ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the published research which conveys the paradigmatic shifts that have occurred as a result of changing methods and approaches to social scientific inquiry into male sex work. In one of the first social science publications on the topic of male sex work, a case study was presented in which the individual is described as psychopathic. Research into male sex work as well as homosexuality began to enter scientific publication and discourse simultaneously. The street hustler is usually a teen-aged boy who finds older male clients on the streets he reaches, or appears to reach, legal age for entry into bars at which point he is called a bar hustler. In their sample of male sex workers on the streets in San Francisco and Seattle, R. W. Deisher, V. Eisner and S. I. Suizbacher viewed masculine gender role presentation as an indicator of heterosexuality.
