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I like Factor 75. The meals are tasty, although a little heavy on cream sauces / cheese for my taste. They’re much better when you heat them in an oven at 375 for 9 min. instead of microwaving them. They tend to be around 500 calories each which isn’t horrible. They are fresh, never frozen. You can order as few as 4 per week and you can put the order on hold whenever you wish. I’d give them a solid 4.5/5 stars. I don’t know of any fully prepared meal plans that are better and I’ve tried several.
I wouldn’t call it healthy or diet food, but it’s better than most.

Negative review of Liamnuts:
"His pics look nothing like him and he only did massage"

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom Sihamoni
... His parents, King-Father Norodom Sihanouk and Queen-Mother Norodom Monineath, were once questioned by journalists about Sihamoni's marital status and when he was planning to get married. In response, the Queen-Mother replied that her son "only feels Buddhist" and that "he confines himself to Buddhism." The King-Father added that because of this, his son's affection for women is akin to that of "as his sisters" and that "he dares not to make a deep relationship." This reflects Sihamoni's adherence to a monastic way of life which is underpinned by his austere piety and devotion to faith. In some respects, Sihamoni is regarded somewhat as an enigmatic figure, with the available literature pointing to a "reflective, deliberate and cultured man" who apparently had reservations in becoming King, yet in spite of this, humbly assumed the solemn responsibility of his position, whilst holding "his cards close to his chest"....
 

certainly no expert, but, for those planning a trip, I can offer a few hints......yes, the country is very inexpensive........a travel partner and I stayed in Phnom Penh at a small average decent place (we do not need to stay at the best place in town) in a great location for about $40/night including breakfast......saw the popular Khmer Rouge torture chamber and walked the riverside (didn't have time for the "killing fields").....using Google Flights, I'd found a remarkably cheap morning flight (prop!) from PP to Siem Reap.......using suggested intel from guide books, we just walked out of the SR airport and asked a group of cabbies if one was available to be a driver and guide for Angkor Wat for the remainder of the day.....within five minutes, all was arranged for an embarrassingly low charge.....the driver/guide helped us with the admission process, had another guy he knew walk us around at one point, had us walk through one area and met us at the other end, etc.....then drove us to our hotel, also very good and inexpensive......later that evening, travel partner and I went to the party area of town (yes, a reverent place like Angkor Wat/Siem Reap has a party district) and chatted up a couple other Americans at a bar who offered us hardcore drugs.....and a young local woman with a baby in tow also chatted us up there and we quickly realized she wanted to do some business........
 

Thanks for the video. Cambodia is on my bucket list. I will add the cute boy to my bucket list now 😉

Sauna Octopus and to a more extreme extent Prinicpe ae the 'daddy saunas' with more old guys and those who like them ... you'll find a few pay to play types there
Sauna Gran Via has more of the pay to play guys these days
 

Are you using the Tim Tales reference as in guys who are in his films or as a generic descriptor as in "really hung"?

It looks like it starts at $35USD, I think that's monthly. But it can go up to almost $100USD
https://rent.men/about/prices

200 Euros has reared it's head all over Europe since the lockdown ended. Hopefully it won't last but it may. I suspect a lot of Romanians and Brazilians are not getting into western countries easily now so that may be also affecting the market, especially saunas. I know a lot of Czechs have also started advertising on Rentman for a couple years. Prague now has two full pages on RM and i think Paris has several more. They may be more more legit since they have to pay up to $100 a month and are somewhat policed while ads on Hunqz are often free and stay forever with little policing. Still Hunqz has many more guys. I think "daddy saunas" must mean normal gay saunas with older clients.  

Can you elaborate? I'm not familiar with daddy saunas. Thanks.

The main website for providers in europe is HUNQZ.  Good luck......

i spent 6 weeks in spain this summer ... Madrid, Seville, Barcelona ... lots were asking 200 euros (about $240 at the exchange rate) ... most quickly came down to $100 ... while Sauna Adan has closed, some of the guys have moved over to the daddy saunas working a bit more discretely ... and the old 50 to play 80 to come rule of thumb seems to be holding

currently, I have Netflix and Hulu for a total of about $20/mo for both.....and I have an HD antenna, like Lucky mentions, to get free local channels (all four of them: PBS, ABC, NBC, CBS)........
as an aside, I'm going to miss Netflix DVD-By-Mail, which is ending in two weeks after a glorious 25 year run......that was the primary reason my TV was ever turned on......

It's hard to believe it's been almost two years since we lost you @Guy Fawkes.  
Here's to you sir...  I hope you're sitting around somewhere in the sky surrounded by a bunch of hot guys being the life of the party.  

I bought my first Japanese car in 1975. Their quality and prices were super competitive. It was a Nissan 280Z. I kept that car until 1991 and I sold it to a kid who promptly wrapped it around a fence post.
Later the Koreans came on the scene and the Asian producers expanded into larger sedans, SUVs and trucks. My longest lasting car is one I still have, a 2000 Mercedes. 130,000 miles on her and will probably outlast me.

There are a number of unions that I don’t have a lot of patience for - airline pilots and baseball players, to name two.  But I think of unions as being on the front lines for the rest of us in a lot of ways…almost like the way drag queens were for us gays back in the day; willing to stand up for their rights and demand things that ultimately make things better for the rest of us.  
The workers that *really* need unions are the poor folks that work in meatpacking plants, pluck chickens for Perdue, and other dirty, dangerous, repetitive jobs.  I guess Augustus would just have their employers move to right-to-work states, but those states are the same ones that don’t protect workers health and safety.  That’s not a coincidence.  
As for the UAW, I agree that they’re asking for a lot.  But the thing is, they’re not going to get what they’re asking for, and I think an agreement will be reached.  Frankly, if the Senior execs turned down some of the massive pay packages they have gotten, a lot of this problem would go away. 
One final thing: why is it only the union guys who get blasted for their pay rates? FWIW, I want to see real estate developers, hedge fund guys, and the private equity people pay the same tax rates that these UAW guys pay, since these union guys actually *work*for a living, making products that you and I actually use. 
Rant over.  As a native midwesterner who recalls the days when lots of well-paying factory jobs made for stable towns and stable factories, this topic gets me worked up. Thanks for hearing me out.  

There is one big problem with your question: You are assuming facts not in evidence.  Just because someone doesn't have an obvious online presence as an escort doesn't mean he hasn't at least occasionally done sex work.  I've posted about my college age escort from two decades ago a number of times here, but to repeat: He only ever occasionally posted on Craigslist.  He took his ads down as soon as he found clients.  He only used one face photo, and it was small and low enough resolution that there is no way anyone could have used it to definitively identify him.  After he got as many regulars as he wanted, he never advertised again.  He was never on any site like Rentboy, Rentmen or Rentmasseur.  He was never reviewed on Hooboy's site or Daddy's site; I asked if he wanted me to write a review for him to help with his business and he said he didn't want any permanent record of his sex work.  So he did sex work for at least a couple of years (the time I hired him) and had at least one regular client, but for all intents and purposes almost no one knew he was doing sex work.  I'm writing all of this to say that I believe such men surely exist today -- the problem for prospective clients is where/how to find them.
Now, broadly speaking, I get the point that there are many, many handsome young men who could be successful in sex work because they are so attractive, but as others have written there are a variety of reasons why someone would choose not to do this line of work and also many reasons why someone who's attractive might try it and then realize that it isn't for them.

When you grow up good looking...you know you have your pick of other good looking people. So you start sifting through the best of the best when you're looking to get laid. That means you're rejecting plenty of perfectly attractive men or women and this makes you not even consider the less fortunate as a sexual partner.
That's why most beautful people can't escort.
They can't get it up for an ugly person.

It sounds good theoretically, but what you mention is simply speculative. Just because someone looks good, doesn’t guarantee a fortune in the pay for gay industry. I know this for a fact: I am on Adam4Adam and I may only get 1 client in a week or month out of a KILLING of replies. Many are interested until I bring up the money. Which is usually why within the first message or 2, I already have an auto reply set up that includes my rates. 

Which is the other point: just because someone thinks they can get paid, doesn’t guarantee they’ll get paid what they want. If you ask the average non-sex worker guy how much they’ll charge to do what we do: you’ll hear a crazy number like $500 just to suck their dick, and anything with sex would be like $1,000, $10,000, $100,000, $1,000,000 etc. 
But WE KNOW: the average “range” for an hour or 2 is generally in the $50 to $500 range. And yes, there’s people out there who think $50 is a good price to pay for sex. Not making fun of anyone but, I’ve heard offers of all sorts over the years  🤷🏾‍♂️
I think the real question is: why aren’t there more people willing to pay? Because at this point: I feel there’s already enough providers in most major cities. I know it doesn’t seem like it, and there “could” theoretically be more, but there doesn’t need to be more because; we haven’t even come into full decriminalization or de-stigmatization. If you have too many providers, the potential for profit will decline if there’s not enough buyers to do it. It’ll be like when I went to a strip club in Dallas once: there was like 25 dancers and 3 customers. 
 
There’s also been stories here and there, of people offering a guy paid sex, getting tattled on: and then being arrested (though I think it’s usually been the under 18 ones). There’s also been situations I’ve heard where someone reacted violently towards a guy, after offering a straight guy payment for sex. Obviously these are extreme examples but: it’s worth keeping in mind to be mindful, and DON’T solicit someone blindly, just as an escort (especially gay escort) shouldn’t solicit clients blindly either.
 
I personally wouldn’t think into much. Even as a fantasy. Simply because: someone could say, “why aren’t more gay men into women? They would make BEAUTIFUL babies” lol. Well I would find that kinda offensive tbh. Even though it’s meant to be a compliment. I am what I am. 
 
And as others have mentioned, it’s not something everyone should or could do. Most people are of the concept: you only have sex with someone you’re attracted to. And then you have others (including other gays) who believe money should only be earned by working 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and that sex is a God given right to give/get for free 👎🏾 

You may think you are not a good looking guy, but others who have seen you may disagree.  There are many components that work together to create attractiveness and allure.  For whatever reason, the provider life is not the path you embarked on, but hopefully the path you chose has proved to be more fulfilling for you than any of the other options you may have once considered.
 

Aaron Lawrence's book is still the closest thing to a how-to manual.
https://www.amazon.com/Male-Escorts-Handbook-Guide-Getting/dp/0966769112
The book has aged due to the progression of tech, but a lot of it still makes perfect sense.  
It's a must-read for any would be working guy.

Part of my inner motive in bringing this up is I'm not a good looking guy but I am very sexual. I've often wondered if I would have done that kind of work if I had the looks. Let's face it -- you can have all the other needed attributes, but if you don't have the right looks, the rest doesn't matter. It has to be the whole package.

I'm wondering what my "standards" would be if I been better looking. I think I still could crossed that hurdle. Because I do indeed see the attractiveness in a wide variety of people. I'm not sure I could have overcome the fear of arrest, etc. And then my prime time for this would have been the 1980s, and there were a host of problems that decade.

If I had a nickel for every time I was propositioned... I'd be completely broke.
But in all seriousness, I imagine physical appearance is just one part of the equation.  There must be other criteria that would raise a provider from 'physically attractive' to 'sexually appealing', and what that criteria happens to be would presumably vary from client to client.  
While I understand where the OP is coming from, and mean no disrespect, questioning why more people who attractive are not becoming providers is similar to wondering why more people who are tall do not become basketball players, or more people who excel at school do not become doctors.  
The other limiting factor is the social stigma in the USA and Canada around escort work.  We live in a modern society, but many people carry the moral baggage of our Victorian ancestors.  And ironically,  the Victorians were not the moral purists they liked to think they were.  They hid things better, people asked fewer questions, and the Victorians creatively justified the 'immoral' behaviours they partook of themselves while condemning anyone else who was doing the very same thing.  

It's been answered several times - it requires skills beyond just being sexy.
I know of no online site or book that tells providers the basics on getting started, what to expect, how to deal with the steady stream of texts, of which only some are valid offers, etc.
In my opinion, in the U.S., law and public opinion are the biggest obstacles. In addition to removing and opportunities for proper training and protection, it makes working in the industry too risky. It's a lot rarer today to see gay prostitution stings, but the whole "sex trafficking" bullshit makes it a PR nightmare for a company to hire people in the industry.
It's easier - again, as someone mentioned - for college students to work out a "Seeking Arrangements" position. From personal experience, I can say it's a much easier path, you're more likely to have friends who can tell you about it and give useful advise, it's a lot less risky, and it is (or was) considered more "socially acceptable" for both parties involved.
 
EDIT: To clarify: SA (or FB) weren't around when I was in college. We used traditional "social networks" to pass word about interested, rich, gay alumni. This only made the whole process safer.