A lot of interesting stuff has happened in the last three days and more is expected to happen in just a few minutes when I go off with Camp Chris, Milan the Pimp, and the butch shaved head’d security guard who works at the station’s service pont. Chris is buying us all a couple round of beers and we’re going to try to persuade this young man to let Chris talk dirty to him and maybe let me take some pix of him. Of course, he might not show up at all but this is the Czech Republic and anything (used to) be able to happen.
Other upcoming subjects:
Drenched in gypsy cum at the sex shop
Meeting up with the Finnish documentary filmmaker and being told by him and his straight editor that I am a “fucking good storyteller”
Offered a gun for sale at the homeless bar by an ex-rent boy who was deported from the United States
Hanging out non-stop at the station and discovering it’s not so dead after all
Hearing about Miro’s errand to Slovakia to pick up the visa of an American expat. He may or may not come back.
Preparing for homelessness
Keep reading and buy some shit!
You know Rick, when I lived in Prague in the 90s, it was a rule of thumb that offering to buy a young lad some Pivo was always the first step to sex and never, in my experience, was it refused. Beer was the avenue to a Czech boy’s dick…if you were persistent. I guess with the arrival of capitalism, more money and ways to get it being around now and maybe a greater degree of savvyness, this well-worn strategy has vanished. If it has, it’s a shame, as it was so much easier than any other pick up tactic I have ever known.
If young men now are more aware, then I suppose it might work in your favour. At least they know now that there is no such thing as a free beer! Back in the early 90s, it was kinda sweet to invite a butch young thing for a drink or 6 (a large beer then was about 8 KCS, 15 KCS in the tourist area and the exchange rate was about 50KCS to the $!!)and then happily get him drunk, all the time getting more & more suggestive, and getting the ok in return with lots of grins, winks and touchy touchy on the leg….
The evening would end with an invite back to the apartment where I always had more beer in the fridge and MTV on the television…a sure-fire temptation!
So I wonder if we’ve made progress by ruining Prague so thoroughly with our fucking Western ways….so much so that even the rentboy bars seem to have collapsed!
It’s still possible to seduce a boy with beer. It’s just become less likely now that they are more worldly and make more money. A boy fresh off the farm, or the bus, from wherever, yeah, it’s possible.
the biggest change I’ve seen is the hostility that meets some of my most benign overtures. It’s still uncommon but becoming less so.
It’s certainly a shame, and a real drag.