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MY PRIVATE IDAHO – A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A HUSTLER

I HAD CONTACT AND BECAME FRIENDS WITH A LOT OF HUSTLERS

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By Kevin McLean

I bet most of you have seen the film “My Own Private Idaho” or read an earlier book titled “City of Night”. Both dealt with the male prostitution scene and the intricacies and nuances of such an environment.

“Everyone has a price and it all depends on what it is those working boys want…your money or your body…which?” My friend Steve told me…and he should know…he is a well paid male escort…an expensive male whore, if you ask me…and if you ask him.

It stands to reason that some of the places I frequent have an abundance of these kinds of guys. It is inevitable that for some reason or other they eventually will have contact with me and even become friends. I have to clarify here that even though they are prostitutes, who charge for their sexual favors, when it comes to me they have never asked for anything…well, maybe a meal or a cigarette…sometimes they ask to buy them a drink. But the road always leads to my bed and these working boys in them…out of choice and on their own volition, for their own sexual satisfaction and not for what they can gain.

It has always been a clear exchange…I am young, good looking and with a bubble butt they want to have. They get old, tired and repulsive old queens or frustrated closeted types and they have to perform. They hate doing it for the most part…of course they like the sex but they prefer sex with somebody like myself. That is why I have yet to have any of them ask me to pay them to fuck me, and there are at least half a dozen or more hustlers that I include in my circle of friends.

There are others who drift in and out of the picture…some leave for greener pastures while others get to meet some John who will support them. There are even some who have changed their lifestyle and gone legit.

I became a lot more open and accepting of hustlers after I survived and came back from my own foray into homelessness. Before that dark period of my life, I thought it was beneath me to associate with male hookers. I think that I may have been a bit of an elitist…a gay of means who would be excited by the prospect of sex with someone a bit rough around the edges but who did not accept them as one of his peers, one of his equals.

A month in the streets sure cured my elitist attitude. But I found joy in some of these guys. They were more than appreciative for the sexual satisfaction I gave them…you see, they work to satisfy others; not the other way around. So when somebody like me comes along it is like a gift to them.

There is also another aspect that I find satisfying: most of these guys have big cocks or they wouldn’t be making any money. I found that most are over seven, sometimes as much as nine inches. I only know of one with six, but his cock is thicker than a beer can and he is versatile…actually I think he prefers to be a bottom.

My Own Private Idaho

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mike; who is a gay-street hooker (played by River Phoenix) is standing alone on a deserted stretch of highway somewhere in Idaho. He starts talking to himself and notices that the road looks “like someone’s face, like a fucked-up face.” He experiences episodes of narcolepsia and dreams of his mother comforting him as he replays home movies of his childhood in his mind. Mike wakes up to being fellated by a client in Seattle. After this hotel encounter in Seattle, Mike returns to his favorite spots to pick up potential clients. He is picked up by a wealthy older woman who takes him to her mansion where he meets two fellow hustlers also hired by the woman. One of them is Scott Favor played by Keanu Reeves; becomes Mike’s best friend and the other is Gary played by Rodney Harvey. While preparing to have sex with the woman, Mike experiences another narcoleptic fit and awakens the next day with Scott in Portland, Oregon.

Mike and Scott are soon reunited with their mentor Bob Pigeon played by William Richert, a middle-aged man and father figure to a gang of street kids and hustlers who live in an abandoned apartment building. Scott, the son of the mayor of Portland, admits to Bob in private that when he turns 21, he will inherit his father’s fortune and will reject the street hustler lifestyle. Mike yearns to find his mother, and he and Scott leave Portland for Idaho to visit Mike’s older brother Richard played by James Russo, who lives in a run-down trailer. Richard tries to tell Mike who his real father is, but Mike says that he knows it is Richard. Richard tells Mike that their mother works as a hotel maid; when Mike and Scott visit the hotel, they find she has gone to Italy in search of her own family.

Mike and Scott travel to Italy where they find the country farmhouse where Mike’s mother worked, as a maid and as an English tutor. The young woman who lives there tells Mike that his mother returned to the United States months ago. Carmella and Scott fall in love and return to the U.S., leaving Mike to return home on his own.

Back in Portland, Bob and his gang confront a newly reformed Scott at a fashionable restaurant, but he rejects them. That night Bob has a fatal heart attack. The next day the hustlers hold a rowdy funeral for Bob, while in the same cemetery, a few yards away, Scott attends a solemn funeral for his recently deceased father. Mike is back on a deserted stretch of Idaho highway. He falls into another narcoleptic stupor and two strangers pull up in a truck, steal Mike’s belongings and drive away. Moments later, a car pulls up and a driver picks Mike up, places him in the vehicle and drives off.

The origins of My Own Private Idaho came from John Rechy’s 1963 novel, CITY OF NIGHT, which featured characters who were street hustlers who did not admit to being gay. Van Sant's original screenplay was written in the 1970s, when he was living Hollywood; after reading Rechy's book, Van Sant realized that it was considerably better than what he was writing, so he shelved the script for years. Van Sant met a street kid named Michael Parker who became a source of inspiration for the character of Mike in what would later become My Own Private Idaho. Parker also had a friend named Scott, a street kid like himself. In the script, Van Sant adapted the Scott character to that of a rich kid. The character of Scott was also fashioned after people Van Sant had met in Portland who were street hustlers.

My Own Private Idaho had its premiere at the 1991 Venice Film Festival, and received largely positive reviews, from. The film was a financial success, grossing over $6.4 million in North America, which was above its estimated budget of $2.5 million. Phoenix received several awards for his performance in the film.

CITY OF NIGHT

Set in the 1960s, the book follows the travels of a young man (Rechy uses the term “youngman” when referring to hustlers) across the country while working as a hustler. The book focuses chapters on locations that the boy visits and certain personages he meets there, from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Orleans. Throughout the novel, the unnamed narrator has trysts with various peculiar characters, including another hustler, an older man, an S&M enthusiast and a bed-ridden old man. All of these relationships range in the extent of their emotional and sexual nature, as well as in their peculiarity.