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MALE SEX WORKERS
We have always being knowing and learning about female prostitution, female sex workers their lives, what they go through, how they lead their life, etc. With time we are quit unknown to male prostitution and its effects on society. Within a very short time male prostitution has increased all over. Like female prostitution male prostitution is also getting engaged in sexual activity for money. Compared to female prostitution male prostitution have not been studied the same way with more research and interest. There is a wide difference between the two groups and how they work. Male prostitution is increasingly visible in India. Male sex workers offering services to female customers are known Gigolos. Gigolos services are increasing in India. There are many of harassment cases by Gigolos against female client. Although male homosexuals are paid attention to and there are laws which legalised it, male prostitution is almost invisible. Not much is currently known about the status of male sex workers. Due to the social stigma in society, male sex workers face a higher risk than females. They often face violence from police, client and are often subjected to extortion from police in order to carry on with their work.
Mostly people are quit unknown to this but there are various names given to male prostitutes. A man who does not regard himself as a gay but is prepared to have sex with a male client for money is called Gay for Pay' or rough trade. A large number of male sex workers are eunuchs. There are other names like male escorts, gigolos, rent-boys, models, masseurs and hustlers.
Male prostitution is found in all modern cultures. Young male prostitutesin edo periodsof Japan were called kagema. Their clients were mainly adult men.
In southern areas of Central Asia and Afghanistan, an adolescent of twelve to sixteen who was a performer practiced in erotic songs and suggestive dancing and was available as a sex worker. He was known as a baccha.
In India, a hijra is a physically male or intersex person who may enter into prostitution. Not all hijras are prostitutes, however, and many consider themselves to have a female identity in a male body and accept this as a sacred condition or gift. They dress as women and dance at weddings, child births, and other happy occasions. Many hijras in Pakistan consider themselves to be religious.
A male sex worker in the Caribbean who solicits on beaches and has clients of both sexes is called a Sanky-panky
Historical evidence from court records and vice investigations shows male prostitution in what is now the United States as early as the late 17th century. With the expansion of urban areas and aggregation of gay community's toward the end of the 19th century male prostitution became more apparent, and included baths, brothels such as the Paresis Hall in the Bowery district of New York, and prostitution bars in which so-called "fairies" solicited other men for sex and received a commission for selling drinks.
Male sex workers also faces the same hardships or sometime even more than females sex workers. There should be laws enforced for their security that will save them for exploitation.
