BSP 142: Seven Years of Skin by Marcus Anthony Ray

**LISTENER CONTENT WARNING: This podcast contains a discussion of
sensitive topics some listeners may find offensive.** Marcus
Anthony Ray, author of Seven Years of Skin, took his life
experiences and put them into print in a tell-all book. It is a
gripping, honest portrayal of what happens when someone gets
everything they want seemingly without consequences. His journey as
a male exotic dancer began in his 20s as a way to make money to
save his parents’ house from foreclosure. Ray himself says that the
“deep dark world of ‘anything goes’ sucks you in” and the book
highlights his journey into this world and how he was able to crawl
back out, which many others weren’t as lucky, and change paths,
including becoming an award-winning motivational speaker. He says
it was a difficult book to write but decided to publish it as a
cautionary tale of when boundaries start moving too far without
checks and balances. He is seeing similar patterns emerge in the
world we live in and he wants to create awareness about the need
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