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competition. I’'m an old face around here. The regu-

= lars know me and duck me. The tourists don’t look

~at me twice. You get old awful fast around here,

~ mister.”’

As we wandered around, Bill gave out with his

~life’s story. It followed the familiar pattern. Like all

the hustlers, he’d never gone “the whole way”—
except once. And that had been an accident. He was
~ drunk. Besides, the john was young. About his own
age.

The trick to interviewing anyone about sex prob-

~ lems or, any other problem, is never to offer sug-
gestions; certainly not criticism. Let the subj ect talk
and hold your observations until you’re at the
typewriter.
- I wanted to ask Bill the difference between going
~ all the way” with a younger person and not with a
middle-aged john. Where was the borderline between
homosexuality and normality? But I held my tongue
and let Bill ramble on. _

There was nothing in Bill’s background to fore-
shadow the life that was in store for him when he
- came to New York. He came from easy-going small-
~ town people, an ordinary kid who played ball on the
streets with the other fellows, had better than average
high school grades and dated girls.