Journal Article

\Wouldn't a Boy Do?\ Placing Early-Twentieth-Century Male Youth Sex Work into Histories of Sexuality

Romesburg, Don

2009

نظرة عامة

[...] reform and policing activities regarding male youth sex work were much more inconsistent than were actions regarding female prostitution, commercialized amusements, and more anticipated forms of boy delinquency such as theft and truancy. Over time overtly commercialized same-sex encounters, particularly involving boys, came to represent this effect's worst manifestation.43 Both in passing mention within the reports and more extensively in the background materials and field notes supporting them, male youth sex work became a regularized component of the broad array of activities and locations that fell under the broad umbrella of \"vice\" that had the concept of prostitution as its organizing principle.

• الناشر: University of Texas Press,University of Texas at Austin (University of Texas Press)
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