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I give 2-4 days, then again I also try to follow best "first contact" etiquette given here to help my chances. If I don't get a response after 2 days I assume they're either not interested in my business, or there's some sort of communication hold up- but I tend to assume the former and move on.  That's for the initial contact. If there's long stretches in between appointments, or a long pause I don't assume they're going to waste time chatting me up every day, for that a once-in-a-while check in (to keep in touch and maybe flirt a teeny bit) is cool with me. There tends to be more flirty communications leading up to a scheduled booking with lulls in between. 

Grammar and spelling is overrated, the question is more about how good he is at massage and any other extras on the menu.

I reached out to him but decided not to hire, he seemed fine but there were things that gave me some pause. I'd recommend reaching out to clients that left him a review for their feedback, including the ones who didn't leave 5 stars. 

Yes and I'd be one of them. 

I think you're still right-on that the majority of clients looking through rent.men are male, I was under the impression that most of the straight providers on RM were GFP and that there are a lot of male clients who enjoy both bi and straight providers. Similarly there are also some SFP gay male providers (some on this forum) but when I've asked gay providers on RM and MF if they take female clients, the answer I got was 'no' (though usually a very kind and respectful "no") 100% of the time, so I started filtering Bi providers and had better luck. Some of the Bi providers do get clients who are couples looking for a 3rd (or 4th, 5th and so on) but I'd guess it's not as often. 

14 hours ago, Pepper Young said:

Coq au vin. Mmm, coq...

 

What's not to like about Coq...

I make chicken paprikash all the time, provided you've got real Hungarian paprika in the pantry it's a sure-shot. You can still make it if you don't, it just won't have that black magic.

I wonder how many of those OF accounts are escorts who don't really add content for paid views, but have a "token" OF account to bolster the legitimacy of their escorting work. 

On 10/19/2024 at 8:02 PM, Kevin Slater said:

This would be a great time to launch a competitor site.  Should Mastercard cut off Rentmen as well, whichever site was sitting as a distant #2 would become the de facto leader.  (That's what happened to Rentmen when Rentboy got shut down.)

Kevin Slater 

I'm seriously thinking about it. I've got the professional chops. The problem is the legal side, setting up the proper shell companies and having the site live on a server in a privacy-friendly and escort friendly country. Payment processors are another choke point.. I don't have the financial wherewithal for a legal battle or for the business model to collapse when a payment processor or credit company decides they want to cave to the moral police. Trying to think of realistic/sustainable ways around it... there's always monero (fuck bitcoin, it's not anonymous) but it's a hassle to get outside of a p2p exchange... Not to mention crypto has trust issues and value flux.

Also for those interested privacy.com has plans for making one-off or virtual cards to protect privacy. I'm not sure if you can choose what type of card these one-off cards can be (mastercard, visa, who knows) I haven't tried them myself, but plan to since I'd like to buy a premium RM account at least for a little while to add reviews and stuff. 
 

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client here. I don't have a lot of contacts in the hobby world, but I use a burner phone with Signal installed on it. The phone was acquired with cash, and every once in a while I buy a refill for phone or data as needed (also, cash only for a little more anonymity). I don't use the phone unless I need to communicate with a provider. You can also install Signal on your laptop and communicate with the same Signal account that you have on your phone. The signal app can also do a "signal call", I personally haven't tested that feature yet, but it allows me to communicate with the provider without having to use the burner phone. In the case you don't use Signal, I'd assume a real phone - burner or not - would be more reliable than a google voice account... The only downside to use Signal on a burner phone is that you piss though data pretty quick if they send you photos or if you exchange cute little voice messages back and forth between the app. I ran out of data on the burner phone plan once because of that- not a huge deal, but if you're gonna use a lot of data on a burner phone, have a few refill cards purchased in advance so you can active them and add em to your phone account- whether that's tracfone or whatever..

I did my first overnight recently and am very happy. I'm guessing if you already like the provider, an overnight would be similar but "more" and also give them time/opportunity to do a few things that previous time-limiting bookings prevented. Then there's the cuddles in-between. Doesn't hurt to check what an "overnight" includes if that's relative to each provider. 

I just assume they do, reviews go both ways. 

Sheesh, does this make three profiles? Other then that he seems legit, there is someone who posted in the other thread that says they hired him and had good feedback. 

He sports a different facial hair style then that pic nowadays and I felt that it changed his look somehow (he's still attractive), anyway, he's got some more recent photos in the profile you have to flip through 'em a little. 

I think he posted in that thread about his experience with freddie and shared pictures of himself

There's a 411 thread on him, looks like mixed experiences. He was in my area while I was on a business trip a while back so I was interested in hunting down more info on him. @Coloradoguywhen you mention pics don't reflect reality, was he older or was his body not in as good of shape as the images reflect? Or was it the look of his face that was different?

Sounds like the escorts with "Porn Star" on their resume are a mixed bag, and everyone has different floats for their boats. I haven't slept with any porn stars.., Yet... That may change at some point... You know.... For science.

On 7/19/2024 at 3:48 PM, sniper said:

There is still the whole "one more commitment on the pile" aspect that deters some of us. Even if didn't bother the partner, it would bother me. Someone asked me why I'm single despite good job, house, etc. My response was after caretaking for various family members who simply can't reciprocate and would be in dire straits if I just dropped them, I feel like I don't have anything left to give, and I don't want to be "the taker" in a relationship. 

Shit. I am in the process of extracting myself from a similar situation and it's agonizing. I hope things are changing for you in a better direction with some relief in sight. 

Thanks all. I ended up going casual. I realized I was fussing too much, and considered the general vibe from the responses here: the provider probably didn't give a shit as long as i was clean, groomed, reasonably polite and paid up... So the other details were just complicating things for me and I was driving myself insane. First meet went really well even though I was one notch below "certifiably insane" on the nervousness scale. With that proverbial cherry popped (figuratively), it's all smooth sailing now. 

I dunno if it comes with the BFE but there's this version of the Minnesota Goodbye (read: a very extended goodbye) he does that's incredibly sweet. 

I thought the multiple ads was strange too, but when I originally chatted with him he had only one ad. The former clients I reached out to also mentioned he was very chatty, which seems to mirror @Reisr30's experience. I really hope I'm able to travel to Chicago soon 🥰

On 7/21/2025 at 11:21 AM, Nakedchi said:

Any info on Jason Storm

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I have not hired JasonStorm yet, but it seems like he changes his RM name and it also looks like he has another RM name under Muscle_kingxl

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 I reached out to him once when I was in the Chicago area but my timing was bad and we were unable to meet. He was responsive and polite. I reached out to a few of his client reviewers on RM and they had positive feedback. I do plan to hire him next time I'm in Chicago. Sorry I don't have any more info then that but I figured it might help you decide. 

I reach out to the clients of a provider for feedback, if I hear similar negative input from two independent clients that's a red flag to me. It helps me cross names off a "potential" provider list, the same time it kind of sucks: one provider was really hot and I was so disappointed. Better safe than sorry. 

17 hours ago, FrankR said:

Good help is hard to find. To be fair…if you called me a bitch I would burn your coffee too! 😎 

no, I just really really really miss bodegas... memories of petting the cute bodega cat perched on a stack of boxes while I wait for my bacon egg and cheese on a kaiser roll, and the super cheap yet satisfying coffee... then grab a few lotto tickets on the way out... simple things... 

Puerto Rican chicken and rice!

leftover polenta can be sliced into neat little slabs and browned in sage butter...