Yes I know you rentboys are not all really gay
Really?
I would consider paying if I knew a renter that was straight - I have always wanted to shag a straight boy...
Let me just say first of all that I first started going out on the scene when I was 16 (I am now nearly 25). I had just come out of the closet, and it was the first experience of "gay culture" I had ever had, and for me then it was something special. Growing up in a world where there
nobody was like me in a certain fundamental way and then finally finding this haven where
everybody was like me was a turning point in my life. The thing you have to understand is that for the majority of straight teenagers, the secondary school years are when they get to experience the world of relationships and even sex for the first time. Gay teenagers, even if they have faced their demons in terms of working out who
they are tend to be the onlookers in school unless they are
very lucky. Finally discovering a side to life that all your friends have been experiencing for the last six years is MAJOR, so much as I can understand that you are worried, I would say also that you are more than likely not going to be able to keep him away from it, and he will only resent you if you try.
I was wondering what exactly you meant by
really aggressive and no place for a boy of 16
Gay scenes in general are amongst other things bitchy, campy, highly sexualised and drug culture influenced. What they are
not generally is aggressive, at least where my reading of the word aggressive is concerned. I would also add they are generally far safer places to be than straight clubs, because if you piss someone off the most they are likely to do is make a scornful comment about the brand of shoes you are wearing, as opposed to actually attacking you. Ok, I am being glib, but you get the idea.
I am frightened that some horrible old man is going to push him into things.
Leaving the house carries with it it's inherent risks, even when going to straight environments. He could go to a straight club, get involved in a fight and end up injured. Yes, the gay scene carries it's fair share of dangerous people (and I would like to say that they are few and far between), but I assure you, manifested in different ways, they exist in
every walk of life. Besides, never underestimate the almost superhuman ability of twinky little queens to completely ignore anyone over the age of 30 or so. Agism is rife on the scene, I really shouldn't worry about it.
In conclusion, let him go because he's only going to anyway; it's a rite of passage for him...