I have been thinking
for a year if I would like to write this story and it took me a year
to do so. I have tried not to tell you the story of myself as an
escort. However, RentboyAustralia.com is now a part of my life. So,
I have to be in the story. I also hope that this story may inspire
someone to do something better for our gay escort world. I've never
told anyone before about my true story. I hope my decision is right!
It's the story of RBA..
About me
I I don't want
to advertise myself in this area of the website so I will keep my
identity private. It wasn't the big issue anyway because we are about
to get to know RBA, not me.
RentboyAustralia... It started with me.
When I was 24, I was a student. I was also a young hard working boy.
I worked full time at a Chicken Shop on Coogee Beach (Sydney). I was
paid $90 a day starting from 8 am to 7 pm working as a kitchen hand
preparing turkeys for Christmas. When I got home, I had to go to bed
right away so I could wake up (6.30 am) and be ready for work on time
in the morning 7 days a week during holidays and working a few days
when I had to study.
I was also working as a waiter in a restaurant in Bondi where I finally
not being kept private (?not sure what this mean?) in the kitchen where
I saw nothing but stoves. I noticed I was a hottie. A gentleman (restaurant
client, I didn't know his name) gave me $20 tip right into my pants
because I was a professional waiter! So, I believed I was very good
at client service. When I helped my friend at the restaurant deliver
dinner to one of the gay clients, I was invited to step in and the
clients asked me to stay a little bit longer but I could not. When
I went to gay pubs, there were always older gentlemen would like to
talk to me. I had noticed I was uniquely special.
My Escort Career
My escort career started
accidentally. My first so called client was a late 30s gentleman
living in Crown Street, Surry Hills. We met at
the pub one night on Oxford Street. He asked me to go to see him one
night and offered me $100 as my reward to help out as “a friend”.
I accepted the offer. He asked me to strip off, stood still then asked
me to relax in bed. I was very open-mind about sex. So, I gave him
what he wanted. (I don't need to go through the details, right?) I
had a lot of sexual energy to kill. Finally, I got my $100. I managed
to visit him a few days in a row and earn extra $300. I thanked him
for helping me out.
I also remembered one night I went to a gay sauna near Flinders Street,
a older gentleman offered me $50 to get into the cubicle so he could
jerk off and cum on me. I took the chance. It was not too difficult.
I was paid. I thought it was a reward for my generosity.
Later, I needed a lot of money for my study. A lot of money. I didn't
have much time working full time in the Chicken Shop anymore. So, I
decided firmly to do some escort work. I started collecting information
from other escorts by calling them pretending that I was a client.
I noticed that everyone
could not work as an escort because of there looks. This job would
depend mainly on my appearance. Thank God! I
was young, cute, hot and hung. What a perfect boy! I wanted to turn
my sexual energy into cold cash, seriously. So, I decided firmly to
start this career. I studied how an escort got into the business from
other escorts. Several years back, an escort named “Spike” was
the one who had the most outstanding advertising campaign. So, I tried
to follow his steps in the way he responded on the phone and how he
distinguished himself in the boy business. He was a smart boy. I finally
managed to see him live at the party one day but he would never know
who I was.
So, I managed to get my
ad and call The Star to advertise as an escort. I also advertised
occasionally as an erotic masseur. Later, I mostly
did escort jobs because most people always trying to get “extras” or “full
service”. I had been working as an independent escort since then.
I had met a lot of clients, the best to the worse. I had been to 5-star
hotels around Sydney. I even went to 2-stars. I have flown first, business
and economy class with my clients. Helping them around during their
business trips. I had been on luxury escape holidays with my clients.
(Please do not think they were easy. I was a hard working “actor” at
the backend and I had to work long hours to entertain them).
There were gentlemen who were willing to pay to get my company because
I was their entertainment. I also had a few celebrity clients hiring
me when they visited Sydney .
I had seen many “collectors” (who
hire an escort only once or twice). I also had made long-term relationships
with my regulars.
I was a perfect toy boy in my clients' world. I did whatever they pleased.
Let me tell you how happy Sydney was before September 11, 2001. Sydney,
then, there were not many sex-on-premise places, and there were only
a few sex parties. I was very busy making money because Sydney needs
entertainers! It was the best time of my escort's career. I managed
to get whatever I wanted at the time. My tuition fee was paid; I could
also help my mum, my brothers and a few friends.
Suddenly, after September
11, the World changed, and so did my escort's world. There were fewer
jobs, and people felt uncertain to hire me
because of the world situation. I thought my mobile phone went dead.
Well, on the good side, escorts had more time for themselves. So, I
spent my time on my hobby – getting on-line, and surfing the
net.
Meeting with Josh and Ryan & Getting the name rentboyaustralia.com
I managed to get on-line and get in to the IRC chat room. There was Joshua Black who
was always on #gayescorts. (I promised him to mention his name here).
Josh was a smart boy. He was always there when I needed some advise.
He was running www.gayescorts.au.com a year before RBA were born. His idea could be the founder of this website. So, I was a good (cyber) friend with him. I became a regular boy on #gayescorts and finally met Ryan an escort from Adelaide and Ben from Melbourne . We had chat several times about creating the best Australian gay escort website. Most of the good name has been registered. At the time, the world famous escort web site was rentboy.com. So, we thought that we need an Australian version of the site or a new invented site to provide more information for clients and boys in this business targeting Australians.
So, my RBA might give chances for young boys who can see potential power in themselves to get their lives sort out a bit, just like me, Josh and Ryan. Thinking how difficult we had to fight for ourselves secretly as rent boys, we should have a place where we could say for ourselves that we are independent.
Nevertheless, we would like to upgrade our social standard of what we preferably called ourselves “escorts”. We would like Australia to accept who we were and respected what we do. We were working boys, making money from ourselves, not from the dole. We would like to tell the clients what we offered, how much, what and why we charged. (We knew we could not be a millionaire, but this career helps us a great deal). We also believed it would help other boys who may need advice from experience escorts. I personally wanted to run a charity organisation to help sexual workers (let's say like SWOP, Sexual Worker Outreach Project focusing on gay men prostitution), but I was not a millionaire. I could not afford it. I did not even have a time. So, RBA should be an ideal. Just wanted to do whatever I could. I knew I could not help everyone but at least I could help to make a different in a smaller scale and hope one day I could help gay escort community.
Getting it sponsored
So, I personally
had secured the name and paid thousand of dollars to get it in shape
and get it promoted. It was difficult to say at the time, no one
was willing to share cost of this intellectual property. Also if
the website had been transferred to the wrong hands, I would be very
sad. So, I had to finance it. We also had to face many critical issues
to keep rentboyaustralia.com running. We had promised the boys not
to charge them a cent to advertise on our website and would always
keep the promise as long as we could. We helped our fellow escorts
save $$$money and also helped put extra money in their pockets. RBA
was always very generous!
To pay for the costs, we have to get it sponsored. We finally had
our first sponsor UncutDVDs.com, then CuriousCash.com, AEBN and the
sponsor names go on and on. You will obviously notice anyway.
Webmaster Rod
I met Rod at a friend's party. I was too silly not keeping in touch
with him after that. Well, I did not come out (as an escort) to him
(and every boy I met) at the time. I was afraid of rejection. There
were a few cases I tried to be straight forward to the boys I met that
I was an escort. Then, I never heard back from them again. So, I kept
myself (as an escort) in the closet.
In early 2003, I got Rod's
e-mail invitation to an invitation-only party in Sydney. I accidentally
set up my auto reply to answer my client's
e-mail to Rod's e-mail address. Oops! Silly Billy! The e-mail was a
response about a threesome arrangement to a client with my mate, Ryan.
I felt very stupid that the e-mail had been accidentally sent out to
Rod. (Don't laugh, this could happen to you). I was afraid of many
things afterwards. I was afraid that I might lose him just like I lost
others. (The fact is…nobody cares if you are a rent boy except
those who loves you without sex!) He did not reply me right away though.
I asked God to erase that e-mail from his Inbox. But God was too busy!
Then, there was
the Inquisition party in 2004. (That why I decided to launch this
story during this time of the year). The party tickets
were sold out. I was desperately looking for a ticket through pinkboard.com.au at last minute. It was Rod who read my add and called me that he had
a spare ticket. Then, we met at the party. He said to me he had read
e-mail. I thought my face was red. I did not know what to say. I've
never came out so suddenly to a friend. He was very okay about it.
It was a relief for me. So, we kept in touch with each other until
now.
Then, there was the time
when I had to go overseas for a long time. All of my friends who
helped me update the site had gone back to the
bush and some had suddenly disappeared. I needed cash for the overseas
trip so I didn't have much spare to hire someone to take care of it.
I did not even have a thousand dollars to hire someone. (Please do
not think I spent on luxury things, I mostly shared the money with
my love ones. If you were my clients you would know how generous I
was as a rent boy). So, I had to look at the last option – finding
someone who knows the boy business, loves doing the website, ... someone
who is willing to communicate to the boys, "accepting them of
what they are and what they do". It was very difficult to find “the
one”. I had been searching...
Then, I had thought of Rod. So, I asked him nicely to help me update
the website while I was away because I knew he had been doing a few
websites, too. Since then, we had him on board RBA where you might
have talked to him. The boys were very happy to have him, right?
The Final Word
Well, that's the
story for now. It may not so important to you. However for me, RBA
and the boys, this is a great story worthy of being written down
somewhere. I would like to thank everyone who helped supporting RBA
including: RBA clients and RBA readers (I will never know the names),
RBA sponsors, Joshua Black, Ryan, Ben... I also would like to personally
thank escorts: Ethan and Keith who was always there for RBA meetings.
Especially, Rod who always helps me with the updates and been a good
brother for the boys.
We hope
you love our RentBoyAustralia.com! and we might see you at RBA
annual meeting in November 2005.
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RBA is just a small web site but packed with many big stories which
we may share with you from time to time.
Anyway, no
matter who you are, you'll see the words 'boy' and 'escort' quite
a lot on RBA -
and we intend them to mean any male whom we find
sexually interesting. Doesn't necessarily have to be a young guy. RBA
boys are at least 18 years old – they are private escorts, masseurs,
strippers, photographers, models and whoever appears on our website.
If you have any thing to say at all about our boy's businesses, email
us webmaster@rentboyaustralia.com
