Basil owns a spa specializing the kind of personal grooming that men want. While his clientele was largely gay men, he eventually realizes that he wants to help anyone that needs a place to feel safe especially trans men and women.

As far as I know this is the first audiobook I’ve listened to performed by Christopher Rourke. I really liked his voice; it’s nice and mellow with distinctive accents for each character. His Scottish accent is great.

This is the first book I’ve read that explores sounding (I had to look it up), needle play and f*ck machines. While some of the acts made me cringe a bit, to each his own. Basil is a kind and caring character. He started his business to help people get personal services that traditional spas wouldn’t perform.

When Dillon and Basil finally get together things really get hot. 🔥🔥🔥 It was sweet that Dillon learned about what Basil liked even before they hooked up.

This isn’t a long book, coming in at about 3 hours and it’s the beginning of a new series. The book spends a bit of time setting up the series and I’m definitely interested in reading or listening to more in the series. The teaser for the next book was quite enticing!

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I remembered when I was Eddie’s age or maybe a little younger, and I went for my first ass wax. I had been very self-conscious of the excess hair I was getting everywhere, and I wanted to have a nice smooth butt, cheeks, and crack. The whole shebang. I felt it was imperative to my sex life to get it. The first place I went, they laughed and said they didn’t treat men. After that, I called around instead of going in person. I didn’t want to endure that humiliation in person again. Not a single one would help me. I finally found one that had some services for men. It was primarily chest and back waxing. They had listed services of bikini areas, which I didn’t know what that meant. When I asked, they said they didn’t have any estheticians willing to wax near male genitalia.

I was flummoxed, just straight-up baffled. I could understand some people not wanting to touch different privates than what they had themselves. There were reasons why some people preferred one gender over another while getting massages, but I assumed that there would be a certain amount of unbiased professionalism in this kind of industry. Doctors usually didn’t have a bias, even if patients did. I was wrong. They laughed even harder when I asked about male-identifying estheticians.

I had a friend who was a dancer, and I could have sworn he waxed instead of shaved his body. When I went to see Mario and ask, he laughed at me. I acted all butt hurt and pouted. Then he told me that all the guys either shaved or waxed themselves or got each other to do it. Mario showed me an area they had in the dressing room for waxing. I was horrified. I told him they were lucky they weren’t getting any kind of infections from that shit.

That’s when I got the bright idea to open my own shop for men.

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