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The most popular restaurant, from what I could tell, was Cheesecake Factory. At dinner time the dining area was always full and there were scores of people waiting outside for tables. I have only eaten at a Cheesecake Factory once and thought they food was overpriced and mediocre. It boggles my mind that people would travel thousands of miles and then eat in a restaurant they could probably go to at home, but then I remind myself that a lot of USA citizens would rather go to a chain restaurant due to its predictability versus taking a chance on an unfamiliar place.

Wow. Red Lobster management was even more stupid than I realized. No time limit for an all-you-can-eat deal? That might work if the price was a lot higher, but given that the deal was apparently close to 60% of other entrees it's no wonder that their dining rooms were filled with people who ate more shrimp than $20 could buy. I happened to return last weekend to the Indian buffet I previously mentioned. There is no time limit but most of the food on offer isn't what most people would pig out on, given it's so rich and spicy. They also charge $45 per person. I was a bit surprised at how many mimosas I drank (they were refilling my glass without me even asking for more, so I assume they must be using extremely cheap sparkling wine.

We must live in alternate realities. I was in Honolulu a few months ago and seafood is everywhere. You can even buy poke (cut up raw fish in a sauce) at mom-and-pop versions of 7-11. Yes, Hawaiian food is also big on meat (particularly grilled meats) but I wasn't aware of steak and rice being served everywhere. Maybe we were just paying attention to different places.

I couldn't quickly find more recent numbers, but in 2021 apparently the average income in the top 5-10% bracket was about $167,000. One does not need an annual income of $167,000 to afford McDonald's or even a casual chain restaurant like Red Lobster.

Just curious: Do you have an adjustable rate mortgage? I'll agree that most things cost a lot more now (though my insurance hasn't spiked, either), but one of the many benefits of home ownership is having a fixed monthly payment for the life of the loan versus having one's rent go up every year.

You beat me to it by 17 minutes as that's what I was going to post. I think that posting photos of these alleged scammers doesn't make much sense because the photos are almost certainly not of the men doing the scamming. I'd even go out on a limb and say that while posting the phone number might be helpful on a short-term basis, once the scammers know the number they are using has been identified as a scammer they'll just get a different number. The main benefit of a thread like is to simply remind people who may not know or may have forgotten that there are scammers out there and that if you are inclined to send anyone a deposit, at the very least make sure you are sending it to someone whom you know has a positive reputation. I personally wouldn't pay anyone a deposit unless it was someone I had already met and I was booking a longer than 1-evening engagement, but I can sort-of understand people being willing to pay someone a deposit if their location requires some significant amount of travel and they cannot find an escort willing to travel to them without receiving some sort of earnest money in advance.

The claim is actually the reverse. You should be seeing socks on young men because they supposedly wear crew socks, not shorter socks that might not be visible when shoes are worn. But I assume this is another low-quality article online, like so much other stuff I see that's either completely manufactured reality or so far from the truth in the attention-grabbing-headline that it might as well be made up.

As rvwsnd wrote, it's nothing new. Sometimes people will respond with, "can you give us more of an idea what you are looking for?" and sometimes there are crickets. It does seem odd to ask for recommendations without offering any detail about what one likes. It would be like asking a sommelier which wine is the best without giving some indication what you like first.

I've had younger men roll their eyes at me or give me a hostile look for simply looking at them in a bar one too many times. I completely accept that a 25 or 30 year old guy might not be interested in someone in his 60s since that's how I felt as well. I do remember being friendly with men much older than me, though, in terms of having casual conversations so it always surprises me when someone is such a jerk about simply being admired a little.

I find that when I sit down, the area around my ankles shows. Not that that means people are looking, but that part of one's leg is visible unless one wears pants that are so long that they still cover the top of one's shoes while sitting.

This is a stupid thing to be concerned about. Are there really that many people looking at the type of socks other people wear? I can tell you that I don't even notice someone's shoes or socks unless there is something unusual that calls attention to them. I used to wear ankle socks a lot about 20 years ago (when I was 40-ish), but I have almost exclusively worn ankle socks for the past decade. This isn't due to chasing a trend but rather more to do with feeling okay about wearing the same socks when doing things other than exercising. I do think it looks weird to wear ankle socks with long pants, particularly in an office environment. I really doubt that most men over 40 are wearing ankle socks. Haven't crew socks been more-or-less the norm for a long time?

I think your assumption "thus have no issues seeing men around our age" is wrong. I think that a lot of men over 60 don't want to be sexual with men their own age, particularly if they are paying for it. I am in my early 60s and even encountered this two decades ago, with a lot of men around my age looking for thirties or younger. This obviously isn't true for everyone, and maybe the split isn't even as high as 97/3, but preferring younger men is definitely a thing in the USA. When I have traveled to Mexico, age discrimination doesn't seem nearly as prevalent.

I have a very good local Indian restaurant that does an all you can eat lunch buffet and their food is good quality, but they charge a lot more than $20 (if I recall, it's about $35). The food is very rich, so I doubt that most people eat so much that the restaurant is losing money. Their regular menu prices are on the high side and they do a good dinner business, so maybe their profits at that time of day help offset not making much off the buffet. I don't know their financials, so I'm just speculating. I just wanted to add to this conversation that I think it's possible to do an all you can eat menu, but not in the way Red Lobster implemented it. I haven't been to a Red Lobster for 40 years, so I have no comment on their food quality. I don't remember ever thinking it was very good, though. Given how many large chain restaurants seem to have only gone downhill in terms of food quality over the past few decades, though, I wonder if it's even worse than I remember.

I agree 100% with the part of your post I bolded (not that I disagree with the rest). As a consumer, I can tell you that 99% of the men to which I've subscribed only got one subscription period from me because (a) their frequency of posting was low and/or (b) the quality of their content was low. In fact, I'd say that most of them shouldn't even be charging for what they are offering since a lot of them don't share much beyond brief clips leading to offers to purchase full scenes for an additional cost. Why would I pay $10/month to see someone advertise? At the very least, put some worthwhile content on the page in addition to the offers to pay for additional content. And a lot of guys need to check out a quality content provider like Rhyheim Shabazz to see how content should be recorded and edited. Putting up a phone on a tripod by your bed just doesn't cut it. As to not showing a face, I agree with some others that that would cause some guys to lose interest. I generally want to see someone's face. One exception I have is a Japanese guy whose OF page is free, for whatever reason, and he posts a few full length videos of him massaging and fucking men every month. He's got a very hot body and I imagine that I'd like his face if I saw it. If he charged to subscribe to his page, I would have unsubscribed after the first month because of him not showing his face.

Some guys advertise as both a masseur and escort. If you want more than a massage with a happy ending, book them as an escort. Even then, some communication in advance will help set expectations for both parties.

If the guy has a public persona as a provider, I think it would be a favor to them to share with others that you had a positive experience. Why wouldn't you want to help someone you liked?

Five weeks ago isn't recent enough for you? 😀

In all seriousness with respect to his lips, maybe he also does drag. It seems like a lot of men who do drag are now into getting their lips injected with filler so they have more to work with when applying makeup.

He'd have to pay me to want to be with him, and I'm probably 40 years older and 100 pounds heavier than him. What's up with these fish lips?

I almost never lend any money, but I did lend my roommate some money a year ago on a very short term basis and got repaid within two weeks (I made him sign a note which promised repayment within that time frame). We watch Judge Judy reruns together so having a formal acknowledgement of the loan and repayment terms seemed sensible even though we trust each other. Speaking of which, forty years ago I lent another roommate money so she could put down her share of the security deposit on the apartment we were renting. I had to hound her for that money for several weeks even though she told me she'd repay me the week after I lent the money to her. It is kind of surprising, but even among people who seem to be nice, ethical people there are those who have no qualms about taking financial advantage of someone else if they can get away with it.

I don't mean this as a personal attack, but I've noticed that you seem to have quite a negative view about clients as a whole. So many of your posts seem to convey the notion that it's normal for escorts to be disgusted by the vast majority of men hiring them. I'm sure that's true of some sex workers, but given the escorts I've known (some quite well, some just casually) I can definitely say that many aren't repulsed by the majority of men who hire them. Just thought I'd put this observation out there because I don't know that you want to come across as insulting to the vast majority of people who post here.

151 out of 271 escorts in San Francisco included rimming in their preferences on Rent.men. 193 out of 300+ in West Hollywood included rimming in their ads. 70 out of 102 in Seattle. And so on. Now, I know that just because someone includes an activity under Preferences doesn't mean he will do that activity with every client, but barring the ones that just click everything I think these numbers at least give an indication that a large number of providers are open to rimming, being rimmed, or both.

Perhaps the most successful (by which I mean in the most films/shorts) is Sean Paul Lockhart (aka Brent Corrigan). Most memorable for me is his appearance in Another Gay Sequel, but he also had a brief appearance in Gus Van Sant's Milk.

I'm confused. Rentmasseur does have a map function. It's just largely useless because most providers choose not to display anything close to their exact location. I understand that decision, but I appreciate when a provider at least indicates in the text of their ad which neighborhood they are in.

You asked about legal problems. Apart from a couple of stories I've read about online (i.e., no personal knowledge), I think that risk is very low. What seems to be a larger risk is extortion or, at least, attempts at extortion. If you have a lot to lose if your hiring habit becomes known to others, then someone attempting to extort you puts you at risk. That's why you'll see some here advocating the use of a burner phone and never meeting anyone where they live. I didn't take either of those precautions and never had anyone try to extort me, but I did almost hire someone whom I subsequently read about here who did threaten to expose clients to their families. I felt like I dodged a bullet there even though I don't think that being exposed to colleagues or family would have caused any problems for me other than whatever gossip people might have engaged in following the disclosure.