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prostitution.

There are more males earning their lzvelz/zood
from prostitution today-in the United States than
females.

This is the considered opinion of police authorities,
medical experts and sociologists.

It is not yet a firm statistic since the phenomenon
has only been discovered within the last years.
Understandably, professional male prostitutes are
reluctant to talk about their ““profession.” Amateurs
simply deny it.

A detective on the vice squad of a middle-size
Eastern city gave me his views on this startling dis-
closure. “At the moment we have only three areas
from which we can draw information about the
alarming rise in male prostitution. First, statistics
revealing the sharp increase in the number of cases
of venereal disease arising from anal contacts be-
tween men. Second, the ever growing number of
arrests of males discovered importuning other males
with payment as a motive. Third, observation by
our precinct officers of the number of young loiterers
seen on city streets today.

“These youths haunt parks, streets and public
facilities notorious as homosexual meeting places.
The largest percentage are neither narcotics addicts