers in South India: emotional, erotic and economic dimensions......Page 152 12 Male sex work in urban Pakistan: experiences from Lahore and Karachi......Page 167 13 'Moving on up': making sense of male sex work in Thailand......Page 180 14 Male escorts in Australia......Page 194 15 Positive marginality and stigma resistance among gay and bisexual male escorts in the USA......Page 209 16 The cash nexus: money, worth and price for men who sell sex to men in the UK......Page 223 17 His story: the commodification of men's same-sex sexuality in Canada......Page 236 18 Male sex work in China......Page 250 Index......Page 257