Male prostitution: Pathology, paradigms and progress in research

Journal of Homosexuality

Volumn 53, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 7-35

  Bimbi, David S ^a,b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training   (United States)

Author keywords

Deviance; Internet; Male sex work; Psychopathology; Research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPLOYMENT; FORECASTING; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERNET; MALE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

EMPLOYMENT; FORECASTING; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROSTITUTION;

EID: 35548973454     PISSN: 00918369     EISSN: 15403602     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J082v53n01_02     Document Type: Article

References (87)

1. Akeret, R., Hincziza, U., Vandenbroucke, B., Vriens, P., Okoliyski, M., Lukasik, R., Georgescu, M., & Kohler, D. (2002, July). Survey about male sex work on the Internet. Paper presented at the XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, Spain.
2. Allen, D. M. (1980). Young male prostitutes: A psychosocial study. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 9, 399-426.
3. Allman, D., & Myers, T. (1999). Male sex work and HIV/AIDS in Canada. In P. Aggleton (Ed.), Men who sell sex: International perspectives on male prostitution and HIV/AIDS (pp. 61-81). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
4. Belza, M. J., Llacer, A., Mora, R., Morales, M., Castilla, J., & De La Fuente, L. (2001).Sociodemographic characteristics and HIV risk behavior patterns of male sex workers in Madrid, Spain. AIDS Care, 13, 677-682.
5. Bimbi, D. S., & Parsons, J. T. (2005). Barebacking among Internet-based male sex workers. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, 9, 89-110.
6. Boles, J., & Elifson, K. (1994). Sexual identity and HIV: The male prostitute. Journal of Sex Research, 31, 39-46.
7. Boles, J., & Elifson, K. (1998). Out of CASH: The rise and demise of male prostitutes' rights organizations. In J. Elias, V. Elias, & G. Brewer (Eds.), Prostitution: On whores, hustlers and Johns (pp. 267-278). New York, NY: Prometheus Books.
8. Bower, B. (1990). Glimpses of AIDS and male prostitution. Science News, 138, 390.
9. Boyer, D. (1989). Male prostitution and homosexual identity. Gay and Lesbian Youth, 17, 151-184.
10. Browne, J., & Minichiello, V. (1996a). Research directions in male sex work. Journal of Homosexuality, 31, 29-56.
11. Browne, J., & Minichiello, V. (1996b). The social and work context of commercial sex between men: A research note. The. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, 32, 86-92.
12. Butts, W. H. (1947). Boy prostitutes of the metropolis. Journal of Clinical Psychopathology, 8, 673-681.
13. Calhoun, T. C. (1992). Male street hustling: Introduction to processes and stigma. Sociological Spectrum, 12, 35-52.
14. Calhoun, T. C., & Weaver, G. S. (1996). Rational decision making among male street prostitutes. Deviant Behavior, 17, 209-227.
15. Calhoun, T. C., & Weaver, G. S. (2001). Male prostitution. In D. L. Peck & N. A. Dolch (Eds.), Extraordinary behavior: A case study approach to understanding social problems (pp. 212-226). Westport, CT: Praeger.
16. Cameron, S., Collins, A., & Thew, N. (1999). Prostitution services: An exploratory empirical analysis. Applied Economics, 31, 1523-1529.
17. Caukins, S. E., & Coombs, N. R. (1976). The psychodynamics of male prostitution. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 30, 441-451.
18. Coleman, E. (1989). The development of male prostitution activity among gay and bisexual adolescents. Journal of Homosexuality, 17, 131-149.
19. Coombs, N. (1974). Male prostitution: A psychosocial view of behavior. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 44, 782-789.
20. Davies, P., & Feldman, R. (1999). Selling sex in Cardiff and London. In P. Aggleton (Ed.), Men who sell sex: International perspectives on male prostitution and HIV/AIDS (pp. 1-22). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
21. DeGraaf, R., Vanwesenbeeck, I., Van Zessen, G., Straver, C. J., & Visser, J. H. (1994). Male prostitutes and safe sex: Different settings, different risks. AIDS Care, 6, 277-288.
22. Deisher, R. W., Eisner, V., & Suizbacher, S. I. (1969). The young male prostitute. Pediatrics, 43, 936-941.
23. Derogatis, L. R. (1977). The SCL-90: Administration, scoring and procedure manual I. Baltimore, MD: Clinical Psychometric Research.
24. Earls, C. M., & Helene, D. (1989). A psychosocial study of male prostitution. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 18, 401-419.
25. Estcourt, C. S., Marks, C., Rohrsheim, R., Johnson, A. M., Donovan, B., & Mindel, A. (2000). HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and risk behaviors in male commercial sex workers in Sydney. Sexually Transmitted Infections, 76, 294-298.
26. Estep, R., Waldorf, D., & Marotta, T. (1992). Sexual behavior of male prostitutes. In J. Huber & B. E. Schneider (Eds.), The social context of AIDS (pp. 95-112). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
27. Freyhan, F. A. (1947). Homosexual prostitution: A case report. Delaware State Medical Journal, 19, 92-94.
28. Gaffney, J. (2003, June). Working together with male sex workers in London. Paper presented at the European Network of Male Prostitution, Hamburg, Germany.
29. Gandy, P., & Deisher, R., (1970). Young male prostitutes: The physician's role in social rehabilitation. Journal, of the American Medical Association, 212, 1661-1666.
30. Ginsberg, K. (1967). The "meat-rack": A study of the male homosexual prostitute. American Journal of Psychotherapy, 21, 170-185.
31. Goffman, E. (1963). Stigma: Notes on the management of a spoiled identity. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
32. Hickson, F., Weatherburn, P., Hows, J., & Davies, P. (1994). Selling safer sex: Male masseurs and escorts in the UK. In P. Aggleton, P. Davies, & G. Hart (Eds.), AIDS: Foundations for the future (pp. 197-209). Bristol, PA: Taylor & Francis Inc.
33. Hoffman, M, (1972). The male prostitute. Sexual Behavior, 2(8), 16-21.
34. Kaye, K. (2003). Male prostitution in the twentieth century: Pseudohomosexuals, hoodlum homosexuals, and exploited teens. Journal of Homosexuality, 46, 1-17.
35. Koken, J. A., Bimbi, D. S., Parsons, J. T., & Halkitis, P. N. (2004). The experience of stigma in the lives of male Internet escorts. Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, 16, 13-32.
36. Liberman, V. (2001, Jul/Aug). Show me the money: Instinct's guide to hiring and becoming an escort. Instinct, 4, 36-43.
37. Love for sale. (2004, September 3). HX Magazine, 678, p. 12
38. Luckenbill, D. F. (1984). Dynamics of the deviant sale. Deviant Behavior, 5,337-353.
39. Luckenbill, D. F. (1985). Entering male prostitution. Urban Life, 14, 131-153.
40. Luckenbill, D. F. (1986). Deviant career mobility: The case of male prostitutes. Sociology, 33, 283-296.
41. MacNamara, R. (1965). Male prostitution in American cities: A socioeconomic or pathological phenomenon? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 35, 204.
42. Minichiello, V., Marino, R., & Browne, J. (2001). Knowledge, risk perceptions and condom usage in male sex workers from three Australian cities. AIDS Care, 13, 387-402.
43. Minichiello, V., Marino, R., Browne, J., & Jamieson, M. (1999). A profile of the clients of male sex workers in three Australian cities. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 23, 511-518.
44. Morse, E. V., & Simon, P. M. (1992). Cofactors of substance use among male street prostitutes. Journal of Drug Issues, 22, 977-994.
45. Morse, E. V., Simon, P. M., Balson, P. M., & Osofsky, H. J. (1992). Sexual behavior patterns of customers of male street prostitutes. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 21, 347-357.
46. Morse, E. V., Simon, P. M., Osofsky, H. J., Balson, P. M., & Gaumer, H. R. (1991). The male street prostitute: A vector for transmission, of HIV infection into the heterosexual world. Social Science & Medicine, 32, 535-539.
47. Parsons, J. T., Bimbi, D. S., & Halkitis, P. N. (2001). Sexual compulsivity among gay/bisexual male escorts who advertise on the Internet. Journal of Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, 8, 113-123.
48. Parsons, J. T., Bimbi, D. S., & Koken, J. A. (2003, June). Experiences from the United States of America. Invited address to the Central and Eastern European Group meeting of the European Network on Male Prostitution: Hamburg, Germany.
49. Parsons, J. T., Koken, J. A., & Bimbi, D. S. (2004). The use of the Internet by gay and bisexual male escorts: Sex workers as sex educators. AIDS Care, 16, 1-15.
50. Pennbridge, J. N., Freese, T. E., & MacKenzie, R. G. (1992). High-risk behaviors among male street youth in Hollywood, California. AIDS Education and Prevention (Fall Supplement), 24-33.
51. Perkins, R., & Bennett, G. (1997). Being a prostitute: Prostitute women and prostitute men (2nd edition). Sydney, AU: George Allen and Unwin.
52. Perkins, R., Prestage, G., Sharp, R., & Lovejoy, F. (1994). Sex work and sex workers in Australia, Sydney, AU: University of New South Wales Press Ltd.
53. Pleak, R. R., & Meyer-Bahlburg, H. F. L. (1990). Sexual behavior and AIDS knowledge of young male prostitutes in Manhattan. Journal of Sex Research, 27, 557-587.
54. Prestage, G. (1994). Male and transsexual prostitution. In R. Perkins, G. Prestage, R. Sharp, & F. Lovejoy (Eds.), Sex work and sex workers in Australia (pp. 174-190). Sydney, AU: University of New South Wales Press Ltd.
55. Price, V. (1984). Social characteristics of adolescent male prostitution. Victimology, 9, 211-221.
56. Pruitt, M. V. (2003, March). Online boys: Male for male Internet escorts. Paper presented at the Southern Sociological Society, New Orleans.
57. Reiss, A. J. (1961). The social integration of queers and peers. Social Problems, 9, 102-120.
58. Robinson, T., & Davies, P. (1991). London's homosexual male prostitutes: Power, peer groups and HIV. In P. Aggleton, P. Davies & G. Hart (Eds.), AIDS: Responses, interventions and care (pp. 95-110). London, UK: Falker Press.
59. Ross, H. L. (1959). The "hustler" in Chicago. Journal of Student Research, 1, 13-19.
60. Roy, J. L., Otis, J., Vincelette, J., Alary, M., Zunzunegui, M. V., Gaudreault, M., Remis, R. S., Lavoie, R., LeClerc, R., Masse, B., Parent, R., & Tunnel, B. (2002, July). Characteristics of omega study participants who have received money or drugs in exchange for sex. Paper presented at the XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona.
61. Sagarin, E., & Jolly, R. W. (1983/1997). Prostitution: Profession and pathology. In L. B. Schlesinger & E. R. Revitch (Eds.), Sexual dynamics of anti-social behavior (pp. 9-30). Springfield, IL: Challes C Thomas.
62. Salamon, E. (1989). The homosexual escort agency: Deviance disavowal. British Journal of Sociology, 40, 1-21.
63. Satterfield, S. B. (1981). Clinical aspects of juvenile prostitution. Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, 15, 126-132.
64. Scheinmann, H. (1929). The psychology of the male coquette. Zietschrift fuer Sexualwissenschaft und sexualpoltik, 16, 206-210.
65. Scott, J. (2003). A. prostitute's progress: Male prostitution in scientific discourse. Social Semiotics, 13, 179-199.
66. Silverstein, C., & Picano, F. (2003). The joy of gay sex (3rd ed.). New York, NY: Harper Collins.
67. Simon, P. M., Morse, E. V., Balson, P. M., Osofsky, H. J., & Gaumer, H. R. (1993). Barriers to human immunodeficiency virus related risk reduction among male street prostitutes. Health Education Quarterly, 20, 261-273.
68. Simon, P. M., Morse, E. V., Osofsky, H. J., Balson, P. M., & Gaumer, R. (1992). Psychological characteristics of a sample of male street prostitutes. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 21, 33-44.
69. Terrence Higgins Trust (2002). Working with young male sex workers in the city of Bristol. Terrence Higgins Trust.
70. Tiby, T. P. (2003). The production and reproduction of prostitution. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 3, 154-72.
71. Uy, J. M, Parsons, J. T., Bimbi, D. S., Koken, J. A., Halkitis, P. N. (2004). Gay and bisexual male escorts who advertise on the Internet: Understanding reasons for and effects of involvement in commercial sex. International Journal of Men's Health, 3, 11-26.
72. Van der Poel, S. (1992). Professional male prostitution: A. neglected phenomenon. Crime, Law and Social Change, 18, 259-275.
73. Vanwesenbeeck, I. (2001). Another decade of social scientific work on sex work: Areview of research 1990-2000. Annual Review of Sex Research, 12, 242-289.
74. Viera de Souza, C. T., Lowndes, C. M., Landman, C., Szwarcwald, F., Sutmoller, F., & Bastos, F. I. (2003). Willingness to participate in HIV vaccine trials among a sample of men who have sex with, men, with and without a history of commercial sex in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. AIDS Care, 15, 539-548.
75. Visano, L. A. (1991). The impact of age on paid sexual encounters. Journal of Homosexuality, 207-226.
76. Von. Metzke, R. (2003, Spring). Sex for hire. Xodus, 1.
77. Waldorf, D., & Murphy, S. (1990). Intravenous drug use and syringe-sharing practices of call men and hustlers. In M. A. Plant (Ed.), AIDS, drugs, and prostitution (pp. 109-131). New York, NY: Routledge.
78. Waldorf, D., Murphy, S., Lauderback, D., Reinarman, C., & Marotta, T. (1990). Needle sharing among male prostitutes: Preliminary findings of the Prospero Project. Journal, of Drug Issues, 20, 309-334.
79. Weber, A. E., Craib, K. J. P., Chan, K., Martindale, S., Miller, M. L., Schechter, M., T., & Hogg, R. S. (2001). Sex trade involvement and rates of human immunodeficiency virus positivity among young gay and bisexual men. International Journal of Epidemiology, 30, 1449-1454.
80. Weeks, J. (1981). Inverts, perverts, and Mary-Annes: Male prostitution and the regulation of homosexuality in England in the nineteenth and early twentieth, centuries. Journal of Homosexuality, 6, 113-134.
81. Weinberg, M. S., Worth, H., & Williams, C. J. (2001). Men sex workers and other men. who have sex with men: How do their HIV risks compare in New Zealand? Archives of Sexual Behavior, 30, 273-286.
82. Weinstein, S. (2001, March). Escort report: Today's high end sex professional. OUT, 90-95.
83. Weinstein, S. (2002, March 22). Special delivery: The latest on the world's oldest profession, who's buying, who's selling and why they're doing it. HX, 24.
84. Weisburg, K. D. (1985). Children of the night: A. study of adolescent prostitution, Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
85. West, D. J. (1998). Male homosexual prostitution in England. In J. Elias, V. Elias, & G. Brewer (Eds.), Prostitution: On whores, hustlers and Johns (pp. 228-235). New York, NY: Prometheus Books.
86. White, D. (2003, August). The online hook. Instinct, 6,46-49.
87. Williams, M. L., Timpson, S., Klovdal, A., Bowen, A. M., Ross, M. W., & Keel, K. B. (2003). HIV risk among a sample of drug using male sex workers. AIDS, 17, 1402-1404.