The approach involves outreach workers sending out text messages and emails to young men whose services are advertised on toilet walls and inviting them to take part in research to help build up a picture of their needs.
The outreach work also involves tracking down young people whose details are posted on internet sites.
The approach is being used to inform RISE - Reducing the Impact of Sexual Exploitation - a Newcastle-based Barnardo's research project to identify the needs of young people who are, or have been, forced into prostitution.
Ady Davis, the project co-ordinator, said the walls of male public toilets often serve as a noticeboard for the advertising of sexual services.
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