I’m the right person to recount this history, having written books that cover Greek, Roman, Renaissance, Middle Ages and Prussian homosexuality. The first half, Book One, is the highly serious, heavily documented story of hustlers during antiquity, including Alcibiades, Marc Antony and Constantinople emperor Basil I, while Book Two deals with present-day trade, men who crave sex, cruising nearly 24/7, for whom orgies and pool parties became so common that they sought new experiences through alcohol and drugs. In depicting this I am also well placed, being a boy of my times, my thirst for knowledge and natural lust pushing me to travel widely, San Francisco at age 16, Paris at age 18, excursions to Amsterdam, Rome, Venice and fourteen months in Greece, centered around Myconos. [This book is a shorter version of the unexpurgated and fully-illustrated book that can be found on Amazon Hustlers/Michael Hone.]