Rent Boy and Other Related Stories

Rent Boy and Other Related Stories
Author: David Wise
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1524596914

This book is about my experiences of working in the sex industry back in the days just after the war, when it was a struggle to survive on low wages and even lower opportunity for the working class.

Rent Boy

Rent Boy
Author: Gary Indiana
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2023-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1946022535

A noir tour-de-force set in a world of hustlers from "one of America's darkest and funniest chroniclers." (The Guardian)

Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys

Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys
Author: David Henry Sterry
Publisher: Catapult
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2009-07-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1593762410

The only thing the writers in this book have in common is that they've exchanged sex for money. They're PhDs and dropouts, soccer moms and jailbirds, $2,500-a-night call girls and $10 crack hos, and everything in between. This anthology lends a voice to an underrepresented population that is simultaneously reviled and worshipped. Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys is a collection of short memoirs, rants, confessions, nightmares, journalism, and poetry covering life, love, work, family, and yes, sex. The editors gather pieces from the world of industrial sex, including contributions from art-porn priestess Dr. Annie Sprinkle, best-selling memoirist David Henry Sterry (Chicken: Self-Portrait of a Young Man for Rent), sex activist and musical diva Candye Kane, women and men right off the streets, girls participating in the first-ever National Summit of Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth, and Ruth Morgan Thomas, one of the organizers of the European Sex Work, Human Rights, and Migration Conference. Sex is a billion-dollar industry. Meet the real people who are its flesh and blood.

Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys

Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys
Author: Peter A. Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2020-11-25
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 1317994582

Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand offers methods that will help social workers, researchers, and students create HIV/AIDS intervention services for gay men, lesbians, and transgender individuals in or from Thailand. Many of these methods can also be used by practitioners or HIV/AIDS educators in North America and developing countries to address issues of culturally diverse clientele. In response to Western and Thai sexuality studies that fail to accurately represent the diverse sexualities of Thailand, this book discusses and describes certain factors that need to be taken into consideration when developing intervention programs. Demonstrating how cultural and social factors influence services, Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys will help you provide clients with effective and relevant services. Drawing attention to Eurocentric ideology that may hinder cross-cultural collaboration for Thai-Western service provisions, this book offers you information that will help you understand how cultural, political, and economic systems shape sexuality and gender roles in Thai society. Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys provides you with the necessary knowledge for providing successful services, including: how Thai sexualities are identified by examining the meaning of terms such as “toms” (masculine Thai lesbians), “dee” (feminine-identified women who have relations with other women), “kathoey” (males that dress like women and wear make-up), or “lady boys” (transsexual or transvestite males) how Thai society actually defines ”having sex” and recognizing the differences from Western connotations of sex to effectively teach individuals about the risk of HIV/AIDS ways Western views of confidentiality and privacy differ from Thai views in order to understand why individuals hesitate to get tested for or seek counselling about HIV/AIDS the relationship between occupation and sexual identity in movies and magazines that reveal how sexuality is characterized in Thailand the unique social identity of “toms” and how Thai society labels what is masculine and feminine reasons for hiding sexual identity, such as rejection, fear of stereotypes, and having a relationship that is viewed by society as wrong and meaningless protecting commercial sex workers (CSW) from infection by developing culturally appropriate interventions One of the only books to address HIV/AIDS issues of gay and transgender individuals in Thailand, Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys will help you increase awareness about HIV/AIDS and create successful intervention programs for clients.

Whore Stories

Whore Stories
Author: Tyler Stoddard Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2012-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1440538530

A Working History of Working Girls (and Guys) Have you ever wondered how Heidi Fleiss came to be the face of upscale prostitution or if Casanova really was the world's greatest lover? How about why Latin playboy Rubi Rubirosa got the nickname "The Ding Dong Daddy"? Anything but judgmental, Whore Stories sheds light on one of our more stigmatized icons: The Prostitute. Featuring the true stories of famous streetwalkers, call girls, rent boys, and go-go dancers, this book offers a revealing look at the men and women who have blazed the bawdy trail of prostitution since the dawn of time. While you may think that you know everything about this occupation, Whore Stories includes plenty of details and even celebrities, such as Maya Angelou and Bob Dylan, that will leave you in awe. From private schools and child preachers to mime fantasies and unfortunate amputations, this book uncovers the truth behind the world's oldest profession.

His Song

His Song
Author: Elizabeth J. Rosenthal
Publisher: Bpi Communications
Total Pages: 556
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780823088935

A comprehensive overview of the musical career of Elton John provides the full story behind all of the musician's recordings, a complete chronicle of his concert tours, an assessment of his musical odyssey, and a study of his sometimes turbulent personal life, along with more than forty photographs and a complete discography.

Anna Smith: Rosie Gilmour Books 1 to 9

Anna Smith: Rosie Gilmour Books 1 to 9
Author: Anna Smith
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 2888
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1529430313

Get all nine books in the Rosie Gilmour series in one value-for-money volume. Investigative journalist Rosie Gilmour never walks away from a story in these gritty Glasgow-set thrillers. Investigative journalist Rosie Gilmour won't take no for an answer as she battles to find answers for those who can't fight for themselves. She is unstoppable as she peels back layers of privilege and wealth to uncover the corruption that is deeply woven into seedy underbelly of Glasgow. With enemies from local gangsters to child-traffickers, Gilmour puts herself in danger in her pursuit of justice. But if she's not careful, she'll be the one leaving in a body bag next. Praise for the Rosie Gilmour Series 'Thrilling and compelling' Kimberly Chambers 'Anna Smith is the real deal' Sunday Express 'Provocative, shocking and utterly harrowing . . . grips like a vice' - Daily Record

The Habit of Art

The Habit of Art
Author: Alan Bennett
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1429978333

Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station. Alan Bennett's new play is as much about the theater as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion's spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.

All We Have Is the Story

All We Have Is the Story
Author: James Kelman
Publisher: PM Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2024-04-30
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

Novelist, playwright, essayist, and master of the short story. Artist and engaged working-class intellectual; husband, father, and grandfather as well as committed revolutionary activist. From his first publication (a short story collection An Old Pub Near the Angel on a tiny American press) through his latest novel (God's Teeth and other Phenomena) and work with Noam Chomsky (Between Thought and Expression Lies a Lifetime—both published on a slightly larger American press), All We Have Is the Story chronicles the life and work—to date—of “Probably the most influential novelist of the post-war period.” (The Times) Drawing deeply on a radical tradition that is simultaneously political, philosophical, cultural, and literary, James Kelman articulates the complexities and tensions of the craft of writing; the narrative voice and grammar; imperialism and language; art and value; solidarity and empathy; class and nation state; and. above all, that it begins and ends with the story. “One of the things the establishment always does is isolate voices of dissent and make them specific—unique if possible. It's easy to dispense with dissent if you can say there's him in prose and him in poetry. As soon as you say there's him, him, and her there, and that guy here and that woman over there, and there's all these other writers in Africa, and then you've got Ireland, the Caribean—suddenly there's this kind of mass dissent going on, and that becomes something dangerous, something that the establishment won't want people to relate to and go Christ, you're doing the same as me. Suddenly there's a movement going on. It's fine when it's all these disparate voices; you can contain that. The first thing to do with dissent is say ‘You're on your own, you're a phenomenon.’ I'm not a phenomenon at all: I'm just a part of what's been happening in prose for a long, long while.” —James Kelman from a 1993 interview

Queering Sexualities in Turkey

Queering Sexualities in Turkey
Author: Cenk Özbay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786731983

Despite its some of its more liberal and democratic characteristics - when compared to many other countries in the Middle East - the more conservative elements within Turkish politics and society have made gains over the past decades. As a result, like many others in the region, Turkish society has multiple standards when naming, evaluating and reacting to men who have sex with men. Cenk Ozbay argues that overall, self-identified gay men (as well as men who practice clandestine same-sex acts) are most of the time marginalised, ostracised and rendered 'immoral' in both everyday practices and social institutions. He offers in this book an analysis of the concept of masculinity as central to redefining boundaries of class, gender and sexuality, particularly looking at the dynamics between self-identified gay men and straight-acting male prostitutes, or 'rent boys'. A result of in-depth interviews with both self-identified gay men and rent boys, Ozbay explores the changing discourses and meaning of class, gender and queer sexualities, and how these three are embedded within urban and familial narratives.