Caesar & Nero Were Bottoms & Other Revelations From Male Sex Workers

A new collection of essays, Male Sex Work and Society, is getting ready to hit bookstands everywhere this month, and The Huffington Post (link below) has an exclusive sneak preview for us. 

There are a handful of startling revelations in the book, sure to titillate people of all tastes and persuasions...

Roman Emperors Caesar and Nero were bottoms. For rich and titled Roman men, it was culturally acceptable to keep a “concubinus”–a slave to service them sexually before marriage.

Oscar Wilde referred to sex with the young working-class male prostitutes (ages 16 – 20) he favored as “feasting with panthers” because “their passion was all body and no soul.”

During the Depression, around 1932, so many men took to prostitution that the “straight-acting” hustler became the new norm on more popular strolls (also walked by down-and-out soldiers), pushing out the effeminate streetwalkers known as “fairies.”

As homosexuals became more visible and identifiable due to gay liberation, straight or straight-acting hustlers began to fear selling sex to other men, because by doing so they’d be identified as a homosexual. Not only did they reject “self-identifying” as gay, but even gay hustlers knew they could not identify as such without turning off their gay clientele, who far preferred straight trade. The upside was that with gay liberation, gay men began buying sex from other gay men instead of straight hustlers who recoiled at the thought of being identified as gay.

We're in the process of acquiring a copy and will bring you full coverage once we do. 

Via The Huffington Post