Five Star Service

By Five Stars of Manehattan
Special to the New York Life and Manehattan Post magazines

To our combined readership: As part of the continuing cultural and media exchanges between us and our sister publications, over the next several months the New York Life and Manehattan Post magazines will be jointly publishing a series of articles by an Equestrian Earth Pony named Five Stars. She has a very controversial profession in a very controversial company called Gentlemen for Mares: a business that rents out male human escorts to Equestrian females. It should be noted right away that the services they provide are sexual ones. We are aware this is a contentious topic on both sides of the portal, if for different reasons, but our mutual staffs feel that is reason enough to explore it.

Needless to say, as the topics broached may be uncomfortable or even occasionally explicit, up to and including interspecies sex, parental guidance is strongly advised. The articles will be edited, but at the insistence of Five Stars, not censored of adult content. You have been warned...

Greetings to both my human and equine audiences. Before I begin my story, I would like to make a few acknowledgements.

First and foremost, I write these articles with the permission and blessing of the founder of Gentlemen for Mares, Platinum Corona. The company and concept she came up with has brought companionship and joy to many a mare, myself foremost among them. She gave me purpose and a wonderful new profession, and I am forever grateful to her for it. I am further honored and humbled by the fact it was she who asked me to write this, feeling that having our story told by a simple but longtime trainer would have more impact and be received more favorably than anything she could say or write.

Next, I thank the editors and staff of the Manehattan Post and New York Life Magazines for being willing to publish this story with a minimum of censorship and changes, and on the human side in particular, for providing a pony-friendly ‘tablet’ and showing me how to use its dictation and ‘word processor’ features, thus giving me the means to easily write and edit the articles myself. Human technology never ceases to amaze me—needless to say, these articles would take me forever to write out and edit with a quill in my muzzle!

I would also acknowledge my late parents, who did everything possible to provide for me and my siblings and whose devotion to each other set an example I wish more ponies would follow. I love and miss you both. Dad, I know this isn’t what you would have envisioned for me, but know that with the help of Gentlemen for Mares, I will one day resurrect your hotel chain and your dream.

Next, I write this for the humans I have known, trained, and work with. It is with the greatest pride I see you go forth and fulfill your roles as Gentlemen, applying the lessons I and other trainers have taught you, giving mares the companionship and male company so many never truly get to experience. It is an honor and a pleasure to train you; to see you grow in confidence and grow into your roles. You endure hatred and occasionally outright hostility for what you do, yet you persevere for the mares that need you… and for yourselves.

And finally, I wish to recognize my very first human stallion. I know I cannot name you, but if by chance you read this, the one thing I would tell you is that you saved me as much as you say I saved you. It’s very gratifying to see the stallion—or I should say the man—you have become since then, and to know that I had some small hoof in it. Our time together was brief, but I will never forget you or what you did for me.

To the ponies reading—many things have been said about me and others who work for Gentlemen for Mares, much of it unfair and untrue. This is the venue I have chosen to address some of the more egregious and insulting things I’ve heard over time. I do this in the hope of explaining why I believe Gentlemen for Mares is needed, and why I do what I do.

As such, the first thing I would have other ponies know is that I do not seek forgiveness or absolution for my profession, nor am I trying to justify my ‘lifestyle’ to others as I’ve heard others so derisively refer to it. The short answer is, I do what I do because I find purpose and fulfillment in it, and I seek to share what I found—love, fulfillment, and pleasure—with others, both human and equine.

For my human audience, I hope to clear up some misconceptions regarding Gentleman for Mares, and perhaps educate about pony society in general, as I have found there is a great deal of misinformation out there on the other side of the portal as well—something that rather surprises me given the ready availability of information humans have.

That being said, I understand only too well the human world works differently than my own—believe me, there are many aspects of human society I’m both envious and appalled of—and that for many humans, there is often an extremely negative stigma attached to the idea of selling sex. For that reason, I am writing this not just for myself and my company, but for the human gentlemen I have taught and worked with, who all too often have faced ostracism or worse from their friends and families for what they have chosen to do.

Though I will be seen as representative of Equestrians, I emphasize that my opinions and experiences are my own, and not necessarily shared by my fellow ponies—though I do believe that many mares will sympathize with what I have to say.

So all I ask of both my human and equine audiences is that you read with an open mind, and listen to how a previously lost and love-starved mare who had nearly given up on life found fulfillment and fresh purpose… in becoming a trainer for Gentlemen.

I am Five Stars, and this is my story.

Next Chapter: Part 1: What’s in a name? Estimated time remaining: 14 Hours, 46 Minutes