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Male prostitution

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Sex work and prostituion have been very heavily gendered, general conceptions of sex work center women as victims of patriarchy and an exploitative society and do little to contextualize what role men play other than purchasers. This article also does not differntiate between sex work and sex exploitation which is outdated and harmful to people who have experiences with one or both of those.

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The article seems to just be outdated and needs to be reworked to reflect modern scholarship and contemporary understandings of sex work. The opening section has a good general overview of male prositution but the historical section needs a lot of work. They make mentions of different culutral examples of prostituion but moralize their examples without honoring culutural context and how understandings expressions of sexuality differ in historical and cultural contexts. The regulations on sex work section needs to be updated and there should be more information about the intersection of male sex work and race.

The sources included on the page are very dated and should be expanded to include more sources from recent scholarship. According to the Talk page, debates on updating language are very contentious. These debates are reflected in the tone of the article that is split between a progressive pro-sex work attitude and a moralizing critique of prostituion.