Lives of male prostitutes, and the cohesive community developed to face AIDS, crack cocaine, and urban redevelopment.
Preface
Hustling and the Marketplace
The Scene
The Cast
A Day in the Life
Cracking the Code
Aiding and Abetting
Riding out the Storm
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
ROBERT P. McNAMARA is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Furman University. He is the author of Crime Displacement: The Other Side of Prevention (1994), Sex, Scams and Street Life: The Sociology of New York City's Times Square (forthcoming) and Sex, Drugs and HIV (forthcoming) with Cindy Patton. He has been a consultant for state, federal, and private agencies on topics such as AIDS, drug abuse, and policing.
"Bob McNamara has done a remarkable job of capturing the character
and complexity of the street life of Times Square hustlers--a
difficult and hard to reach deviant environment to be sure.
Throughout, he not only tells their fascinating story, but goes
further to examine the relations between hustlers, the hustled, and
those who facilitate the entire process. A well-written account,
his result should be read by all who are interested in the subject,
the difficulties of ethnographic research, or the interactions
between deviance (crime) and the environment in which it
occurs."-Dennis Jay Kenney, Ph.D. Associate Professor, University
of Nebraska at Omaha Director of Research, Police Executive
Research Forum
"McNamara enhances our understanding of community by showing us how
male prostitution shapes and is shaped by community structure,
organization, and patterns of interaction."-Albert J. Reiss, Jr.
William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology Emeritus Yale
University
"McNamara has ventured out into parts of the social world rarely
visited by social scientists, and he has returned with a remarkably
interesting and perceptive account of a way of life we know almost
nothing about. A real achievement."-Kai Erikson Professor of
Sociology Yale University
?Drawing on months of field observation and 35 unstructured
interviews, McNamara makes an important contribution to our
knowledge about sex workers, subcultural life, and social deviance
in general. The existing literature on male hustlers largely
predates the AIDS pandemic and the arrival of crack cocaine, which
together have altered the professional landscape for sex
workers....McNamara documents these changes with clarity, updating
the existing literature, but goes further to achieve the mark of
truly fine ethnography: He weaves an engrossing tale from the life
histories he analyzes.?-Contemporary Sociology
"Drawing on months of field observation and 35 unstructured
interviews, McNamara makes an important contribution to our
knowledge about sex workers, subcultural life, and social deviance
in general. The existing literature on male hustlers largely
predates the AIDS pandemic and the arrival of crack cocaine, which
together have altered the professional landscape for sex
workers....McNamara documents these changes with clarity, updating
the existing literature, but goes further to achieve the mark of
truly fine ethnography: He weaves an engrossing tale from the life
histories he analyzes."-Contemporary Sociology
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