The objective of the present article is the understanding of the meanings and senses that three transvestites attribute to their experiences as sex professionals. We derive from the premise that transvestites, being excluded from their families and from the formal job market, fi nd in the prostitution activity a “natural’ course, their “fate”, or refuge given the prejudice against such individuals who break way from gender patterns. However, the questioning of such phenomenon led us to observing that besides guaranteeing the transvestites’ a living, the sex market infl uences the construction of transvestility in various ways. From that perspective, we carry out our analysis supported by the phenomenological method and