Understanding the Male Hustler
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- USD 62.99
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- USD 62.99
Descripción editorial
This book is a serious study of male hustlers using experiential dialogue to introduce the reader to real-life concepts and experiences that otherwise could not be effectively conveyed. An intriguing attempt to get into the mind and personality of the male hustler through a largely imagined series of dialogues between a well-known fictional hustler and his so-called amanuensis, Samuel Steward, this unique book covers all aspects of the hustler’s motivations, activities, life style, adjustments, advantages, and disadvantages. It accomplishes this dispassionately, without prejudgment, moral censure, approbation, or more than cursory involvement. Therapists and counselors in all fields of sexual functioning will find here some understanding of the causes and impulses (beyond the popular “broken home syndrome”) that lead young males into prostitution. It signals some of the signposts to danger and serious threats to health that accompany the profession of prostitution and also explains to counselors some of the activities and practices of the male prostitute, enabling them to have a better understanding of the fascination and peril of the hustler’s life. The brevity of success in such a calling is also considered, with some consideration for the necessity of long-range planning for the hustler’s future.Important contents: interview of a well-known hustler brief look at early male prostitution--Greek, Roman, Burton’s theory the peacock period and youth as a prerequisite for hustling lures of the profession--money, power, other motivations paths and mechanisms leading to hustling characteristics of different types of hustlers types of clients patronizing hustlers literary illuminations the modus operandi of the male hustler extraordinary dangers confronting the male hustler today the attractiveness of the “seeing-through” of a hustler to past clients quo vadis for the hustler after youth passes Readers will be amazed by the daily hazards and drawbacks as well fascinated by the curiosities and rewards of the hustler’s profession. Especially of interest to therapists and counselors, Understanding the Male Hustler is also valuable for sociologists, anthropologists, medical specialists, psychiatrists, psychologists.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In his introduction, Haworth Press editor John P. De Cecco bemoans the ``paucity of studies'' on male prostitutes and exalts Steward's ``inside'' look at hustling. What follows is hardly a serious examination. Steward also is known as Phil Andros, ``author of classic gay erotica/porn,'' and this book reads like a soft-core porn novel. It consists of a cheesy dialogue between Steward and his persona Phil Andros, who is portrayed here as a former hustler Steward himself never hustled; his knowledge comes from his experience as a tattoo artist; he also served as ``confidant and father-confessor to scores of hustlers.'' Steward lusts after Andros's Greek physique throughout their dialogue (at volume's end, they are on the verge of taking each other's clothes off). In the course of Steward's ``interview,'' we learn the specifics of hustler sex, the hustler's love of the good life, and the limitations of age upon a prostitute's professional life. The book is at once crass and pretentious, attempting to appeal both to readers looking for a cheap thrill and to intellectuals interested in hearing Steward invoke gay literary figures like Walt Whitman and Jean Genet.