Martin Poquelin is the pseudonym of a Rennais, a former escort-boy who recounts his experience in his book Un Chesterfield à vendre.

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C. Allain / 20 Minutes

  • At the age of 30, Martin Poquelin - a pseudonym - became an escort boy.

    This Rennais worked for two years in Toulouse.

  • This winter, he stopped his activities which were beginning to weigh on his psychological state.

  • He recounts his journey and his experience in a book called

    A Chesterfield for Sale

    .

“So I had just exchanged sex for money.

One hundred euros, ten thousand euro cents against my body.

»Martin was 30 when he began his" career "as an escort boy.

An aeronautical engineer in Toulouse, this Rennais gave up everything one winter evening in 2017 to offer his services to wealthy women.

For a hundred euros an hour, the young man agreed to transform himself into the ideal lover and cut a good figure in business meetings or family reunions.

Often, his services ended as close as possible to his clients, in the crumpled sheets of hotel rooms in the Toulouse region.

Two years after its debut, the gigolo ended its activities.

He shares his story in a self-published book called 

A Chesterfield for Sale

.

20 minutes

the encounter.

The man is charming.

Charming too.

His gaze - large brown eyes - is difficult to sustain.

In two years of activity, Martin has acquired all the keys to seduction.

From the height of his meter ninety, he does not intimidate but reassures.

During this time, this tall brunette accompanied dozens of women who paid him to be by their side.

“Most of the time, they are women between 35 and 40 who are single or divorced.

Some cheat on their husbands but it is not the majority.

Many confided in me their emotional distress ”, explains the one who hides behind the pseudonym Martin Poquelin to write.

"Naively, at the beginning I did not understand"

But how does an engineer comfortably installed at Airbus come to prostitute himself?

“I always stuttered when I was asked this question.

When I was a kid, I suffered violence that hit my ego a lot.

To try to regain confidence, I chained

dates

.

And then one day a friend took me to a dinner with two women in Paris.

Naively, at the beginning, I did not understand ”.

That evening, Martin will spend his evening with two charming forties in search of affection.

With his friend, they will pocket 200 euros each but the neophyte will refuse to extend the evening.

“I was a gigolo without even knowing it the very first time.

But I was not ready to take the plunge, ”he writes in his book.

The next day, he finds a nickname and tinkers with a website that will serve as a showcase.

Thanks to a few well-felt photos, he attracts his first customer in a few days.

“Sexual acts happened to my third client.

She was attractive.

I was a little tense but everything went well.

I was a little afraid that I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror anymore.

But after the fact, I had no more bad conscience than when I sold planes, slips the former engineer.

His book as a "parachute"

For two years, he will chain two to three meetings per week for earnings that have never exceeded 3,500 euros per month.

"They don't know anything about you, so you can say whatever you want when someone asks you the question, except of course what you really do", explained one of his clients before a business dinner. .

Described as "very attractive" by the author, the latter had said that she was in a relationship "to calm the dredgers at the office".

One day, she paid several hundred euros to prove it.

But Martin also turned down some clients he didn't like, both physically and intellectually.

“I had a few regulars but it was above all sexual.

What I liked best was the exchange, the seduction, the confrontation.

The sexual act was almost robotic.

"

After two years of career, Martin has decided to end his activities this winter and return to Brittany.

“To seduce them, I began to look like them.

And as I was around a lot of tormented women, it was starting to weigh on me.

I felt like I was in a depressed state.

"To" externalize "this great reader has always written and described his experiences.

He took out a book from it, testimony to a little-known activity.

"It was a bit of a parachute if I ever farted a rope."

Since his role as escort-boy, Martin has seen his gaze change on the world of paid sex.

But he warns.

“Prostitution can take on a multitude of faces, whether female or male.

The constraints and the problems are not the same between a five-star hotel lounge in the company of a sweet and exquisite client to an undocumented HIV-positive transvestite, who survives by selling off blowjobs on the side of the departmental road ”.

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