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. 1976 Jul;30(3):441-51.
doi: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1976.30.3.441.

The psychodynamics of male prostitution

S E Caukins, N R Coombs

The psychodynamics of male prostitution

S E Caukins et al. Am J Psychother. 1976 Jul.

Abstract

In a seventeen-month field study thirty-three male were interviewed and tentatively classified into four categories: call-boys, street prostitutes, bar hustlers, and kept boys. These classifications, though flexible, were deemed useful in exploring the homosexual psychodynamics involved. In addition, twenty frequenter of prostitutes (scores) were interviewed and the prostitute-customer relationship was analyzed and discussed.

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