fidelio
01-04-2005, 01:00 PM
hello, i’d like to get some information about the psychodynamic - from a a psychological or psychoanalytic point of view only (not a sociological or cultural point of view) – of male prostitutes or « gigolos » and, generally, male prostitution «by choice » (not child prostitution). Books, theses, journals articles ; whatever. I thank you in advance for a possible answer.
PS : i’ve read a lot of articles (British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Archives of sexual behavior…) but those only treated the subject sociologically, economically or culturally.
there's this apparently interesting article in the Journal of Homosexuality 'The development of male prostitution among gay and bisexual adolescents' but I can't manage to find the journal here in Belgium.
the only psychological or pseudo-psychoanalytic comment about male prostitution I've found is this one:
"we see in this statement the patient's unrelenting demand for reassurance of his personal worth. his need to be the recipient of material gifts has more than a mere pragmatic basis. the gifts, coming as an exchange for personal service of a sexual nature, symbolized the profound significance his services had for his partner. the transaction carried a clear interference to the patient that the donor of the gift was dependent on him, and he was therefore free to exercise an absolute dominion over the household. he was the ruling and favored child, an "enfant terrible" who would bear no frustration of his desires. the role relationship of his childhood was now reversed. his fear of rejection and his dependency on his father's approval was turned around. in threatening to abandon or reject his current partner, he exercised the power formerly held by his father over him".
by S. Willis ("Understanding and counseling the male homosexual") and cited in "Male prostitution:a psychosocial view of behavior" by Neil R. Coombs in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry n°44(5), October 1974.
Sorry for the language, but i’m french.
PS : i’ve read a lot of articles (British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Archives of sexual behavior…) but those only treated the subject sociologically, economically or culturally.
there's this apparently interesting article in the Journal of Homosexuality 'The development of male prostitution among gay and bisexual adolescents' but I can't manage to find the journal here in Belgium.
the only psychological or pseudo-psychoanalytic comment about male prostitution I've found is this one:
"we see in this statement the patient's unrelenting demand for reassurance of his personal worth. his need to be the recipient of material gifts has more than a mere pragmatic basis. the gifts, coming as an exchange for personal service of a sexual nature, symbolized the profound significance his services had for his partner. the transaction carried a clear interference to the patient that the donor of the gift was dependent on him, and he was therefore free to exercise an absolute dominion over the household. he was the ruling and favored child, an "enfant terrible" who would bear no frustration of his desires. the role relationship of his childhood was now reversed. his fear of rejection and his dependency on his father's approval was turned around. in threatening to abandon or reject his current partner, he exercised the power formerly held by his father over him".
by S. Willis ("Understanding and counseling the male homosexual") and cited in "Male prostitution:a psychosocial view of behavior" by Neil R. Coombs in American Journal of Orthopsychiatry n°44(5), October 1974.
Sorry for the language, but i’m french.