Male dancers in gay club

Jeff Tetreault is a screenwriter with a produced movie to his credit— Bad Johnsonabout a guy whose penis detaches from his body and turns into a person — by day and a go-go boy in the Los Angeles gay bar scene by night.

What It’s Like to Be a Straight Go-Go Dancer in a West Hollywood Gay Club

He dances several nights per week, rotating among the most popular West Hollywood hotspots. Every night he oils himself up, puts on tiny underwear, fluffs-up his dick, slides on his cock ring, and gets to work. And as it turns club, many of the other West Hollywood go-go boys are too.

Typically, go-go boys are either swinging their dicks on stage or perched on a platform at the most eye-drawing vantage point in the room. Jeff sat down with me to explain the complexities, competition, hustle, and heartbreak involved in the go-go scene. VICE: How do you separate yourself or outdo the other go-go boys?

I always want to go out with a well-fluffed dick, I want to look the best I can, have the best bulge, and I want to earn money. What tips and tricks do you and the other guys use to get through the night? Cock rings? I use cock rings. Different jobs call for different pressure. Basically what they do is delay the flow of blood out of your penis, male like an hourglass.

The cock ring pinches the passageway and keeps you hard for slightly longer. There is a lot of coke in the background, there is a lot of K, a ton of G. Here he was dancer it on a Wednesday night because he thought it would earn him ten extra dollars. Basically, I see the guys doing any recreational drug you can think of: weed, alcohol, and a lot of coke.

What kind of propositions are you guys presented with while working? I routinely get offers to accompany people back home. The price range varies. How do you feel about being objectified when you dance? I liken it to a Saturday or Friday night. Have you ever felt degraded while working?

You know, people think because they have a dollar bill they have a magic wand of some sort. I try to be a good sport but when you have people hanging back taking pictures and videos secretly in dark corners it gay hard. This is the thing; go-go dancing is kinda like a stripping loophole. I empathize with women so much more now.

One night I had made seven dollars in two hours and it was so demeaning and humiliating, I left early, came home, and punched a fucking hole in my door.