José Soplanucas

Have you heard of FOMO? Fear Of Missing Out. My Millennial friends taught me about it. (they are a weird species) Well, perhaps this is a case of FOMI, Fear Of Missing It. They are afraid of losing the frame if they take their eyes out of the camera.

You get to a certain point in a conversation where you realize that there is no drive from curiosity and exploration but just need of reaffirmation. Then, I give up.

I am trying to keep an open mind.

Perhaps it is my bad English. Sometimes I do wonder what the distance is between what I mean to say, and what I am actually writing. But I think Berger and Luckmann are beyond any misreadings, if you have an average intelligence.

I think you may have a reading and comprehension issue. Or my English is just fucked up. Take a read at Berger & Luckmann's book.

https://ilikepinga.com/2017/07/09/sean-xavier/ https://ilikepinga.com/2017/08/19/sean-xavier-way/ https://ilikepinga.com/2018/03/24/sean-xavier-is-back/ That is all I know about him. He was great with me.

100% agreed. But I do not think @Tygerscent is advocating for looking for an explanation or a cause for homosexuality. If I understand what he is saying, he is speaking of how the interactions between our individual biological traits and our particular social context will built how our sexuality is expressed. Rather than an hermeneutic, he is looking for a phenomenology. Of course, I may be wrong.

I agree in general, but the issue is not only gay men. I think everyone who does not see that we are a social construction built on our biology, is in denial. What is sad in the case of gay people when they do not realize it is that they mirror oppressive structures instead of enjoying a journey of self discovery and self construction.

I think we will be always guessing, as there is not reliable data about sex markets. However, this explanation makes much more sense than applying the inflation rate to the escort fee.

It is not if you are resourceful. I am a HS teacher with a very limited budget. I have decided to stop paying for sex in the USA, because for me it is not a good investment. However, I have hired USA escorts until shortly before the pandemic. When people started complaining here about 300 bucks fees, I was paying 70 to a regular guy (a beautiful stripper), my last hire in 2020, a few months before the first lock down rolled out. Diversify your sources. Use Twitter, Instagram, and hook up apps and you will get more affordable prices. That is what you do when you are poor, you figure it out around the prices you cannot afford. I have a long history of excellent experiences without paying the high rates discussed here. Those who say they were paying more than 200 in 2000, I do not know where they live. My highest rate was Sean Xavier, at his prime time, who charged me 400 for two hours about 5 years ago. When I see a professional who is asking for 500, instead of bitching complaining about it, I am happy for him.

Ha!

Oh. Sorry, I over estimated you. Moderator note: Alright gentlemen, let's stop the sniping and play nice, else this thread will need to be closed.

The landscape of escorting is much larger than the little picture you are looking at. In this forums the prices discussed are mostly Rentmen standard, not the highest end, but quite high. This forum is not representative of the whole world of escorting, and those posters who are actually "over-informed" know that. If you like driving, and join a club where everyone drives Ferraris, and you cannot afford it, you do not start bitching about it. Instead, you get a Honda Civic, which is an excellent car.

Your data is not relevant. In most of the professions in that list there is a huge range in income. There are many professionals earning significantly less or significantly more, as the base pays in the list are averages. You cannot compare that against an escort asking for 400. It is not an average fee. If anyone here knows what the sex worker average earning is, I want to know them because they have access to sources no one knows. If an orthodontist asks you for 300 per hour, you just move on to another more affordable professional. Prices not always have to do with quality, and there are excellent orthodontist in all price ranges, as well as quite bad ones. Professional sex workers are not different. Just treat your relationship with sex workers the same way you treat any other service. Find the good ones that you can afford, or find comfortable investing in.

Where did you get that from? No one here said that there is no price range other than 400s.

I find hilarious all the whiners complaining about others pretending to be "moral authorities", while they feel entitle to have authority to tell sex workers how much they should charge, or how they should run their business.

Allow me to try it with more realistic parameters. The inflation argument, I think, is BS. However, I do think that escorts have the right to charge whatever they want, for any reasons they have. If a client does not like it or cannot afford it, move on or work on improving your income.

And why anyone would care about such shortsighted and stupid comments?

Additionally, if you are an HBO subscriber, take a look at the first section of the show. The edition they did mocking the Applebees/CNN commercial misstep is freaking hilarious.

You can erase this thread if you want to. PS: Sorry! I just responded to the alert without noticing you already moved it. Thank you!

I am trying this thread in the Lounge, let's see how long before it has to be moved to Politics. Do you follow John Oliver's show? It is one of my favorite ones. Last weekends the topic was sex work and human traffic. Excellent.

I never said that. If you read my article, you will see that I describe in detailed the oppressive features of specific labels, without posing universal laws.

I agree there. We choose our life style. You do know that a lot of people choose an oppressive life style, right? There is not shortage of self hating people of all kinds.

I disagree. In my opinion what is called today "gay life style" is just conformist reproduction of binary, heteronormative patterns, with no self questioning. Just another oppressive label. If that is healthy for you, I am glad for you. It does not work for me.

Meh. I did not choose to be homosexual. I do choose my lifestyle. "Gay lifestyle" is a debatable reality. https://ilikepinga.com/2021/05/29/gay-is-not-good/