sam.fitzpatrick

That's a bit of a generalization that I doubt everyone here would agree with.  

I have twice bumped into providers in social settings.  In one case, I simply said "hi" as I walked by and he responded "hi" back.  A few minutes later, he came over to my table and we caught up for a couple of minutes.  He hadn't recognized me as I had shaved off my beard that we had when I had seen him three months before.
In the other case, I was in the wait area for my barber with my nose in my phone.  As the barber was checking out his previous client he called my name and I looked up.  Standing next to him was my masseur from the previous evening paying and scheduling his next appointment.  The massuer made eye contact with me and said "hi."  It appeared he was with a friend, so I simply responded with a "hi" and he left.  Fairly innocent that it allowed each of us to acknowledge recognition, but casual like saying "hi" to a stranger as we pass on a walk through the park.

I have twice bumped into providers in social settings.  In one case, I simply said "hi" as I walked by and he responded "hi" back.  A few minutes later, he came over to my table and we caught up for a couple of minutes.  He hadn't recognized me as I had shaved off my beard that we had when I had seen him three months before.
In the other case, I was in the wait area for my barber with my nose in my phone.  As the barber was checking out his previous client he called my name and I looked up.  Standing next to him was my masseur from the previous evening paying and scheduling his next appointment.  The massuer made eye contact with me and said "hi."  It appeared he was with a friend, so I simply responded with a "hi" and he left.  Fairly innocent that it allowed each of us to acknowledge recognition, but casual like saying "hi" to a stranger as we pass on a walk through the park.

I have twice bumped into providers in social settings.  In one case, I simply said "hi" as I walked by and he responded "hi" back.  A few minutes later, he came over to my table and we caught up for a couple of minutes.  He hadn't recognized me as I had shaved off my beard that we had when I had seen him three months before.
In the other case, I was in the wait area for my barber with my nose in my phone.  As the barber was checking out his previous client he called my name and I looked up.  Standing next to him was my masseur from the previous evening paying and scheduling his next appointment.  The massuer made eye contact with me and said "hi."  It appeared he was with a friend, so I simply responded with a "hi" and he left.  Fairly innocent that it allowed each of us to acknowledge recognition, but casual like saying "hi" to a stranger as we pass on a walk through the park.

Working on reservations….
Is David’s Pool party usually on Friday?

I just watched Kelce, a documentary out today on Amazon Prime.  With Jason Kelce at the center, it was an enjoyable view about an offensive lineman's season.  The addition of his family as part of the story, especially the Super Bowl match up against his brother's Chiefs was nice.  Not much on football strategy or play calling, but a nice peak into the personal life of a football player.  

Isn't that Grindr?

Isn't that Grindr?

Isn't that Grindr?

Isn't that Grindr?

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

The call to "expose" escorts sharing information is totally irresponsible and honestly pretty hypocritical given the forum that we're on. Please take a moment to consider what you're suggesting.
Mr Number is just one of several safety methods used by workers to protect themselves in the course of offering unique talents, experiences, pleasures and expertise. It's part of a centuries-old (at least) tradition of informal knowledge networks and bad date lists and meant to protect escorts. Things have changed in some places, and naturally, I acknowledge that clients take their share of risks as well when arranging to meet and meeting providers. But in most contexts, sex workers of any stripe take on much greater physical social, legal, personal and financial risks.
As someone above said, many (mannnyyyyyyyy) people messaging escorts never intend to meet or pay.  Every day, people text me out of the blue with expectations of rapid, extensive, unpaid sexting or phone sex, or worse. While most of the clients out there are genuinely good people trying to to do business, there are unfortunately a significant number of "clients" who are not... People who seek or choose to stalk, harass, rape, assault, doxx, scam, harm, and, in extreme cases, even kill sex workers. Not to mention, SW remains illegal in most places and police around the world still expend heinous quantities of cash in their efforts to entrap and charge sex workers.
Perhaps an example would help. I am based in Toronto. I was approached, by online message and text message, by Bruce MacArthur, whom most people will know was a sadistic serial killer preying on gay men in Toronto for at least a decade and who killed at least one sex worker and brutalized another with a metal pipe. If I had not cross checked his info with my peers at the time, I would not have known about the various red flags that had gone up in the community and would likely have met him. Similarly, somebody I once declined to meet after a cross-check later restrained and raped another provider who was not plugged into these info networks.
If someone can't see why tools like this are important, then I suggest they do some deep, deep thinking about their priorities and their capacity for empathy.
Of course, I'm not calling anyone on here a killer or a rapist. I love my clients and by and large I've found I can develop mutual trust with a guy independent of any lists or comment boards.  The information on sites CoM and MN is ultimately that — information. Escorts (and anyone with the app) can take that info and use it to make safer and better informed decisions — it's not as though you're cancelled forever because one person said you never booked, we all recognize that not every client is going to book. Tbh, I don't think I've ever seen a number that has negative comments from just one provider, and if I did, I would never write someone off based on one or two comments. What's most useful is seeing if there's a pattern of behaviour or red flags that we can take into consideration to protect ourselves.
Sorry for the novel, just was feeling aghast that anyone would think this is controversial or worth disparaging
 
 
 
 

I've been briefed on the event,  it would be awesome to attend next year!

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

Thanks for starting a conversation about this event @V_Marco. 
I will channel our dear departed friend Epigonos.  He was fond of stating that if you have an inkling that you would enjoy going, just make the plans and attend.  You never know when it will be the last year you can attend, and there are no guarantees that this private event will continue each year.  For those readers who are not familiar with the event, it is an event planned by one of our members who kindly invites members of this Forum to attend.  Although attendees usually have this website in common and Company of Men generously permits the event to be publicized here, it is not an event organized or sponsored by this site. 
So as soon as a date is announced, make your plans.  

With your thoughts of the judicial system, I hope you are never the victim or a relative of one that is needs an independent jury to evaluate the evidence.   
You hadn't previously asked for the evidence of why I believed the victim did not change her mind.  Here it is:  (1) there were several witnesses that testified that she had declined his advances earlier in the evening, (2) both the victim and accused confirmed that the victim was asleep when the incident started, (3) the accused indicated that while they were long-time friends, she had said no when he had previously asked her out on dates nor had she expressed a desire for a sexual relationship with him, and (4) the accused admitted that he had never asked her to be physical with her, nor had the victim asked him to be physical with her.
I agree with you that every juror is responsible the verdict that was reached.  I used the full jury to demonstrate that when this jury was unanimous, it removed any doubt from my mind that the jury reached the correct verdicts. 
Lastly, I didn't mention the verdict on the rape charge.  You wrongly assumed that we found the defendant guilty of rape.  While the jurors believed that the contact between the victim and accused was non-consensual, we found the accused "not guilty" of the rape charge.  Our state law requires penile penetration in the vagina for it to be rape.  I didn't believe that there was any evidence of penetration as the rape kit only reflected the boyfriend's (not the accused) although the accused DNA did appear on the victim's bra and panties.  Again, I rest comfortable that the verdicts we reached on each count were correct according to the law, despite the law, in my opinion, being flawed in this case.
 
 

This example is of scripted scenes when the women knew what was going to happen and had male directors giving them the instruction to act this way.  Not a fair comparison.

Any time I hear this line in my professional world from a client or vendor, my "spidey-senses" start tingling and  I know there will be problems.  It simply reinforces that my initial decision to say "no" was correct.