IMPORTANT READING for ANY ESCORT

[pegasian]

THE BOOKS of JOHN RECHY are to being an ESCORT as reading GONE WITH THE WIND is to most Southerners.

 

 

http://www.johnrechy.com/

 

 

 

It will be an EXPERIENCE that INFORMS and EDUCATES you.

 

 

 

 

 

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[rentingdad]

what's with all these inane, stupid posts this guy is placing on every board here....surveys, best of, worst of, jeez - somebody needs to get another hobby!

[pegasian]

>what's with all these inane, stupid posts this guy is placing

>on every board here....surveys, best of, worst of, jeez -

>somebody needs to get another hobby!

 

I am TRYING to balance off all the BITCHING people do here. It seems to me that TOO MANY PEOPLE'S HOBBY is to just POST BITCH on each other. IF you have a PROBLEM with MY POSTS....CREATE YOUR OWN...or your criticism is NOT CONSTRUCTIVE.

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[Trixie]

Ahh, I was soooo enamored of Rechy's writings as a young punk in the early 80's. When I was...19, I think, I spent a summer in LA hanging out on Santa Monica Blvd, getting wasted and going to see bands like the Circle Jerks, X, the Minutemen, the Flesheaters, 45Grave... and I was well aware of the working boys. I myself was propositioned more than once,(I was 19, and really that was all the "talent" it took) but never had the guts to turn a trick (nor the monetary necessity, I admit) The streets were rife with scary urban myths and legends of shadowy men who invited you into their car and whisked you away, never to be seen again. It was alluring, but dangerous.

 

Anyway, Rechy's writings well captured the outsider Romance of LA's street sex scene, even if he tended to skirt the misery that was also there: the addictions, the desperation, depression & insanity that swirled around like eddies and undertows all along Santa Monica Boulevard. And then there was the blossoming AIDS epidemic, at the time so misunderstood and mysterious.

 

Now-a-days, that sort of street life is all but extinct, killed off by AIDS and the internet. Rechy's books seem...anachronistic, is that the word I'm looking for? My memory fails me. A quaint read of a bygone era. the Street Hustler has joined the Pirate and the Cowboy as a romantic hero- or antihero- of a time that now exists only in the imagination.

 

La Trix

[+ glutes]

pegasian, you need to slow down Brother...

[pegasian]

>Ahh, I was soooo enamored of Rechy's writings as a young punk"

 

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>La Trix

 

I feel the same way L.T. Even though he had a "STREET" stance he gave an important voice and lesson.

[Guest zipperzone]

Maybe I'm crazy but I could swear that the copy I have of City of Night (which I can't put my hand on at the moment) was published much earlier than 1984, which is the date shown on several websites.

 

Is it possible that 1984 was a revised version, a later printing or something like that?

 

P.S. I was right. I just found it on Amazon. The original (first printing) was published in Hardcover by Grove Press in 1964. The '84 version must have been different in some way and I suspect a paperback.

[Trixie]

You are right, Zipperzone, Rechy's writing predated my teenage years by quite sometime. I guess you could say he was on the tail-end of the Beat Generation, and I was firmly in the X-Gen. But I loved to read, and discovered Will Burroughs, Rechy, and "Last Exit to Brooklyn" all in the same year, in the University library.

 

 

 

Trix

[pegasian]

The reason I posted this was because I got in a discussion with an escort from here. He actually was thinking fo righting a fictional version of his adventures in the trade and I mentioned Rechy as good research reading. His books along with The Autobiography of Jack Wrangler make for very diverse and entertaining reading on this topic.

[+ Charlie]

I read "City of Night" when it was originally published in 1964. It had been recommended to me by my nextdoor neighbor, a young woman who worked at the UN. She said it had helped her understand what she was seeing from the bus window as she rode back and forth to work on 42nd St every day.

[pegasian]

>I read "City of Night" when it was originally

>published in 1964. It had been recommended to me by my

>nextdoor neighbor, a young woman who worked at the UN. She

>said it had helped her understand what she was seeing from the

>bus window as she rode back and forth to work on 42nd St every

>day.

 

 

THAT is interesting Charlie. It does remind me of the OLD 42nd Street Days.

[pegasian]

Charlie & Trix,

 

I do NOT recommend CLONE:The AL PARKER STORY...The writer never gave his subject a VOICE and his writing lost interest by the end. The JON VINCENT Biography was very interesting but VERY DARK reading.