Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work Culture and Society

<p>Panoramic and provocative in its scope, this handbook is the definitive guide to contemporary issues associated with male sex work and a must read for those who study masculinities, male sexuality, sexual health, and sexual cultures.<br><br>This groundbreaking volume will have a powerful impact on our understanding of this challenging, elusive subject. While the internet has brought the previously hidden worlds of male sex work more starkly into public view, academic research has often remained locked into descriptions of male sex workers and their clients as perverse. Drawing from a variety of regions, the chapters provide insights into the historical, popular cultural, social, and economic aspects of sex work, as well as demographic patterns, health outcomes, and policy issues. This approach shifts thought on male sex work from a hidden "social problem" to a publicly acknowledged "social phenomenon." The book challenges myths and reconceptualizes male sex work as a discrete field. Importantly, it provides a vehicle for the voices of male sex workers and new and established scholars. This richly detailed, humane, and innovative collection retrieves male sex work from silence and invisibility on the one hand and its association with scandal and stigma on the other. The findings within have profound implications for how governments approach public health and regulation of the sex industry and for how society can make sense of the complexities of human sexualities. <br><br>A compelling scholarly read and a major contribution to a commercial sector that is often neglected in policy debates on sex work, this handbook will be of great interest to scholars of criminology, sociology, gender studies, and cultural studies and all those interested in male sex work.</p> <p>PART I. MALE SEX WORK IN POPULAR CULTURE</p><p>1. Reframing the Cleveland Street Scandal in England: Telegraph Boys, the Service Economy, and Compensated Sex</p><p>Katie Hindmarch-Watson </p><p>2. Youth Male Prostitution in Post-Nazi Germany: Policing the Bahnhof Boys</p><p>Jennifer V. Evans </p><p>3. "Kept Men" in Silent Gay Cinema: Between Romanticism and Didacticism</p><p>Andrew Grossman</p><p>4. Male Prostitution and Fashion: Dressed to Thrill</p><p>Itai Doron</p><p>5. Male Strippers in Popular Film: Representations Disrobed</p><p>Andrea Waling</p><p>6. Gigolos in Popular Cinema: Magic Mike, American Gigolo, and the Queerness of Heterosexuality</p><p>Russell Sheaffer</p><p>7. Male Sex Work in Documentary Films: Rhetorical and Ethical Frameworks</p><p>Nicholas de Villiers</p><p>8. Male Sex Work in the Porn Industry: Gendering Risk and Protection</p><p>Heather Berg</p><p>PART II. MALE SEX WORK IN LITERATURE</p><p>9. Male Sex Workers in World Literature: A Sampling from Historical Times to the Modern Era</p><p>Felice Picano</p><p>10. Male Sex Work Diaries: Archival Discoveries from the Journal Entries of Thomas Painter and <i>Sam Steward and Yuriy Zikratyy</i></p><p>11. Male Sex Work in Comics and Graphic Novels: Representations from an Emerging Genre</p><p>Dale Corvino</p><p>12. Male Sex Work in the Library Collection: Discoveries in the Stacks</p><p>Robert Ridinger</p><p>PART III. MALE SEX WORK ONLINE</p><p>13. Quantifying Global Male Sex Work Communities in the Technology Era: Revisions in Definitions and Statistics</p><p>Victor Minichiello, John Scott, Taylor Harrington, Denton Callander, and Christian Grov</p><p>14. Male Sex Work and Digital Regulation: Control and Censorship in Online Spaces</p><p>Denton Callander and Ryan DeVeau</p><p>15. Male Sex Work and the Law: Regulation of Men Selling Sex within the Context of Female Sex Work</p><p>Thomas Crofts and Alice Orchiston</p><p>16. Internet-Based Male Sex Work: Varying Roles of Stories, Scripts, and Spontaneity</p><p>Kevin Walby</p><p>17. Male Independent Sex Workers in the Digital Age: Online Male Escorting in the United Kingdom</p><p>Teela Sanders, Jane Pitcher, Jane Scoular, Rosie Campbell, and Stewart Cunningham</p><p>PART IV. MALE SEX WORK IN PUBLIC AND COMMUNITY HEALTH</p><p>18. Global Epidemiology of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections among Male Sex Workers: Emerging Approaches in Prevention and Treatment</p><p>Peter Salhaney, Katie B. Biello, and Matthew J. Mimiaga</p><p>19. Male Sex Work and Behavioral Health: Structural Risks, Stigma, and Psychosocial Considerations</p><p>Peter Salhaney, Matthew J. Mimiaga, Christopher Santestefano, and Katie B. Biello</p><p>PART V. MALE SEX WORKER, ESCORT, AND CLIENT VOICES: "NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US"</p><p>20. Male Sex Work and the Female Client: Accounts from a Straight Male Escort</p><p>Maxime Durocher</p><p>21. Female Clients of Male Sex Workers: Managing Stigma</p><p>Hilary Caldwell and John de Wit</p><p>22. Trans Men in Sex Work: Prevalent but Overlooked</p><p>Max Nicolai Appenroth</p><p>PART VI. MALE SEX WORK IN THE AMERICAS</p><p>23. Male Sex Work in North America: Frontiers of Change in the United States and Canada</p><p>Christian Grov and Drew Westmoreland</p><p>24. Male Transactional Sex in the Dominican Republic: The Politics of Labor Exclusion</p><p>José Félix Colón-Burgos and Mark Padilla</p><p>25. Brazilian Male Sex Workers: In and Out of Termas</p><p>Voon Chin Phua</p><p>26. Street Hustling in Brazil: Historical Glimpses of Rio de Janeiro</p><p>Gregory Mitchell</p><p>27. Male Internet-Based Escorting in Argentina: Changing Attitudes and Laws</p><p>Carlos Disogra, Victor Minichiello, Rodrigo Mariño, John Scott, Taylor Harrington, and Tinashe Dune</p><p>28. Male Sex Work in Mexico: Virile Prostitution at the Plaza Tapatía of Guadalajara</p><p>Giovane Mendieta-Izquierdo</p><p>PART VII. MALE SEX WORK IN EUROPE</p><p>29. Male Sex Work in Italy: Male Hierarchies, Honor, and Sexual Status in the South</p><p>Cirus Rinaldi</p><p>30. Male Prostitution in Spain: Vulnerability of the Invisible</p><p>Iván Zaro</p><p>31. Male Sex Work in Sweden: Criminalization of the Client</p><p>Marco Bacio</p><p>32. Male Sex Work in the Czech Republic: The Intersection of Cultural Norms, Sexual Orientation, and Economic Disparities</p><p>Michael Bar-Johnson</p><p>PART VIII. MALE SEX WORK IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION</p><p>33. Male Sex Work in India: Gendered Sexualities and the Market of Mumbai</p><p>Ankur Srivastava and R. Vaishno Bharati</p><p>34. Male Sex Work in China: Digital Technology and Its Emerging Role</p><p>Yifeng Cai</p><p>35. Male Sex Workers in China: Repercussions of Local Germ Theories on Safe Sex, Hygiene, and Fatalism</p><p>Paul Bouanchaud</p><p>36. Male Sex Work and Masculinities in Hong Kong and Mainland China: "One Country, Two Men"</p><p>Albert C. H. Yau and Travis S. K. Kong</p><p>37. Male Sex Work in Australia: Impact of Legalization, Decriminalization, and Peer Support in Community and Public Health</p><p>Denton Callander, Ryan DeVeau, Garrett Prestage, Juliet Richters, and Basil Donovan</p><p>38 CONCLUSION</p><p>Decriminalization as a Goal: Opportunities, Varieties, and Pathways </p><p>John Scott, Christian Grov, and Victor Minichiello</p><p>Index</p>