This man is paid up to $3500 a night to have sex with beautiful women...
I do. The image the escort and porn star presents on his website (scarletblue.com.au/male-escort/ ryan-james) is part James Bond, part sexual Superman. I’m expecting to find a cocksure, well-built Adonis turning heads in our office lobby, somebody’s sexual fantasy come to life. Instead, I find an undeniably handsome, slightly nervous young man, dressed in a checked shirt, jeans and spectacles, who is disarmingly humble and unfailingly polite, a real-life Clark Kent if you will.
As we begin chatting about the ins and outs (sorry) of the escort and porn industries, I keep trying to reconcile this softly-spoken lad with the images on his site and my own preconceptions about men willing to get freaky on film and those who choose to exploit their sexuality for profit. Several times I find myself wondering how he does it? What’s his secret? I can’t speak for the phone-box transformation that must occur when James performs sex on camera, but after a long chat with the young ‘entrepreneur’, a couple of things become clear. For a man who attempts to embody so many women’s fantasies, the 32-year-old from Sydney’s northern suburbs is remarkably down-to-earth, quietly conscientious and, given the subject matter, jarringly honest. Indeed, so dedicated is James to his profession you wouldn’t be surprised if he sets himself KPIs.
You could easily miss Ryan James if you were meeting him for the first time.
Which is handy, because if you’ve ever wondered what it’s really like to be a porn star (of course you have) or have women pay to have sex with you (a mind-bending concept, we know), James is your clear-eyed confidant offering up unvarnished industry insights. A professional, in other words.
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“I came from a career in finance. I was just sick of being stuck in an office all day. The idea to get into the adult industry had started after I was out for drinks with
