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Male prostitution

Index Male prostitution

Male prostitution is the act or practice of men providing sexual services in return for payment. [1]

97 relations: Africa, Age disparity in sexual relationships, Age of consent, Americas, Anal sex, Ancient Rome, April Ashley, Arthur Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan, Bacha bazi, Bisexuality, Bowery, Brothel, Caribbean, City of London, Cleveland Street scandal, Crime in Cuba, Cross-dressing, Crystal, Nye County, Nevada, Cuba, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Dennis Hof's Love Ranch, Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Dublin Castle, Edo period, Escort agency, Euphemism, Female sex tourism, Feminism, First Epistle to the Corinthians, Gay, Gay bashing, Gay bathhouse, Gay-for-pay, Gigolo, Harm reduction, Heidi Fleiss, Hijra (South Asia), HIV/AIDS, Hung (TV series), Intersex, John Saul (prostitute), Kagema, London, Male prostitution in the arts, Mandragora (film), Midnight Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Mysterious Skin, New Revised Standard Version, ..., New Testament, Nye County, Nevada, Old Testament, Oral sex, Paganism, Pap test, Paris, Phaedo, Phaedo of Elis, Phuket City, Piccadilly Circus, Polk Street, Procuring (prostitution), Promiscuity, Prostitution, Prostitution in ancient Greece, Prostitution in Cuba, Prostitution in Nevada, Prostitution in Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Richard Holcomb, Rudolph Moshammer, Sacred prostitution, Sanky-panky, Santa Monica Boulevard, Sex club, Sex shop, Sex tourism, Sex work, Sexually transmitted infection, Shady Lady Ranch, Social status, Socrates, Solicitation, Southern Europe, Stereotype, Switzerland, Taksim Square, Tanakh, Thailand, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Trade (gay slang), United States Department of Homeland Security, West Indies, Zürich, 53rd Street (Manhattan). Expand index (47 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Age disparity in sexual relationships

Age disparity in sexual relationships is the difference in ages of individuals in sexual relationships.

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Age of consent

The age of consent is the age below which a minor is considered to be legally incompetent to consent to sexual acts.

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Americas

The Americas (also collectively called America)"America." The Oxford Companion to the English Language.

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Anal sex

Anal sex or anal intercourse is generally the insertion and thrusting of the erect penis into a person's anus, or anus and rectum, for sexual pleasure.

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Ancient Rome

In historiography, ancient Rome is Roman civilization from the founding of the city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD, encompassing the Roman Kingdom, Roman Republic and Roman Empire until the fall of the western empire.

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April Ashley

April Ashley, MBE (born 29 April 1935) is an English model and restaurant hostess.

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Arthur Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan

Captain Arthur Cameron Corbett, 3rd Baron Rowallan (17 December 1919 – 1993), was a British aristocrat most notable for successfully having his second marriage annulled in 1970 by a court on the grounds that his wife, April Ashley, a transgender woman, was a man under then-current UK law.

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Bacha bazi

Bacha bāzī (بچه بازی, literally "being into kids"; from بچه bacheh, "child", and بازی bāzī, (particularly) the state of being attracted into something) is a slang term in Afghanistan for a wide variety of activities involving sexual relations between older men and younger adolescent men, or boys.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or sexual behavior toward both males and females, or romantic or sexual attraction to people of any sex or gender identity; this latter aspect is sometimes alternatively termed pansexuality. The term bisexuality is mainly used in the context of human attraction to denote romantic or sexual feelings toward both men and women, and the concept is one of the three main classifications of sexual orientation along with heterosexuality and homosexuality, all of which exist on the heterosexual–homosexual continuum.

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Bowery

The Bowery is a street and neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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Brothel

A brothel or bordello is a place where people engage in sexual activity with prostitutes, who are sometimes referred to as sex workers.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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City of London

The City of London is a city and county that contains the historic centre and the primary central business district (CBD) of London.

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Cleveland Street scandal

The Cleveland Street scandal occurred in 1889, when a homosexual male brothel in Cleveland Street, London, was discovered by police.

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Crime in Cuba

Crime is present in various forms in Cuba though the government does not release official crime statistics.

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Cross-dressing

Cross-dressing is the act of wearing items of clothing and other accoutrements commonly associated with the opposite sex within a particular society.

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Crystal, Nye County, Nevada

Crystal is an unincorporated community in Nye County, Nevada, United States, about 80 miles from Las Vegas.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is a country comprising the island of Cuba as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos.

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Darlinghurst, New South Wales

Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Dennis Hof's Love Ranch

Dennis Hof's Love Ranch, known as the Cherry Patch Ranch prior to 2010, is one of two brothels in Crystal, Nevada.

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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo

Deuce Bigalow 2: European Gigolo is a 2005 American sex comedy film and a sequel to the 1999 film Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, from Happy Madison Productions.

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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo is a 1999 American sex comedy film directed by Mike Mitchell at his feature debut, written by Harris Goldberg and Rob Schneider, and starring Schneider as a hapless fishtank cleaner who goes into business as a male prostitute in an attempt to earn enough money to repair damage he caused while house-sitting.

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Dublin Castle

Dublin Castle (Caisleán Bhaile Átha Cliath) off Dame Street, Dublin, Ireland, is a major Irish government complex, conference centre, and tourist attraction.

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Edo period

The or is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japanese society was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyō.

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Escort agency

Escort agencies are companies that provide escorts for clients, usually for sexual services.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is a generally innocuous word or expression used in place of one that may be found offensive or suggest something unpleasant.

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Female sex tourism

Female sex tourism is sex tourism by women who travel intending to engage in sexual activities with a sex worker.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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First Epistle to the Corinthians

The First Epistle to the Corinthians (Α΄ ᾽Επιστολὴ πρὸς Κορινθίους), usually referred to simply as First Corinthians and often written 1 Corinthians, is one of the Pauline epistles of the New Testament of the Christian Bible.

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Gay

Gay is a term that primarily refers to a homosexual person or the trait of being homosexual.

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Gay bashing

Gay bashing and gay bullying is verbal or physical abuse against a person who is perceived by the aggressor to be gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, including persons who are actually heterosexual.

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Gay bathhouse

A gay bathhouse, also known as a gay sauna or a gay steambath, is a commercial space for men to have a sexual activity with men.

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Gay-for-pay

Gay-for-pay describes male or female actors, pornographic stars, or sex workers who identify as heterosexual but who are paid to act or perform as homosexual professionally.

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Gigolo

A gigolo is a male escort or social companion who is supported by a woman in a continuing relationship, often living in her residence or having to be present at her beck and call.

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Harm reduction

Harm reduction, or harm minimization, is a range of public health policies designed to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal.

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Heidi Fleiss

Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30, 1965) is an American former madam, and also a columnist and television personality regularly featured in the 1990s in American media.

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Hijra (South Asia)

Hijra is a term given to eunuchs, intersex people, and transgender people in South Asia.

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Hung (TV series)

Hung is a comedy-drama television series which ran on HBO from June 28, 2009 to December 4, 2011.

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Intersex

Intersex people are born with any of several variations in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, sex hormones, or genitals that, according to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, "do not fit the typical definitions for male or female bodies".

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John Saul (prostitute)

John Saul (29 October 1857 – 28 August 1904), also known as Jack Saul, and Dublin Jack, was an Irish prostitute of the Victorian era.

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Kagema

Kagema (陰間) is a historical Japanese term for young male prostitutes.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Male prostitution in the arts

The male prostitute or hustler is a frequent stereotype in literature and movies in the West from the 1960s on, and especially in movies and books with a gay perspective in which he may be considered a stock character.

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Mandragora (film)

Mandragora is a 1997 film by Polish director Wiktor Grodecki about the mental and physical decline of a 15-year-old boy who runs away from his seemingly distanced father to Prague, where he becomes a victim of the drug and sex scene.

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Midnight Cowboy

Midnight Cowboy is a 1969 American drama film based on the 1965 novel of the same name by James Leo Herlihy.

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My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho is a 1991 American independent adventure drama film written and directed by Gus Van Sant, loosely based on Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1, Henry IV, Part 2, and Henry V, and starring River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves.

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Mysterious Skin

Mysterious Skin is a 2004 Dutch-American drama film directed by American filmmaker Gregg Araki, who also wrote the screenplay based on Scott Heim's 1995 novel of the same name.

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New Revised Standard Version

The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) is an English translation of the Bible published in 1989 by National Council of Churches.

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New Testament

The New Testament (Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, trans. Hē Kainḕ Diathḗkē; Novum Testamentum) is the second part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible.

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Nye County, Nevada

Nye County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nevada.

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Old Testament

The Old Testament (abbreviated OT) is the first part of Christian Bibles, based primarily upon the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh), a collection of ancient religious writings by the Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God.

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Oral sex

Oral sex, sometimes referred to as oral intercourse, is sexual activity involving the stimulation of the genitalia of a person by another person using the mouth (including the lips, tongue or teeth) or throat.

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Paganism

Paganism is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for populations of the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to the Christian population or because they were not milites Christi (soldiers of Christ).

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Pap test

The Papanicolaou test (abbreviated as Pap test, also known as Pap smear, cervical smear, or smear test) is a method of cervical screening used to detect potentially pre-cancerous and cancerous processes in the cervix (opening of the uterus or womb).

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Phaedo

Phædo or Phaedo (Φαίδων, Phaidōn), also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The philosophical subject of the dialogue is the immortality of the soul.

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Phaedo of Elis

Phaedo of Elis (also Phaedon; Φαίδων ὁ Ἠλεῖος, gen.: Φαίδωνος; fl. 4th century BCE) was a Greek philosopher.

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Phuket City

Phuket City is a city in south-east Phuket Island, Thailand.

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Piccadilly Circus

Piccadilly Circus is a road junction and public space of London's West End in the City of Westminster.

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Polk Street

Polk Street (also sometimes referred to by its German name, Polkstrasse) is a street in San Francisco, California, that travels northward from Market Street to Beach Street and is one of the main thoroughfares of the Polk Gulch neighborhood traversing through the Tenderloin, Nob Hill, and Russian Hill neighborhoods.

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Procuring (prostitution)

Procuring or pandering is the facilitation or provision of a prostitute or sex worker in the arrangement of a sex act with a customer.

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Promiscuity

Promiscuity is the practice of having casual sex frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Prostitution in ancient Greece

Prostitution was a common aspect of ancient Greece.

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Prostitution in Cuba

Prostitution in Cuba has always been a legal profession, though it has periodically been regulated or repressed.

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Prostitution in Nevada

The state of Nevada is the only jurisdiction in the United States where prostitution is permitted.

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Prostitution in Rhode Island

Prostitution in Rhode Island was outlawed in 2009.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.

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Rhode Island

Rhode Island, officially the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, is a state in the New England region of the United States.

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Richard Holcomb

Richard Holcomb (born September 21, 1976) is a commercial sex worker specialist, street outreach worker and HIV prevention counselor in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Rudolph Moshammer

Rudolph Moshammer (27 September 1940 – 14 January 2005) was a German fashion designer.

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Sacred prostitution

Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, cult prostitution, and religious prostitution are general terms for a sexual rite consisting of sexual intercourse or other sexual activity performed in the context of religious worship, perhaps as a form of fertility rite or divine marriage (hieros gamos).

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Sanky-panky

A sanky-panky or sankyx is a male sex worker, found in the Caribbean in the Dominican Republic.

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Santa Monica Boulevard

Santa Monica Boulevard is a major west-east thoroughfare in Los Angeles County.

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Sex club

Sex clubs, also known as swinger clubs or lifestyle clubs, are formal or informal groups that organize sex-related activities, or establishments where patrons can engage in sex acts with other patrons.

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Sex shop

A sex shop (also called adult shop, erotic shop or adult book store) is a retailer that sells products related to adult sexual or erotic entertainment, such as vibrators, lingerie, clothing, pornography, and other related products.

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Sex tourism

Sex tourism is a phenomenon whereby a person travels away from his or her community to engage in sexual activity, particularly with prostitutes.

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Sex work

Sex work is "the exchange of sexual services, performances, or products for material compensation.

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Sexually transmitted infection

Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or venereal diseases (VD), are infections that are commonly spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex.

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Shady Lady Ranch

The Shady Lady Ranch was a legal brothel in Nevada – on U.S. Highway 95 about north of Beatty – until its closure in 2014.

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Social status

Social status is the relative respect, competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society.

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Socrates

Socrates (Sōkrátēs,; – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought.

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Solicitation

Solicitation is the act of offering, or attempting to purchase, goods or services.

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Southern Europe

Southern Europe is the southern region of the European continent.

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Stereotype

In social psychology, a stereotype is an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Taksim Square

Taksim Square (Taksim Meydanı), situated in Beyoğlu in the European part of Istanbul, Turkey, is a major tourist and leisure district famed for its restaurants, shops, and hotels.

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Tanakh

The Tanakh (or; also Tenakh, Tenak, Tanach), also called the Mikra or Hebrew Bible, is the canonical collection of Jewish texts, which is also a textual source for the Christian Old Testament.

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Thailand

Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.

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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone

The Roman Spring of Mrs.

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Trade (gay slang)

Trade (also known as Chow) is a gay slang term originating from Polari, the coded language among English subcultures, and usually refers to the casual partner of a gay man or to the genre of such pairings.

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United States Department of Homeland Security

The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a cabinet department of the United States federal government with responsibilities in public security, roughly comparable to the interior or home ministries of other countries.

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West Indies

The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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Zürich

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich.

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53rd Street (Manhattan)

53rd Street is a midtown cross street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, that runs adjacent to buildings such as the Citigroup building.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_prostitution

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