Secret activities in shady nights: memories of rent boys´ universe

Abstract

This paper aims at explaining the relationship between two types of sexual activities, taken as actions performed in certain places by a man who offers his body for sexual services for temporary rent, identified here as the landlord, and the other who often  goes to these places searching for those services, identified here as the tenant. Both agree on a contract put forward by the landlord; the tenant, thus, might accept it or not, but he shall never change any of its clauses. The researcher has written down the actions of both men reported by the landlord along five meetings, which constitutes a register about many episodes that take place in the shadows and silences of the night in big cities where male prostitution occurs. It is assumed that this contract does not make them partners due to the asymmetrical relationship created between two distinct subjective positions. Also, the paper highlights that the landlord uses excuses to deny his homosexuality.