"Actually, a Thai ladyboy once offered to buy me breakfast!" says C, taking us all by surprise.It's Saturday night, and myself and boyfriend T have come out for dinner with lapsed blogger HBH and his boyfriend who's called C. I'd started talking about our recent holiday in Thailand, and it turned out that C had lived in Thailand for 6 months when he was younger."How come?" I ask, mildly amused by the idea."It was all rather odd!" says C, "because it was 7am in the morning and I was heading home after ...

Advocate.com goes under the red light, and inside Hustlaball (now in it's 12th year), getting up close and personal with escorts, strippers, streetwalkers and more for an honest chat about sex work, the economy and what certain acts will set you back. Diago, 26 (pictured above left): "...What we do is very emotionally generous, because you feel things when you’re with clients. You give a lot. It’s risky to be so open, so willing to be hurt, to put yourself out there for sale. It’s very generous on the sex worker’s part. That’s why it’s so fucking expensive." Read the full article ...