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Male Youth Prostitution

Contents of Part 2: History of Male Prostitution - Films - Books - General Information - Full Text Articles.

NORTH AMERICA:

Vancouver (1997): Pleasure and Pain - Inside the Sex Trade. -  Some related statistics. - Key Materials on Men Who Have Sex With Men at UNAIDS: - Anthropology: Glimpses of AIDS and Male Prostitution. - Glimpses of AIDS and male prostitution (Science News) - Blood and Memes on the Marciapiede: Memetics And Migration: "Prostitution isn't just about sex, and it isn't only venereal germs which are transmitted. It is also a ritual about difference, dominance, exploitation, and humiliation; and it is these memes which are also transmitted and reinforced with each coupling." - Politics and Biomedicine: Studies of Gay Men, Prostitutes Come Under Scrutiny. - Montreal: Street Youth: On the periphery of services but at the centre of our concerns (PDF Download): "30% have lived off prostitution..." - Chicago: Youth Homelessness: Youth On The Streets and On Their Own (PDF Download): "12 percent had engaged in prostitution..." 

The Invisible Boy: Sex for Sale N/A - by Peter McKnight, Toronto: "Recently, I found myself on television discussing the dangers of youth prostitution with three experts... While my fellow panelists engaged in a lively debate about whether the impugned law might save lives, one thing went unquestioned: the lives at risk were all female. When I noted that only one of the three murdered Toronto prostitutes was female (one was male and one preoperative male-to-female transsexual), one helpful expert informed me that “the vast majority” of prostitutes are female... Given the prevalence and problems of male prostitution, why do the boys remain invisible?" - The Boy's Stroll (Regina): "Here in Regina a number of studies have been done on child and female prostitution, but not much is said about male prostitution." - Projects in Manitoba: Under the Crime Prevention Investment Fund: "Homosexual boys are also often at risk because of the marginalization they suffer from peers and family... While children as young as 6 have been found prostituting, many youth enter the sex trade between the ages of 13 and 15. Aboriginal youth are over-represented. 86% of sexually exploited children experience intense violence, even death, at the hands of their dates, gangs, partners, or pimps, and young male prostitutes are also at increased risk of "gay bashing." ... Male and female prostitution is concentrated in specific Winnipeg communities, including the downtown area and North End neighbourhoods."

Child Prostitution 05/12/01: "One in five prostitutes operating in Glasgow is a young boy and some are as young as ten years old when they are lured into this dangerous and degrading world. Despite their high numbers on the streets, many male prostitutes miss out on the support available to female victims of the sex industry..." - Support for boys on the game (UK): Far less has been done to help boys involved in prostitution than girls. Mike George on attempts to redress the balance: "Steven has been selling sex for the past four years. He says he does so because it allows him to buy expensive clothes, go to the best restaurants and have a lifestyle which makes it appear he is in control of his life. He thinks that what he does now, at 18, is not so different to what happened when he was a child, when his stepfather, after repeatedly abusing him sexually, took him to the homes of friends. There, in exchange for sex, he was given gifts and treats..." - Boys and young men abused through prostitution (UK): "Many of the young men involved in prostitution have run away from abusive home or care settings and have often truanted from school. Barnardo's figures show that more boys go missing at a younger age than girls. Of 166 boys reported missing in a year in Bradford, 52 were aged 12 and under, of which 21 were aged 10 and under. Just over half had gone missing from their family home, and nearly a quarter from residential care. There are clear links between being in care and sexual exploitation. One study found that two thirds of male prostitutes interviewed had been in local authority care." - No son of mine! Children abused through Prostitution - Summary (PDF Download): The words of a 14-year-old boy abused through prostitution: "Well, do you think I just woke up one day and thought I know I'll be a rent boy today? Thousands of things have happened to me to get me here -mum leaving, no-one at home, hanging round the pub late and waiting to go home with dad, having blokes try to touch us up, seeing boys do tricks and getting cash and fags. If you want to change me, you're probably going to have to do thousands of things too, to balance it out.“ - Fresh Start Program (City of Atlanta Department of Corrections): "Street Life: An alternative lifestyle therapy group. Focuses on male prostitution-the behavior, risks and stigma associated with this lifestyle and addiction." - Young Prostitutes Sell Body and Soul to Street. 

Dancing on a Cliff by John Dentinger: "I had taught America's sons and daughters physics, helped design our nation's defenses, and written for magazines that you can buy in your corner drug store.  On a parallel track, I became an outlaw. I didn't merely make occasional forays into the front lines of the sex and drug revolutions. I worked there.  Let me describe the sex, first.  From age 26 to age 28 - while teaching undergraduate physics labs at U.S.C. by day - I was a call boy by night. I had about two or three hundred clients during that time (more than I had students)... Being a call boy wasn't a line of work I advertised widely, although the stigma for male prostitutes is a great deal less than for the female counterpart. To the extent that there is negativity ("He's just a gigolo," or "He's just a kept boy,") the source is primarily envy, which is flattering. More usually there's a certain admiration that you were able to sell a commodity that normally only women can sell. This is particularly true for fast-lane urban gay men, for whom hustling is only a short step beyond their every day life- styles. When female prostitutes get dressed up for a call, they wear a "tarty" getup and have a lot more sex, with a much greater variety of partners, than the typical heterosexual woman. When male prostitutes get dressed for the street or for a call, they dress much the same as any guy in a gay bar, and they don't have sex with a greater number of partners than their non-working counterparts. Usually when I tell someone that I'd been a call boy, the response is not, "Ooh, what a whore," but, "Oh, John, how exciting." It's not a nightmare to most gay men; it's a fantasy. There are some other differences between male and female prostitution. Men, more than women, need to husband their sexual energies carefully (gotta be ready for the next client). That's why it's high flattery for a hustler to say, "I'd fuck him for free." 

Glen Meadmore Interview: "I love that song you wrote, "Never trust A Hustler." That one comes from experience. Your hustler boyfriend Monty stole and sold your guitar and amp-Marshall stax, and all your Joel Peter Witkin prints that you posed for and all your one-of-a-kind John Wayne Gacy paintings that feature you and Mr. G in very romantic coupling." - Barney Frank and the Male Prostitute. - Barney Frank admits to having sex with young male aide. - Nothing New Under the Sin. - The Kimberly Conundrum: How a crack-smoking male prostitute became the basis of a controversial theory about who killed Kimberly Ernest. - The Elusive Male Prostitutes. - Rupert Everett N/A (Alternate Link): ""I´ve never regretted anything I´ve said, even the stuff about being a male prostitute. I´m not ashamed of it. It was necessary for me at that time in my life. I was going for a career in acting, but I wasn´t completely successful. So, I became a male escort." (Quotation: Everett to Atlanta´s Southern Voice). (Short Biography). - Pete Doherty Reveals He Was A Gay Rent Boy. - Male Prostitution Along U.S.-Mexico Border May Increase HIV Risk, Needs Further Study, Experts Say.

Minister Admits to Buying Drugs and Massage. - Ted Haggart related news items. - Confessions of an Angry Hustler; Ted Haggard's bitter boy toy tells all. - Ted Haggard on homosexuality: “We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.” Watch it (from the new documentary “Jesus Camp“).

Embracing the "inner ho": David Sterry is a baseball writer and former male prostitute who is working on a novel with no sex in it. - Grilling The Chicken: Q&A With David Sterry, Former Rent Boy: "When he was 17-years-old, David Henry Sterry left his suburban childhood to attend a Catholic college in Hollywood. As it turned out, the place didn't have dorms. And he only had $27 in his pocket. His parents were too distracted to help. Not that David, whose teenage mantra was "whatever," knew how to ask. The first person he talked to in Hollywood -- an anonymous man with a T-shirt that read "Sexxy" -- offered him a steak, took him back to his house, and raped and robbed him, setting him on a path that quickly led to a seven-month career as a male prostitute. "Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent," is not a dark, brooding memoir. From the first page, Sterry writes with the mordant, jagged wit of Chuck Palahniuk. Sterry's encounters range from the cliché -- there's the "take-no-prisoners, lifestyles-of-the-rich-and-famous, old-fashioned, newfangled orgy" -- to the truly horrifying." - Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent - by David Sterry. (Amazon.com Reference).

Sex trade involvement and rates of human immunodeficiency virus positivity among young gay and bisexual men. "The study is based upon data obtained from a prospective cohort study of young gay and bisexual men [in Vancouver, Canada]... Sex trade involvement was defined as the exchange of money, drugs, goods, clothing, shelter or protection for sex within the one year prior to enrollment... Multivariate logistic regression analysis revealed regular alcohol use (Odds Ratio [OR] = 3.6, 95% CI : 1.8-7.2),  aboriginal ethnicity (OR = 3.7, 95% CI : 1.6-8.7), unemployment (OR = 3.9, 95% CI: 2.1-7.3), history of residence in a psychiatric ward (OR = 4.2, 95% CI : 1.8-9.8), bisexual activity (OR = 7.0, 95% CI : 3.5-14.1) and the use of crack (OR = 7.4, 95% CI : 3.0-18.7) to be independently associated with sex trade work. Sex trade workers had a significantly higher HIV prevalence at baseline compared with non-sex trade workers (7.3% versus 1.1%, P < 0.001). As well, HIV incidence was found to be significantly higher for sex trade workers compared with non-sex trade workers (4.7% versus 0.9%, P = 0.011). (Full Text link given: International Journal of Epidemiology). Factors associated with sex trade involvement among male participants in a prospective study of injection drug users. - The Vanguard of Sexploitation: Vancouver research hurts those it claims to help by Andrew Sorfleet.

Vancouver's Vanguard Study: (Revised Version at Vanguard Project (Latest Site for Vanguard Project Studies). "One-quarter of participants had been paid for sex at some point in their lives, of whom 60% had done so in the previous year. 10% had paid another male for sex, of whom 40% had done so in the previous year. Relative to the remainder of the cohort, men who were paid for sex in the last year were significantly more likely to be: younger; non-white (44% vs. 23%); have less than a high school education; live in unstable housing; earn less than $10,000/year; identify as bisexual (46% vs. 6%); report non-consensual sex (47% vs. 31%); start having sex with men and/or women at younger ages; use of coke/crack, heroin, poppers, or injection drugs (23% vs. 3%). Sex trade workers more at risk. - A boy's life: "At almost midnight and with the interview over, Desmond stands and walks off with another young hustler down to the other end of the block. A male prostitute in loose-fitting clothes and a skateboard plops down to take over Desmond's old spot nearby. The business of Boystown continues."

Homeless Gay Youth: For Group of Young People, Village Piers Mean Home (New York) (New York Times, July 18, 1998): "Men in expensive cars cruised by. Frequently they stopped, exchanging brief, hushed words with youths who approached, climbed into the cars and rode away... Hernden said he became depressed when confronted with the reality that few doors were open to him without a high school diploma. He began to work as a prostitute... At the time, Richardson was homeless, turning tricks on the streets of Baltimore in exchange for a place to sleep, he said. Richardson said he told his mother and sisters he was gay, and then endured a year of homosexual slurs from his family."

20/20 reports on homeless gay youth: "Without a home, or family, these teenagers often pay devastating price for their sexual orientation. Experts say about a third of all teenage suicide attempts are by gay and lesbian kids. Often, these teens turn to prostitution to survive: ". . . maybe it doesn't start with survival sex. Maybe it comes with some adult saying I'll give you a bed. I'll give you a hot meal. You can stay at my house. And then comes the attack," Ms. Eggleston [the executive director of Hetrick Martin Institute] says."

The lost boys. - Alternate link: Boston Phoenix Archives: "Male prostitution is a world apart. Female prostitutes are often the products of broken homes where drugs, violence, or incest prevail. But young men who sell sex on the street often end up there because of their sexual orientation. Many run away or are disowned by their families for being homosexual. "Gay male prostitutes all have the same story," says Gerry Cheney, an outreach worker for prostitutes. "They're confused about their sexuality, so they turn to a family that is unwilling to accept the lifestyle. Out of shame, or sometimes because they are forced to, they leave home, quit school, and end up on the street, drug-addicted and homeless... Male prostitutes start shockingly young. The average age at which young women get involved in street prostitution is 16.9, according to a study conducted by the San Francisco-based Delancey Street Foundation, an organization that does outreach work with female prostitutes. Young men, however, enter into prostitution at 14 or even younger, says Sean Haley, director of adolescent services for JRI Health, in Boston -- the city's only outreach program for male commercial sex workers."

Uy JM, Parsons JT, Bimbi DS, Koken JA, Halkitis PN (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, Spring. Full Text. Full Text. "The predominant reason these men were engaged in escorting was for monetary gains and benefits. The majority of the men (n = 29, 63.0%) endorsed money-related benefits as being a reason for their participation in sex work. When asked to describe the positive aspects of being a sex worker, one participant said, "The extra money. Just this money that's not taxable, and it's instant, instant gratification. It's not hard work. Nothing else." Often, remunerations were generous and on occasion included trips abroad among other gifts, as explained by one participant:... Sense of self. Many participants talked about how having sexual encounters with generously paying clients bolsters their sense of self. Having clients request their services, they are made to feel empowered, desired, attractive, and important, this elevates the escort's self-esteem... While the majority of participants did not report a positive change to their personality, 12 participants (26.1%) did, by reporting at least one positive change that was gained from sex work including increased confidence, increased outgoingness, and improved body image. One particular escort involved in sadism and masochism (S&M) explained how his growing self-assurance developed from his vocation:... Sex. Clearly, sexual activity is an integral part of an escort's profession, with 18 participants (39.1%) in this study citing their enjoyment of sex as a reason for being in this particular line of work. Most participants were able to recall pleasurable sexual interactions with clients, and some deemed them as a critical reason for involvement in escorting... Participants expressed that the sexual experiences they had, subsequent to their entry into sex work, were no longer as thrilling or as stimulating as they once were. Excessive sexual activity through work had minimized the pleasurable aspects of sex and had rendered sexual activity banal and at times tedious..."

"Is Prostitute's Past Protected by Rape Shield Law? Arguments heard to determine whether 15-year-old's past can be explored in a Pa. courtroom".(To access place "Prostitute's Past" in search wiondow at http://www.lawnewsnetwork.com/). - Detroiter arrested in priest's slaying N/A. - AIDS clue from body frozen for 30 years (Alternate Link): "The frozen body of a boy prostitute who died in 1969 from something "highly unusual" was later found infected with a strain of HIV, pushing back the first recorded AIDS case in the United States by a decade."

Angels of Mercy: Light in the Darkness of Polk Street: "They leave families that are physically, sexually and emotionally abusive only to be victims harassed once more by adults who treat the youth as a commodity to be bought and sold... San Francisco's Polk Street is known for teen-age prostitution..." - Male Youth Prostitution in Philadelphia N/A. - Male prostitution in Washington, D.C. N/A - Psycho-social aspects of male prostitution in Washington, DC. (Alternate Link) (Related Book)  - The Life of an Escort: Nam Hao (Must Scroll). - Chevy Chase Principal Resigns Male Prostitute Allegations Probed. - The Final Transformation: "When I was 18, I quit college and headed for New Orleans. I worked as a waiter at a place which was a haven for male and female prostitution. They let me wear face makeup and lipstick. I soon became adept at male prostitution." - The Ex Files: Not Your Usual Gays.: He signed up for an escort service and began selling his body for 80 dollars per hour. Eventually, [John] Paulk racked up over 300 sexual partners. However, writes Paulk, he became tired of being "sexually used". After a while, he dropped out of the escort business. Without the income it had provided..."

San Antonio (1996): Sixth man jailed in Internet male prostitution ring. - Filipino Gays Targeted Again in the Mideast N/A: "Though Philippine officials did not link the actions in Qatar and Kuwait, the existence of an enormously lucrative male prostitution ring, headquartered in Manila, is believed to be in operation in countries throughout the Middle East." - Vox Interviews: Buckcherry: "Keith and I started this male prostitution ring and it just got old. We were sick of all of the…"

Rent Boys: Notorious trophy boy Andrew Cunanan's relationships with rich older men were not unique. A look inside San Diego's silent subculture: "David is a kept boy. This year, he’ll collect $50,000 from two much older male sponsors who pay him for sex and companionship. It’s a thriving  underground industry, David says. And he’s far from alone in taking care of business." - The Life of a Trophy Boy (Washington Post): "The sugar daddy and the house boy, the older gay man and his baby-faced companion, is a gay paradigm that traces back centuries. It is rooted in the long history of homosexual stealth-English lords who carried on with young kitchen hands, prominent married men who found young underlings at the office." - Who is Andrew Cunanan? - Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story. - A male prostitute with the AIDS virus went on television under court order to warn those who may have had sexual contact with him..

The London, Ontario 1993-96, "Child-Sex Porn Ring": Possibly not what the police and the media led many to believe. Transcript of the CBC program IDEAS (4-part). -  Alternate "Ideas" transcript link from CBC Radio.

Part of the Canadian walnet.org "sex worker information site:" - Male sex worker issues. Considerable "bio" information relating to teenage male hustlers. Many articles and news items. - Ryerson Prof: I'm A Hooker. - The Gerald Hannon Affair. - Related listing of articles.

Three Toronto Transgendered Sex Workers Murdered by Same Gun. - UF Study: Discriminatin forces transvestites into protitution: "Being ostracized from society forces many transsexuals and transvestites into prostitution, putting them at risk for abuse, violence and the deadly virus that leads to AIDS, a new University of Florida study finds. Often rejected by their families at an early age, and with few sources of social support, they are left with little option for survival other than prostitution, said James "Al" Bay, a UF graduate student in anthropology who did the research for his dissertation."  - Transsexuals forced into risky business - study: "The study of Miami male transsexuals found they were often rejected by their families at an early age and had few ways to make a living other than street prostitution, in the course of which they were often subjected to robbery and rape." - Transsexual prostitution in New Zealand: Predominance of persons of Maori extraction.

The Toronto Trans and Two-Spirit Primer: An Introduction to Lower-income, Sex-working and Street-involved Transgendered, Transsexual & Two-Spirit Service Users in Toronto (PDF Download): "Legal Issues affecting Lower Income Trans/Two-Spirit People: There are a number of legal issues facing lower-income and sex-working trans and Two-Spirit people. There are laws affecting sex workers, human rights laws, and legal identity issues. Laws affecting Sex Workers [are].... The community has been subject to constant harassment and sweeps by police and at one point had to switch to working on the west side of Jarvis to avoid the 51 Division’s jurisdiction. While some attempts have been made to work with a GLBT Toronto Police Liaison Committee on these issues, decriminalization is necessary for the community to work and live safely."

Studies of Street Youth and Younger Male Sex Workers in Canada. - A psychosocial study of male prostitution. - Les masseurs et escortes; si personne ne se plaint, la police n'interviendra pas!

A preacher's son (David Kyle): From many years of youth prostitution to becoming a Christian Minister: (Alternate Link) "You see, when I was eight or nine, I suddenly became sexually obsessive and suicidal - classic signs of having been sexually abused, although to this day I have no such memories. I was a spoiled brat, selfish and perverse, full of rebellion and seeking to prove to everyone who looked my way that I was not the goody two-shoes that everyone was trying to typecast me as - being a preacher's kid. I cursed a blue streak, just to get laughs and to keep the neighborhood bully from beating me up every day. Seeing one day that he was in a particularly foul mood, I took off my clothes and ran around the playground just to make him laugh. It worked and for the first time, I realized that I could get people to like me by taking off my clothes - a revelation that would eventually give birth to almost a decade of prostitution." - From Preacher's Kid To Prostitute To Priest: Freedom From Homosexuality: David Kyle Foster's Testimony: "My hustling began one night in St. Petersburg, Florida. I had made several suicide attempts that God had thwarted and I went to the pier to talk to Him, because I could not understand how He could love me and leave me in such pain. Unknown to me at the time, the pier was a hangout for male prostitutes. As I sat on the railing, men in cars would try to wave me over. I thought it must be a drug-selling place. Then a guy came over and told me that I was doing it wrong. "Doing what?" I asked. He then proceeded to describe how to be a successful male prostitute, as he was. I was flabbergasted. I didn't even know that male prostitutes even existed and was floored that someone would think that I was one. I was also intrigued. I was also mad at God. After all, I had come there to talk to Him and had found myself in such a place. So, to spite God, I decided to try it - just once. It was steeply down hill from there."

Hustler Priest: (Google Search) Father River Sims - priest of the Evangelical Anglican Church in America - a gay man and former sex worker - helping street "kids" from age 12 to over 35 - often sex workers. Description of life on Polk Street, San Francisco given, including male prostitution: "A 12-year-old was out here one night, and I knew he had warrants, and I told the officer: 'You know, you need to pick this kid up. He's 12 years old. He said: 'Let the old men have their toys.' What does that say about where we put our priorities.. The cutest but most heartbreaking of the kids is angel-faced Bobby, a hardened, tough-talking 13-year-old. He climbs onto the seat next to Sims, devours leftover Cokes and potato chips, and vents his anger at a john who'd tried to pick him up: "The fucker tries to buy my 13-year-old ass, then complains I tried to rob him!" - Maverick priest braves indifference, poverty to reach young sex workers: "Sims estimates he's attended 1,000 funerals for young sex workers and addicts since he established his ministry more than a decade ago. Some were as young as 12; none were older than 28. All led lives that were far too sad and complicated for their years...  - John Green, the pastor with the pavement parish: " Helping male prostitutes to get off the streets on Chicago's north side has been John Green's full-time ministry ever since he earned his master's degree from the Graduate School at Wheaton College in 1992... The guys don't like to be identified as being involved in prostitution even when they are. They generally prefer the term 'hustling'." - John Green: A light for Chicago's night community: "Founded by Wheaton (Illinois) College graduate John Green, Emmaus Ministries reaches out to the "night community" in a neighborhood known for its gay bars and clubs. Most of the prostitutes are young, homeless men addicted to alcohol or drugs. Despite their homosexual clientele, 75 percent of those involved in prostitution consider themselves heterosexual, Green says. Rather than steal to survive and/or feed their habit, they sell their bodies." - Where Hustlers Find Hope: Male Prostitutes in inner-city Chicago are finding a new kind of love from a radical ministry that offers compassion instead of judgment. 

Deeper in the Shadows: Where the boys go is much more obscure (Alternate Link): "The Bridge Team's main goal is to reach women, but the team also works with male prostitutes. The "boys" tend to be even younger than their female counterparts; most are between 15 and 20 years old. The male prostitutes don't walk the streets the way the women do. They loiter behind the Springfield Newspapers building and the Peter Pan bus station, waiting for customers - generally older men - to pick them up." - Antiques 'stolen by prostitute' (An International Story - USA/Australia).

Profile of a pedophile: How a prominent Ware attorney preyed on troubled boys - and why some people in town continue to stand by him: "Sure, there were whispers: What did Pentlarge really want with these troubled boys? He was an out gay man, out and proud. When accusations of child molestation surfaced in the mid-1980s, Pentlarge and his friends deflected them by crying prejudice and homophobia. Well-meaning people were intimidated by the insinuation that questioning Pentlarge's motives was an act of bigotry, that it fed into a detestable stereotype that suggests gays are pedophiles at heart. But the whispers persisted. By the early 1990s, the volume grew loud enough to reach the ears of the state police. And then, investigators say, the boys themselves balked. They agreed to tell their stories, but hesitated to testify - out of fear and shame and, perhaps, admiration. Or even love... The Pentlarge case demonstrates how easy it is for society to remain blind to child sexual assault, especially when the victims are adolescent boys. It also shows that when the perpetrator is an otherwise upstanding member of the community and his victims are tainted by troubled pasts, it is painfully easy for justice to be denied..."

City of night (PDF Download) (by Three Dollar Bill): "Friedman, 30, hustled for seven months to pay the rent when he was a closeted freshman at the University of Minnesota a decade ago. "I was a sex worker long enough to figure it was exciting but not what I was looking for: The protections were very few... "A lot of hustlers are runaways," Mack explains. "They get propositioned all the time and eventually they say yes. It's not as awful as it's made out to be. Ideally the money is good and you develop relationships with people not from your side of the tracks, whereas the gay community is completely homogenized. You also become really good at talking with people. Sometimes all you do is talk. People are lonely."" - Saints and sinners: (Alternate Link) ""I had a stable of repeat customers," says the onetime gay hustler and Chicago native who used to place escort ads in newspapers when he attended the University of Minnesota. "I wedged them in around classes," he says."

Montreal, Canada: Study of 919 street youth, 71% male, 89% francophone - (Canadian Public Health Association) "Twenty one per cent of boys reported having engaged in prostitution and 10 of them were infected." - "Dynamique intrapsychique du sujet prostitué en regard d’un fonctionnement carencé: processus individuel et perspectives d’intervention". (Summary of a Master's thesis study on adolescent male prostitution, Université de Québec, 1993.) - Male Prostitution in Montreal: "On estime à plus de 230 le nombre de prostitués masculins qui travaillent sur la rue." - "A" pour actes, "M" pour mutuels: Le travail du sexe au masculin et le sida au Canada (PDF version of document available). - Prostitution masculine et risque d'infection au VIH. Persistance du risque après l'arrêt des comportements deprostitution: l’étude longitudinale OMEGA. - Débroussailleur et démystificateur: Dans son nouvel ouvrage, Michel Dorais éclaire le phénomène de la prostitution masculine. - Les Cowboys de la Nuit: Prostitution masculine. - Entretien avec l'auteur de "Travailleurs du sexe": Michel Dorais.

M is for MUTUAL, A is for ACTS: Male Sex Work and AIDS in Canada: - Études sur les jeunes de la rue et les jeunes hommes travailleurs du sexe au Canada. - Studies of Street Youth and Younger Male Sex Workers in Canada. - Clients des travailleurs du sexe hommes au Canada. - The Clients of Male Sex Workers in Canada. - Travail du sexe au masculin et identité sexuelle au Canada. - Male Sex Work and Sexual Identity in Canada. - Travailleurs du sexe hommes autochtones. - Aboriginal Male Sex Workers.

Reaching Out: Male and Female Sex Workers - Durban, 10 July 2000: "In the presentation from the US, Baney et al allowed that he and his research team were surprised that more people actually considered themselves sex workers, than he or his team had previously thought, and yet recruitment of commercial sex workers or body workers was always a challenge as they functioned in a world where distrust of others was as real an issue as the entrapment they faced. Some of the common counselling issues faced by these men in his sample were isolation, sexual compulsion, self-esteem and self worth, personal relationships and sexual objectification by themselves and their clients." - Sexwork Cyber Center: The Need For Sex Workers. Sex work Archives: http://archives.healthdev.net/sex-work.

The impact of transphobia on HIV risk behaviors among male-to-female transgenders in San Francisco (PDF Download): Focus Group (N = 48) & Cross-Sectional Sample (N = 332), most having had a commercial sex work history: 29% reported having attempted suicide, with another 15% having experienced suicidal ideation. - HIV risk behaviors among male-to-female transgender persons of color in San Francisco. - Gendered sex work in the San Francisco tenderloin.

Healthy Hustling. -  How "Healthy Hustling" was made. - Hook Online: A magazine for men in the sex work industry: Archive Article Search Available. - What It Cost by T.R.  I was a male prostitute from age 12 to 35. - How I got lost finding myself: The story of a young Amsterdam boytoy. - Body Work for Men. - Working Safely. - Suited & Booted. - The Bill Gates of hustlers: PDF Download.

Male prostitution challenges feminists arguments: "While it is in fact true that the majority of prostitutes in this country and the world are female, and that the majority of clients are men, a more serious consideration of male prostitution might greatly enrich the feminist debate precisely because it would serve to complicate the arguments of both sides. If prostitution is simply an expression of men's sexual dominance over women, then what is the social significance of male prostitution, of the availability of male bodies for sexual use on the market?" Live! Nude! Boys! How I spent a year preparing to be a hot-bodied stripper - then decided I didn't want to be an object of desire.

McIntyre S (2005). Under the Radar: The Sexual Exploitation of Young Men. Internet: http://www.child.gov.ab.ca/whatwedo/pcse/pdf/undertheradar.pdf.

Some Study results for 37 male youth prostitutes in Alberta (For More Information):

Young men in this study were gay, heterosexual and bisexual 54% of this population are of Aboriginal heritage 51% had involvement with Child Welfare Services Over half of this population had grown up in care. 60% had a history of being thrown out of their homes 65% had not completed high school 95% had a history of running away 86% experienced staying in shelters 57-70% had a history prior to the street of being sexually violated 86% had been physically violated or abused while growing up 73% began the sex work under the age of 18 49% began sex work by the age of 15 35% began sex work by the age of 13 Males enter the trade younger and stay longer than young women Drug use is extensive Almost everyone felt no one should do this type of work The fear of gay-bashing exists 54% identified periods of contemplation of self-harm

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LATIN AMERICA / CARIBBEAN:

Lila's House: Male Prostitution in Latin America - 1998 - by Jacobo Schifter "Twenty-five young men between the ages of 13 and 27 were interviewed for this study." Book Abstract and Contents available via Haworth Press' Online Catalogue. (Commentaries from Amazon.com) - In Spanish: La casa de Lila. Un estudio sobre la prostitucion masculina. (Book Review).

HIV among gay and other men who have sex with men in Latin America and the Caribbean: a hidden epidemic? "MSM in the region are culturally diverse, with mediation of social class, sex, and ethnicity. Around core gay subcultures, non-gay identified MSM interact with them and frequently exchange sex for goods."

Azaola E  (2000). Boy and Girl Victims of Sexual Exploitation in Mexico.  UNICEF-DIF. PDF Download. "In general, it could be said that while boys who are being exploited predominate in the tourist zone (la Costera, la Condesa), girls prevail in the centre zone, as has happened for a long time back in the hotels and bars of the red light district.... Some of these boys are transvestites and for this reason, especially at night, they dress as women. Some of them also take hormones to transform their bodies... Another transvestite boy, aged 15, that we interviewed on the beach, said that he was born in Guadalajara and that he left home when he was 12 to go and live in the streets in Mexico City where he was in an institution for some time, but left because he wanted to go to Acapulco. He explained that one of the reasons why he decided to leave home and then the institution was because they made fun of him. Now he lives near the beach with a group of friends who prostitute themselves like him. He explained that he finds his clients during the day on the beach or at night in the streets where he dances a bit to attract attention... One 17 year old boy who lives in the streets explained why boys like himself prostitute themselves. He said: “I’m from Altamirano but I’ve been here for several years now. The first time I went to the main square (Zócalo) and joined the others. I left home because of family problems and because my mother preferred that man to me... I left home when I was 8 and I’ve only been back twice since then. I’ve met many people in the Zócalo who live in the streets..."

Fisicoculturistas "for sale" - La explotación del físico masculino mediante el oficio más antiguo del mundo: Una investigación especial de Miguel Ángel  Espinosa: "Claro, es más sencillo el ignorar algo de esta magnitud, pero la realidad es otra. La prostitución masculina es algo que puede estar a la vuelta de la esquina, en la escuela, en los bares, en las colonias "bien" y en los barrios de mala muerte, en internet, en periódicos y revistas, cines, parques y avenidas. A diferencia de las mujeres, los chicos son por lo general más caros, esto, cuando se trata de tener sexo con otros hombres, y un poco más accesibles cuando lo harán con mujeres. Hay prostitutos heterosexuales, bisexuales y homosexuales. Otra gran variedad de estos son los chavos que se visten de mujer, los trasvestis, que poco a poco han ganado terreno frente a la competencia, las mujeres, mejor dicho, ganándoles las calles." - El servicio escort gay, mucho más que sexo y diversión: "Ser escort gay profesional requiere mucho más que un rostro varonil o un cuerpo perfecto. Además de proporcionar masajes y sexo, los expertos en la materia son educados, finos y cultos. Descubre qué es el escorting. ¿Contratarías uno?"

Prostitución Masculina: Así de sencillo, puedes contratar prostitutos, van desde clasificados en periódicos donde puedes encontrar mínimo 10 anuncios de hombres de entre 15 y 30 años que ofrecen sus servicios, veladamente como compañía, masajistas o strippers, pero esperando vender sexo; los que se anuncian en internet, los que se ubican en las calles, los sexoservidores con efigie de mujer, y hasta los llamados "güachos" que son soldados que se ubican cerca de zonas militares. Manejan diferentes tarifas, tan disparadas que van de los 300 a 2000 mil pesos, pero todos desafían el riesgo de contraer enfermedades de transmisión sexual, violencia, además de corrupción y extorsión, tanto de los llamados "padrotes" y de las autoridades. Jerry, stripper, aseguró que de las 20 llamadas que recibe a la semana sólo dos son mujeres, es decir el 10 % se trata de clientes femeninos, el 90% restante son hombres; y para no "quedarse sin comer" dice que le es preciso acceder a dar servicio a hombres por la falta de mujeres que se animen a contratarlo...  "Los hombres en este país que buscan los servicios sexuales de los 'gays' no aceptan ser bisexuales u homosexuales y se escudan diciendo que ellos solamente penetran a un gay", dice Freddy... Muchos de los hombres que se prostituyen poseen un empleo regular durante el día, ganan salarios arriba del mínimo e incluso son estudiantes de nivel básico o bachillerato que viven con sus padres, sin que éstos se enteren de lo que hacen sus hijos... Las calles donde se prostituyen también son escenarios de violencia. Ahí son amenazados o golpeados por clientes u otros que repudian lo que hacen. Los clientes en ocasiones no les pagan por sus servicios y en el peor de los casos los llevan a sitios apartados donde los dejan abandonados. Con frecuencia se dan riñas entre los mismos compañeros de oficio...  Otra cara del sexo comercial masculino lo ejercen hombres con una imagen pública de mujer: las llamadas vestidas, diferenciadas de los travestis, que trabajan en bares. Las vestidas  son independientes, trabajan el sexo en la calle o en las carreteras, y son las que más sufren la extorsión."

Nuevas masculinidades: (Alternate Link)  "La migración y la prostitución masculina indígena en el Distrito Federal, en los recientes años, han representado una nueva problemática con características peculiares que ha retado las tradicionales formas de ser de los hombres. ¿A qué situaciones vivénciales se exponen en un medio ajeno al suyo? En un trabajo de tesis, tanto de licenciatura como de maestría en Antropología de la UNAM, por Patricio Villalba en 1998 y 2002, y un programa de doctorado sobre el análisis del fenómeno migratorio de jóvenes indígenas, se señala el enfrentamiento de dos culturas, la dominante y la dominada. Su condición de inmigrantes sin redes de apoyo, aunado al hecho de ser indígenas, empieza a manifestarse en desventaja, por lo que en estos jóvenes emergen diversos mecanismos psicológicos de defensa para ocultar la identidad que los delata como tales. En la capital, su identidad étnica pierde significado, ya no son nahuas, otomíes, totonacos y chinantecos, entre otros, ahora se les identifica simplemente como albañiles, taqueros, vendedores ambulantes o limpiaparabrisas. Las desigualdades sociales, económicas y culturales se concentran en las grandes ciudades. Y al adentrarse en ellas las necesidades van en aumento, es cuando entran en escena toda suerte de oportunistas que los engañan, roban o vejan. Este estudio refleja que 30 jóvenes indígenas emigrantes de los estados de Chiapas, Guerrero, Estado de México, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla y Veracruz, con edades desde 15 a 23 años, un bajo nivel educativo, optaron por la prostitución como un medio para subsistir en su nuevo contexto socio-cultual..."

Brazil: - Prostituição masculina. - Prostituição masculina muitos conceitos para várias práticas. - Idéal physique féminin, gay et travesti au Brésil ou nouvel esthétisme du corps technologique?: "Dans la prostitution masculine, la jeunesse est un capital, mais dont la rentabilité s’érode vite. De fait, il semble que le culte de la jeunesse soit encore plus en vogue au Brésil qu’en Europe. Par contre pour aller travailler en Europe, le travesti doit être ‘produite’, c’est-à-dire être passer par le processus de chirurgie esthétique. Une ‘bombadeira’ avec vingt ans d’expériences de production de corps travestis me racontait que pour gagner de l’argent, le travesti se prostitue. Pour se prostituer le travesti a besoin d’un corps. Un corps produit. Pour attirer l’attention du client. Pour se sentir mieux avec soi-même. Ce n’est pas supportable de sortir dans la rue avec des seins faits de torchons. La honte, d’enlever ses vêtements et de perdre toutes ses plumes. Le travesti ne peut pas supporter cela. Alors, elle modifie son corps pour se sentir mieux et donner le meilleur au client. Avoir une prothèse mammaire, c’est le certificat leur permettant de gagner leur vie. Pour arriver à s’acheter une voiture, un appartement, c’est petites choses. Il faut faire appel à un chirurgien. Plus le corps est bien produit, le mieux il gagne sa vie (Mona, 2001)." - Introdução ao Tema da Prostituição Masculina.

Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes - 1998 - by Don Kulick (Abstract). - Anthropologist to Speak About Male Prostitutes Crossing Gender Lines in Brazil N/A.

The meeting of the michês - by Paulo Longo: In Brazil machismo rules and male prostitutes rarely dare admit they are gay. But the michês – or hustlers – of Rio are starting to come out of the shadows... Our experience has shown that poverty cannot be used as the only justification for prostitution. In our day-to-day work at Programa ‘Pegação’ – a slang word meaning ‘seducing’ or ‘catching someone for sex’ – most of the boys approach us first as potential clients. As time goes by, and the relationship gains more intimacy, we hear things like ‘With you I would have sex for free, ’cause I like you a lot’... Little by little, male prostitution is coming out of the shadows. This may not improve the way that it is viewed by others, but it does reflect an internal change. Until now, in the few academic papers, in the press and even in social debates, male sex work is not even up there with female sex work as ‘the oldest profession’... Michês working on the streets in Rio are generally very young, between 11 and 23 years old. (Profile of Paul Longo) (Alternate Link) - "Michê: la masculinité au marche ou les aléas de la "prostitution virile" au Brésil."

Human immunodeficiency virus incidence and risk behavior in the 'Projeto Rio': results of the first 5 years of the Rio de Janeiro open cohort of homosexual and bisexual men, 1994-98: "HIV incidence rate (IR).. differences were observed in four categories: (1) non-commercial sex workers and non-transvestites who had protected sex prior to study entry (IR 1.6 per 100 men-years); (2) non-commercial sex workers and non-transvestites who had unprotected sex prior to study entry (IR 2.7 per 100 men-years); (3) commercial sex workers (IR 3.5 per 100 men-years); and (4) transvestite groups (IR 16.8 per 100 men-years)."

"The ghetto is over, darling": emerging gay communities and gender and sexual politics in contemporary Brazil: "The objective of this article is to map out some of the key tensions and power dynamics involved in the apparent consolidation of gay communities/culture in Brazil and to explore what might be gained and lost and for whom in these recent transformations of Brazilian male homosexualities. The data was obtained from ethnographic fieldwork among a group of transvestite sex workers based out of GAPA..."

Argentina: - A profile of clients of male sex workers in Cordoba, Argentina. - Male sex workers in Cordoba, Argentina: sociodemographic characteristics and sex work experiences (Full Text: PDF Download) (Full Text).: "Male sex workers in Córdoba, Argentina: sociodemographic characteristics and sex work experiences (Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 13-3, 2003): "In terms of their self-identity, out of the 30 MSWs who answered the question, 10 of them (33.3%) self-identified as heterosexual and 9 (30%) as bisexual... The age of the respondents ranged from 18 to 37 years old. The mean age was 25.1 years. The single largest group of MSWs were between 18 and 21 years old. Those working as street sex workers were significantly younger (mean age of 21.7 years) than those working as independent MSWs (mean age of 29.3 years) (F1,29 = 20.82; P < 0.001)... When describing their sexual identity, the most frequent answer from the MSWs was "heterosexual (straight)," closely followed by "gay".

Ecuador: - El mercado del placer: Los Adocscentes y la Prostitucion. - PROSTITUCIÓN MASCULINA (PDF Download).

Bolivia: - Prostíbulos: Gays cobran fuerza en Santa Cruz:  El mercado del placer también es homosexual; se publicita en la prensa y hasta en Internet. Las ofertas son de jóvenes entre 18 y 25 años. El costo del servicio varía de Bs 100 a $us 50 la hora. Un anuncio en un diario llevó a Gonzalo hasta el lugar. Fue comisionado por El Nuevo Día para descubrir qué tipo de hombres eran los que ofrecían servicios sexuales a otros hombres, incluso por Internet... Este tipo de prostíbulos que funcionan como bares en la ciudad evidencian que la prostitución masculina ha cobrado fuerza, a pesar de la intolerancia de la sociedad ante el homosexualismo... En el boliche, José insiste en venderle a Gonzalo sus muchachos. Éste le indica que sólo fue a conocer el lugar para volver en otra oportunidad con más tiempo, obviamente finge estar interesado. El hombre le cuenta las mejoras que ha realizado en la casa: el living del fondo tiene aire acondicionado y sólo es para clientes vip. El muy zalamero lo invita a ir hasta allí: siente el cambio, el calor que no alivian los ventiladores se disipa de repente con el frío. Entonces nuestro curioso se anima a que le presente a los chicos, que tras unas palmadas aparecen al instante con sus torsos desnudos. Desfilan frente a él y mueven sus caderas sensualmente. José dice sus nombres, los que usan para este trabajo. A simple vista hay de diferentes edades, algunos aparentan ser adolescentes."

Chile: - Seroprevalence of AIDS in Chilean male and female prostitutes. II.Male prostitution. - Una mirada al desconocido mundo de la prostitución masculina en Santiago oriente. - Los peligros que envuelven a la prostitución masculina: Una de las tesis con que trabaja la policía es que Hans Pozo ejercía el comercio sexual. Esta posibilidad hace reflotar el drama en que se desenvuelven los hombres que se dedican a esta labor, marcada por la enorme desprotección. Una de las líneas de investigación de la policía en torno al asesinato de Hans Pozo Vergara apunta al mundo del comercio sexual masculino. El joven se habría prostituido para poder satisfacer su adicción a la pasta base. El jefe regional de la Brigada de Homicidios, Rubén Molina, prefirió no referirse al tema. Diego tiene 27 años y hace cinco se convirtió en trabajador sexual. Sabe que lo que hace es peligroso, pero está dispuesto a seguir haciéndolo. "Igual uno se arriesga cuando va con el tipo, no se sabe con qué te vas a encontrar. No sabes si el tipo te va a sacar una cortapluma entre medio del auto después, de repente ni te pagan. A mí me han pegado dos veces no más, pero yo he visto otras cosas: pegan con palos y puntazos", manifestó el joven.

Peru: - ¡La Oferta de Chaperos/Fletes (Putos) va en Crecida!: "Muchos de estos "trabajadores sexuales" buscan hacer creer que ellos, viven al margen del "mundo" homosexual en sentido estricto, aunque en su contrapartese convierten en sus parásitos y a veces en sus verdugos, ya que en algunas ocasiones hemos oído noticias de ataques de estos contra sus ocasionales clientes sobre todo cuando el contacto es mas continuo. En Lima es muy habitual verlos en zonas como el Centro histórico o en el distrito "open" de Miraflores. Algunos dicen ser "hombres que se prostituyen para los gays" y aunque son homosexuales, la mayoría no se considera a si mismo como tales, en tanto que habitualmente sienten también una forma de atracción hacia el sexo femenino. - Prostitución gay en Lima. Negocio redondo en corazón de Miraflores: "El departamento está a nombre de Luz Gayoso de 24 años y la línea telefónica a nombre de Francisco Velit de 23. La policía investiga su participación en este negocio. Por lo pronto, la Municipalidad de Miraflores ya aplicó su propia sanción." - Municipalidad de Lima continúa persecución contra homosexuales: "El serenazgo de la Municipalidad de Lima intervino a más de 50 jóvenes que, según el noticiario “90 segundos” (Frecuencia Latina), ejercían la prostitución homosexual en la Plaza San Martín..."

Uraguay: - Sexual transmission of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infections among male transvestite comercial sex workers in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Guatamala: - Pas oublié, mais parti - Notes (in French) on adolescent male prostitution in Guatemala.

Venezuela: - Crisis social: la pobreza obliga a niños y jóvenes a vender su cuerpo para poder subsistir: Se multiplica casos de prostitución infantil en Venezuela. Se estima que existen entre 40.000 y 50.000 casos en el país... "Prostitución masculina también aumenta: La crisis económica que atraviesa el país también ha provocado que se incrementen, en los últimos años, los casos de prostitución masculina en la ciudad capital. En un estudio realizado por la Prefectura de Caracas, en la Parroquia Santa Teresa -zona donde se ha recibido la mayor cantidad de denuncias por los casos de prostitución- se detectó que por cada 40 mujeres que se dedican a esta actividad existen 30 hombres."

El Salvadoe: - Hombres al mejor postor: "Hombres de entre 15 a 30 años se anuncian en los diarios como masajistas o como bailarines o se sitúan en calles de la capital vendiendo sexo al mejor postor. ¿Qué hay tras ese comercio sexual? ¿Lo hacen por necesidad o por placer? ¿Hasta dónde llegan por dinero? ... “Jóvenes universitarios ofrecen compañía”, decía el clasificado de un periódico. Eso y un número de teléfono celular era todo lo que teníamos para comenzar un reportaje sobre prostitución masculina en San Salvador... FUNDASIDA realizó entre mayo y noviembre del 2000 un diagnóstico a 153 hombres entre los 16 y 30 años para evaluar los riesgos y las prácticas sexuales a los que están expuestos. Este determinó que el 60.2% de ese total es homosexual; el 26.2%, bisexual; el 2.0%, heterosexual; 19.8% es transexual y un 0.7% transgéneros... Haber sufrido abusos sexuales siendo niños puede ser un factor de riesgo que provoque la prostitución masculina, señala la doctora Margarita Mendoza Burgos, siquiatra infanto juvenil y terapeuta de familia... Precisamente el consumismo, la migración de salvadoreños al exterior, el acceso fácil a la pornografía, la internet y los mensajes abiertos sobre sexo en los medios de comunicación son también factores determinantes para que el comercio sexual haya aumentado en los últimos años en el país. “Los muchachos están recibiendo mensajes consumistas. El país mismo ha entrado en un proceso de liberalización sexual y la información sobre sexo está más a la mano que nunca”, dice la profesional."

Dominican Republic: -Final Report for the AIDSCAP Program in the Dominican Republic October 1993 to April 1997: "ASA found that many self-identified sub-groups existed within the larger MWM population. This included bisexuals, transsexuals, transvestites, and homosexuals. Some of the sub-groups also involved in commercial sex work deemed necessary the development of specific STI/HIV/AIDS  strategies for these sub-groups. - Proceso de expansión de la comunidad homosexual en la sociedad dominicana en los últimos 30 años. 

Martinique et Guadeloupe - L'honneur des makoumès: "Alors que l’homosexualité reste largement interdite dans les Caraïbes, en Martinique et en Guadeloupe, les mentalités commencent à changer... Depuis trois ans, toujours à proximité du centre-ville, des prostitués masculins travaillent aux abords du palais de justice. Fait relativement nouveau, en rapport avec la baisse généralisée du pouvoir d’achat en Martinique. Les pédés de l’île préfèrent fermer les yeux sur un phénomène qu’ils ne voudraient pas voir associé à l’homosexualité."

Jamaica - Teenage boys and the sex trade - A tragedy in waiting? "Within Kingston and St. Andrew's fancy houses and hotels, and outside along those daytime busy streets, twilight hides a sombre reality: scores of boys below the age of 19 years, frolicking with men two or three times their age in exchange for money...  He, however, explained that this activity mainly takes place in the Kingston and Montego Bay area, but should not be seen as sex workers in the strict sense. According to him, sex workers are persons whose main occupation is transactional sex.But regardless of whether they are sex workers or not, health workers believe the activities of the boys can cause serious long-term health problems, apart from STIs... "Many are afraid to stop it - some say they are born this way and some are being programmed. We try to counsel them, but it all boils down to money," Nurse Holly Alvaranga of the Glen Vincent Clinic said." - A night with male prostitutes. - A glimpse inside the lifestyle of a male prostitute. - Jamaican Newspaper Warns of Surge in Male Prostitutes.

Puerto Rico: - Sexual identity formation and AIDS prevention: an exploratory study of non-gay-identified Puerto Rican MSM from working class neighborhoods.

Haiti: - Reaching Out To Bring Young Haitians In: FHI Helps Two Organizations Work With Youth In High – Risk Settings (PDF Download): "With support from USAID and FHI, Dr. Boulos is overseeing a second behavioral surveillance survey of Haiti (the first was conducted in 2000) to assess the behaviors that put Haitians at risk for HIV. He explains, “Poverty is so extensive in Haiti that girls go into prostitution just to bring money home.” He noted that male prostitution – where, typically, poor, illiterate men sell sex to educated, middle class men–is also common..."

Cuba: - Prostitution and Sex Tourism in Cuba. Cuba in Transition, 11: 356-71. (PDF Download): "Male prostitution is also present in Havana. In Cuba, unlike in other Caribbean islands such as Jamaica,14 gay men dominate male prostitution. Hustlers and other gay men congregate nightly at the corner of the Cine Yara, in Vedado... Gay prostitution is similar to heterosexual prostitution. Hustlers cater mainly to European men, especially Italians. They charge between $30-$50. They see prostitution as a good way to make money, and generally do not prostitute themselves out of desperation or to support a drug or alcohol addiction... Transvestites are common within the gay community. Some transvestites simply dress in women’s clothes at night. Others are transsexuals, who have had operations to change their gender..."

Notes (in French) on male prostitution in Cuba for tourists - by voyager.com. "La prostitution masculine connaît aussi une augmentation notable au pays. Ce n'est pas une prostitution masculine habituelle, mais plutôt une façon subtile qu'ont certains hommes de soutirer tout ce qu'ils peuvent de leurs conquêtes féminines venues de l'étranger." - Premian documental sobre prostitución masculina en Cuba: "También el documental de hoy enfoca otra cuestión sobre la que apenas se habla: la prostitución masculina. Aunque se sitúa en el contexto y la realidad de Cuba, donde las situaciones política y social son especiales, 'El pulóver', trata aspectos que superan ese ámbito geográfico, entre ellos y principalmente el riesgo de contagio de Sida. En el debate que se abrirá al final estará presente el responsable del programa de reducción de daños con trabajadores masculinos del sexo que lleva a cabo Fundación Triangulo."

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EUROPE / NORTH AFRICA:

European Network Male Prostitution. -  First Meeting: 11 - 12 December, 1997, Amsterdam. - Lottery money for rent boy AIDS Project. - From the European Intervention Projects AIDS Prevention for Prostitutes: - Information about male (including transsexual and transvestite) prostitution in France. (Must scroll to locate information - in French.) - Male prostitution in Europe Training guide for health and social workers who deal with (foreign) male prostitutes. [Reference: Male prostitution in Europe; Training guide for health and social workers who deal with (foreign) male prostitutes. Available in English, French, German and Polish Editors: Georg Bröring & Tracey Pierpoint, April 1998 ] - Part II: Regional Survey of Sex Work Characteristics and Policy Change. - Hustling for HEALTH: Developing services for sex workers in Europe. - Male Prostitution in Europe. (From Full Text Article Listing, Prostitution in Finland). - ENMP: European Network Male prostitution (Information supplied by country.