Men as Prostitutes

Abstract

Despite recent attempts to study male sex workers, within the overall literature on the sex industry they remain an understudied group. Yet evidence suggests that male sex work is a growing enterprise and the male body is increasingly seen as a commodified product. The expansion of men's participation as sex workers is complemented by the growing eroticisation of men's bodies in popular culture. For example, male-to-male pornography constitutes a sizeable segment of the US pornography market, about one third to one half of the $2.4 billion adult industry (Watson 2000).