Male Prostitution : Routledge : 9781560243687 : 1560243686 : 21 Jan 1993 : Here is the most comprehensive empirical study ever published about male prostitutes and their clients. Written by one of the most distinguished international scholars in psychiatry and criminal justice, this book provides a carefully designed presentation of in-depth interviews with several hundred London ?rent boys.? The interviews included a large sample of one-to-one conversations in a private room tape-recorded with the consent of the interviewees. Dr. West and his colleague, Mr. de Villiers, bring you squarely into the everyday lives of male prostitutes and cover little known details of their lives, such as:the drift into homelessnesssexual orientationentry into prostitutionsexual orientationthreats of blackmail, violence, and murder by male prostitutes or their clientsattitudes and intentions of the male prostitutespost-prostitution careers, legal and criminology issuespersonal fears, desires, and interes