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Maybe when the brand started out they had better quality. I think I bought my first Entenmann's product about 40 years ago and it was definitely mediocre at that point -- about the same as Hostess, another brand that obviously dominated in a business sense but that no one would hail for product quality.

A "city" just south of San Francisco.

It is surprising that someone who both escorts and produces OF porn would ignore a person who tipped him. Seems not very business smart since I assume the majority of subscribers just pay the monthly fee and don't tip. That being said, it seems like most OF content providers don't interact with fans beyond canned messages sent to all of their current or past subscribers. I think I've only ever had one actually write a personal reply to me.

Also note that the allegation about PV was that the cops will pick you up to shake you down if you are walking alone. I'm not saying that never happens in PV; I've certainly read about it before. I have to wonder whether I have been incredibly lucky as have my friends and all of the many acquaintances I've met during many trips to PV. I've never personally been harassed by the police there; my only interaction with law enforcement has been to walk by and acknowledge their presence with a nod or whatnot. I've never heard a first-hand account from someone who was harassed by the police. I only use a car service if I'm going to or from the airport, so that means I'm walking around day and night. Since I typically travel alone, I am frequently walking by myself. I've written here before: I feel much safer walking by myself in PV at midnight or 1:00 a.m. than I do where I live (San Francisco). If I'm out late here and at all intoxicated, I'd definitely get a Lyft home versus walking even 10 minutes. I don't even like walking around by myself at night when I'm totally sober.

I have co-workers with whom I am friendly while at work, but I don't consider them friends. I have one co-worker whom I regularly see out of work. We are friends. There is a difference. It's the same with escorts. There are several men I hired more than once and I enjoyed spending time with them, but I never saw them off the clock (apart from maybe a quick bit to eat after a session) and would never have considered them a friend. I also didn't give them things apart from their fee. With the one escort with whom I became friends, that was demonstrated by the nature of our interactions. It wasn't a declaration on the part of the escort that was manipulative. We just started doing things that friends would do -- go out to eat, go to a movie, chat on the phone. When I had no power for days after an earthquake, he allowed me to spend a night at his place so I could finally take a hot shower. When I lost my apartment due to a fire, he allowed me to use his place when he was out of town. In fact, he was more generous towards me in that latter crisis time than some other men I considered friends, one of whom basically refused to let me sleep on his living room floor and another who let me know, when my apartment building was still on fire, that he could only host me that night. I'm still friends with that former escort all these years later whereas some of those other friends are no longer part of my life.

Previous discussion of him under the name M_Cassidy. Searching his phone number found an expired ad for Florida using that name, and I think the other thread here mentions him being in New York. I don't think anyone in the other thread met him; it was just discussion about a high asking price, his lack of responsiveness, and his stunning photos.

Maybe he's hoping women will hire him. There's a guy on Friendboy in San Francisco who explicitly states "women only." Ads like these stick out like sore thumbs since most men who advertise as escorts market themselves as either gay or bisexual, but I doubt there's anything in Renmen's or Friendboy's Terms of Service that excludes straight men looking for female clients from placing ads.

The main difference between developing a friendship with an escort versus another type of service provider is that one is unlikely to get to know much about another type of service provider while he is providing the service, so there isn't much opportunity for a friendship to develop. Assuming both parties are open to it, it makes sense to me that escorts and clients would sometimes develop friendships as they got to know one other because getting to know one another is frequently part of the client/escort transaction. I've only ever developed a friendship with one escort, but we had both our time on-the-clock and off-the-clock. I paid my regular rate for the former and money didn't exchange hands for the latter. Sometimes I hired him for an overnight. Other times we went out to eat or to a movie and would informally trade turns as to who paid. I would have never expected sex to become part of those meetings, though.

In my twenties, I was so horny that I had no trouble either maintaining an erection or getting a new one after having an orgasm. I'd have no trouble getting it up and cumming three or four times per day. I don't remember when that changed -- sometime in my thirties, I'd guess. But I have met men much older than that whose sex drive is so strong that they can also have an orgasm and keep going, so I think this is an individual thing. The bottom line (pun intended) is that if you want to be an escort who advertises as a top, then don't take more clients than you can manage. If that's one per day for you, then respect your limit.

The reason the information online is vague is that this isn't a one size fits all situation. I'm sure in some jurisdictions the prosecution and potential penalty is much more extreme. Then there are the specifics of the situation that could impact sentencing -- first "offense" or not; any hint of exploitation (i.e., sex trafficking); etc. If you are a "john" who is busted for the first time for attempting to hire an adult -- probably a fine and probation, at most. The bottom line is that if a client is that concerned about law enforcement, two course of action are prudent: either don't hire at all, or hire only well known guys with known contact information so you know you aren't getting caught in a "sting." If you really are in New York, I doubt you have reason to be concerned about law enforcement unless you do something stupid. The bigger risk is probably getting ripped off.

I think it's a matter of priorities as well as staffing. I suppose a police department could focus on stings of men and women who advertise on line, or run ads themselves to catch prospective clients who contact them. We know that that has happened on occasion. The reality is that I don't think most people would react positively to a police department focusing its resources on that, particularly if there were other crimes happening that were being ignored. That is particularly true in more politically liberal places.

I don't understand this paragraph: "Then there's the openly blatant con artists. One guy, I was purely willing to hire, but I thought it reasonable to ask him why 3 of his 15 RM reviews were bad. He told me he was insulted by the question. Luckily, he was honest enough to cancel the session before I would have." If you read his reviews and were concerned that 20% of them were bad, why contact him at all? If it's because you wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, wouldn't there be a better way to approach the question than basically putting him on the defensive with the demand to explain himself? Perhaps your perception that he was a "blatant con artist" came through and that contributed to his feeling insulted by you. I would have been insulted as well. As to the rate question, I don't think it's insulting or rude for someone to ask for whatever he wants just like it isn't rude of clients to decline to pay more than they think is reasonable. What is rude is either person copping an attitude because they didn't get what they wanted from the other person.

He has no one he knows he can borrow some money from? He has no clients where he lives where he can book some business and make some money? Assuming the guy is legit, if he is living that much on the margin I'm not inclined to believe that a stranger should send him money. He needs to get a regular job, work on his skills so he is making money as an escort, work on his budgeting skills so he isn't broke, or whatever else he might need to do. But I'm with most of the others who've chimed in so far. The guy is likely just a con man. If you are a sucker and send him a deposit, you will likely not see him or your money again.

I'm in the middle. I agree that your first text is a bit off-putting. Instead of asking for a vague availability, ask for what you want (tonight or tomorrow, for example). I also agree that asking whether an escort barebacks in the first text seems odd. If their RM profile indicates "anything goes," you probably have your answer already anyway but you could certainly confirm what you want in a later text. But as with asking about availability, your inquiry might come across as more genuine if you had written, for example, "I like to top without a condom. Are you okay with that?" Or, conversely, "I only have anal with condoms. Is that okay with you?" I'm basically saying your approach might make someone who's already a bit weary of prospective clients to react with skepticism because you aren't asking for what you want but rather asking, in a curt way, for the escort to divulge details about himself. All that said, the escort should have handled your inquiry better. Had he simply replied, "Sorry, didn't get your text until now. I'm available today. If you are still interested, let me know a time that works for you and let me know what you are looking for." That would put the ball back in your court in a friendly way. Neither of you contributed to a successful exchange of information after that. You were put off by the escort's demeanor, and he was put off by yours. Last night was history, so there wasn't much point in saying, "I was looking for last night" when the guy asks what day/time works for you now. Rather than be vague, why not just ask "Are you available tonight at 8pm for an in call?" But given that this guy is self-employed, he's certainly clueless when it comes to attracting business. He was very quick to assume you were just wasting time and did nothing to actually advance his agenda (book an appointment). Seems like he was more interested in playing a victim and feeling indignant than he was trying to succeed at scheduling a prospective client. I would 100% understand that stance if your texts had been going back and forth for a lot longer, but he basically copped an attitude with you so fast that it didn't really offer an opportunity for success on either of your parts.

I mostly watch porn where there isn't a story and the performers aren't playing roles other than top or bottom.

Wanting one's partner to have a steady income doesn't mean that one expects to be taken care of. It might just mean that they don't want to have to take care of their partner. Just because one has a steady income doesn't mean that that income is sufficient to support two people anyway.

As someone recently reminded me in another thread, some people have a lot more disposable income. I guess this guy has his sights on a market of men wealthy enough that they won't think twice about spending $1K to be with someone for an hour. Based on the photos I don't think I'd spend that much even if money was no object for me, but as I was reminded in yet another thread recently "beauty is in the eye of the beholder." If this guy is able to charge that much and have as much business as he wants, congratulations to him.

Since I bought a Cuisinart combo air fryer/convection oven 3 years ago, it's been my most used kitchen appliance.

I'm not watching the series, but even taking at face value the things that "bunny mother" or whatever she called herself claimed in the stories linked above the picture is very strange. She's basically saying that she knows of occasions where women were sexually abused by Playboy VIP clients and that nothing was done about it. Also note, however, that she worked there and did nothing to stop what was going on. She kept working there, helping to train new "bunnies" that she presumably knew could very well be sexually abused in the same manner she claimed she knew was happening. If her claims are true, she's basically admitting to being akin to Ghislaine Maxwell. Look, I am not claiming that no women who had employment connected to the Playboy empire was ever sexually abused. This woman's claims are very odd, though. Women were being told they had to go to private events with VIP clients where everyone but the women who were victimized knew they would be sexually abused but everyone just went along with it? Not one of the victims and no one who knew what was going on ever went to the police? Everyone just agreed to keep silent about it to "save face" for Playboy? I just find that hard to believe. Even with Scientology, which goes to extraordinary lengths to keep members from defecting and talking about their experience with Scientology, some people have escaped and told their stories. We're to believe that even though there was a "revolving door" of women working at these Playboy clubs that everyone decided to keep silent until now?

I'm not a creator so I don't know how it works, but given that sites like Onlyfans collects the money, takes a cut, and then distributes the rest to the creator, doesn't Onlyfans have to issue that provider a 1099 at the end of the year? I don't see how it would be possible for someone to avoid claiming that income to the IRS. Well, maybe they can simply avoid filing a tax return for a short while but surely that will catch up with them eventually.

I haven't. But I have to ask: Why would anyone pay $200 for a single video of someone? Does the guy float your boat that much? I will admit that when I first heard of Bryan Hawn long ago, I thought he was hot. But there a lot of hot guys who do porn. Why not just subscribe to one of their channels? Maybe I'm just out of touch. There seems to be a market for these guys who tease but don't really deliver the goods given the number of them that seem to be making at least some sort of a living doing that.

This just goes to show that we all have our tastes. I'd take Channing before Joe, and I'd take Alex Pettyfer before either of them. And I'd definitely throw them all aside for Matt Bomer (was he in the first Magic Mike, or just the sequel?)

I'm still waiting for someone to explain the difference between forum members who hire escorts and Hefner, apart from the scale of the operation. Forum member hires escort. He expects sex in exchange of money. If he isn't satisfied, he doesn't hire that escort again. If the escort absolutely refuses to have sex with anyone in exchange for money, he will be labeled a thief here since he advertises one thing but instead is just looking to take clients' money. Is the difference that the women who moved in Hefner's mansion are presumed to not be sex workers? Like they thought they were just moving in to be eye candy, but there would be no further expectations/demands placed on them? Again, I'm simply struggling with that suggestion. I'm not straight at all, so I hardly paid attention to Hefner's empire. But even I assumed that the women who hung around Hefner, particularly those who lived with him, were basically his paid companions aka escorts. I just don't see how any woman would have pursued this situation if she didn't want to do sex work. So, again, if an escort one of us hired later says he felt pressured to have sex with us when he didn't want to, and all he was trying to do was survive, are we supposed to look in the mirror and say we were wrong to hire that guy with the expectation of physical intimacy? He really was a victim and not a willing participant? Or are there simply different rules because our behavior involves two (or more) men and Hefner's involve a man and a bunch of women? It's precisely because I believe in equality of genders that I believe women have the right to work as whores, just as men do. Women have the right to choose not to work as whores, just as men do. A woman or a man who previously did sex work who later regrets it is just that -- someone whose viewpoint has changed -- not someone who was necessarily a victim of anyone other than their own choices. To bring another public figure into this as an example: Boy George O'Dowd's hiring of male escorts -- no problem. George's chaining an escort to a wall and then beating him -- big problem since he removed the escort's ability to refuse what George wanted to do.

I haven't been to PV for a few years, but during my many previous visits I think the biggest problem is not encountering escorts. By that I mean it's difficult to interact with locals and then not find yourself after a few minutes with someone who is expecting that your friendliness is going to lead to a money making situation for themselves. I'd say that the vast majority of "working men" there don't advertise. They just work the beach, some bars, strip clubs (of course) and the "gayborhood" in general. Many even speak English well enough that you can negotiate what you want even if you don't speak Spanish well enough to have a meaningful conversation.

FreddyPrince's pictures are Nick Ford, right? Is Nick just advertising under a different name now?