Gay hustlers

Hustlers, escorts and rent boys: how far will some young men go to build a buck? Detect out in this collection of 18 never-before-published gay erotic tales based on real-life stories.

Rent Boys takes the reader inside the private world of the sex trade to the hunky immature men who inhabit this hidden cosmos of sex-for-pay. Though written as unreal tales, the stories are based on true events, told to the authors by the hustlers who lived them or written by former hustlers themselves.

Rent Boys will appeal to gay erotic fiction readers, readers curious about the secret life of hustlers and escorts, and fans of the authors, who are some of the best homosexual erotic writers functional today, from coast to coast.

Nearly every gay publisher now produces gay erotic anthologies. Starbooks anthologies are among the bestselling because they focus on the 18- to 21-year-old niche, and Rent Boys targets the same proven market.

Joseph Itiel. Routledge, $120 (186pp) ISBN 978-0-7890-0596-0

Despite the sweeping subtitle, this case study focuses narrowly on male prostitution in Lila's house, a squalid brothel in a lower-middle-class quarter of San Jose, Costa Rica, where the prostitutes are cacheros--young men who own sex with older men for funds. Two gay-health advocates spent six months observing and interviewing 25 workers from the brothel, who were paid for participating. They create that how cacheros talk about sex contradicts their sexual behaviors. Defiantly, the cacheros disavow their supposed homosexuality and instead ""compartmentalize"" aspects of their sexuality to distinguish themselves from homosexuals. They ridicule gays, balk at passive sex acts that they refuse to (but probably do) execute and boast that prostitution supplies ample cash to help their families. With religious and cultural sanctions against homosexuality forever in their minds, they assert that they don't enjoy their serve . All the while, they appear to get drawn deeper into it. Indeed, the well-translated and compelling transcripts of their reflections could easily support an expos