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And here is another:

Apparently he was reviewed on Daddy's -- don't know whether the reviews are still available or whether they were lost when many of those older reviews went away. Here's one prior thread about him:

He's been advertising in San Jose for a decade or so, so he either just moved to the Los Angeles area or he's temporarily there and wants it to seem like a home base rather than just somewhere he's visiting. He's definitely been discussed here before, I think under the same name. I would have hired him at some point because I have enjoyed looking at his photos over the years, but the only thing that stands out in my mind in terms of chatter about him is that he has stood up more than one client and I simply wasn't interested in going through the bother of getting to San Jose from San Francisco only to have him not answer his door.

Assuming there is a real person behind that ad and not just a scammer, I will point out that the ad is a little vague. What he's clear about is that he is not willing to have sex with anyone right away, not even for money. What he is NOT clear about is whether he expects to be paid (or even just "treated well") when taken out for dates. He is looking for "successful" men, after all.

Yes, I think the trend has been to assume that all sex workers are victims, whether they are being trafficked by someone else or just exploited by those who hire them. Clients are still at risk under this lens. I very much support anti-trafficking efforts, but it's unfortunate that there still seems to be a strong belief that one adult cannot simply choose to engage in this line of work while others choose to pay for their efforts.

Cade Maddox really turns me on, so if I had more money than I knew what to do with I'd hire him at $1,000 for an hour, even though I do think (intellectually) that no one is worth that. But just as I don't go to the top rated restaurants where I live because the cost is just too high for my income bracket, I wouldn't hire someone charging that rate. I don't begrudge the restaurants that are able to charge several hundred dollars per diner per meal, and if an escort can charge a similarly high rate then good for him.

I can see that that might kill the mood for a moment, but it might make the video hotter for the viewer. I know I posted about this video on another thread here, but I loved the moment in the scene between Diego Sans and Mark Tanner when a maid literally walked in on them (you don't see her but it's obvious the door opened and she entered the room). Mark slides off Diego's dick, Diego gets out of bed, the maid apologizes and leaves, and Diego and Mark's temporary shock turns to a chuckle. I think Mark makes some quip about how that will make the video hotter. It did for me.

I've never used a WISE ATM card, but looking at their terms it seems like it would be just as expensive to use as many bank's cards since they charge both a fee for every transaction after a fairly low monthly amount AND charge a nominal currency conversion fee. My recommendation is to do more homework before you take a trip. You might already have a bank account with a bank that has fee-free ATM access in certain countries. For example, if I go to certain bank's ATMs in Mexico I don't pay a fee when using my Bank of America debit card. That being said, I think BofA used to also offer no currency conversation fee but I think those days are over. (I haven't traveled internationally since COVID started so I don't know what the current status is.) If you don't have a bank account with good international currently policies, consider opening an account with a bank that will offer said benefits and then simply put enough money in that account prior to your trip that you won't run out of money. Also, consider using credit cards whenever possible. A lot of credit cards now don't charge a currency conversion fee, so it's not only cost effective to use your credit card but it also negates the need to visit ATMs multiple times.

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Yes, this has happened to me a lot as well. I understand that someone might not be available, but I especially don't understand guys logging onto a website so their ads indicate they are "available now" and then they don't take the time to respond to inquiries. I swear I had better luck in the Craigslist days, when someone would post an ad, I'd send an email, they'd reply within short order, and then if we agreed on terms we would have an appointment scheduled for anywhere from a half hour to a few hours later. I certainly don't mind scheduling in advance, either, but one does have to wonder why some guys simply don't reply to polite, to the point inquiries.

Reminds me of the first time I thought I had an STD. Went to the free clinic and the doctor chuckled a little as he told me I simply had folliculitis, not syphilis (my fear). He still ran a full STD testing panel as any good doctor would when a sexually active patient presents with a concern that he has an STD, but he assured me that I simply had an ingrown hair on my penis.

Different strokes, as they say. Even though I'm annoyed that YouTube keeps serving up Ryan Reynolds' cell phone company ads to me, I never tire of looking at Ryan Reynolds.

I understand that reaction, but a few times I've told providers how easy it was for me to learn too much about them by just searching for their phone number and suggested it would be better for them to use a different phone number for escorting than they use in their personal life. I don't think it's stalking someone to search their phone number just to see if you can find information related to their work as a provider. Just as you wrote, however, I've more typically received a response that I did something wrong versus thanking me for pointing out that they are compromising their privacy by the use of a single phone number. I can at least hope that after the irritation wore off that my information was useful to them.

I immediately returned his call via *69, so the timing of our hookup was still basically at his whim. If I hadn't walked into my apartment while the phone was ringing I would not even have known that someone had just tried to call me, and without the *69 feature I would never have been able to identify who had just called. I think it really was his identity being exposed that caused him to cut off ties, particularly because when I returned the call it was initially answered by a receptionist saying his name and the type of business. I asked for him, said I was "a friend," and she transferred the call to him. Nothing scandalous, but for someone who is hiding I can see how it might create an uncomfortable reality and raise questions. It really is too bad that he couldn't have talked with me about his concerns because maybe I could have assuaged his anxiety and he could have continued his assault on my hole (sorry, couldn't resist the silliness after using the word ASSuaged). I really don't think his behavior was a sign of disrespect. We weren't dating, we were just fucking. If I was dating someone, that would be a different story. Would I have preferred to have his phone and be able to call him sometimes to see if he wanted to come over? Sure. But I didn't interpret his hiding his name or phone number as having anything to do with me personally.

I can speak from an experience with a "fuck buddy" I had a couple of decades ago, one of the hottest men I've ever had sex with. I'm pretty sure he was married to a woman and closeted because he disclosed very little personal information to me but I did pick up some clues here and there. This was pre-cell phone days. At any rate, if I happened to be home when he called and he asked to come over within the half hour, my answer was never no. Why would it be when he was so damned hot? I would do a quick prep and shower if I wasn't ready, and then he'd arrive. I know he called sometimes when I wasn't home to answer the phone because the very last time we met I returned his call via *69. He answered but seemed angry that I had found out where he worked by returning his call, and even though he came over that afternoon and we had fun I never saw him again. I think it freaked him out that I now knew his full name and where he worked (it was a small firm with his name in the title). So, yes, sometimes people can be available at a moment's notice. Note that I'm not saying you should run your business this way. You do what works for you. But it is true that sex hook ups happen without planning, and unless one is a bottom and needs time to prep then I'd say that if an escort doesn't have other plans then I don't see the reason to get upset that someone wants something near term. Just satisfy the demand and give up the notion that people "should" behave in a certain way.

At the same time that there is a more evident "gym culture" there is also a far greater percentage of obese people.

I doubt men are objectively getting better looking, but your reaction is changing. Watch an old TV show or movie and notice how men you didn't find particularly attractive when you were younger look quite handsome to your older mind.

Thanks for your common sense reply. If someone is too self-centered or stupid to understand that other people might need to work in with them in a public gym, then the appropriate response is simply to move their stuff out of the way so you can use the machine you want. In all honesty, however, I don't think most guys are big enough jerks to deny a reasonable request to work in; they just are hoping that no one will call them out on their narcissistic behavior so the machines they want to use are available at the precise moment they want to use them.

How has this cutie escaped my detection until now? I noticed him last night on a silly sci-fi movie being shown on the Svengoolie show and, despite some other handsome men also being in the cast, William Reynolds definitely caught my eye. Reading up on his career, it seems like he worked a fair amount for a couple of decades but he never really became a big star. He certainly had the looks for it, so I guess he either just didn't get the right roles or maybe his acting chops weren't that great.

Looks like fun and similar to my favorite coaster at Paramount's Great America in Santa Clara, CA, the Goldstriker, though the videos of these rides don't really convey how fun they are. The one at Six Flags does seem like it loses momentum a few times. I can tell you from experience that Goldstriker just keeps going fast until the brakes are applied at the end of the ride.

I really enjoy roller coasters. It's funny -- in my early 40s, I assumed I had gotten "too old" for roller coasters because I had a sore neck after riding one. Fast forward a decade or so and I rode a different coaster and enjoyed it tremendously -- so much so that I rode that coaster probably a dozen times one summer (I bought a season pass to the park). I eventually returned to the coaster that had previously made me think I was too old to enjoy them and found out it was just that coaster that I didn't like; it made my neck sore again due to its poor design. My favorite coasters are wooden ones which cause a lot of lift out of the seat. I'm not so thrilled by metal ones that simply go fast and turn me upside down a few times, though some of those can be fun as well.

That's what I do. I generally don't even look at the Politics forum. I know some people enjoy arguing even when it's obvious that no one is actually listening to views that don't 100% align with what they already think, but I have very little patience for that. That being said, I don't mind not reading most of what gets posted here since it's similar to another forum I regularly visit that's devoted to a different subject). I'm used to just scrolling through the subjects to see what's new and then only opening a tiny percentage of them to actually read them, viewing the rest as background noise. I realize that just because it's noise to me doesn't mean everyone else isn't interested.

Nowhere did I suggest indulging in a "Pretty Woman" fantasy. I wrote about developing a friendship, not a romantic relationship.

I'm glad you posted this and you said what I wanted to say as I began reading this thread in a clearer way than I probably would have. I'm only chiming in to add that I developed a friendship with someone I hired. When we hung out in the context of a longer session, I did pay for dinner or movie tickets or whatever. But when we just hung out "off the clock," it was just that. Sometimes I paid, sometimes he paid. It worked the way it would with any other friend. What the OP's situation will turn out to be cannot be known until he experiences it.

Sadly this isn't true. Do you remember the case of Jahi McMath? She was declared brain dead at Children's Hospital in Oakland, California in late 2013 but her family sued to keep her on life support, and eventually won a court ruling to have her propped-up corpse transferred to another facility in another state. The family propped her up her corpse on "life support" for over four years, eventually having to acknowledge that she was dead when other organs began to fail. It was never clear to me whether this was just a family who couldn't accept the death or if they were attempting to get a monetary reward because the young teen was worth more in damages if she was still considered alive versus dead.