The man who likes getting stepped on

Georgio T. is a human doormat, says Kirk Semple in The New York Times. By day, the 48-year-old Maltese immigrant—who doesn’t like to use his last name��is a massage therapist in Fairfield County, Conn. But on many a night, he rents himself out to be stepped on at New York City clubs and fetish parties. Charging about $200 per session, Georgio will arrive at a venue, wrap himself up in a carpet he carries with him, and lie down. Before long, guests are standing, stepping, and even stomping on him. “It’s my fun,” he says. “People are paying me to have fun. The more people who pile on, the better. The higher they jump, the better.” Georgio discovered his peculiar predilection as a boy. “I loved to have weights on me. I liked having my cats walk over me.” Before long, he had graduated to role-playing games. “Somebody wanted to be the doctor, somebody wanted to be the carpenter, and I would want to be the carpet.” Georgio turned pro a few years ago, and since then he’s endured a 390-pound man, 10 women at once, and stretches of up to 11 hours—all without getting hurt. Wrapped in his carpet, Georgio doesn’t often get to meet his satisfied customers. But one woman who spent almost two hours walking atop him with heels thanked him afterward for a thrilling experience. “I woke up a monster in her.”

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