New pleasures and old dangers: Reinventing male sex work

Journal of Sex Research

Volumn 50, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 263-275

  Minichiello, Victor ^a   Scott, John ^b   Callander, Denton ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORY; HUMAN; MALE; PROSTITUTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEXUALITY; PSYCHOLOGY;

HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MALE; SEX WORKERS; SEXUALITY;

EID: 84875541870     PISSN: 00224499     EISSN: 15598519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224499.2012.760189     Document Type: Review

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