SASCHA DARCY PRESENTS "MY BERLIN STORIES" BASED ON TRUE STORIES FROM BERLIN'S GAY UNDERGROUND.
Sascha Darcy arrived in Berlin in August 2000, following an invitation from a gay couple he met in a downtown Amsterdam strip club. No one could have predicted the seemingly random events that followed, the extreme [bizarre] situations in which he found himself, and the monumental ups and downs in Europe’s city that never sleeps. Sascha Darcy chronicled all of this in “My Berlin Stories”
Born in a ghetto, son of a sex worker and a petty criminal who spent most of his time sitting in jail, Sascha Darcy was raised in the streets and never educated. Everything he learned was through his experiences with strangers. From a violent and abusive background, Sascha Darcy escaped first to Amsterdam , and Berlin a year later, to claim his version of the American dream, for everything is possible in Berlin – at least everything that Sascha had in mind.
From a young age, Sascha Darcy worked as a male prostitute to support himself and quickly developed a loyal following. In Berlin, he continues his life-long occupation and prides himself on providing only `”the best customer experiences.” Unsurprisingly, Sascha is a highly sexed individual, with very few taboos and limits. And he is wickedly quick-witted despite struggling to survive against all odds. He’s experienced and tried to make sense of love, fear, rejection, adulation, usury, friendship, strife and, above all, mankind’s darkest secrets that only a prostitute can discover.
Once in Berlin, Sascha Darcy was finally able to express himself freely, make some good money by taking advantage of the skills he had learnt in the street and the stripper club he worked at, and expand his sexual prowess to become one of Berlin’s most sought after male gay prostitutes. The stigma of being gay in the ghetto was replaced by the pride of being gay and out in Berlin. The adulation of men followed easily. And it was deserved.
Sascha Darcy’s two Berlin boyfriends during this period were his most trusted guides, and the love between them was boundless.
Charly, whom Sascha met in 2001 died tragically in 2010 following a long, but unsuccessful, battle against drug and alcohol addiction during which time Sascha never abandoned him. Ralph, his current boyfriend and not unlike Charly, is seriously handicapped as a result of an unbounded zeal for life and excessive living. Sascha Darcy and Ralph are deeply involved and in love with each other.
Sascha Darcy has kept a detailed diary of his exploits starting with his first day in Berlin – a remarkable feat for a boy raised in poverty in a seedy whorehouse. Everything Sascha Darcy knows he taught himself or was lucky enough to find willing teachers in the men he served. Sascha Darcy’s writings have formed the basis of two books “My angel from the East” & “A complicated life”, collectively known as “My Berlin Stories.” Each book chronicles his life with each of his two boyfriends while working as a prostitute in Berlin’s gay underground. The project became an obsession following Charly’s death. With Ralph’s illness, the project became his destiny.
Sascha Darcy has chosen to publish his collection of stories as a a series of underground graphic short stories: through illustrations, photographs, and videos created by Berlin’s most creative artists. The subjects are Berlin’s underground sex workers and their punters, Berlin’s fallen angels, and the city’s drug addicts. They are Sascha Darcy’s family. They are Sascha Darcy.
Through My Berlin Stories, Sascha Darcy, ever the exhibitionist, aims to give us a true taste of Berlin’s sweet excesses and the gay underground culture that has transformed the German capital into the sex capital of the world.
The first chapter of My Berlin Stories was illustrated and photographed in Berlin at the iconic Kit Kat Club in 2018 as well as in Sascha Darcy’s SM studio cellar by Vestholm, the Danish specialist fetish photography studio led by Tue & Marianne [www.vestholm.com or on instapage @vestholmcom] while contemporary erotic artist Danny Caran based in Italy, produced the illustration for the stories.[ www.artemisiafineart.net or on instapage @dcstudio_art ].
All art from Danny and Vestholm can be found and purchased on www.myberlinstories.com.
My Berlin Stories are stories of the gay underground as viewed through Sascha’s eyes and therefore they are adapted stories based on his real life experiences.
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