Paul Mathews

Male Prostitution: Two Monographs (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The 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 necessitya 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: JenaAngel
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781370318148
• Artikelnr.: 70612176

Autorenporträt

Dr. Paul Mathews is an anthropologist and sociologist who has worked on Philippine issues for 25 years, and also spent 2 years in Taiwan. He has written extensively about Philippine society and culture in such areas as health, gender relations and sexuality, values, and economic development. He is currently freelancing, following a Research Fellowship at the Australian National University. He is Secretary of the Philippine Studies Association of Australasia, and former Managing Editor of Pilipinas, A Journal of Philippine Studies.