Enchanted Youth by Richie McMullen (1990)
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Overview: Richie McMullen was a trained senior youth and community worker with over fifteen years post-qualification experience. He was also a qualified counsellor and trained as a psychotherapist. In May 1985 he founded the London-based Streetwise Youth Project which was the first youth project in the whole of the United Kingdom to address itself solely to meeting the needs of young people caught up in prostitution. In 1987 he co-founded Survivors, the first male rape support group in the United Kingdom. He published various papers on youth prostitution and his first book ‘Living With HIV’ was published by GMP in 1988. His first autobiographical memior, ‘Enchanted Boy’, was published in 1989.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs LGBT Autobiography
Enchanted Youth
Enchanted Youth is the follow-up to Richie McMullen’s highly popular Enchanted Boy. While his first volume of memoirs was, in his words, a journey through abuse to prostitution, the second leads him through a still more perilous time, from prostitution to love.
It’s 1958, and just turned fifteen, Richie leaves his Liverpool home bound for London, believing that boys can earn a fortune on the game. He discovers a world of rent boys preyed on by criminal gangs yet giving each other comfort and support; the excitement of Soho in the rock’n’roll years; and love for a public school boy his own age. When the boy’s parents banish their son to Singapore to keep them apart, Richie joins the merchant navy and sets off in quest of his friend…
Praise for Enchanted Boy…
"Well written, entertaining and thought provoking, this excellent short early autobiography aims to help demystify and provide a personal perspective on the subjects of child abuse and prostitution… the search for warmth and affection is never sentimentalized and succeeds in being genuinely moving.
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