Entering Male Prostitution

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This article uses open-ended interview data to analyze the process of entry into male prostitution. Such entry proceeds through two stages, first initial and then regular involvement. Two paths to initial involvement are identified: defensive involvement, in which boys first turn to prostitution as a solution to a desperate living and financial situation, and adventurous involvement, in which youths who are relatively better off agree to sexual relations for payment in order to earn extra money and sometimes to obtain sexual satisfaction. Whereas the first group generally move to regular involvement in prostitution shortly after their first sale, those who turn to prostitution adventurously tend to move into regular involvement mpnths or years after their first sale in response to a vanety of life-situation contingencies.

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