Meet Eddy: The New Man of Your Dreams
In our first creator spotlight, we introduce Eddy, a FTM sex worker who is breaking boundaries by simply doing his job.
In a Gayety first, we’re expanding our Spotlight series to include influencers and creators who are sparking conversations and shifting perspectives within the queer community.
When we were introduced to Eddy a trans sex worker featured in our Artist Spotlight by Juan Antonio Papagni Meca, we reached out to learn more about his personal and professional experience as a trans man working in adult entertainment.
You might expect the conversation to elicit explicit topics or erotic themes, but while speaking with Eddy, what comes through our talk is a sense of clarity. Open, warm, and honest. Eddy offered unfiltered insight into his life as a trans man, sex worker, and human navigating life, like anyone else.
A life that is layered with complexities. But when discussing his professional career and experience in the adult entertainment industry, Eddy makes it clear he didn't turn to sex work because of economic hardship or discrimination, but acknowledges that many trans people do, due to systemic barriers.
Instead, he entered the field as a personal response to something more familiar to most gay men: unsatisfying hookups.
"I had a lot of one-sided sexual experiences with cis men," Eddy shares. "They were enjoying my body, but my pleasure wasn't even considered." Rather than retreat from that dynamic, he flipped it. "If I'm having these experiences anyway, I should be getting something out of them!"
What followed was a shift in presence and pleasure.
"Much of the sex I've had within a sex work context has been far more enjoyable and pleasurable than those hookups," he says.
There's a quiet and sexy confidence to the way Eddy talks about his work. It's not about performance, it's about showing up on his terms. "I don't wear my masculinity as a badge of pride," he says. "I just am who I am."
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