Rent Boys : The World of Male Sex Trade Workers.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1 Background to the Study -- 2 Our Respondents -- 3 Male Prostitution Front and Centre -- 4 Working Conditions -- 5 Four Life Patterns -- 6 Regular Guys -- 7 Contrasts and Resemblances -- 8 Risks of the Trade -- 9 When They Need Help -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.

Rent Boys paints a vivid picture of the men who service men in an urban Western context. Using interviews with forty young male sex workers, Michel Dorais analyses their differences in terms of self-esteem, control over their lives, relations to their clients, and risk of HIV infection. He insightfully and usefully breaks down male sex workers into four different types: outcasts whose drug addiction and prostitution go hand-in-hand; part-timers for whom prostitution is an occasional means to make money; insiders for whom the world of prostitution has become a family ; and liberationists whose prostitution helps them actualize themselves. Dorais analyses the risks these young men are subject to and presents useful suggestions for professionals wanting to help them.

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