ABSTRACT
Commercial sex involving men and male-born travestis, transgenders and transsexuals is a subject of continued academic interest grews in 1980s after the advent of HIV epidemic. The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV or AIDS has emphasised that migrants often face unique situations, such as separation from family and friends, together with the constraints and social pressures associated with new environments and less accessible health services. Two experienced Peruvian ethnographers CRN and MZ visited the locations, sometimes with the support of health promoters and other key informants who facilitated access. Sex work involving men and male-born travestis, transgenders and transsexuals in Peru occurs in different venues. Some men and travestis in Lima and Iquitos worked for intermediaries or agencies that received telephone requests from clients asking for a male companion or escort. New forms of sex work not previously described in Peru are appearing, especially in the cities of Iquitos and Pucallpa and in the logging areas in the Peruvian Amazon.
