Mixtapes for Hookers

Yesterday New York Post reporter Mandy Stadtmiller reported on her visit to the Shady Lady Ranch in Nevada, where she met Markus, the man people keep wrongly insisting is America’s first legal male prostitute.  The experience was apparently very annoying to Stadtmiller, who oddly went to the ranch with no intention of fucking Markus and no concept of why the gigolo might find that unusual.

Stadtmiller refers to the trip as an “undercover assignment” which the Post paid for, so we’re supposed to believe that she gave no hint of who she was.  But she says the ranch charges $300 an hour and won’t book back-to-back meetings.  How, then, did she book a two-hour meeting with him?  (Plus she took photos of them together?  Something tells me that’s maybe against protocol…)

While Stadtmiller’s seemingly lying to Markus about who she is and why she’s there, it’s completely unthinkable to her that he may be lying right back to her.  He tells her that she’s only his second client and she believes him.  He also says that he lost his virginity at 23 and that he’s only ever slept with six women; she believes that, too.  I don’t know, that could well be true, but it apparently never occurs to our intrepid reporter that part of a prostitute’s job is to tell you what you want to hear. (more…)