Aiden Shaw > Quotes

“Be realistic, Aiden, I told myself. You know your value to the penny and it's measured in inches, time, age, stamina, looks, and being able to put up with gross and sometimes bizarre situations. Personality was far down on a much longer list, and even farther down came intelligence. You should have insisted on having sex.”
― Aiden Shaw, Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom

“Maybe he'd never come across anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to work with whatever was at hand. Over the years I'd learned to pinpoint my focus to the width of a pubic hair if there was nothing else to work with. (...) Before my eyes -or, more precisely, in my mind- Rasher became Lovely Bum Man.”
― Aiden Shaw, Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom

“I'm self-taught. I didn't just become a man, it was a decision.”
― Aiden Shaw, Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom

“Just one more line, please. I'll do anything. And I mean anything."
"Good, we've got him hooked," said Ryan. "It won't be long now before he's on heroin."
Josie added, "Then it's just slavery, pedophilia, and murder."
"Don't forget incest," said Flora.”
― Aiden Shaw, Wasted

“Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to work with whatever was at hand. Over the years I'd learned to pinpoint my focus to the width of a pubic hair if there was nothing else to work with.”
― Aiden Shaw, Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom

“The Ritz Hotel was grand, sophisticated, and established, unlike me. The only thing we had in common was façade. Mine may not have been as ornate but it was equally phony. I was presenting myself as an escort; I advertised as one, negotiated like one on the phone, and I identified as one to whoever was interested. I even simulated sex for escort rates.”
― Aiden Shaw, Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom

“Maybe he'd never come acrross anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an occupational hazard; one of the tricks of my trade was the ability to work with whatever was at hand. Over the years I'd learned to pinpoint my focus to the width of a pubic hair if there was nothing else to work with. (...) Before my eyes -or, more precisely, in my mind- Rasher became Lovely Bum Man.”
― Aiden Shaw, Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom

“Once undressed I felt less exposed. (...) Naked was my uniform. (...) There was no pressure to conform.”
― Aiden Shaw, Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom

“Many of us wanted something more fundamental: freedom from "normal" life. Either we were inherently different, possibly on a cellular lever, and couldn't relate to "normal", or our notion of normal had been played or fucked with along the way. Whatever the reasons, "normal" didn't fit us and we didn't fit it. We had few options - and we would do virtually anything to obtain freedom from it.”
― aiden shaw

“I have heard the most fantastical gossip about myself and each time I thought, "If only my life were that exciting, fun, outrageous, and sexy". Then again my memory wasn't so sharp when I took drugs. Some of what was said about me might be true. At worst it gave me jerk-off material.”
― Aiden Shaw, Sordid Truths: Selling My Innocence for a Taste of Stardom