Young Men in the Street: Help-Seeking Behavior of Young Male Prostitutes
This book analyzes the help-seeking behaviors of young urban street males who engage in prostitution. Use of formal resources consist of social agencies, professionals, and informal resources such as friends, family, and peers is described. The work also addresses one of the most pressing issues of our time: the AIDS crisis and its impact on young male prostitutes. Snell makes an important contribution to understanding this stigmatized and under-served population. This is the first book to...
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This work explores and analyzes the help-seeking behaviors of young urban street males who engage in prostitution. Booknews Focuses on a single urban setting to investigate how young street males seek advice or material and emotional assistance from formal resources such as structured agencies, programs, and professionals; and informal resources such as friends, family, and colleagues. Based on questionnaires and qualitative interviews of 70 men in Washington, DC, reports on such aspects as who seeks help, what kind of help is sought, what social support systems exist and the role they play, what information is received and what it costs, and the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of safer sex. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Young Male Prostitutes and the Process of Looking For HelpA Study of Young Male ProstitutesListening to the Young Men: Social Support, Good Times, Problems and AIDSSome Individual PortraitsConclusions and ImplicationsNotes on MethodologyPersonal Interview ScheduleReferencesIndex
\ BooknewsFocuses on a single urban setting to investigate how young street males seek advice or material and emotional assistance from formal resources such as structured agencies, programs, and professionals; and informal resources such as friends, family, and colleagues. Based on questionnaires and qualitative interviews of 70 men in Washington, DC, reports on such aspects as who seeks help, what kind of help is sought, what social support systems exist and the role they play, what information is received and what it costs, and the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of safer sex. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
