4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent guide for the aspiring hustler!, Jun 6 2004
This review is from: The Male Escort's Handbook: Your Guide to Getting Rich the Hard Way (Paperback)
This book provided the inspiration and guidance for a successful part-time hustling career for me. It's a good and thorough how-to guide to becoming an independent male escort, from deciding whether or not you're really cut out for it to advertising, safety issues, pricing, STDs, dealing with clients, legal issues and managing your money in what's often a quasi-legal or simply illegal profession. It maintains a focus on professionalism and good management throughout, which I think is really key to any successful business, including escorting. It's also full of anecdotes that ilustrate the points made, and gives a good picture of the author's own experience in developing and maintaining a successful escort career. A few small disappointments with the book include:
1. Although it includes one chapter on agencies and brothels, it doesn't deal with them in detail Also, it doesn't talk about street hustling at all, probably reflecting the author's class bias. It's definitely targeted at a more upscale, "escort" type sex worker. This was fine for my purposes but might not be useful for others.
2. The internet advertising and cyberhustling information is now somewhat out of date, although the general principles are probably still useful.
3. American focus throughout... as a Canadian boy, this made it less useful for me... though it was still pretty darn useful! We need someone to write "Male Escorting for Canadians for Dummies" :)
Overall, a fun and informative read and a must-read for any guy who's thinking of escorting.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A must read for both escorts and clients, Feb 4 2003
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This review is from: The Male Escort's Handbook: Your Guide to Getting Rich the Hard Way (Paperback)
Aaron Lawrence has wrote a book that not only is a necessity for those thinking of becoming an escort but a very interesting read for clients as well. If you want to learn how things work from the other side of the fence, this is the book to choose. Insightful and well written, it is a book that you will read in one sitting. If there were a test to becoming an escort, this would be the study guide of choice.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Realistic and Honest, Sep 2 2002
This review is from: The Male Escort's Handbook: Your Guide to Getting Rich the Hard Way (Paperback)
Lawrence's second book, The Male Escort's Handbook, is as honestly and realistically written as his first book about his own experiences as a callboy. In 21 chapters, yup you read correctly, 21!, he covers everthing from disease, to fees, to agencies, to legal advice, and personally balancing sex for money with sex in your private and personal life. Guess what? Escorting is neither total fun nor total depravity, for Lawrence it is a career. The book is geared toward escorts, and I'd say clients too, who are both male. This isn't a guide for female escorts or males escorts who do female clients but some of the basics could be applied to either group I suspect.
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