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Yes, I find this suggestion odd given how few listings I found in Ann Arbor the last time I visited there. I don't think I saw any listings from someone in that age range. Maybe the suggestion is that the student population is available but only if you hit them up discreetly on Grindr or something?

I didn't post what you are questioning, but I think the argument is that law enforcement is much more focused on attempting to help people who are being commercially sexually exploited and people who do sex work at a younger age are more likely to be doing so under the control of someone else.

Quite honestly, this makes the most sense for someone who is new to hiring who has anxiety about entrapment or even safety concerns (i.e., they accidentally reach out to someone whose intent is just to rob them, not provide any service). But one thing I've read a number of times here needs to be repeated in this context: Particularly if you have a lot to lose (you're married to a woman and your spouse doesn't know you are having sex with me, or you have a job where this activity if exposed would cause you to lose your job), then get a phone number used exclusively for this activity and take other precautions to protect your anonymity. It's amazing to me how many heterosexually married men just operate as if they can do what they want and they won't get caught, and then it all blows up in their face when some escort tries to blackmail them.

When law enforcement uses entrapment, they don't use actual providers to do so. Can you imagine an escort sometimes offering legitimate service to clients and then occasionally he's just helping the cops with surprise busts? There's no way that escort could ever be successful. The only instance I'm aware of this happening was in an episode of South Park (to hilarious effect). Is there a risk of entrapment? I guess. We don't hear about it much, so I assume the risk is low in most jurisdictions. If you live somewhere where the police have time on their hands and the inclination to do this, then don't hire.

Interesting. Are guys with average, slightly chubby bodies now a big draw? Why would someone scam using a photo of a guy who looks like me might struggle getting clients if he were real? (Referring to the last two photos posted.)

Given everything you've written, it really does sound like his decision is not about you but rather about him. Just move on and don't give it another thought.

I don't get it. Unless one is actually part of the brains or creativity behind someone successful, I don't think it matters to the public at large that so-and-so was someone's wife, husband, undercover lover, or whatever. If I understand this situation, the guy was basically a kept boy for two successful men who are now dead and he now wants to capitalize on his connection to those men? If that's what this guy's "plight" is, he should just consider himself lucky for what he had and accept where he is in the present. Even the hottest guys age -- some retain significant sex appeal until they die, but even then there's no comparing Paul Newman at age 80 and Paul Newman at age 30, for example.

True, I have no interest in him. I was just attempting to make a funny post since I have never seen the word "proving" used this way.

I don't know because I'm not that wealthy, but if I understand your argument there should be premiere websites and agencies accessible to everyone who wants to hire, but then they should also offer access to the "best providers" or "celebs" that "are out of normal reach." I'd suggest that there probably are networks available to the very wealthy who hire, and they are specifically not available to most people because they are catering to the top 1% of wealth holders. If you are in that tier and haven't made such a connection, network with the other gay 1%ers to see what they recommend. If you're not in that tier of wealth, you're certainly welcome to make your own website (or hire someone to make it to your specifications) if you don't like Rent.men. Personally I am less bothered by Rent.men's functionality than I am with the ability for obvious scammers to put up ads over and over.

What is he proving?

I get it, but there are hundreds of thousands (or more, probably) of photos and videos online that can serve as jerk off material. Is the provider really so petty as to not want to allow someone to jerk off looking at his photos? It just seems so silly to me. since it isn't like the blocking will result in the person hiring them instead of looking at their photos. If anything, it makes an eventual booking much less likely. Maybe if the client rubs one out looking at a provider's photos he'll eventually decide he just has to meet the guy behind the photos.

Yes, the word "star" gets used a lot. Performing in porn doesn't automatically make one a star, but it seems like most people use "porn star" to refer to anyone who appears in porn. I prefer the term "porn performer." Then again, where to draw the line in terms of what makes a star is tricky. I read a comment on a different site recently where someone said she'd never heard of Jason Mraz until his coming out made news, and my initial reaction was to think it's ridiculous that someone who has sold millions of records would be perceived as a "nobody." But then I realized that if someone either didn't pay attention to pop music at all or pop music of a certain era, it's quite possible the "stars" of that era would be unknown. So I can see Mr. Cunningham being a "track star" to those who closely follow the sport but to the rest of us it's "who's that?"

I've read here that some providers will block people who view their photos a lot without reaching out to them to book. I'm not sure why that would bother a provider since I don't think their ad rate is dependent on how many times its viewed, but it seems to rub some guys the wrong way.

Not sure what happened here, but I cannot even read the text in the OP in dark mode. Usually when that happens I can highlight the block of text to read it, but in this case that still doesn't make it readable. If I turn off dark mode, I can read it.

Five. My then boyfriend and I were visiting a friend out of town and he invited another couple to join us for lunch. We all ended up back at his apartment for a little fun. That was the only time I was with more than two other guys at once. I actually don't like group sex very much. I don't even like watching it. Threeways can be fun if the chemistry is right (everyone is into each other) and if everyone is sexually compatible (not everyone wants to be in the same role), but I have always preferred one on one.

Interesting that this guy's Rentmen ad has only one photo and he's completely clothed, whereas the Rentmasseur has two photos of him without a shirt on. His Rentmen ad also indicates that he's straight and has a piercing (which isn't visible in the Rentmasseur ad, but maybe he has a guiche or some other genital piercing. Or maybe these ads are pure BS.

I don't even know what most of that means. Why is the word "spa" used so liberally? What's a "fancy" body massage versus any other body massage. What's "private area care?" Anyone who promises to pay this guy what he's asking for services that sound like a basic light rub with scented oils has too much money to burn.

Life is too short to get drawn into such drama with someone one hasn't even met. Tell your "friend" to move on.

I don't know whether any younger men are into the hanky code, or if locations with fewer gay men are into it, but I still see some guys wearing a colored hanky in a back pocket on occasion. I was actually recently in one of the sex shops in the Castro and they had various colored hankies and a guide as to the meaning of various colors in right versus left pocket.

I can understand trying a different contact method if you reach out to someone and don't get a reply, but I assume that flaking on two appointments means that contact was established and plans were made -- it's just that Zoro didn't show up to either appointment. Why would initiating contact a third time in a different manner be any more likely to result in an escort showing up? I personally wouldn't give anyone even a second chance if they flaked on me once. Canceling an appointment in advance -- yes. But just not showing up? Barring being in a coma or something, it just isn't excusable for me. Worst is when they don't show up and don't even have the decency to reply to messages asking what's going on. Even if it's a couple of hours later, a contrite reply might cause me to reconsider them for a future appointment; ghosting me just puts them on the time-waster list.

He has a promotion for a free day right now, so I subscribed. I didn't scroll back through his entire feed, but everything I saw was just a quick video with an instruction to "check your inbox" aka pay me more and you can see the full video. That isn't worth it to me, and I'm not interested in coordinating my schedule with someone who goes live a few nights per week. Just goes to show you that different people have a different sense of what's "worth it." To me, I want to see full length videos posted on their page without me having to pay extra, at a minimum of two new full length videos per month but hopefully more.

There is a huge difference between an adult male renting a room and then having more male guests than one would normally expect and an adult male renting a room with a female companion (who may or may not give obvious signs of being exploited) and then that room being visited by more male guests than one would expect. In fact, I'd argue there really isn't any comparison other than that both rooms have a lot of men going to them.

This. It might be viewed as callous and capitalism certainly has its callous aspects, but most places I worked at had either no official bereavement leave policy or had 2-3 days, depending on the closeness of relationship of the deceased and employee. Even then, I was surprised to learn that when my father died there was actually no separate pot of paid time off for bereavement; it just came out of my vacation accrual. Bereavement leave simply meant that the supervisor couldn't deny the time off request since it was precipitated by a death. I'm just posting this to say that corporate America thinks you should be back to work in just a few days, so I don't think that anyone should feel they need to avoid contacting a service provider for a long period of time because he had a personal tragedy. He honestly might not have the luxury of not working for a month (a lot of people don't have savings that allow taking off that much time), so I'd say that approaching him after a week (more or less) is okay, particuarly if you do so in a sympathetic way -- something along the lines of, "I'm sorry to learn of the loss of your son. I'm interested in hiring you for a massage whenever you feel ready to return to work."

Are you trying to read reviews on Rent.men or Rentmen.eu? I cannot get it to work on Rent.men but the VPN site does work on Rentmen.eu using Chrome. (I haven't tried Firefox in a while, but I couldn't get the work-around to work using Firefox when I first tried it years ago.)

In all of my decades of hiring in San Francisco, I think this type of escort with a bodybuilder has either not existed or extremely rare. The reason I asked for clarification as to what constitutes a bodybuilder is that I can recall an exchange on Hooboy decades ago where I linked an ad as a bodybuilder and I was promptly shot down by a lot of forum members who told me that a bodybuilder isn't just someone muscular but someone who has an even larger build and lower body fat.