Male Prostitution

Here is the most comprehensive empirical study ever published about male prostitutes and their clients. Written by one of the most distinguished international scholars in psychiatry and criminal justice, this book provides a carefully designed presentation of in-depth interviews with several hundred London rent boys. The interviews included a large sample of one-to-one conversations in a private room tape-recorded with the consent of the interviewees. Dr. West and his colleague, Mr. de Villiers, bring you squarely into the everyday lives of male prostitutes and cover little known details of their lives, such as entry into prostitution, threats of blackmail, violence, and murder by male prostitutes or their clients, attitudes and intentions of the male prostitutes, post-prostitution careers, legal and criminology issues, and personal fears, desires, and interests of male prostitutes.

Contents Preface