Mélanie Berliet

In the quest to invent strategies for becoming blindingly blitzed, no group excels quite like the young.

Are Americans prudes? Some people think so. After all, the country that gave the world Elvis’s hips, free love, and Porn Valley is also a land founded by Puritans, given to legislating what goes on in the bedroom, and perpetually outraged by the sexual dalliances of politicians (though, to be fair, even the Italians are getting fed up with presidential philandering).

What I never expected was that one of these guys would become a constant source of entertainment.

As the reality of what I’d gotten myself into set in, I began to have doubts. Maybe my parents were correct and I was, in fact, an absolute loon.

To overcome my reservations about walking the line between dating and prostitution, I told myself that any such concerns were the result of societal conditioning.

What some call baggage, others call vital experience.

“We both have pasts,” he said. “The difference is that you broadcast yours.”