Spurr’s eyes flickered as he cast his mind back over everything. I branded myself as this ‘sexual being’ that other people fed off… I felt that’s what I needed to do.”
“I didn’t have the strength to say no,” he said.
Sometimes the men – some of the landlords – had no need to use force. He did not know what he would lose, that what awaited him was a succession of men who would drug and abuse him, that he would be infected with HIV, and, on several occasions, raped. It took just three months for Denholm Spurr’s life to plummet, for the newly graduated straight-A student to find himself exchanging sex for somewhere to live. Part Three: The Housing Crisis Is So Bad That Men Are Sleeping In Gay Saunas Part Two: These Are The Extreme Dangers Facing Men Forced To Offer Sex For Shelter This is Part One of a BuzzFeed News investigation.
