Rosalind's precocious daughter was a handful, and a little sexpot. The hard-working mom and school librarian did her very best to keep young Megan supervised during those trouble-prone after-school and evening work hours. But balancing work and play can be precarious, especially when a daughter knows just how to appeal to a mother's private desires.
Fourteen-year-old American rent-boy, Heath, is a busy boy servicing men out of a Caribbean coast resort hotel in Honduras. He is doing it so blatantly that one would think he wants to be caught by the local police for male prostitution.
Fascinated by the playwright, Tennessee Williams, and determined to follow in his footsteps, fourteen-year-old Hollywood actor Joey Harris wins the role of Tom in a Christmas of 1954 Pasadena Theatre children's production of "The Glass Menagerie." To get the role Joey has to lay down for his agent and for the production's director, who claims he can nurture Joey as much as he did Tennessee Williams. Joey recognizes what is needed to make it in Hollywood.
The continuing cycle of fourteen-year-old boys and men in the business of photographing nude and sex scenes for various levels of publishing and special subscription audiences plays out in Europe in the first twenty years of the century.
I was inspired by the opening premise of Oliver Twist’s excellent “My double life as a whore,” where a surprise meeting in a hotel bar leads to many other things, to recount my own true story of my recent hotel bar adventure.