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I imagine the best you can do to get around the paywall problem would be to post all the "hot" pics kept behind the paywall in your private gallery and then share your private gallery with anyone who asks who doesn't seem sketchy. That way, you can advertise to non-premium RM members almost as effectively as you can to the premium members.

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Exactly right. It's not personal, it's strictly business. The provider unlocks his private pics or denies or ignores the request depending on how he chooses to market himself given what (if any) information he has about the potential client. The client may think he's made a bad business decision (and he may very well have), but it has nothing to do with the provider's character. It's all about his business sense.

I'm not sure what all the hubbub is about. I am pretty sure I'm interested in hiring a provider from his ad even without seeing his private pics or the locked pics that I can only see with a premium membership (which I don't have). After that, it's more the compatibility of our interests and the ability to schedule conveniently. The private pics are more for confirmation of what I've seen than the decision-maker in my choosing to hire. My habit is to send a message on RM to the provider saying I'm interested and directing him to my RM profile (stats, interests, def no pics). After that I hit the button for access to the private pics. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I've given the provider all the information he needs to decide whether to carry the conversation further.

He's back in SF. This provider was on RM once before, maybe a year ago, under a different name that I can't remember. There may have been a thread on him, but can't find it without his old name. His old profile was explicit about being into findom and not offering penetration or anything sexual. (I asked him then if he was serious and he said he was. I moved on.) Then he went on X and Instagram to market an OF account, though I don't think there's any sex on that either. When I saw the new ad, I hoped he had accepted the reality of the escort business. He still lists findom as a kink but doesn't put it front and center. He offers the Boyfriend Experience, but I seem to recall penetration being a regular part of the experience with my boyfriends. From the above response, though, it sounds like it's the same old (non-alcoholic) wine in a new bottle. Too bad, he's a good-looking guy.

So is there anywhere now that is close to what they were back then? I certainly haven't found it. I guess everything has been monetized by RM, RMass, etc. 😢

I completely agree, but I think it would be good marketing for a provider to include in his unlocked pics one where you can get a sense of his dick through underwear or a towel. Even a draped pic would give more info than the less-than-reliable dick size they post in their ads.

I wasn't looking for masseurs. Craigslist was where I found escorts, though most of them weren't professionals. Rather they were young guys who escorted occasionally to supplement their day job earnings or student stipends. Nothing against the people I hire from rent.men these days, but I liked those young guys' innocence, if you can apply that word to a sex worker. Seeking may be the closest thing these days to the old Craigslist m4m, though Seeking is filled with young men with ridiculous expectations that I never ran into on Craigslist.

I haven't hired from Craigslist in ten or fifteen years, ever since they got rid of the m4m section, so I have nothing useful to tell you about Craigslist. However, you might want to do an internet search on any photographs in the ad to see if the masseur is on a massage site like rentmasseur or on social media. Finding more info about him might give you more confidence in hiring him. Good luck.

Not true re access to videos. I'm not a premium member, but there are videos I can see. Others are locked for premium members only. I agree though that videos are not as important as accurate photos.

Trust me, cab fares aren't any cheaper these days. I would have been totally respectful of your friend's desire to be near St. Pat's for Sunday mass, but if she's not willing to take the subway on Monday morning, she's on her own.

Back to the subject of NYC rates, I am almost always quoted 400 for an hour. I haven't heard 300 or 350 in over a year. I don't like to haggle with an escort because afterwards (whether or not the price has been reduced) the memory of haggling makes the session seem more mercenary to me than if I just hit the first bid. Also, if I'm honest, the 50 or 100 means a lot more to me than to him and I've never had a session after which I thought "That would have been a good session if only I'd paid 100 less." I am hearing 500 more and more often, but I think in most cases that's just too much.

Hi, I'm a daddy who would love to have his fitness lifestyle funded, but I should warn you that my lifestyle is expensive. Are you sure a young guy like you can afford me? Sorry, but I can't resist a dangling modifier. Good luck in your search!

Don't want to give specifics publicly, but he's well within the range of New York providers.

To the OP, don't overthink it. The provider reached out to bring his profile to your attention. He's marketing. Your "hello" response probably confused him, as he would have expected either silence or something indicating that you might be interested in hiring him. His "hey man" response to you is a request for clarification of whether you're interested or not. At this point, I think you should either engage him to discuss a hire (as you would if you saw a profile that you liked) or respond with a "thanks for reaching out but I'm not interested at this time" message. I don't mind when providers reach out unsolicited (based on their looking at my profile or whatever). I don't usually respond, but sometimes I hear from a provider who is interesting to me and whose profile I had not noticed before.

The looks disparity is the reason I hire. Especially with my regulars (either pros or semi-pros), I see hiring as an exchange of what I have a lot of but they may not (money, life experience, perspective) with what the provider has a lot of and I definitely do not (looks, energy, sex appeal, youth). If you can accept that this trade is the whole point of the hire, then you can stop comparing yourself to the provider.

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Massive props for "Moldavian Massacre" reference!!

Another motivation that nobody has mentioned is that when a company is being bought, it's pretty common for it to make some cost-saving moves pre-acquisition, either because the buyer wants those actions to be taken (to clean things up before the new ownership) or the executives who are hoping to keep their jobs want to look good (and not "lazy" as Johnrom says). This action was taken with Skydance's approval (formal or informal), so it was a long-simmering action. That being said, the timing couldn't have been worse.

If a session with a good escort "ends" early, I usually look at my watch and say something open-ended and inviting, like "We still have X minutes. Do you want to hang out?" That let's them answer either way. If they say yes, then they'll likely be a repeat hire. If they say no, they're a one-and-done (and no tip). Of course, if the experience wasn't great, I just say goodbye. I might feel different with masseurs, but I rarely hire them.

I would trade away everyone now on television just to have Joan Rivers back.

Colbert is paid $15 million a year. His contract is up in May 2026, when the show will end. $15 million plus the costs of production (even of a talk show) is a lot of money to spend on a time slot that can be filled with syndicated shows that will generate comparable revenues. Colbert has been making that $15 million for the last six years, so I'm not particularly worried about him paying his rent when he retires from the show.

I think that ALL ads should make clear if the provider can host or not, and that info should be updated often, especially for travelers. In NYC, where I live, I will only see providers who are hosting, but I assume most providers cannot host because it seems everybody under the age of 30 or 35 lives with roommates in an inconvenient part of the city. (Yes, I know I can hire older providers, but that's not my thing.) This means that I'm reaching out constantly to providers whose ads don't specify if they can host, and I'm sure I'm not the only client doing that. Putting that info in the ad would save both the client and the provider a lot of unproductive communication.

Added to that, I think communicating by email allowed for more extensive conversation between the client and the provider and a certain amount of comfort on both sides to be developed. Things happened slower in those days, which wasn't all bad.