I stayed living with my Dad after that, but he's no longer alive now.
"As a child I played competitive football and until I was about 15 I lived a completely comfortable life, except for the fact that I grew up without my mother, who passed away when I was five. He will tell us his life story for CZK 300. Honza takes a drag on the Marlboro I offer him. The vast majority of them take drugs themselves or sell them, just like Honza. They know all the local homeless people, the female prostitutes and their pimps very well. The boys from the area around Prague's Wilson Station are usually from communities of drug-addicted people. That's why I often travel to Hamburg, the prices there are at a completely different level, something like around EUR 200 per day," Honza says. "There are boys here who'll service an undiscriminating customer for just CZK 200. The days when young male prostitutes used to stand around the station and make good money offering sexual services to well-heeled men are said to be long over. I am getting to know him at Prague's main train station, which is often called the biggest intersection for male prostitution in the country, but the fact that this description no longer really applies to it is clear to the dirty-blond native of RakovnĂk. He has been a "streetwalker" since he was 16. "At one time I made five or six thousand crowns a night. What do male prostitutes in the Czech Republic - be they Czech or Romani - have in common? Have they always been able to make their own choices in life? Some want nothing more from life than luxury and will do anything to get it, no matter how extreme. Some are college students, others are drug-addicted, others are abandoned boys without parents from the children's homes and juvenile "diagnostic centers".