CB-073 The Stud Hustler

FOREWORD

CRUISING THE “MEATRACKS”

Not many years ago Jerry Garcin’s homosexual love life was as full and free as that of any handsome, virile young man burdened by homosexuality. But now he is forty-five, no longer a young, muscular and in demand, and he is forced to seek sexual fulfillment wherever he can find it.

Every young male hustler in town knows Jerry, who now haunts the gay bars, the steam baths, the homo-pickup parks, the tearooms… all the places in the big city where he may find “young men”—youths out for a quick buck the gay way.

Not since John Rechy’s CITY OF NIGHT and NUMBERS has the bizarre and sometimes pitiful world of the young male prostitute been so thoroughly investigated or so clearly explained.

It’s all here, in this autobiography of a man whose compassion for the misfits who use him provides a meaningful psychological insight into the offbeat world of the male hustler.

The persons, places, and events in this book are real. However, the names of all people and many places have been changed, and certain identifiable incidents have been reconstructed slights, to guarantee the right to privacy for those involved.