It's the day before Christmas, the day before John's 21st birthday. He's a prostitute on Santa Monica Blvd in L.A., and he wants to spend that night and the next day at the posh Park Plaza Hotel. Meanwhile, Donner, a lad new to the streets, wants John to leave the city with him. John spends the day trying to figure out how to deal with Donner's friendship.

Carlos wants to be an actor. But his father, Pepe, wants him to work in the family business, that is, male prostitution. Carlos decides that he will be one of his father's boys until he can get his foot in the door in Hollywood.

Ispirato a una storia vera cupa e intrigante, il film narra le vicende di un ragazzo che diventa una star del porno gay grazie a un losco figuro fondatore di una casa di produzione a luci rosse chiamata Cobra Video. Gli eventi lo porteranno ad accostarsi a un produttore rivale e altrettanto influente, che farà di tutto pur di accaparrarselo.

X è un escort maschile in assidua ricerca d'affetto. È innamorato segretamente di Andrew, uno dei coinquilini. Joei è il più piccolo dei tre (è diciassettenne) ma non per questo meno attivo; la sua vita si sposta da conquiste continue a serate sfrenate in discoteca. Uno dei clienti di X, o "discepoli" come li chiama il protagonista, è Gregory, uomo in avanzata età che trascorre il tempo con lui parlando, pagandolo comunque ogni volta. I discorsi dell'enigmatico Gregory finiranno per far crollare le difese del ragazzo, "costruite" per non dare a vedere che un gigolò potesse amare. Da questo momento le relazioni tra i 3 ragazzi si complicano, i sentimenti si rafforzano e le situazioni diventano sempre più intriganti.

La vita nelle strade di Hollywood è una sfida continua per chi vive ai margini. King e i suoi amici sono dei ragazzi sbandati che si sostengono l'un l'altro, si proteggono. Vivono seguendo un codice morale e per questo King decide di punire Tommy Ray che ha indotto alla prostituzione una ragazza...

Marek is a 15-year-old from a provincial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He is mugged shortly after arriving in the city and is rescued by Honza with the promise of work. Marek is taken to an apartment, drugged, and becomes a male prostitute. He is a bit smarter than his colleagues and teams up with a friend, David, in order to go after bigger scores – to cash in and get out. They manage to stash away a bit of money, but when it comes time to return home, Marek loses his nerve and is soon back in the city.

Fei works illegally as a hustler in order to support his family, yet when he realizes they are willing to accept his money but not his way of life, there is a major breakdown in their relations. Through his relationship to the headstrong Long, Fei seems able to find a new lease on life, but then he encounters Xiaolai, the love of his youth, who confronts him with the guilt of his repressed past.

Just as doctors, lawyers and others strive to reach the top of their professions, Greek Pete longs to reach the pinnacle of his. The only difference is that he's a rent boy, and the recognition he seeks is a nod from the World Escort Awards.

L'arrivo a Manila alla ricerca dell'amata Ligaya, con la quale ha una relazione fortemente ostacolata da una vecchia signora, segna l'inizio della discesa verso gli inferi dell'alienazione sociale per Julio, un giovane pescatore appartenente a un mondo povero e primitivo. La vita dura in un cantiere edile, episodi che predicono tragicamente il suo desiderio di uccidere e un'incursione nei circoli della prostituzione segnano il viaggio di Julio, che da ragazzo mite e di buon cuore si trasformerà in uomo amareggiato e vendicativo.

Amsterdam, prima metà degli anni ’80. Frank e Jack si innamorano lavorando insieme nella “House of Boys”, un cabaret gay gestito da “Madame” che impiega una serie di ragazzi con varie problematiche alle spalle, che cantano e ballano seminudi. La brusca sterzata arriva quando Jack si ritrova malato di Aids e il dramma, l’amore e la morte, esplodono prepotenti nella vita dei due.

Tomek is 14 and a good student. He's interested in astronomy and plays football to please his father. The only thing is, he lives in a poor little border town plagued by unemployment, whereas across the river lies Germany with all its relative affluence. Tomek meets Marta at a disco and falls in love with her. He starts to think up ways of earning money in order to keep her interested. He approaches a pimp who seeks out local boys for his German clients. Tomek has no idea of the brutal fate which awaits him.

An intimate evening between a film director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.

Jean-Christophe lives with his mother, an English prostitute, in Paris. He dreams of becoming a model. Over the course of a day, he endures a series of abusive encounters that will change him forever. He goes from innocence to experience as he, and his dreams, are destroyed by those around him. The violence of the film is accentuated by the use of BDSM, Performance Art and Dance.

A poet sells his collection of comic books and action figures in order to afford to hire a male stripper on New Years Eve.

Jim is a young man from Essex who moves to Soho with dreams of fame and fortune. When he joins a group of luxury male escorts, he finds himself embarking on a psychedelic journey of decadence.

Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having some familial, financial difficulties. But the girl is a junkie too.

Struggle is the story of Darren, a young gay man, who arrives in Toronto seeking a new life. Running out of money, and with nowhere to live, he quickly falls in with a group of gay rent boys. Complicating matters for himself, he falls in love with Steve, one of the group. Steve already has a boyfriend. While desperately trying to avoid becoming a prostitute himself, Darren's loneliness and infatuation with Steve eventually sets him on a downward spiral with tragic circumstances.

Sex is currency. It commands power and can instill fear. Tom, a young man with a troubled past finds himself sucked into a seedy underworld by George Norris, a now super villain with a sadistic streak. A helpless pawn in one of Norris's narcotic scams with a bent cop, Dunston, Tom is dragged deeper into a vicious circle of blood money, vice and ruthless violence from which their seems no way out. Until fate gives Tom a glimmer of hope. When Norris is killed in his apartment, Tom seizes his chance to escape. Terrified and covered in Norris's blood, Tom heads downstairs to his neighbors, Max and Nikki his new friends in the city. With going to the police out of the question, Max and Nikki speed Tom to their desolate cottage deep in the Welsh countryside. With the luxury of space, Tom begins to realize a long-forgotten dream; a return to happier times before his innocence was shattered. Suppressed emotion flood back provoked by Tom's attraction to Nikki...

Brothers Joel, Dennis and Sonny work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother's pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work full-time at the bar, while Dennis has moved beyond dancing into prostitution at the urging of the manipulative club manager. Joel, the eldest, tries to balance his secret gay life with his socially respectable role as a husband and father.

When a banker invites a sex worker to his London apartment, he finds himself coming face to face with both his own past, and one of the world's largest humanitarian crises.