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The latest twist on personal services: Live (male) nude housecleaning
Merce_17@yahoo.comDressed in a suit and tie and freshly showered on a Saturday morning, Tony looks like he’s about to give a business presentation. Then he drops his pants, removes the rest of his clothes, and begins rubbing himself with oil. Naked except for his bowtie and boots, he pulls a feather duster out of his bag.
Tony has posed for erotic photographers and DJ‘d in the nude at bachelorette parties.
Now comes his latest gig: cleaning women’s houses, naked. Tony (he does not want his last name published) is selling his body to prove that women aren’t the only people who can be looked at as sexual objects on the job. “Men for years have been allowed to look at women’s breasts and be turned on, and I am simply reversing this,” he affirms while dusting.
The free web advertising board Craigslist is full of naughty gigs that can pay big bucks—from nude modeling to “body rub” to S/M dungeons—and usually call for women to perform these duties. “Ladies—make fast cash” is the standard come-on phrase. Erotic housecleaning is well established in the business, marketed through companies like Maids in G-String.
But Tony works for no one, and his ads seek customers. They read: “29 year old well built male will clean for women in Manhattan and New Jersey. I can clean totally nude, it is a fun service that has been growing around Manhattan. Sit back and enjoy the view while I clean for you…”
It was perhaps only a matter of time before an enterprising male nudist discovered demand for his housekeeping services. Sixty percent of American women work, and while the numbers have leveled off in the last decade, many working women have decided that it’s worth paying someone else to do the chores.
Women who hire Tony get more than a clean house—they have the opportunity to reverse their conventional role and have a voyeuristic experience watching a man do it in the nude.
Some go a little further. They undress him, and play around erotically—but with no sex
allowed.
Female desire for sexual fantasy isn’t as rare as once thought. A recent study by Glamour magazine found that 87 percent of women ages 25 to 39 enjoy pornography as part of their self-defined healthy sexual lifestyles. Tony goes so far to say that he empowers women through his cleaning service. Many of the women he cleans for are older, and feel like their sex lives are lacking. “I work for a lot of women who have husbands with small penises or who don’t want to have fun with them and don’t pay attention to them,” he says. “But some husbands know I do it and don’t care.”
Tony is not a full-time maid. He teaches psychology by day at a New Jersey university and books in his cleaning gigs when he has time. Stripping from a suit and tie to his birthday suit, he notes, is an outlet from his conservative job. “I definitely do it for the money,” he says, but the main reason is pleasure. “I like performing.”
He takes in an extra $600 or so a week through his cleaning gigs, billing $150 an hour.
“I do like being naked. It takes a certain type of sexual person to do what I do. But I look like a regular person and that is why women like it,” says Tony, who has a compact build yet is well endowed in the genital department.
Tony always had a nude fetish in him but says he was transformed when he dated a nudist woman who was extremely open and taught him to be the same. “I thought it was strange at first, but you often find yourself through others.” He began performing for his girlfriend’s friends and now has clients by word of mouth and, occasionally, Craigslist. “I don’t do this in a deviant way…. I feel good when I get the money. But I’m not offering sex, and that is why women are intrigued by it.”
So is his business just an excuse for him to get a sexual rush on the job? “I am fulfilling a need,” he professes. “I like being naked in front of women.”