Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : male sex work: current characteristics and recent transformations / Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker -- Lifestyle, work or easy money? : male sex work in the Netherlands today / Marieke Ridder-Wiskerke and Peter Aggleton -- Surfing liquid modernity : Albanian and Romanian male sex workers in Europe / Nicola Mai -- Sex work at a crossroads : men who sell sex to men in Macedonia / Dan Allman And Borche Bozhinov -- 'Straight' rent boys and gays who sell sex in Istanbul / Cenk Özbay -- Economies of masculinity : male sex work in urban Brazil / Gregory Mitchell -- Between the casa and the calle : Dominican male sex workers serving a tourist clientele / Mark B. Padilla -- Men who sell sex in Peru : evolving technology and sexual cultures / Carlos F. Cáceres, Angela M. Bayer, Ada Gomero, Pippa M. Grenfell and Ximena Salazar -- Sexual-economic transactions among men who have sex with men in Africa / Tsitsi B. Masvawure and Theo Sandfort -- 'Cape Town is free' : reflections on male sex work in Cape Town, South Africa / Marlise Richter and Gordon Isaacs -- Sexual life histories of male sex workers in south India : emotional, erotic, and economic dimensions / Robert Lorway, Sushena Reza-Paul, Akram Pasha and Shamshad Khan -- Male sex work in urban Pakistan : experiences from Lahore and Karachi / Jan Willem De Lind Van Wijngaarden and Qasim Iqbal -- 'Moving on up' : making sense of male sex work in Thailand / Jan Willem De Lind Van Wijngaarden -- Male escorts in Australia / John Scott, Victor Minichiello and Joni Meenagh -- Positive marginality and stigma resistance among gay and bisexual male escorts in the USA / Juline A. Koken, David S. Bimbi and Jeffrey T. Parsons -- The cash nexus : money, worth and price for men who sell sex to men in the UK / Allan Tyler -- His story : the commodification of men's same-sex sexuality in Canada / Dan Allman -- Male sex work in China / Tong Ge, Zhen Li and Peter Aggleton.