The devotion of a Gigolo.
Recently, I was wondering around the aisles of my local supermarket and came to the bargain books. I had already bought most of them and the last one I had to purchase was called “Gigolo”. At first, the title didn’t appeal to me but after reading the synopsis, I thought I might as well give it a go and for £2 if it was awful then it wouldn’t matter and could be recycled. So that night I settled down with a cup of tea and some good music, opened my book and began to read.
What a shock. It was explicit and I loved it! However, when I sifted through the sex and honesty of it all, I came to realise there was more to this book than I originally thought. This, to me, was a true perception of postmodernism and the way the sexes work within the world nowadays. The idea that a man would spend his whole life devoted to pleasing women was almost taboo. It was so rare! Reading through it, Golden, the author and main character, understood that sometimes women aren’t as complicated as men like to make out. These women had found a release and he was it. He didn’t take this to heart, he enjoyed and made a career out of it.
Previously, people would have looked on this as disgusting, but reading this book, I came to realise that there are some men out there that understand. And he raises a fair point … why shouldn’t women have that release without feeling guilty? Another thing which shock me was the amount of acceptance from his family and friends. Of course, his friends were all from the same circle but when his family found out, they were proud that he had made this much effort to please different people in the world. He came from a perfectly normal upbringing in the Isle of Wight and moved into a surreal world of posh lunches and rich women in London who were used to regular appointments at thread vein removal uk. Just slightly different.
After reading this I had a mixture of feelings. I was still recovering from the amount of sex in the book but also, I had a strange feeling of empowerment as a woman. Why shouldn’t we expect someone to please us? If we have the money and have a bad break up then why shouldn’t we employ someone like Golden to enhance our lives. And then I decided research the book to find out some more about it. A true story?! Surely not? But it was. As I read on I discovered that every word of the story was true, as were the clients and the parties and his gigolo friends. This ruined the book for me. Imagining some tall, dark, handsome gigolo running around for his clients and satisfying them with his skills was good for me, I enjoyed it. But when I saw that he was real, looked nothing like I had imagined and that he had appeared for the UK to see on This Morning my little imaginary world was shattered. And the reality of the entire book was thrown into question.
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