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Rent boys: Sex workers living on society's edge

Although at 28, Kevin is a former male prostitute, he comes here to assemble up with friends who are still in the business. He says he hates the place, because it reminds him of the experiences he's had here. He had so many clients that he turned to the drug pervitin to stay alert all night.

"Here you come across bank officials, people in high positions and people with average jobs. And you meet them without thinking about it, because if you were to remember each client you had or didn't contain then you would proceed crazy. But the people usually remember you, and that's the worst."

Kevin and two other former male prostitutes told Radio Prague what it's like for these children and immature men who are one of Prague's human tourist attractions. They paint a bleak picture of predominantly orphans and runaways caught up in a nature of drug addiction, isolation and the ever-present threat of sexually transmitted diseases.

They also say that many of these prostitutes launch when they're still children.

And even though these three men have left the business, their future does not seem bright.

All of the

Life as a male sex worker in Britain today

Michael Cowan

BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme

It is estimated there are as many as 100,000 sex workers across the UK, and about 20% of them are male. Some of these men see their work as a positive choice, but for the most vulnerable it can be tiny more than a means to survive.

It is soon afternoon in east London, and Daniel has just finished his first appointment of the day.

After dropping out of university a decade ago, he turned to sex work and has been doing it full time ever since.

"I see mainly unattached men," he tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.

"A large proportion are queer and out, but a lot of the [others] are married and trying to cover up what they're doing."

Daniel says his clients usually fall between the ages of 35 and 85, and his price list includes anything from massages to sexual intercourse and overnight stays - which he advertises through apps and websites.

What he is doing is legal.

In England, Wales and Scotland, sex work is illegal when someone is forced to sell themselves against their will, solicits for work on the street or keeps

Male prostitution on the rise in Lebanon

Beirut, Lebanon – In an economically troubled, conservative country where homosexual behaviour is taboo, a growing number of men are prostituting themselves to scrape together a living.

When talking about his being “Hassan” hesitates, the words coming out with difficulty as he chain-smokes cigarettes and fiddles with his sweatshirt. His work could contain him arrested, overcome up and jailed. Hassan, a 27-year-old Sunni from Iraq, is a male prostitute and has been selling himself for money in Beirut for a year.

This was not a lifestyle that he ever wanted, but something he says was forced upon him. He insists he would have chosen another path “had I been given the choice”. Hassan – who asked his real name not be used – was forced to leave his land after his family found out about his homosexuality and threatened to murder him. Fearful for his life, he fled Iraq and was smuggled into Lebanon, along with five other refugees, by an NGO he refuses to name. After a few months, he was evicted from his flat after getting involved in a fight.

Alone, still unemployed and desperate for any way to make currency, he heard about bars in bourgeois areas

The lives of Czech and Romani male prostitutes

“At one time I made five or six thousand crowns a night. Today? No way!” 21-year-old Honza says. He has been a “streetwalker” since he was 16. I am getting to know him at Prague’s main prepare station, which is often called the biggest intersection for male prostitution in the country, but the fact that this description no longer really applies to it is clarify to the dirty-blond native of Rakovník. The days when young male prostitutes used to stand around the station and create good money offering sexual services to well-heeled men are said to be long over.

“There are boys here who’ll service an undiscriminating customer for just CZK 200. In the bushes. That’s why I often travel to Hamburg, the prices there are at a completely distinct level, something like around EUR 200 per day,” Honza says. The boys from the area around Prague’s Wilson Station are usually from communities of drug-addicted people. They realize all the local homeless people, the female prostitutes and their pimps very well. The vast majority of them take drugs themselves or sell them, just like Honza.

Honza takes a drag on the Marlboro I offer him. He will tell us his

When I went to China in May to study “money boys” — male prostitutes providing sexual services to male clients, known colloquially as MBs — I imagined that I would be seeking entry into a world of darkness, violence, and suffering. In China, the word “prostitution” seems to conjure up a rather specific image in people’s minds. Whether in movies, novels, or even academic works, the sex industry is always depicted as an abyss where the country’s poor — particularly uneducated rural migrants — are forced into sex work to live the unforgiving experience of the metropolis.

Modern media teaches us that sex workers live in cramped, dirty, and affordable rented apartments with no private bathrooms. They endure verbal, mental, and physical abuse from their customers. They own to hide from the authorities to avoid fines or detention. And all the while, sex workers are accosted by evil-minded pimps who force people to work even when they are sick, and conflagration volleys of their own abuse when MBs fail to bring in enough money.

The Chinese accepted image of sex work is unsurprising. Prostitution is illegal here, and MBs’ compensated sexual services violate China’s regulation and regulations. Therefore, trans