Being a literature review-cum-collection of statistics about the named topic, plus considerable information about male prostitution, making the title a partial misnomer, not a good start. The book is clearly designed for researchers, not general readers, despite the author's inclusion of the odd, and gratuitous, bit of titillation in a few places. The book is rather repetitious, since Flowers organizes by the prostitutes' demographics and geography, and the statistics don't vary that much between groups. Very few of his conclusions are counterintuitive or surprising in any way, so Captain Obvious makes frequent appearances. He often slips into a rather shrill, and extremely repetitive, advocacy about the hazards of the life of the prostitute which calls into question how objectively he has chosen his statistics and digest of research. The most interesting part of the book, by some distance, is the final quarter, which summarizes international conditions. Since this book is not for general readers and his then state-of-the-art statistics and review of research are twenty years old, it's difficult to recommend an audience for this book. ( )