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My two cents: I have seen an immense amount of discussions about the deposit thing. The thing is that there is risk on both sides regarding the money part. Clients have gotten ripped off, and providers have gotten ripped off. I don't think that there is an definite answer or course of action that can be satisfactory for both the client and the provider, so a "hram-reduction" approach might be more suitable. My suggestion will be, as others have mentioned, if the request involves additional expenses, such as traveling and more time, a deposit seems fair to ask. If you prefer a deposit in every booking, the way you communicate it to the client might influence their agreeing or disagreeing. Probably showing undertanding of people being ripped off in the past might help the client see that not all providers have that intention (of getting something for nothing). I'd remove the [somewhat] victim mindset ("...why should I be punished for other people’s miscues and their issues with other people that doesn’t involve me"). That seems to deny your clientele and where they come from. What they have to say matters, and at the end of the day, they do have to protect their money. As a client, when I'm asked for a deposit, I immediatelly see it as a potential red flag, but I keep the conversation going to get a sense of the level of money safety I'm dealing with. It's always going to be a risk for all parties involved.

Sad to hear about New Hope. It was great in the 90s and easly 2000s.

Awesome and inspirational. Thanks so much for the kind words of encourageme for some of us. Enjoy your time with your "uncle" and Europe (whichever part you are going to be).

No. Especially since I wouldn't wear them for long under the circumstances that merit having them.

Maybe, priorities and all that.

They don't embrace everybody. In my city they completely dismantled Gay Pride allegedly because it wasn't inclusive. In the following years they had this unadvertised, poorly attended flock of disorderly people who do absolutely nothing but walking around being obnoxious to passersby, and they called that "Pride". They advertised that in the planning of the new Pride events, certain racial minority group was to be "first and center, prominently featured" in the parade, parade that never happened, anyway. The committee that was organizing that other "Pride Event" didn't even want to reach out to the people who had the connections or contacts in the city. Some inclusion! With all the issues that the previous Gay Pride had (let's not be naive) still we had the city mayor, the police and other influential organizations in the city participating. Now it's just a bunch of kids running around like an unatended Kindergarten. I also see the same disruptive effect even in the media that once was dedicated to the entire community. I see editorials that had derogatory words towards the older generation of the LGBT. "Eff you if you don't like us", or something to that effect. That was form a once award-winning newspaper for the community. All in all, there's always been bickering and disagreement in this "community", but what I see today is more than that, it falls into extremism, the same attitude and culture of the religious right, only with a different theme.

I saw the acronym now including numbers I saw a 2 and 4 included in the acronym. It's ridiculous. Funny thing is that it gets more and more divided and consequently divisive, which doesn't clarify what the end game is supposed to be. I hate the term queer, I dispise it in fact. Don't care for it much. It's common, accepted and used as a replacement for "gay". Apparently the rationale behind it is that "gay" is supposed to refer only to gay men (not sure when that happened). The way I see it is that extremism is present in every aspect of society, and the way things seem to be going are towards extremism in the community (I use the term "community" losely). For example, the UK now has a "National Pronouns Day". At first I thought that was a joke, then I thought that it was sponsored by Sesame Street, but no. They have a day to celebrate pronouns, whatever that means, not sure what is that supposed to accomplish or how different that is supposed to be from any other event. Extremism seems to be taking over, and I don't care much for it. Growing up, I never let my homophobic family, school, community, or church define me or tell me what label I should wear. I'm not letting the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ, or whatever they keep adding, do that either. I say who and what I am, and I decide what my community is and isn't, nobody else. I stopped paying attention to all of it. It's all extremist nonsense to me.

For 17 years in the business he only has one review. Possible that he might have done work for that long and he joined the website recently. First time I see that profile, and I look at masseurs in Philly very often. I'll be interested in knowing details myself. Edit: the only review says that he gaot paid $250 for an hour. That's a little pricy, especially for Philly.

Similar situation here, and I'm not joking. Only difference is that we got beaten even with straight A's. Lots of domestic violence, my mother was undiagnosed something, mentally ill, probably bipolar, and my father was violent, at first using alcohol as an excuse, then he became a born-again weirdo and used the bible as an excuse. Left my home at 18 and never looked back. There was absolutely no basic affection in my family, I had to learn on my own how to be trusting, thankful and affectionate. The only time that my father told me that he loved me was when I threatened him with getting him arrested. Later I was able to connect with my mother, knowing that she was mentally ill and everybody in the family in denial about it. Not having a clue of how loving relationships work, I entered a few relationships that didn't work because of the environment that I was used to. Took some work on my part, but I created my family of choice and I'm surrounded by loving people. The moment I see people showing the wrong signs, I get them out of my life. I've never liked violence, and no, I'm not interested in reproducing/reliving it in my sex life.

Without getting into details, I had a similar situation. What I did was something symbolic to make amends to him and myself. I volunteered some of my work to something that I knew he cared for. I felt good about it after. Maybe doing the next best thing can give you some kind of peace, closure, absolution, or whatever you might feel you need.

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Thanks for sharing your photos. I echo what others have shared about how great you look.

Go to my favorite cafe and have my morning coffee before work. Sometimes I bring my laptop to work on personal projects.

In that case, what I posted might not apply if it's not mainstream social media.

This might belong in the "questions about hiring" section. Just my thoughts and nothing more: that's kind of like the good old fashion way of approaching men for hire. I don't think that that's new. Rentmen provides the convenience of the lower risk of getting arrested for soliciting or getting catfished, as well as reviews that might or might not be useful. Reaching out to men in other social media settings is not uncommon (in my opinion).

Very interesting. Antinous, those lips!

I heard good things about him. The wikipedia has all kinds of information about the center named after him, but not about him.

In my city there are certain areas where, at night some gentlemen stand out in corners offering discount and dollar-store quality sex. In a serious note, I agree about paying insane prices not being equivalent to obtaining a quality experience. There are posts here about clients getting ripped off by providers and not getting what they paid for (This is an example). There are also many posts about fake profiles, fake reviews and fake information. What we do have now is a better way of connecting, researching and consequently making better decisions about providers and/or clients. That also provides a layer of protection to both clients and providers. Still, I do believe that some providers are overpriced, maybe due to their inexperience (the young ones tend to suffer more of that), or by the attitude that they have to get compensated for making some kind of "sacrifice" by having sex with a person they wouldn't have sex with by choice. Then there are also the typical concepts of marketing (high price is perceived as better, lower price as too good to be true). Those things do come to play from us clients. That said, and this is just for a massage, I've found in my town a very inexpensive masseur that provides the best massage ever. The guy is excellent. And he is the most inexpensive I've seen in my town. I imagine that the same possibility can exist for escort services. Personally I don't think it's an unreasonable inquiry to check rates.

Sorry to hear. Baffles me that some guy is so convinced that a person is willing to pay to just strike a pose in front of you (I guess).

Maybe he was giving you the drama closeted queen, distant, emotionally unavailable and with sexuality issues boyfriend experience. In all seriousness, I'm sorry you wasted time/money in that fool. As you can see, many of us have had our own less-than-ideal experiences.

To his credit, he says in the description that he likes mystery. He definitely does.

He's now twelveteen. So he's still a teen.

I'm with you with that.

Note, I should have removed the first comma.

I think you are right in 1 and 2, but I have seen 3 used and looking well-written. However, since the rest of the content is not properly written at the same time that the restaurant location could give the impression that there are two of them, it makes more sense to make it a separate sentence. I'd also change the syntax of the first sentence. I'm a grammar freak myself, so this is how I'd write it: Family-owned Mexican restaurant La Fonda Del Sol, closed its current location at Shea Boulevard and 72nd Street, to move to 10155 E. Vía Linda in Scottsdale. The owners of EthioAfrican had planned to take over the space. However, according to the owner, plans fell through.