MEXICO. Mexico City. February 22, 2020. Gerardo, 38, lawyer, in a relationship.
Gerardo comes from a very traditional family in a small village, and it was only when he moved to Mexico City at the age of 23 that he decided to confront his sexual preferences and his desire for men, paying 500 MXN for a boy in the gay area. He has very good memories of that night, which feels to him as if it was his first sexual experience. He now pays for sex once or twice a month and knows the market much better. For a long time he felt guilty, because he was a student at a seminary and his behavior would have been considered condemnable in that environment, but things have changed now, and for the past 10 years he has understood sex work as simply a service of pleasure that needs to be paid for in a fair way, just like a massage.