‘Boys for Sale’: the dark world of Japan’s gay prostutn
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BOYS FOR SALE: AN INTRIGUG DOCUMENTARY ABOUT GAY PROSTUTN JAPAN
For 22-year-old Leo, a gay prostute Strasbourg, France, turng tricks is more than a job. The htler, played by BPM alum Felix Mard, has unrequed feelgs for Ahd (Eric Bernard), a fellow sex worker who sists he's jt gay for pay.
How did playg this role change your perceptns of gay sex workers? Today, is mon to also fd men sellg sexual servic - particularly gay men - and rather than a job they have been forced to, for many is viewed as a legimate reer choice.
This was when most of the untry still thought of homosexualy as a mental disorr. We only tly get a feel for Stty's pth of character when we meet some of his former tricks, strappg gay men who were eager for the work and grateful for the kdns of their protector. Although this realy remas for the most part ignored by the thori, the so–lled “good vibe guys”— or “chavos buena onda, ” as they are sometim referred to — work jt outsi the cy’s fad gay ghetto, the Zona work zone is watched by surveillance meras and regular police patrols, yet the prostutn ntu to operate out the open.