Rent Boys: A History from Ancient Times to the Present

by Michael Hone

This fully illustrated book spans the history of rent boys from the Greeks, the most famous of which was Alcibiades, through Rome to the Renaissance where a rent boy was made a cardinal and where others were responsible for the most appalling murders of the period. Victorian England was a rent-boy's heaven, and Berlin and Paris their Mecca. The book is about boys who sold themselves and about the men who bought them--often the same: selling their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517048613
• ISBN13: 9781517048617
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"