All language subtitles for Pleasure Boys (2018)

My mum asked me, you know, a couple
months ago, do you get completely naked?

they see your penis? I'm like, yes, mum,
they do.

I don't think you can describe it.

When you imagine 10 ,000 people
screaming at you to take your clothes

really, really strange.

Hearing the screams from the crowds,
it's my relief.

Every night has the potential for it to
be an amazing story.

Roll around your motorboat girls and do
things that will get you locked up, but

in the show it's perfectly reasonable.

The girls will stand on the tables,
they'll stand on the chairs, they'll sit

each other's shoulders if they can, just
to get a view.

It's amazing that you've fulfilled that
fantasy.

You need to have the look, you need to
be in good shape, you need to have that

charisma.

Gotta walk out a little bit cocky,
borderline arrogant.

That's what they want.

There are a lot of big emails in the
industry.

We would say that there would need to be
big things in the book.

Yeah, it would be better if you start
off well, but obviously with your pump,

which gives you the ultimate ego.

It just makes your dick look really
huge.

Like that guy could be in porn.

When they're constantly getting told
that they're so great, sometimes

it sinks in and then they start to
believe it.

Because I started while I was married.

So I'm one of the few people in this
industry that did this because

needed money.

It got me and the family sort of out of
the gutter because we had no money when

I was working as a crane driver.

One thing led to another.

I always had to come back and feed my
family.

The elbow, just that, and then the same
on the other side, and then the second

one after you've done this is where you
come through with your shoulder as well.

My life as a stripper has always been
different to my life as a father and

as a husband.

When I step on stage, I'm that alter ego
adrenaline, you know, and when I come

off stage and I leave and drive home...

I'd become John again.

But I realised early on that I wasn't
going to stay good -looking forever.

So for me going to a nightclub
environment now at 40, you've got girls

going there that are 18.

My daughter's older than that.

If you ended on this, it's like, whoa.

I mean, just girls didn't come for the
pyro. Freedom is a big thing to me. I

used to be an electrician. I used to do
the 9 to 5.

I'll never go back to that.

I'm pretty confident in how it's all
going to come about. Like, they're not

going to be disappointed when they see
me naked.

First, when you start off, like,
anything, you're nervous, you're shy,

to yourself, you don't really know
what's going on.

You know, when you tie off, you're sort
of like, oh, don't look at me, I'm shy,

please don't look at my penis.

Whereas now is that you just flop it
out, you start having a wank and you

bloke straight in the eye because you
just don't care.

It sort of almost makes you think, why
does everyone else have these hang -ups

about being naked? It's the most normal
thing in the world.

I don't really treat it like a career.
It's almost like a hobby for me. I love

it. It's great fun, but it's not the be
-all and end -all. I've identified

myself.

Have you had a girlfriend while you've
been a stripper?

No. I'm a weird one, though. I've never
had a proper girlfriend.

Even if I got married, the sort of girl
that I would want to get married to

would have to understand that I like to
do that. It could never be someone else.

I'm never going to find God or get
married and say, no, stripping's not for

So I got into stripping.

At age 18, if you'd have told me when I
was a youngster that I'd be a stripper,

I would have laughed at you. I was
bullied. I was fat, short,

very secluded as such.

It was like you've gone from this really
quiet kid in school that was fat and

had no confidence to... You've got the
level of confidence to go and... Get

naked on stage.

Some people see that as egotistical.

I don't rock out with my cock out.
That's a lie.

Mum, the deal is, it's all good as long
as you don't do porn.

At first it was, do you get it all out?
And I said, no.

It's covered by a flag.

But sometimes the flag slips.

My dad's an ex -minister of a church.

So he didn't speak to me for about a
year and a half.

It was weird.

Before that, we were very close. We were
season ticket holders at Cardiff.

It was difficult.

At first it was more the sort of glitz
and glamour of it and the girls and

things like that and the sort of
lifestyle.

I worked on the railway before, I was
now at rail for like six years.

It's a good job, well paid, I had a
pension, couldn't complain at all but I

wanted to tell it a bit more to myself.

I'm not going to whip stripping for
anyone unless I decide to myself.

I guess I didn't really understand...

that how much time I would need.

How much time I would need for Milana.

That's my little girl's name.

15 months old. Lived in Exeter with my
mum.

I miss a lot of stuff as she's growing
up.

Like our walking and things like that.

I'm going to miss her probably our
talking as well. It makes you realise

only live once.

I just wanted to do what would make me
happy. And I had the opportunity with

Pleasure Boys.

I think it's an

industry that a lot of people think
shouldn't be there.

But it's just a show. That's all it is,
pretending.

Generally, people will say, you love
yourself.

When you go out there, you're playing
character.

And I can totally understand how people
start to think that they're a celebrity.

You must have a certain amount of ego to
see it.

You do all this shit, yeah. Mm -hmm.

The end, that's it. That's your call
-up.

Exactly. But then it's like, I've just
done a routine, you know.

Ta -da!

You revealed it, did I?

Well, what were you revealing?

Penis.