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I'm new to Toronto and would like to know if there are any good areas in Toronto to pick up guys working the streets?

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Guest steveyboy

The main street areas are:

- Breadalbane St (1st street south of Wellesley St) between Yonge and Bay

- the loop going west from Yonge on Grosvenor St through Bay St one block to Surrey Place, south on Surrey Place to Grenville St, east on Grenville to Yonge St

- A lot of the street boys now work in Sneakers Bar on the west side of Yonge St immediately north of Grosvenor St

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Sneakers Bar is full of rentboys but it's not a safe place to meet a boy for paysex. A lot of the guys are crack addicts so be warned to hide your valuables and watch your back, they will steal your money and valuables and vanish into the night. Quite a few of them are homeless drifters and I know from experience that they are not up to the normal standards of Gay hygiene (rim at your own risk). You would do a lot better for your money to visit Remingtons or look in Xtra magazine or Now Magazine (both free Toronto publications)for a half-decent rentboy who takes baths.

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This happened long enough ago that I can laugh about it now. On a trip to Toronto, I met up with a young, friendly, affordable type at the Sneaker's bar. Back to the hotel we went.

 

My hotel room had one of those mini-bars. This young fellow proceeded to lay waste to the contents at a furious pace. Rum, wine, beer - it mattered not. However, when the time came to move to the matters at hand, everything was proceeding as it should.

 

Until, suddenly, his stomach heaved and all that liquour came gushing out, on him, on me and on the bed.

 

I had a hard time explaining that bar tab for my room, but as geewhiz alluded to, it could have been worse.

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A year ago I would have agreed with the reviewer that said Sneakers was not safe. I was in Toronto in Feburary and again in March and stopped into Sneakers. Apparently the owners were well of the bad reputation they were getting. The plave has been remodeled and there is a friendly but HUGE bouncer. ANyone gets too drunk or tries to sell drugs, or is obviously high, they're on their way out quickly. On both of my visits there were guys who were tried to get in, but had been permanently barred from the bar. The pickins are still a little scarce, but it's as safe as any other bar and a lot safer than the streets for finding yng guys.

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Sneakers had turned things around. Some of these street kids are obviously high, but there are actual escorts there who are very sober. Those high kids can't get hard anyways, lol.

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Any updates on where to find cute, young, twink street hustlers in Toronto 10 years later?

 

 

I would also very much also be interested in hearing any updates as I plan to be in Toronto in a few weeks.

 

Somewhat related to this, is my understanding correct that prostitution in Canada is legal? I had read somewhere on the net that prostitution is totally legal in Canada, however, soliciting for the purposes of prostitution (i.e. asking a prostitute how much he/she charges, and for what) is illegal.

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Excepting the transvestites around Homewood Ave., all of the male hustlers disappeared from the streets of Toronto years ago and there are no bars catering to them.

 

Independent outcall prostitution is completely legal. There is some enforcement against brothels and their patrons, but stings against independent escorts working from their own homes are virtually unknown. Soliciting by phone or email is permissible. Soliciting in public is a heavily enforced no-no.

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The bar Sneakers was purchased by a new owner and renamed Gladamens Den a couple of years ago. The clientele is no

longer includes street hustlers . One block west however on the Grosvenor/Surrey Place/Grenville circle there are still some

working guys.

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Regarding Mark's comments above, it is true that there is really no reason for a guy to turn to street hustling in Toronto, as the escort sites, independent local newspapers, and Craigslist erotic services (the removal of that section in the US did not affect us) are better options, and there is pretty much 0% risk of any police interference. However, there are definitely hustlers that hang out in the village! If you walk along Church just north of Wellesley, there is a park on the east side of the street, and it's not uncommon to see some rough looking guys hanging out there. They are primarily drug dealers, but when I asked two of them if they were hustlers they both said "whatever you need man, whatever you need". I have yet to see a really hot one though.

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Like @Kris_Canada said, there has been very little discussion of where to spot hustlers in Toronto. Years ago when I lived There, a bar on T

Yonge called Sneakers was generally regarded as a hustler bar. There were always a number of great looking guys willing to strike a deal to go home with you. But the bar no longer exists.

My suspicion is that Craigslist and Back Page ended the run. It was easier to answer an ad than take the chance of being spotted in a notorious joint especially if one was leading a double life.

Unfortunately CL and BP don' seem to recognize a border line and follow American law shutting down their personal ads.

Will this lead to the revival of hustler bars in Toronto. Let's hope so!

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(Breadalbane Street or the Yonge/Grosvenor/Surrey/Grenville loop)

Off topic, since I was a wee lad I can remember travelling through the village of Breadalbane in the NSW southern tablelands, but had never thought to check on the origin of the name. Turns out it's in the Scottish highlands and amongst other things it is the name of a street in Toronto and one in Hamilton in Ontario.

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I did walk all the areas mentioned in this thread one night, just for fun, from about midnight until 2am. Even got some hankies (the blue one that signifies "top" and the green one that signifies "hustler") and hung 'em out my back pocket, for anyone who knows what the handkerchief code is (wiki it). I dunno how many people still recognize it, I did it more for the novelty of it, for my own self-amusement, than anything else.

 

This was a few weeks back, I think it was a Friday or Saturday when I tried. No luck, heh. Went up Church Street/The Village of course, as well. Spotted an acquiantance (who's a stripper at Remingtons) coming back from work, walked with him for a bit and caught up. We got stopped by a few guys that he knows, but no one wanted to have us back to their place for a paid session, they were nearing the end of their nights and saying goodbyes to friends outside of the clubs and had probably already gotten laid or were simply out for a night of drinks and laughs (I'm not personally into much of the Village's scene -- can't dance, but I can fuck, hah -- but I enjoy it peripherally from time to time).

 

It was a thrill to walk around specifically on the prowl for potential clients. Bit of danger to it. I'd have to think on my feet if someone picked me up in their car (text my fellow escort/safety-buddy what kind of car I was getting into, plate, plus address if client provided it).

 

Made sure to make eye contact with everyone I passed. Throw a smile/smirk (that ain't a put-on, since I'm pretty friendly in general, but making sure to do it for nearly everyone you pass becomes intentional).

 

I'll try it again some day, if I'm feeling restless and adventurous some hot summer night.

 

I wonder if you can go to places like Statlers (piano bar), Pegasus, Woody's, or The Eagle (the only Church Street bar I just haven't gotten around to going into yet, though me and a friend waited in line one night for 45 minutes before giving up) and have much of a chance of picking up. I see people on here talking about hanging around the bars/lounges in high end hotels as well, though that seems to be a technique employed less and less.

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I did walk all the areas mentioned in this thread one night, just for fun, from about midnight until 2am. Even got some hankies (the blue one that signifies "top" and the green one that signifies "hustler") and hung 'em out my back pocket, for anyone who knows what the handkerchief code is (wiki it). I dunno how many people still recognize it, I did it more for the novelty of it, for my own self-amusement, than anything else.

 

This was a few weeks back, I think it was a Friday or Saturday when I tried. No luck, heh. Went up Church Street/The Village of course, as well. Spotted an acquiantance (who's a stripper at Remingtons) coming back from work, walked with him for a bit and caught up. We got stopped by a few guys that he knows, but no one wanted to have us back to their place for a paid session, they were nearing the end of their nights and saying goodbyes to friends outside of the clubs and had probably already gotten laid or were simply out for a night of drinks and laughs (I'm not personally into much of the Village's scene -- can't dance, but I can fuck, hah -- but I enjoy it peripherally from time to time).

 

It was a thrill to walk around specifically on the prowl for potential clients. Bit of danger to it. I'd have to think on my feet if someone picked me up in their car (text my fellow escort/safety-buddy what kind of car I was getting into, plate, plus address if client provided it).

 

Made sure to make eye contact with everyone I passed. Throw a smile/smirk (that ain't a put-on, since I'm pretty friendly in general, but making sure to do it for nearly everyone you pass becomes intentional).

 

I'll try it again some day, if I'm feeling restless and adventurous some hot summer night.

 

I wonder if you can go to places like Statlers (piano bar), Pegasus, Woody's, or The Eagle (the only Church Street bar I just haven't gotten around to going into yet, though me and a friend waited in line one night for 45 minutes before giving up) and have much of a chance of picking up. I see people on here talking about hanging around the bars/lounges in high end hotels as well, though that seems to be a technique employed less and less.

Curious. What's your age?

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