The Context of HIV Risk Among Drug Users and Their Sexual Partners

Trade hustlers are usually heterosexual (straight) or bisexual males who
typically express a rather ostentatious and aggressive maleness, trade sex
for money, do not admit homosexual inclinations, and often profess no
enjoyment of sex with men. They usually offer passive oral sex and
seldom engage in anal intercourse.
Drag queen hustlers are transvestites and transsexuals who assume an
exaggerated female identity, usually specialize in oral sex, and are
localized in particular streets and bars in the Tenderloin, a sex trade zone.
The second type of prostitutes was call men who solicited clients over the
telephone. Very often this type of sex worker is middle class, with more
education and more stable living arrangements than prostitutes who
solicit in public places. There were four subtypes of call men: call book
men, models and escorts, erotic masseurs, and stars of the erotic industry.
Call book men are predominantly gay-identified and bisexual men who
generally work from a call book of regular customers and who provide a
wide range of sexual services. New clients usually are generated through
referrals from other clients.
Models and escorts are men who generally obtain customers through
advertisements placed in mainstream and special interest publications.
They often entertain clients socially as well as sexually and participate in
a broad range of sexual activities. They tend to develop networks of
regular customers and also may operate simultaneously from a call book.
Erotic masseurs are men who advertise for new clients while serving
regular customers and provide some elements of the legitimate massage
business with an erotic twist. Very often they are certified by licensed
massage schools and are guided by well-developed philosophical
rationales for their work. Their primary sexual services are masturbation
and oral sex, but they may participate in anal intercourse with selected
clients. They charge relatively low prices compared to other call men and
may be the least expensive in the industry. Some masseurs also operate
out of athletic clubs.
Stars of the erotic industry are individuals who are well known from
stage, screen, and magazines. They are an elite group among male sex
workers, are very small in number, and charge the highest prices in the
industry. The most common of this type of prostitute in the San
Francisco Bay area are erotic dancers who strip in local nightclubs and
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