A Muslim rentboy, working under the pseudonym “Mohammed Ashfaq,” has written a provocative piece for The Spectator in which he dishes about sleeping with politicians and the unhurried ins-and-outs of his profession.
“I am gay and Muslim and I was an asylum seeker in this country,” he writes. “I came here because some of my gay friends were killed back home.”
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He was inspired to pen the piece in the wake of the Keith Vaz scandal, which saw the married British lawmaker step down from his position in light of accusations that he slept with male prostitutes and bought them drugs.
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“I am not surprised that Keith Vaz has been caught sleeping with male hookers,” Ashfaq writes. “I’m one myself and so I know that overweight married Asians are our staple.”
We often joke that without Indians and-Middle Eastern guys, we’d all be broke. They are always married. I’ve always been sickened by the way they betray their wives, but they aren’t paying me for my judgment.
In the four years he’s been hustling, he’s had “hundreds of different and weird experiences” and has bedded a few politicians “from the House of Lords and the House of Commons.” They’re usually married and often have secret flats in London where they conduct their business transactions. One member of House of Lords isn’t so much interested in sex as wrestling, a “safe-sex habit he picked during the HIV panic if the 1980s.”
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Perhaps the most eyeopening revelation is the fact that “the work is often quite boring.” Sometimes his Johns are so high they don’t know what’s up. Or they bury their head in the pillow. It’s not unusual for him to start texting friends in the middle of sessions.
You have to sit around a lot waiting for bookings. Each morning I log on to the escort websites I use, then wait. Then at about 11 a.m. I get up and go to the gym. You have to drop everything at short notice when you get a booking, so it’s difficult to make plans.
Not that the job doesn’t have it’s perks. Besides getting to keep your nose out of the stultifying mainstream and rotting away behind a desk until you die of cancer, you could always wind up with quite a bit of money if you play your cards right.
“London is full of people with cash to burn,” he notes.
In fact, a fellow hustler was just handed £10,000 by one of his clients.
Kangol
I bet he and others have to turn down quite a few offers, especially in the Middle East, and especially if they look like the guys from Citebeur.
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
Oh yeah let’s import more winners like this “refuge” to the West.
Masc Pride
A refugee seeking asylum and pursuing a better life through hustling. How inspiring! What a crock of sh!t. He was totally a wh0re in his home country. He’s just hoeing it up in a different place now, like any other rentboy that found a city with more thirsty, rich, dirty, fat, balding, stinking, old men. I love how those of us that actually work for a living are the ones “rotting away”. Meanwhile, this guy won’t even be your next porn/rentboy RIP because no one will even know or care that he’s dead.
Xtian99
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: yeah good call-we should limit refugees to “just the type that don’t want to assimilate and will eventually blow you up” kind- much more sensible than a gay man hurting no one and making his way with the world’s oldest profession.
Mo Bro
Why is his religion relevant?
FRE0
It must be, else you wouldn’t have asked your question.
Xtian99
@Masc Pride: “A total whore?” slut shame much? “no one will even know or care that he’s dead” wow such bitter words…spoken like a true roll who has to pay for it… who knows, maybe you will book him?
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
@Xtian99: We should limit refugees to none at all. This article proves even they gay ones are worthless. If they can’t get in maybe they will grow some balls and go clean up the shitholes they are trying to turn the West into.
Xtian99
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: hes worthless bc he’s a rent boy? “en they gay ones are worthless.” laughable… gay refugees get asylum to avoid being killed in their own lands, but now you want that granted “only if they live a nice life by your standards”. and who does his job hurt, other than sex repressed head jobs like you? i think ur quite useless as a human being based on ur statements, so what do u contribute? can you prove ur unworthlessnes as a gay man? a human being?
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
@Xtian99: Whore get killed left and right in America too. So no point in importing them here. But don’t worry, we and Europe already have plenty for you old men that have to pay for it.
Masc Pride
@Xtian99: Sensitive much? It says he’s a rentboy, dummy. Rentboy = prostitute = wh0re. I also love how prostitutes try to glamorize prostitution but yet get very sensitive when they’re referred to as prostitutes. Sounds like a guilty subconscious. And no, I would never buy him because:
1) I don’t have to pay for it. Never have and never will.
2) He’s a gay prostitute that commonly bangs meth heads, so I’m sure he’s got every disease in the book.
Xtian99
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: not so original a come back as i already said the same about Masc Pride above, but its ok, we know ur limited. All ur talk of whores and worthlessness… i always love how a backwards tards like you think you know the definition of whoredome and worth. Ur venom only gives away ur bitterness and sadness – and some underlying issues. ur a blemish on the gay community dude, but me thinks you are seen and treated as such already, thus the venom you feel the need to express.
Xtian99
@Masc Pride: again, laughable…
Rentboy and prostitute = words that are descriptions, and he does indeed refer to himself as a rentboy
whore = your word for him, a word full of negative connotations and spoken as a way of passing judgment on him, even defined in dictionary as “noun – derogatory”
ur the typical sad queen who’d rather throw venom at and pass judgment on others instead of look at the tatters of ur own life. People who are truly secure do not feel the need to say such hateful tings such as ” no one will even know or care that he’s dead”- I think bc the real issue is ur own self worth and what u offer…. which seems to be “not much”. Either way, thou does protest too much and too vigorously… some shady stuff ur trying to hide. but we see it!
IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou
@Xtian99: Everyone knows “the definition of whoredom”. It’s a ho that takes money from people who want to stick it in them. They also tend to catch a lot of diseases that way. Sorry to bust your pretty woman fantasy bubble. But then again you aren’t a Julia Roberts, so it was going to happen real soon anyway.
Xtian99
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: nope- sorry, ur still still covering for something.
And quite the opposite – it is bc of the hardships of and people’s harsh views on a prostitute’s life – as so exemplified by ur immature and crude statements and silly value judgments – that i do NOT romanticize their lives at all – i think their lives are quite hard enough as it is, and God knows what them take this road, without backwoods judgmental queens like you condemning. But judging by the conversation, ur intellectual capacity, and ur use of words like “HO” phrases like “stick it in ’em” and “real soon”, we do thank you for rolling out from under your papi/brother/uncle long enough to crank up ur generator and type these words of wisdom. While ur at it, pop the propane on, momma likes a hot bath every thursday night…
crowebobby
I was an escort for three months back in Manhattan in the early 60’s and none of my clients were dirty or stinking even though I didn’t get to chose them, just answered the call from the agency. If thirsty means wanting to get laid without going out and cruising because it is time-consuming and potentially dangerous (escorts were vetted) then I guess they were thirsty. A couple were young and attractive and very rich, only one was rude and immediately half-apologized, the oldest one was a rich, elegant, archaeologist who was polite to the point of obsequiousness. I only quit because I left for Paris. I enjoyed every minute of it: it didn’t interfere with my dancing (jobs or classes) and it did wonders for my ego. (The only diseases I got were from the baths . . . and they weren’t dirty or stinking either.)
o.codone
really, what’s wrong with being on either end of this equation?
DDstar1me
This brotha gets no judgement from me. I applaud his openness and would pay for sex myself in a heartbeat. Had I cash to burn, I would be open to different varieties of escorts. It would seem that only straight men pay for sex. But, I wouldn’t be surprised at the % of gay men who do as well.
Xzamilio
Yeah, I agree with the person who remarked about his religion… him being Muslim was almost completely irrelevant, aside from him leaving because his friends were being killed for being gay. He’s a prostitute… it’s a victimless crime, aside from the ones forced to do it, and the ones being killed because they put themselves at risk because it is not legal (as it should be).
Hussain-TheCanadian
@IDoNotHaveToAgreeWithYou: Don’t forget to mention the part bout the “Muslim horde taking over Europe” and the imposition of “Sharia law” law on everybody; I kind am disappointed you didn’t include that part “oh defender of western values”.
robho3
So much judgement on here. He’s a f***ing rent boy damn it not a murderer. Jesus!!!
gayhope1990
It’s the same thing with the so called gay porn.The most actors are gay for pay.We can say they’re rentboys too.They get payed for getting fuck or fucking many other gay for pay.
kevin57
@crowebobby: Thank you for your comment. The vitriol of condemnation from some here alarms me.
ChrisK
@Masc Pride: As bitter as you are and as much time as I see you spend on this site spreading your hate I guarantee you’re ugly as hell. I’m sure it’s a love/hate relationship with rent boys you’ve got.
jdboston617
@Mo Bro: Perhaps to demonstrate the hypocrisy of religion, especially Islam.
Heywood Jablowme
How “Muslim” is he? When was the last time he went to a mosque on Friday? No, he sounds more like a typical gay agnostic who doesn’t give a sh*t about religion. Why call him a “Muslim” at all?
“overweight married Asians are our staple.” Ooooh that’s rac*st!
everybodywinsyay
“I’ve always been sickened by the way they betray their wives,”
So that’s means we can be sickened by the way you behave, too. What they are doing is no worse than what he is doing. He’s anonymously selling sex. So he’s not showing the world what he is doing and neither are they.
Heywood Jablowme
@everybodywinsyay: “I’ve always been sickened by the way they betray their wives,”
Yeah I laughed at that one. He’s “sickened” by it but not enough to NOT have sex with them. Or take money from them! Maybe he feels better about the ones who don’t talk about their wives?
ChrisK
@everybodywinsyay: @Heywood Jablowme: One is a betrayal while the other isn’t. You can disapprove how your boss or company handles itself in other businesses. Many of us do as a matter of fact.
Baba Booey Fafa Fooey
“This brotha gets no judgement from me.”
This is pretty much the response of all gay people when it comes to Muslims, regardless.
Masc Pride
@Xtian99: Rentboy has negative connotations as well. All terms for sex workers can carry negative connotations to different people. People who are truly secure don’t take the opinions of strangers online so personally. You really shouldn’t care so much about what I think as I couldn’t care any less about what you think.
@ChrisK: Bitter? Look at your reply. Pot meet kettle.
ChrisK
@Masc Pride: You call people names and I just respond to it. That’s not bitterness. I get your shtick and so does everyone else.
Brian
Being a prostitute is so classy…not.
Chris
He’s not the first guy to make a living doing sex work; and he won’t be the last. And so far as I can tell, everyone who does this sort of work points out that it’s not all class and sass. More power to him and his coworkers.
Masc Pride
@ChrisK: You didn’t just call me a bunch of names? Pot meet kettle…again.
Also, I never called anyone any names. Calling a guy a whore when you know he is not a prostitute is name-calling. Your panties are just bunched up and turning red over the “correct” way to refer to a sex worker. Get help!