Exploring Commercial Sex Encounters in an Urban Community Sample of Gay and Bisexual Men: A Preliminary Report Juline A. Koken, MA Jeffrey T. Parsons, PhD Joseph Severino, PhD(c) David S. Bimbi, PhD(c) SUMMARY. Prior research on gay and bisexual men who are paid for sex has been shaped by the bias towards sampling street-based men. Fewer studies have sampled men who pay for sex, and fewer still have Juline A. Koken, Jeffrey T. Parsons, Joseph Severino, and David S. Bimbi are affili- ated with the Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST). Juline A. Koken, Jeffrey T. Parsons, and David S. Bimbi are affiliated with the Graduate Cen- ter of the City University of New York. Jeffrey T. Parsons also has affiliations with Hunter College of the City University of New York. Address correspondence to: Jeffrey T. Parsons, PhD, Professor, Department of Psy- chology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021 (E-mail: jeffrey.parsons@hunter.cuny.edu). The Sex and Love Project was supported by the Hunter College Center for HIV/AIDS Educational Studies and Training (CHEST), under the direction of Dr. Par- sons. The authors acknowledge the contributions of other members of the Sex and Love Project team–Whitney Missildine, Joseph C. Punzalan, Diane Tider, Jason Van Ora, Kalil Vicioso. They also thank David Frost and Elana Rosof for their assistance with the preparation of this manuscript. [Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Exploring Commercial Sex Encounters in an Urban Community Sam- ple of Gay and Bisexual Men: A Preliminary Report.” Koken, Juline A. et al. Co-published simultaneously in Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality (The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 17, No. 1/2, 2005, pp. 197-213; and: Contemporary Research on Sex Work (ed: Jeffrey T. Parsons) The Haworth Press, Inc., 2005, pp. 197-213. Single or multiple copies of this article are available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service [1-800-HAWORTH, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail address: docdelivery@haworthpress.com]. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JPHS  2005 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. Digital Object Identifier: 10.1300/J056v17n01_12 197