A ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five Analyses the adverse ways being stigmatized as homosexual affects personality and behaviour Shows that those who are heterosexual but suspected of being homosexual are most at risk of suicide Dead Boys Can't Dance is a ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five. North American society has been reluctant to recognize that there is a link between the social stigmatization...

A ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five Analyses the adverse ways being stigmatized as homosexual affects personality and behaviour Shows that those who are heterosexual but suspected of being homosexual are most at risk of suicide Dead Boys Can't Dance is a ground-breaking exploration of the double taboos of homosexuality and suicide and their effect on males from fourteen to twenty-five. North American society has been reluctant to recognize that there is a link between the social stigmatization...

Rent Boys paints a vivid picture of the men who service men in an urban Western context. Using interviews with forty young male sex workers, Michel Dorais analyses their differences in terms of self-esteem, control over their lives, relations to their clients, and risk of HIV infection. He insightfully and usefully breaks down male sex workers into four different types: outcasts whose drug addiction and prostitution go hand-in-hand; part-timers for whom prostitution is an occasional means to make money; insiders for whom the world of prostitution has become a "family"; and liberationists...

Paints a vivid picture of the men who service men in an urban Western context. Using interviews with forty young male sex workers, the author analyses their differences in terms of self-esteem, control over their lives, relations to their clients, and risk of HIV infection. And, he breaks down male sex workers into four different types.

'Gangs and Girls' is a major piece of qualitative research specifically aimed at understanding and analyzing the involvement of street gangs in female juvenile prostitution.

'Gangs and Girls' is a major piece of qualitative research specifically aimed at understanding and analyzing the involvement of street gangs in female juvenile prostitution.

Nearly one male in six has been the victim of sexual abuse during childhood or adolescence - yet this abuse remains a taboo subject, even among victims. This text gives the victims a voice, providing a sensitive analysis of their traumas.