The Male Escort's Handbook: Your Guide to Getting Rich the Hard Way [Englisch] [Taschenbuch]

Aaron Lawrence is the kind of entrepreneur you're not likely to encounter giving pep talks on a college campuses or at job fairs. He's a male hustler, who also poses for an occasional glossy sexmag photo shoot or appears in a XXX video.

In his first book, "Suburban Hustler: Stories of a Hi-Tech Callboy", he wrote about his experiences as a hustler. Now he tells the rest of the world how he did it, and how they can do it too.

Citing John Preston's 1994 book, "Hustling: A Gentleman's Guide to the Fine Art of Homosexual Prostitution" as his model, Lawrence fills in many of Preston's gaps, especially in the arena of cyberspace. With wit, flair, humor and plenty of solid business sense, Lawrence tells you almost everything you might need, or want, to know about hustling. Whether your interest is one of general curiosity or you're considering plying the trade yourself, "The Male Escort's Handbook" is a font of fascinating information.

Lawrence leaves no stone or trick unturned, his scope encompassing even death and taxes. Whatever your notions or experiences may be regarding male prostitutes, you'll come away with a different perspective. In fact, you may want to pick up the phone and give Lawrence a call. Although he does not discuss authorship as a marketing strategy, this book will almost certainly increase his business.

Appendices discuss online advertising, list international resources for escorts, cite pertinent reading on the subject, and provide a checklist by which escorts may discreetly screen potential clients for STDs.

-- From X-Factor (a Phoenix gay newspaper), December 1, 2000

In his preface to The Male Escort's Handbook (Your Guide to Getting Rich the Hard Way), Aaro Lawrence, escort extraordinaire and former Inches centerfold, writes that, after years of turning tricks, he felt a need to update John Preston's book on teh subject, Hustling. Unlike Preston's classic, Lawrence's thorough how-to book is aimed at a generation that is both entrepreneurial and wired. Preston, an unrepentant member of the Stonewall generation, saw male hustling as one more tool for carrying out the (homo)sexual revolution. Such sentiments don't figure in Lawrence's more-pragmatic approach. The author states at the start that he'll be looking at "escort as a professional endeavor for people who want to make serious money." But Lawrence is neither purely mercenary nor bereft of idealism. Rather, Lawrence's idealism, like that of his generation, extends more to the realm of personal improvement (both to the escort's and his client's) than to the socially utopian.

Once you accept that The Male Escort's Handbook is a primer tooled to the somewhat narrowed ambitions of our times, you can judge the book on its own terms. The verdict? It's hard to see how this excellent book could better fulfill its intentions. Lawrence writes clearly, efficiently, and his self-published book is more meticulously edited than most books that major publishing houses spew out these days. Any guy who's a sex worker or is contemplating becoming one will want to read it. And it's full of information that will be of use to current or potential clients of male escorts, or to anyone with an interest in male prostitution.