Mexico City's Male Hustlers: Inside the Rough Lives of the 'Good Vibe Guys' Norma Ponce - VICE News
go to original June 3, 2014

For the past four months, Alexander has found work as a prostitute in Mexico City, working streets, posting pictures of his slim frame and pretty face online for potential clients, and cashing in.

“I have had some very good customers,” Alexander told VICE News on a recent night. “Last weekend I was with a Colombian who came [to the city] for work reasons. There was no sexual contact, it was just company, and he paid me $2,500, plus expenses, for the weekend. I was his tour guide.”

Because he is “high-end” or highly solicited, he explained, he’s had plenty of contact with drug traffickers, like one who recently rented him for a full week. “He took me to Durango. He wanted to have fun. You can’t even imagine the type of very important people you can find here,” Alexander said.

Male prostitution is a part of city life along a key stretch of Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City’s central, “grand avenue” artery. In an area of about five blocks — from Varsovia to Burdeos streets — traversing the main boulevards of Hamburgo and Reforma, up to 120 men rent out their bodies on any given weekend night.

Although this reality remains for the most part ignored by the authorities, the so–called “good vibe guys”— or “chavos buena onda,” as they are sometimes referred to — work just outside the city’s faded gay ghetto, the Zona Rosa.

Their work zone is watched by surveillance cameras and regular police patrols, yet the prostitution continues to operate out in the open. They service men as well as women.

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