ISBN:
9780415723008
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (267 p)
Series Statement:
Sexuality, Culture and Health
Parallel Title:
Print version Men Who Sell Sex : Global Perspectives
DDC:
306.74/3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgement; Foreword; 1 Male sex work: current characteristics and recent tranformations; 2 Lifestyle, work or easy money? Male sex work in the Netherlands today; 3 Surfing liquid modernity: Albanian and Romanian male sex workers in Europe; 4 Sex work at a crossroads: men who sell sex to men in Macedonia; 5 'Straight' rent boys and gays who sell sex in Istanbul; 6 Economies of masculinity: male sex work in urban Brazil
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Between the casa and the calle: Dominican male sex workers serving a tourist clientele8 Men who sell sex in Peru: evolving technology and sexual cultures; 9 Sexual-economic transactions among men who have sex with men in Africa; 10 'Cape Town is free': reflections on male sex work in Cape Town, South Africa; 11 Sexual life histories of male sex workers in South India: emotional, erotic and economic dimensions; 12 Male sex work in urban Pakistan: experiences from Lahore and Karachi; 13 'Moving on up': making sense of male sex work in Thailand; 14 Male escorts in Australia
Description / Table of Contents:
15 Positive marginality and stigma resistance among gay and bisexual male escorts in the USA16 The cash nexus: money, worth and price for men who sell sex to men in the UK; 17 His story: the commodification of men's same-sex sexuality in Canada; 18 Male sex work in China; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
