517. Interview with a Male Prostitute

 

            Interview with a Male Prostitute

A Male Prostitute and His Clients: the Lawyer, the Count, the Minister, the Alderman, and the Lover of Boys, plus His Meddling Aunt

This is a fictional interview with Tom Vaughan, the protagonist of  The Pleasuring of Men  (Gival Press, 2011), the first novel in my Metropolis series of historical novels set in nineteenth-century New York.  Tom, a respectably raised young man, tells how he decided to become a male prostitute and fell in love with Walter Whiting, his most difficult client.  I then interview other characters, too.  This is the only gay-themed work in the Metropolis series.  There is some gay sex (inevitable, given the subject), but nothing too graphic and no porn.  Available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.


                              THE  MALE  PROSTITUTE

Me:  And so, Tom Vaughan, you admit you are a male prostitute.

Tom:  Oh yes, but not just any kind.  I service a rather select crowd.

Me:  You’re not ashamed of your occupation?

Tom:  Not at all.  My clients need me.  For some of them, I'm all they've got.

Me:  But they have to pay.  Quite a bit, I’m told.

Tom:  Of course.  I’m in demand.

Me:  You were respectably raised.  How did you get into this business?

Tom:  Through a friend who was in it.  He told me I was a b.b., a beautiful boy, and I could make money and have fine clothes.  Me:  But aren’t some of your clients, well, repulsive?  Fat, jowly, balding…

Tom:  Yes, but there’s always something about them – the eyes, a deep, manly voice, elegant manners – that is attractive.  I focus on that.Me: Who are these clients?

Tom:  Mostly married men.  Lawyers, judges, merchants, aldermen, ministers…

Me:  Ministers?

Tom:  Oh yes.  Even my mother’s minister, whom I see every Sunday at church. We met just once, but it was memorable.Me:  How can a man of the cloth justify seeing a male prostitute?

Tom:  Ask him.

Me:  All right, I will.  But remember, you can’t be a beautiful boy forever.

Tom:  You have to know when to get out.  I hope to team up with Walter Whiting.  He’s a great scholar and lecturer.

Me:  One of your clients, I gather.

Tom:  My most difficult client.  I’ve even met his wife.

Me:  His wife?  This is getting complicated.

Tom:  Interview him.  He’ll explain.

Me:  I will.  

Tom:  And my other clients.  Talk to them as well.

Me:  All right, I will.

                                     HIS  CLIENTS

The lawyer

Tom Vaughan?  A clever little rascal, he caught on fast.  Stuck his tongue out at me, teased me, ran around the office knocking stuff over, until I caught him and spanked him.  He loved it.  

The count

Yes, yes, I remember Tom: auburn hair, pert nose, sensual lips. At gala I give, he jump out of cake naked, astonish guests, but then there is riot.  When I leave for Europe, he cry, I cry.  I never see again.  
The minister
Ah yes, Tom Vaughan.  I trust this will remain just between us.  When he came to my rectory, we were both astonished, but we carried it off rather well.  Justify my seeing him?  So few understand.  Desire is holy.  What happene between us was glory.  

The alderman

Oh Holy Mother of God and all the saints in heaven, forgive, forgive, it was a moment of folly with that randy rum slut of a lad so ripe for reamin’, not a Catholic, niver would I do it with a Catholic, oh niver, niver, niver, just a pagan or Methodist or somethin’, a cunning sodomite set in me way by the Divil. 
The lover of boys

Yes, I am Walter Whiting, and a lover of boys.  Tom Vaughan interests me, but experience has taught me caution.  Does my wife know?  Of course.  I explained this all to her – ever so gently – long ago.  She insists on meeting Tom.  What will then happen I I don’t presume to say.  And if Tom's brother ever discovers Tom's double life, it could get ugly.
Jessica Ames

As Tom Vaughan's Aunt Jessie and a born meddler, I take an interest in him.  He has possibilities.  But he's up to something.  He has a dark secret and whatever it is, I intend to find out.  When Jessica Ames puts her mind to something, she rarely fails.
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Tom has to cope with Aunt Jessica, Walter Whiting, his brother, and a stranger who assaults him.  How does he do it?  Read the book.  Available from Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
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