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I obviously cannot speak for any specific provider, but when I see an escort with both Rentmen and Rentmasseur ads and there is a rate on Rentmasseur that's clearly lower than he's likely to charge as an escort, he's probably: 1. Not fully booked as an escort, so he's willing to add some clients who won't pay escort rates and actually are satisfied with a massage and happy ending. 2. Hoping to upgrade the appointment from massage to escort, with a bump in rate, once the client meets him in person.

There is a fine line between wearing clothes that reveal an athletic physique and wearing clothing that clings to the body such that it's obvious what kind of shape one is in. In a lot of work environments, the former is fine but the latter is a no-no. Of course, if you are referring to dressing for work as an escort I don't think the clothing one wears can be too provocative unless you are going to be seen in public with a client in an environment where more modest attire is the norm.

Bad breath due to recently consumed food can mostly be cured with tooth brushing, flossing and, if necessary, using mouthwash. There is no curing bad breath due to a serious dental problem, though, apart from getting the tooth taken care of by a dentist. Mouthwash will mask the offensive odor momentarily, but not for long if someone has serious decay in their mouth.

That's one of the reasons I prefer to actually have direct communication with the provider. I have no qualms about someone deciding to do sex work, but once there is someone else making a profit for arranging that work for another person I become concerned about the potential for exploitation. If I knew the handler/agent was just following the provider's instructions for screening and scheduling, I'd have no concerns. Since I cannot know that with certainty, it leaves me concerned that the guy could be working under conditions with which he is not entirely comfortable.

The only time I'm aware of having arranged a meeting through an agent/handler involved a man whose English language skills were minimal. I didn't know that prior to meeting him because someone else was obviously texting for him. The appointment went well enough, but I much prefer making arrangements directly with the provider I'm planning to hire.

Here's a thread about mspa that has recent posts:

Some addresses really are difficult to find, even when using mapping software on a cell phone. I've definitely gone to places and parked but then had difficulty figuring out which of the many buildings I was supposed to go to. I have also followed directions given by Google Maps and occasionally made choices that in retrospect were nonsensical. One of them that stands out in my mind to this day is exiting a Los Angeles area freeway onto to wait at a red light and then reenter the freeway on the other side of the overpass. There was definitely no reason to exit the freeway, but for whatever reason Google told me to exit and since I was unfamiliar with the area I just followed the directions given. Another involved walking and not driving. Despite me reading directions provided by actual people online, when I visited Las Vegas I believed Google's instruction to park at a parking garage much closer as the crow flies to my destination. The only problem was that there was no way for most people to walk from that garage to my destination since it was for employees only (with locked doors). I ended up having a nearly 30 minute walk from the garage to my destination versus the 7 minute walk it would have been had I parked where people online suggested. I submitted a correction to Google in the hopes to prevent other tourists from making the same mistake. I will also admit that I am directionally challenged, so it's relatively easy for me to get lost if I am in an unfamiliar area.

He was so funny in the Pee-wee character along with many of the other roles I saw him perform (special shout-out to his stint on Murphy Brown). The whole brouhaha surrounding his arrest was nonsense. The arrest itself was nonsense. Why go into a theater showing XXX movies looking for men masturbating so you can arrest them for indecent exposure? The movie screen shows naked people having sex and yet it's indecent for an audience member to expose himself? I'm glad he was able to resume his career after a while.

I also think it's likely that someone posted this ad as revenge. The fact that Rentmen accepted this ad and it's been up on their site for three days shows how little screening they actually do. There's no way any escort is actually going to market himself using an STD as part of his name.

I didn't say it would be easy, but at least it's possible. Trying to get everyone who does sex work to go "on strike" isn't possible.

Why not move to a country where sex work is legal, and then start such a website yourself? (I'm only suggesting leaving the US because of past actions against sites like Rentboy.) If the things you desire are desired by enough providers, with the right marketing/word of mouth you will surely gain market share and will likely make more as the owner of the website than as a provider.

For some, just being gay carries a stigma. Look at the far right in this country that's attacking all things LGBTQIA+ to acknowledge that. Yes, some people who look down on sex work might generally support the gay community. That isn't my argument. My argument is that just as some gay people come out and live their lives authentically despite cultural disapproval (and given a lot of forum members are older men, many of us remember a time where our legal and social status was even worse), I'm sure some sex workers choose to simply ignore the holier-than-thou attitudes of others who look down on them. One can acknowledge that there's stigma without succumbing to it personally, so I think that any attempt to lump future regret regarding sex work with societal norms doesn't make sense. I'm also not saying that no one changes his mind and comes to regret what he did in his past -- and that's not limited to sex work -- but it doesn't seem like some of our forum members who have done sex work for decades now regret their careers. At least, that's the impression I get when I read posts from long-standing escorts.

I watched this documentary a week ago. Like the stage show about her, this documentary portrays Donna as an unhappy victim whose only joy in life came after she became a born again Christian. I still like a lot of the music, particularly the stuff she did in the 1970s with Giorgio Moroder, but feel even more ambivalence towards her after watching these shows. The take away I got was that she was raised in a very religiously rigid family and never was able to reconcile those views with the music she made that was overtly sexual.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom. If child abuse is your thing, maybe you'd feel differently. I found it terribly disturbing and without any redeeming qualities. Just depraved. The Wiz -- though decades later I sat through the entire film at home and thought it had some things to like about it. As a teen, however, I just didn't like it and left right after Michael Jackson made his first appearance. Some gay film whose name I don't recall. It was at a film festival. I'm not exaggerating this (I remember checking my watch): The film opens with a static shot of some landscape and that image doesn't change for several minutes.

That not everyone refuses to pay just because it's easy to view porn for free? There's actually quite a lot more shoplifting now where I live than there used to be, but I don't walk into the grocery store and walk out with my groceries without paying. That's just not who I am. I'm not saying I don't watch any porn on sites where I'm not paying, but I have subscribed to various men's sites. I'm obviously not alone if you look at how much the top performers on Only Fans supposedly make.

Maybe the ad is a joke since you cannot tell what he looks like in any of the photos. Then again, there was a gay guy in my area who tried running his massage business out of his van. I suspect he didn't have permanent housing. I don't know how successful he was, but the thought of it wasn't appealing to me.

airnow.gov is definitely not sketchy. Nor is purpleair.com, though the problem with the latter is that there are usually some people whose devices are clearly not working properly. For example, there might be a stray reading that indicates there air quality is good when all of the surrounding devices are accurately showing poor air quality. When you limit the results to outdoor only readers and look at a reasonably sized area, though, it's easy to ignore those outliers.

He lists his location as San Francisco currently, but Rentmasseur indicates he's about 11 1/2 miles away and the Map feature shows downtown Millbrae. Has anyone contacted him to get more information or, better yet, has anyone hired him? I am surprised he states he's 33 years old. He looks younger than that.

A thread about him with recent activity, including someone who recently hired him and enjoyed their experience. Just know that if you decide to meet him that there is no way a 39-year-old will show up. Unless he lied about his age two decades ago to make himself older, he's got to be in his sixties by now.

Found this article. Guess my hunch was right, at least about newspapers that served less populated areas. They likely were free decades ago, at least basic ones. American Journalism Review - Archives AJRARCHIVE.ORG

Until this thread was started and I did some basic research, I had no idea that a basic newspaper obituary cost money -- by basic I mean two or three paragraphs -- and were treated as advertisements by newspapers. I thought birth and death notices were simply done for free as a public service. Did that used to be the case?

It's been decades since I've seen a Scooby Doo cartoon, but my vague memory is that he and shaggy occasionally caught the bad guys through some sort of luck rather than skill. So, in a way, Scooby may have been like Gilligan but he had better outcomes. I don't consider Scooby Doo a superhero since a superhero requires having some mental or physical trait that is extraordinary. Scooby talking is no different than any other cartoon character talking.

Certainly not the first trans character on TV. Maybe one can stretch the qualifications to make that true: First regular character on a series who initially presents as the gender conforming to their sex at birth who subsequently transitions. I'm not even sure if that's true, though.

Lots of people regret taking all sorts of jobs. I've had a couple of traumatizing jobs in my life that had nothing to do with sex work. Hopefully anyone who decides to escort who realizes it isn't for him simply stops and does something else.

Robbie Benson yes, Dan Benson pass. That has nothing to do with his age, though. Since when is 35 "too old" to sell oneself based on sex appeal?!