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Supposedly my grandfather came to the US because he had thrown a potato at an English cop in Ireland, but I sometimes wonder if that's just a story and more went down. A number of my ancestors were active in the fight for Irish independence, including a great-great-aunt who staged a prison break.

Sometimes it's not that they're taking steroids to build muscle, but they are taking amphetamines as a fat burner.

I was like, wait, QTR is s man now? You forgot the quotation marks...

How would that even work given widely varying passenger heights? If you're too short your feet don't touch the floor, if you're too tall you literally can't fit because the angle of your legs will make it impossible.

See I wouldn't fit through one of those windows. I'd have plugged the hole and BEEN the hero...

My personal armchair theory is a brake on overpopulation, and having childless aunts and uncles around helps lighten the load of parents and increases the odds of their offspring's survival.

I did not mean to imply that other things weren't worse. The job market for "kids today" is two-tiered. Either something that gives you a shot at a pretty good life or something that guarantees you will be in near-poverty forever. Couple that with the fact the cost of college has been bid up and many of them are saddled with the equivalent of a mortgage in unsecured debt that cannot be discharged in bankruptcy and I'm happy to have grown up when I did.

Yeah, I don't think anything can really convey what it was like to come of age just at the time it looked like that was going to mean an early, ugly death if you ever acted on your desires. There's a pretty sharp line between people who came up before and after the mid-90s. There's nothing wrong with talking about it, it's just generally not cool to dismiss other people as having no problems because they didn't experience your biggest one.

Or maybe that was their audition and they didn't make the cut?

TG - I believe there are jurisdictions where undercover cops have actually fucked prostitutes and still they were prosecuted.

Plain old hostility. While the mayor/city council may be nominally gay-friendly, I think the bureaucrats you have to go through to start anything up are a problem.

Also penises don't have fingernails.

It's not that you can't be big everywhere, it's just if you're big in one place it matters less to be big in the other and vice versa.

Electric Daisy Carnival is in May, not June, this year.

Piranha is very different night to night. I've been there when the crowd was gay and I've been there when the crowd was straight.

I think it's more that the gay action to be had in Vegas is closeted married men, who are more in the market for stesmroom hookups than club experiences. But Tim and Matt of Adonis were unable to get a Vegas operation up off the ground and Tim pretty much said that the local government could be fairly characterized as gay-hostile. I mean, Krave was doing quite well when it was on the Strip but either the casino or the city really did not like having them there and pushed them off to the downtown area, and the owner lacked the cash flow to handle that transition and skipped town.

He definitely doesn't regularly do it but I think once or twice a year he's done it for the NY show. But for all I know that could just be for some particular high roller. I assume he's doing well enough now that he doesn't need the money.

Sometimes depending on what you've eaten before and how you are feeling you know things are, um, moving and assplay is likely to lead to an accident.

Yes and as my brother pointed out when he was in college, whether you are serving a Denny's Grand Slam or a $500 bottle of champagne, the arm motion is essentially the same, but one pays a hell of a lot more. Service providers to wealthy people ALWAYS make more than people doing the same thing for others.

I would imagine people like Geffen have "scouts" in their employ who find these guys. And probably recruit them to the business. Then once they are in and at the parties the other gazillionaire gays get them. But if you're looking for a one-off with them and are not of the means to hire regularly they probably aren't interested you as a client. I mean, lots of people could come up with $5k or $10k but couldn't do it on anything approaching a regular basis.

I suspect a lot of escorts avoid bottoming for clients, and people with partners avoid bottoming with hookups because it's the single riskiest activity for HIV. Yes once you do anything where risk is nonzero you need to take precautions and yes the risk can be driven to nearly zero but it's still orders of magnitude higher risk for bottoming than for any other single activity. And they might relax that rule once they get to know someone and have a higher level of trust in them.

Opposite, or not at the point on the continuum you would prefer? Some people need to be talked into sex but don't regret it. Was the fact their consent wasn't spontaneous mean it's not present or false? I'm also not sure that "intended for the pleasure of both parties" is how most people think of sex. It's how many people think all sex should be, but intended by whom? There are times people get horny and frankly they are only really "intending" on their own pleasure, but they will give some to get some.

I am willing to do things I don't particularly want to do. I have no desire to have sex with someone who is repulsed by me, but if they are willing, I'm okay with it.

Can't you just password-protect a file? Or do you not feel you will be able to remember a password that others wouldn't guess?

The OP, respectfully, is in a relatively rare subcategory of provider that enables him to command a premium. His experience is likely an outlier in terms of ability to raise rates.