Owner of gay men’s social networking sites, Manhunt and Jack’d, Jonathan Crutchley (pic below) is the latest to show his support for escorts and the recently raided male escort site Rentboy.com.
Back in August, the Manhattan headquarters of Rentboy was shutdown as part of a money laundering and state prostitution investigation. A couple days later, author and performance artist Justin Vivian Bond joined-in on the growing conversation about workers rights in all industries, including sex workers. Now, Crutchley has become a member of The National Coalition of Rent Boys & Allies– an organization advocating for the legal rights of male escort workers, and he has also made a financial contribution to the legal defense team representing Jeffrey Hurant, founder of Rentboy.com.
“It is no business of the government at any level— be it federal, state, or local— to enter the bedrooms of consenting adults and tell them what they may or may not do within that private setting,” says Crutchley. “I founded my company in the name of individual privacy and sexual freedom. In the name of individual liberty, the Federal government needs to do the job it was given to do by the Constitution.”
NCORB has set up a website with articles, columns and reactions to the Rentboy raid. You can check it all out HERE.
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