Former Marine Markus Bestin is enjoying his fifteen minutes of (in)fame(y) as Nevada’s first legal male prostitute. Male prostitution had been illegal in Nevada for 73 years due to a flaw in the law that required men to have a cervical exam to sell their services. Due to that technical improbability, lawmakers changed the law where men are instead required to have a urethral exam in order to become a gigolo.
So now Bestin is Nevada and America’s first legal male prostitute.
He does think very highly of his achievement and has compared it to what Rosa Parks did for the Civil Rights Movement and what Gandhi did for India’s independence.
Speaking to Nightline himself, Bestin made some lofty comparisons. “I’m basically doing what Rosa Parks did when she decided to sit at the front of the bus instead of the back, or what Gandhi did when he had a sit-down protest against the British Embassy,” he said. “I’m basically trying to reset social norms.”
Who does Markus think he is kidding? Is he that freaking delusional to really compare himself to Rosa Parks and Gandhi? He gets paid to have sex with either men or women in a dark room in northern Nevada. There is nothing noble about that. There is nothing groundbreaking, heroic, or martyr-esque about it.
Rosa Parks bravely stood up to racial discrimination, hatred and bigotry. Her decision in 1955, in refusing to give up her seat up to a white man, was more important than anything Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, or Howard Thurman did combined during the Civil Rights Movement.
Parks decision led to King’s Montgomery Bus Boycott that lasted for 385 days and eventually the Browder vs. Gayle Supreme Court ruling that ended racial segregation in Alabama. Her act of bravery was the backbone of the Civil Rights Movement that propelled King and others to lead a nation to much needed and long overdue change.
Mohatma Gandhi stood up to the British Empire and its guns in a non-violent way, with civil protests and imprisonments, in the process he led India to its independence. Gandhi remains saint-like and was a huge inspiration to King and his non-violent approach during the Civil Rights Movement.
With all of that said – Markus Bestin – you are no Rosa Parks or Mohatma Gandhi….or even Dan Quayle.
However, you could possibly be to male prostitution what John Holmes was to the porn industry in the 70′s or what Ashley Dupre became to the high-end escort business in New York.
If interested in Bestin’s services, and willing to pay $300/hour, then you can find him at the Shady Lane Brothel which is 2.5 hours north of Vegas. He claims he has only slept with three women, no word on how many men.
Photos of Male Hooker Markus Bestin
[source: LAist]
