Ladies—say hello to Markus, America’s first legal male prostitute. Markus is the newest hire at the Shady Lady Ranch brothel in Tonopah Nevada, a business that recently got the go-ahead to hire a few good men. However, as Markus told Details magazine, he’d really prefer it if you’d call him a gigolo:

“I think for a male, if you want to be successful in this type of venture, you’re not a prostitute. You’re a surrogate lover.”

He likened his decision to rise up and become a gigolo to the civil rights struggles of the ‘60s.

“It’s just the same as when Rosa Parks decided to sit at the front instead of the back…”

Continued at the HuffingtonPost.com