Diversity Rules Magazine

6 Diversity Rules Magazine April 2017 Puppy - Con't from page 5 time, a little more was offered and a little more was expected. You eventually knew the circuit for such work. When you could go crash, with very organized guys like Dan and Rob, that was safer, cleaner, warmer, more of a sure thing but more demanding in terms of time and activity. With guys like that, they would say sure, come on in. But you got to stay all weekend. If you leave early, you don't get paid. And the activities that took place and what you were paid for them were decided by Dan and Rob. Whether it was a quick blowjob or it was fuck or it was someone who just wanted to smack you around while they jerked off, the activity and the payment was decided for you. You could avoid that, the more you knew where and how to find the "regulars" you were comfortable with or other "clients" on your own, but that was less of a sure thing and you were more exposed. You would hang around in specific locations, watching men walk by sizing you and others up, approaching to suggest an arrangement and negotiate a price. If you were very lucky, it could be as much as someone in Dan and Rob's world of well-off, discreet perverts might have paid and if not, it could be five bucks for a quickie in a van or a handjob in a toilet stall at the bus station in re- turn for a hamburger. And then you went back out and waited for another one because you either didn't want to go home empty handed or else you were avoiding going home at all for as long as you could. If your two choices were to be at home with steel wool plugging up holes in the wall so the rats can't get in and with your parents and seeking "friends" of theirs shooting up and puking themselves to sleep on the floor OR in a motel room with a TV and a sweaty old man telling you how much he loved you while sticking a finger in your butt, you went with the motel. As you got savvier about it, and better known in those circles, you also knew which hotel employees would direct you to the room of some tourist who had tipped them well to locate a hustler for them, probably sweat- ing through their clothes as they tried to hint that younger was better. It was the same thing with bar- tenders and bouncers. Certain of them were known to be discreet contacts for men looking for such things and boys looking for the work. ere was a very old bar in the West Village that, even as recently as the 1990s had a reputation for being a hustler bar, where the right tip and the right euphemism could lead to a call being made to a payphone near which some of us would congregate and then a trip to a room above the bar for short bit. One bartender at that bar was known to keep a pocketful of Polaroids of the regularly available boys with a first name and a number where to find them. JRK: What was the process for "breaking you in" and getting you accustomed to what would become a very common occurrence in your very young life? Puppy - Con't on page 7

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