Josh Brandon is the UK's highest earning gay male escort, a writer, bar owner, website owner, model and charity worker. In 2011 he was winne...
Josh Brandon is the UK's highest earning gay male escort, a writer, bar owner, website owner, model and charity worker. In 2011 he was winner of the Best Male Escort at the Sexual Freedom Awards for his work championing sex workers rights and safety as well as work with National Ugly Mugs charity helping report crimes on behalf of sex workers and liaising with police. He is currently working on two books, 'Sex Sells' and 'Sell Sex: The Ultimate Guide'nn1000 LONDONERSnThis film is part of 1000 Londoners, a five-year digital project which aims to create a digital portrait of a city through 1000 of the people who identify themselves with it. The profile contains a 3 minute film that gives an insight into the life of the Londoner, as well as their personal photos of London and some answers to crucial questions about their views on London life. Over the course of the project we aim to reveal as many facets of the capital as possible, seeing city life from 1000 points of view.n1000londoners.comnyoutube.com/1000londonersnfacebook.com/1000londonersnTwitter @1000_londonersn1000 Londoners is produced by South London based film production company and social enterprise, Chocolate Films. The filmmakers from Chocolate Films will be bothnproducing the films and providing opportunities to young people and community groups to make their own short documentaries, which will contribute to the 1000 films. Visit chocolatefilms.comnnTranscript:nnWell, I'm an escort, I'm a model, I'm a writer and a web master. Clients generally come for companionship and human touch and I think you know, most people tend to forget that they have those needs, just like everybody else and they're definitely the most rewarding clients for me to see because they get a lot more out of it than if it's just sex. Generally it's two to five clients a day and I'd usually stop myself after five clients, I wouldn’t take more than that, because by the time I shower in-between that's like, you know, 10 hours if they all book for one hour because I take a long time in the shower. This is my award for the Erotic Awards Male Escort of The Year 2011. It's been a big boost of business, yeah. When I got off the stage I like texted my dad and texted my mum straight away and I was like 'I won!' because like they knew I was up for the award anyway and I texted them like 'I won, I won!' and yeah,nit was fun. I have a certain image, I have the 'twink' type image. The next favourite among my clients is the football uniform, the choir boy. I generally don't get asked like really outlandish things these days because I think the way I market myself I attract a certain type of client and I could change that all the time, I could bulk up and beef up and get all you know, change my image totally but I think I'll just stick with this image and once that's gone, I'll move on. I'm happy to do some fetishes and I like to explore and try different things. Aside from phone calls and the occasional nasty email from like religious people or people that maybe are jealous and envious, apart from that I haven't really had any bad responses from clients directly. The emails that come from the religious people are the funniest because they're just like 'you're going to hell’ and like, you know they apparently know everything about everything, so they're just kind of the funniest. And then there's some that are like 'oh you look like this' and you know 'you think you're all that' and that kind of thing and they're all kind of humorous really. What we have protecting us in this business is intuition and I think being as public as possible which I do is the best protection you've got because generally the people being targeted are going to be the ones in the shadows, the ones that are notnout there for everyone to see basically. Less