{"product_id":"2940153707761","title":"Male Prostitution: Two Monographs","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first paper here describes salient aspects of male prostitution of Ermita (Manila, Philippines) in the 1980s and '90s. I suggest various reasons for such prostitution, how the boys reconcile their activities with church and societal morality, and also how they construct their sexual identity. The second paper is a critique of \"Being A Prostitute\", in which I argue that certain categories of male prostitutes have been excluded in various studies; these omissions, I suggest, were necessary to allow a hypothesis that most male prostitution derives from economic necessity—a recurrent economic determinism reminiscent of Havelock Ellis, and somewhat contrary to a broader structural approach. Implicitly at least, in both papers I indicate that boys are willing and able to accommodate a divergent sexual behaviour that does not conflict with their own self-image or the eventual expectations of society: the Western ideological notion that such boys are unwillingly or unwittingly exploited, corrupted and psycho-sexually scarred into becoming adult homosexuals or sex fiends is, I suggest, idiosyncratically Western.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Warrior Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103427641584,"sku":"2940153707761","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940153707761_p0.jpg?v=1764058775","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940153707761","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}