Roger-Luc Chayer
As part of the Gay Globe Magazine survey of websites and applications for the distribution, solicitation and advertising of escort services in Canada, a troubling fact has emerged. An impressive number of young boys, aged between 12 and 17, offer their charms for a fee, and they do so without hiding most of the time. To find out more about the backgrounds of this little-known milieu, I met a young man from Montreal (who obviously wants to remain anonymous), now 25 years old and who has been doing this job for 4 years between the ages of 17 and 21 years. For the purposes of this article, we will name him Sébastien.
It all started with a simple telephone conversation, which quickly turned into a long-distance interview so much Sebastien had a lot to say about it. So I met him last May 26 in a quiet place, to allow to address very sensitive and personal issues.
Sébastien is direct about the question of the age of some boys. « Many start because they are attracted by the speed with which money comes in. Sometimes it is because they are badly taken, in the street, or they are abused by their parents, but many do it for the greed. They buy the latest fashionable clothes, the cellphone of the day and they spend it as fast as they earn it. When I showed him my surprise to see so many children on dating sites, who declare themselves between the ages of 18 and 20 on their public profile but who, in private, admit to being between 12 and 17 years old, without the least embarrassment Sébastien has an interesting position on this problem. « People are rising up on the
young boys are escorting on social networks, but we must understand that it is because there is a demand that it happens. If there were no old perverts still trying to give money to younger and younger boys, there would be little point in young people making themselves available for sex. « .
The finding made by our survey also raises a question of safety for potentially vulnerable children who do not always know how dangerous this job is. Sébastien makes a great distinction between prostitution and escort, considering that this last activity is more respectable because it is the customers who approach the escorts when in general, the prostitutes are on the street and offer their services.
According to him, it is important to respect some basic rules of security if a young person wishes to survive this profession. First, before going to a client or receiving someone at home, always make sure to send an e-mail or a text message to a reliable person who knows his activity and send the address of the person or his phone number. When entering a customer’s home, always mention that someone is waiting for you somewhere else. Never agree to do things that exceed your desires or your tolerance. Sébastien knows what he’s talking about, he stopped doing this job after being the victim of a near-attempted murder of a client who raped her. As for the tolerance of sites despite the criminal code, it’s simple, everything is a matter of money. An escort who wants to have easy access 24 hours a day to a site like Gay411 must pay a subscription, so it pays for Gay411!