Jaroslav

I always have it off. Not because I care who knows I’ve looked per se, but more because I think it’s creeperish.

Why is this disposition such a common theme? Do people enjoy thinking of themselves in some category above others who “can’t afford?” I know quite a few extremely wealthy folks who would travel miles and miles to save pennies on the dollar…Not because they can’t afford the same thing closer, but because they won’t pay for something when they can get it cheaper elsewhere (irrespective of the fact they end up likely spending more overall to avoid a higher sticker price). Some people just don’t want to throw away their money even if they could. I don’t find lording ability to pay over those who aren’t in the same financial situation especially endearing; in fact, it’s off-putting.

This. I’ve seen providers on their personal websites list “patronage” rates though. I find this very useful. It eliminates a lot of headache about discussing rates. You know going in what they’ll want for a weekend before you even text. 👍🏻

Race (age, wealth, education, weight, etc) should be immaterial since rate is allegedly strictly for time.

Working in a service profession, I actually have come to value highly my interactions with those who are deemed “undesirable” by wider society. Often those who popular wisdom would have want to emulate and adulate really aren’t worthy of it. It’s a trope, to be sure, but their beauty is only skin deep…and their values confined to their wallet.

And there are nonetheless such guys who advertise precisely this in their profiles! It makes me wonder about the guys who do hire them.

I might venture to go even further and say part of being a professional escort is providing physical/sexual intimacy to precisely those who can’t get it easily without paying for it. The service is for the “less than desirable” to some degree. Not exclusively, of course, but to a degree.

@DWnyc, when I first started doing all of this years ago, I was stupid enough to send pictures of myself. I don’t know what the mathematical breakdown is, but of those providers who requested a picture of me, I would say that my estimate is that more than half of them simply stop communicating with me after they got the picture. Now, I’m not what you might call your stereo typically attractive, gay man. So that probably played into the immediate cessation of communication at this stage, it’s me who says it’s not going work out if a picture of me is required in order to book. But I also don’t just simply stop texting. I say that I don’t do that and thank him for his time and move on. I think that a lot of the time asking for a picture is a providers way of determining whether he wants to provide. A way of gauging attractiveness.

@Jamie21, but you’re also a masseur, primarily, yes? That’s going to take more than 30 minutes. At 30 minutes into a massage, erotic or otherwise, I’m just unwinding. Massages are different than hooking up. You can hookup, if you’re so minded, in less than 10 minutes. Now – quality is another issue, but quantity isn’t really. You can blow a guy in 30 seconds for $50 behind the bar if you’re so minded.

I’m not a fan of it myself either. I’m saying it happens. N-U-A-N-C-E and reading comprehension are helpful tools. I’d be all for all Rentmen ads including rates for hourly sessions, BFEs, weekends, vacations, etc. But it’s not always there. So we have to ask. And if the escort says, “What are you offering,” that’s on the escort for starting the negotiation/haggling.

@SirBillybob, I understand your prose just fine and enjoy it. It’s nice to read something written by someone who clearly possesses a vocabulary larger than your quotidian troglodyte.

Or you should accept reality and not impose some fantasy of your own concoction. If you insist on continuing in that fantasy, that, my friend, we call deluuuuuusional.

It was levity. I don’t go there. So no. I can’t. Nor would I. But…Show me the store where escorts sit in a booth with prices hanging off their dicks for me go browse and I’ll accept the one-for-one comparison between escorts and US big box stores…