Gay male prostitute documentary what has my life become
Montreal filmmaker Rodrigue Jean was planning to make a documentary about lgbtq+ prostitutes in London when he was working there in the 90s, but hit a wall when he wasn’t given the resourceful freedom he wanted. When he moved back to Montreal a few years ago, he decided to work on the project in his hometown with the help of a community corporation called Action Séro Zéro. He spent one year with 11 hustlers, filming them against a window that overlooked their city while they told their stories. Men For Sale is a grimy, touching, and utterly compelling documentary. Rodrigue speaks to an eclectic variety of young men—most of them drug addicts and almost all of them in the sex trade to fund their habits—who communicate with brutal truth. I phoned Rodrigue in Montreal to talk about his experiences.
VICE: I really enjoyed your film.
Rodrigue: Thanks. There was quite a saga around the movie. It was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. Usually I’m the co-producer of my films, but you sort of become their employee when the National Film Board produces your work. Unfortunately, we didn’t observe eye to eye on some things.
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Addicted to chemsex: 'It's a horror story'
Miguel was in the middle of a three-day sex and drug binge when he looked at Grindr and saw an advert asking for people to participate in a film about sex and drug binges. “I hooked up with a guy,” he says, “and then we contacted them.” Soon a cameraman was filming him injecting drugs.
And with that Miguel became one of the pivotal storylines of the fresh documentary feature Chemsex. This is the first movie to explore a homosexual subculture that’s recently create notoriety in the mainstream media after the NHS and the British Medical Journalidentified it as a health priority. And this comes almost a decade after chemsex caused some arguments in the homosexual community itself, inspiring sadness, attrition, blame and confusion.
Chemsex is identified in the film as the practice of engaging in weekend-long parties fuelled by sexually disinhibiting drugs, such as crystal meth, GHB, GBL and mephedrone. These parties involve multiple people and are mostly facilitated online. The testimonies in the film from people emotionally attached in the subculture directly link chemsex to alarming rates of HIV infection. In London four fresh positive diagnoses are c
Life as a male sex worker in Britain today
BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme
It is estimated there are as many as 100,000 sex workers across the UK, and about 20% of them are male. Some of these men see their work as a positive choice, but for the most vulnerable it can be minute more than a means to survive.
It is preliminary afternoon in east London, and Daniel has just finished his first appointment of the day.
After dropping out of university a decade ago, he turned to sex work and has been doing it full time ever since.
"I see mainly available men," he tells the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.
"A large proportion are lgbtq+ and out, but a lot of the [others] are married and trying to cover up what they're doing."
Daniel says his clients usually fall between the ages of 35 and 85, and his price list includes anything from massages to sexual intercourse and overnight stays - which he advertises through apps and websites.
What he is doing is legal.
In England, Wales and Scotland, sex work is illegal when someone is forced to sell themselves against their will, solicits for work on the street or keeps
Gay life of a male prostitute
Updated: 2010-08-28 06:51
By Ming Yeung(HK Edition)
He set up office work dull so despite his well-to-do family background on the mainland, Daniel took up the sex trade. Ming Yeung reports.
When Daniel, 33, decided to travel the gay nature in 2000, he never thought he would eventually come in the oldest profession of mankind - prostitution.
The medium-built and sun-tanned childish man from Anhui province asked to be identified only by his first name and declined any photos, but he spoke candidly about his existence as a sex worker, offering a rare glimpse into a common subculture that is creature overlooked in latest society.
Daniel claimed he was not sensitive to his sexual orientation when he was a boy. Driven by curiosity, he sought out gay photos online back in 1998, back when Internet access was still new to him. Soon he found some friends with similar flavor. After about two years of nine-to-five office work in Shanghai, Daniel was bored. He decided to try a more exciting animation. He uploaded his photograph to a compensated-dating website.
His first customer soon appeared. It wasn't very glamorous.
He was paid 1,000 yua
The hero of French movie “Sauvage” is one of the most miserable show characters I have ever seen during recent years. While casually going through his seedy daily animation without no discernable future, this young man simply wants to love and be loved, but, alas, love is something he cannot get easily in his harsh world, and it is sometime quite difficult for us to watch how he comes to let himself driven further into more misery and despair.
After the opening scene which will trap you off guard for a good reason, the movie phlegmatically observes how Léo (Félix Maritaud) and his fellow male prostitutes work at some remote site near Paris during daytime. They patiently delay on the road as cars and people go by by from time to time, and we view some of them eventually getting the opportunity to earn a bit of cash.
Léo has been amiable with a male prostitute named Ahd (Eric Bernard), who says to Léo that he is not a gay but does not hesitate to dispose sex and his body to his male customers at all. During one early scene in the film, he and Léo are taken to the residence of a disabled middle-age guy, and Léo is willing to provide whatever is demanded by their latest customer along