Uninhibited conversations with Tony Patrioli, the first Italian photographer of male nudes in the 60s, historic photographer for the monthly magazine Babilonia that published his books and photo shoots both in Europe and in the USA. Before Mapplethorpe and after Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Patrioli lived a professional relationship of complicity with his models, partially similar to the one Pasolini had with his hustlers (ragazzi di vita). This part in black and white presents the historic photographs, the stories behind them, his birth by a single mother and his hard childhood, his encounters with Joe Staiano and “The countess”. The connection among the artistic photos, the portraits and the pornographic photos made to survive. Dramas, anecdotes, experiences on the skin by the photographer whose name became a brand of distinction and originality.