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Cultural-Historical Psychology
2011. Vol. 7, no. 1, 80–89
ISSN: 1816-5435 / 2224-8935 (online)

Social and Psychological Aspects of the Phenomenon of Male Prostitution in the Modern Culture

 
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Abstract

The article presents results of the psychological study of men who have commercial sex with men (MSM CSW). This paper investigates traumatic experiences, personality pathology, life histories and parental images of MSM CSW. The sample consisted of 36 MSM CSW from Russia and developed Western countries. Age of participants ranged from 14 to 20 years. Objectives of the study: general review of the study group based on the examples of Russian and Western respondents, composition of the phenomenological and clinical portraits of the typical representative of this group. Methods used in the study: qualitative semi-structured interviews and a questionnaire on dysfunctional beliefs in the borderline personality disorder. Results: about 65 % of respondents suffer from the borderline personality disorder and all of the respondents have severe traumatic histories; 80 % of the participants report facts of physical or sexual violence in childhood or adolescence. The specifics of parental images of MSM's were shown in the study.

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Keywords: male prostitution, macrosocial factors, borderline personality disorder, physical and sexual abuse, homosexuality, traumatic experience, re-traumatization, parental images.

Journal rubric: Empirical Research

Article type: scientific article

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For citation: Maksimov, A.M., Kholmogorova, A.B. (2011). Social and Psychological Aspects of the Phenomenon of Male Prostitution in the Modern Culture. Cultural-Historical Psychology, 7(1), 80–89. (In Russ.). URL: https://psyjournals.ru/en/journals/chp/archive/2011_n1/39689 (viewed: 05.12.2025)

© Maksimov A.M., Kholmogorova A.B., 2011

License: CC BY-NC 4.0

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Information About the Authors

Arseniy M. Maksimov, Ph.D. Student, Department of Clinical Psychology Counseling psychology chair, Moscow State University of psychology and education (MSUPE), Moscow, Russian Federation, e-mail: arseniy.maximov@gmail.com

Alla B. Kholmogorova, Doctor of Psychology, Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Counseling and Clinical Psychology, Moscow State University of psychology and education, Leading Researcher, Moscow Research Institute of Psychiatry (A Branch of the National Medical Research Centre for Psychiatry and Narcology), Moscow, Russian Federation, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5194-0199, e-mail: kholmogorova@yandex.ru

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