Tim Barrus Blog
Posts tagged with sex-work
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Tim Barrus, The Little Boxes
The whores can rent what we call one of the Little Boxes.
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Sous le pont. 16:00
Nous emmenons généralement les tours mariés au pont de l’autoroute où les sans-abri avaient un campement. Nous allions tous baiser le truc marié parce qu’il nous payait.
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Dirt Bike Town
Mainly, they would pay us if we allowed them to suck our dicks. What you see could be prostitution. What I see is homelessness. I knew one trick who used to take me to his house where he fucked me in his son’s bed. I saw a picture of this…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
The list of things I will not do is far longer than the list of things I will do. For one thing, I won’t get close enough to touch you. I jerk off. Wearing a mask. You watch. And, no, I will not let you touch me for more money.…
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Sex Work On a Bike
Soon. Cumming to a theatre near you. It occured to us that there could be some survival money in showing up at the home of the trick (or more likely plural, tricks) who was paying us to watch us have sex on one of our bikes. Again, plural. There is…
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WHORE’S OVERDOSE
Criminalizing sex work simply drives it underground where it’s defined by organized crime. Not sex workers. We like to think that we as a collective of individuals can construct our own world with rules and responsibilities we make up ourselves. Organized crime is attracted to exploiting sex work and sex…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
I work with adolescent boys who have HIV. Psychiatric intervention is not enough. Medication is not enough. You have to be there for the kid 24/7. Panic does not share our schedules. Panic does not share the school schedule. Suicide has its own agendas. The idea that “if only, the…
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Tim Barrus New York Times
When it comes to reopening schools in the middle of a Covid pandemic, foster children walk a very fine line. It is very easy for them to lose their balance. When we cover parenting, we forget about thousands when we leave foster parenting out of our focus. Foster parents are…
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The Straws That Break the Camel’s Back
Tim Barrus, the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/health/coronavirus-tuberculosis-aids-malaria.html#commentsContainer&permid=108456967:108456967 Theoretically, someone could have multiple diseases. And public health, as we know it, is the answer. Malaria. Covid. TB. HIV. Are you kidding me. I have been visiting other public health systems versus just the one I am intimately acquainted with where I…
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The Nightmare of Cops Who Rape
Tim Barrus: New York Times The crisp uniform of the police officer conveys power and authority. When a police officer puts on his or her uniform the officer is perceived in a very different way by the public. He or she is viewed as embodying each person’s stereotypes about all…
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Tim Barrus: New York Times
Abolishing the police is the only way to go if we desire going forward. The police are killing us. Who said they were allowed to murder people with impunity. Very few people discuss the inhumanity of operating prisons filled with people who have been condemned for minor drug offences. America…
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Against the Bitter Season
you stand alone juxtaposed against infinity as you titty suck the married men off splitting you torn apart in parking lots back seats old dirt roads the clawing ditches corners shadows dust and salt and motels drained and dry as rats for food and staring at the wall/ but you…
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It is Not Your World
you would not know this, it’s just not your world/ the best part of turning tricks is when the trick is jacking off in the bathroom, and they sorta get lost in there/ it means the whore might get the room for the night because daddy will probably flee for…
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On Being Abandoned
I have never met a kid doing sex work who was not sexually abused, or abandoned in some way, and, likely, both. It was bone fucking cold. Michigan in the winter. I begged my parents for at least a sweater. That was when they sat me down, I had no…
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Tim Barrus in the New York Times
I work with boys at-risk who have HIV. People do not understand at-risk means a spectrum. Suicide is at the top of the spectrum. Boys and guns. The gun is an insurance policy if things get any worse than they already are. Often, they’ll hide the gun in their stuff…
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Not Everyone Loves Social Media
Whenever Jacob finds his image in the art of his buddies, or even in his own art, he vigorously rubs it out. Sometimes he cuts off his head. Other times, paints over, or he just uses permanent market to blot himself out. If you were a kid who has been…
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Waiting For the Trick to Come
you are hoping he washes his ass in the shower because you are painfully aware that he’s going to demand that you eat it/ waiting, always waiting/ it makes no sense because they’re all on the clock anyway/ making you wait is going to cost them, but you’ve never been…
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2 Straight Boys Hungry As a Straining Rope
the camera speaks because that is what it is designed to do/ digging down past the edges deep/ turf or the boundary lines kinda fade away/ they are almost scared/ the disingenuous would call it new horizons/ actually, what straight males fear the most is shit/ the land of the…
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When Tricks Go Bad
this is the place where the earth does not spin/ it freezes/ everything goes slow motion/ you know you’re going to have to run/ usually it’s about something the trick insists he wants to do/ it’s his money/ he calls the shots/ the lost days are done/ the bitterness is…
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An Assumed Name
i never used my real name doing sex work, it wasn’t difficult becoming him, a withdrawal from reality and sleep among the tricks and the travelers who are your fathers and your brothers and your husbands and your sons, your friends and the people you work with and the people…
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You Wanted To Eat My Hole
you wanted to eat my hole turning tricks on the street in the rain usually meant someone sucking cock usually in the backseat of a car the one that drove twenty times around the block and it was too cold for your tongue in my shit hole so i told…
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Violence Against Sex Workers
Kirk is quite typical for a seventeen-year-old except for one thing. He does sex work to survive. One in five police reports of sexual assault from an urban, U.S. emergency room were filed by sex workers. Sex workers were younger, poorer and suffered a greater number of injuries than other…
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You Will Never Understand
you were managing a mammoth, high impact portfolio mister big shot couldn’t shoot his cum unless he paid me to beat him up
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How Do We Reach the Hard-to-Reach
I call them Boys-At-Risk. The label is inaccurate. It puts human beings in a box we don’t want to look at, and it’s language as racism personified. I loathe the terminology. But I am at a loss, not in terms of examining the many challenges, but how do I reach…
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While They’re Being Fucked, They Dream of Home
As if their outcalls were a tomb. I am never amazed. I am never stunned. I am never surprised. Yet I was all of this and more. INTERVIEWS WITH BOYS WHO DO SEX WORK as an ongoing project at Smash Street has taken me to places I was astounded to…