Given the number of boys with names like Pyotr and Slava we’ve spotted in the gay porn circuit over the years, it’s hard to believe that male strippers are a new phenomenon in the former Soviet Union. But that’s the case made by this eye-opening short documentary, which explores the current confluence of gender, economics, and tearaway Tarzan outfits in Russia today. The clip might look at the allure of a group of male strippers from the perspective of their female manager, but the message conveyed is still a universal one: as Nastya says, isn’t it always nice to be next to such lovely bodies no matter who you are?

What’s that you say? You’re not planning on attending the 2008 Hookies in West Hollywood this weekend because no one asked you to go? Well here’s your video invitation — complete with vocals by Shirley Freakin’ Bassey, for crissakes. What more do you need?

You’ve no doubt been keeping up with the incredible growth rate of the Chinese economy. So how is China spending all that newly acquired wealth (aside from not spending it on safety inspectors at toy factories)? It seems our friends in the East are embracing certain aspects of capitalism in more ways than one: China Gay Star is a web-based boutique which features listings for dozens of escorts masseurs in thirty of the largest cities in the PRC, complete with plenty of come-hither photos and stats listing each candidate’s age, height, weight, and tamano size.

Matthew Rush continues to expand his skill set by posting a new Rentboy ad promoting his availability for “muscle worship and hot encounters”—despite the fact that he’s proclaimed in the past that he’d never sully his brand by engaging in common escort work.

If you were stung by the fact that previous interviews with Mike Jones didn’t include enough salacious details about his PNP sessions with former evangelist Rev. Ted Haggard, the hustler-turned-author now makes things crystal (ahem) clear in a new interview at Nerve: among other tidbits, the…

If there’s anything we love more than a celebrity sex scandal, it’s a celebrity sex scandal that somehow relates, however tenuously, to something we’ve posted about on Fleshbot before. That’s why we’ve been devouring the ongoing coverage about the brouhaha concerning Lord John Browne, who until last week was chief executive of BP and one of the most respected business leaders in the world. That is, until it was revealed that the semi-closeted oil tycoon lied to a High Court judge about how he met his Canadian ex-boyfriend Jeff Chevalier. It turns out their long term affair began as hourly assignations via the escort site Suited and Booted, favorably reviewed on these pages last December but described as a “seedy website” in The Mail on Sunday (imagine!) in a sidebar addition to a scorching tell-all by the former rentboy. “Littered with images of naked and seminaked men, some of them in bizarre fetish gear, many in suggestive poses, the home of ‘London’s premier escort agency’ is unlikely to have been material Lord Browne would have been trawling from his polished desk at BP,” the editors noted. “In fact security levels on many company computer systems would restrict access to the site, which is pornographic in parts.”