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A new public health context to understand male sex work

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, March 2015
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Title
A new public health context to understand male sex work
Published in
BMC Public Health, March 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-1498-7
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Authors

Victor Minichiello, John Scott, Denton Callander

Abstract

Researching male sex work offers insight into the sexual lives of men and women while developing a more realistic appreciation for the changing issues associated with male sex work. This type of research is important because it not only reflects a growing and diversifying consumer demand for male sex work, but also because it enables the construction of knowledge that is up-to-date with changing ideas around sex and sexualities. This paper discusses a range of issues emerging in the male sex industry. Notably, globalisation and technology have contributed to the normalisation of male sex work and reshaped the landscape in which the male sex industry operates. As part of this discussion, we review STI and HIV rates among male sex workers at a global level, which are widely disparate and geographically contextual, with rates of HIV among male sex workers ranging from 0% in some areas to 50% in others. The Internet has reshaped the way that male sex workers and clients connect and has been identified as a useful space for safer sex messages and research that seeks out hidden or commonly excluded populations. We argue for a public health context that recognises the emerging and changing nature of male sex work, which means programs and policies that are appropriate for this population group. Online communities relating to male sex work are important avenues for safer sexual messages and unique opportunities to reach often excluded sub-populations of both clients and male sex workers. The changing structure and organisation of male sex work alongside rapidly changing cultural, academic and medical discourses provide new insight but also new challenges to how we conceive the sexualities of men and male sex workers. Public health initiatives must reflect upon and incorporate this knowledge.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Indonesia 1 1%
Unknown 95 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 18 19%
Student > Bachelor 14 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 14%
Researcher 10 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 22 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 21 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 18%
Psychology 12 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 7%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Other 9 9%
Unknown 27 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 November 2022.
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#2,490,375
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#2,883
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#31,546
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#59
of 302 outputs
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