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And unlike many people, Paul Newman retained his good looks throughout his life. I'm not going to argue that I find 80-year-old Newman as sexy as 30-year-old Newman, but he was still quite the attractive man at 80.

Previously discussed a few years ago shortly after they opened. Not many comments from people who actually went there, but there's no indication anyone had "luck" with a masseur there. https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/m-spa-san-francisco.140187/

I hate to blame victims of scams, but sometimes one does have to wonder how it is that anyone can fall for some of the more obvious ones: 1. Someone you've never met who needs money to come be with you? More than likely a scam, but even if it is some lonely gay man in the middle of nowhere who wants a sugar daddy to move him to a more gay friendly city there is a way for a man like that to look for what he wants that doesn't start with a lame, generic message about looking for love and that your profile reveals you to be a perfect match. 2. Someone alerted me to this scam recently: Someone will message you on Facebook (or maybe sent a text) saying that you might qualify for a government grant. After a couple of messages back and forth, they say you qualify for a grant but that you have to put up some money for "processing." If it were only true that I could get the government to give me $750,000 for a $10,400 processing fee.

I agree with you in spirit and that's also my outlook when it comes to my hiring, but I do appreciate that some people might have jobs that could be put in jeopardy if some guy got mad at them and tried to make trouble with their employer, particularly if they live in some backward area of the country. I'm sure the mere whisper that someone has hired an escort could cause trouble for some people at work. I agree that it would be safer for those people to simply forego hiring, but for those who want to mitigate the risk without eliminating it entirely because they want the experience an escort can provide I don't blame them for using burner phones and doing other things to hide their identities.

The callbox is the same where I live. The code displayed when you get to my name does not correspond to my unit number. Given that it's such a large building, there would be no way for someone to know which name was mine if I just gave them the three digit code to ring me unless they scrolled through hundreds of listings until they found my code.

If you are that concerned about discretion (and I know that some people might have reasons to be more concerned about this), then don't have people over. I have personally never been that concerned about my identity being found out, but I have always been concerned about physical safety which is why I always meet a guy outside my building if I have never met him before. Not that it provides a guarantee of safety, but at least I know I'm not letting in more than one person and that the guy I'm allowing inside matches the photos I've seen and that he doesn't seem obviously wacko.

Stubble grows back quickly; a full beard usually doesn't. I can imagine asking someone who sports a very well trimmed beard/stache if he could be clean shaven, knowing that he might decline. I wouldn't even bother asking someone who has long facial hair to shave since I assume he prefers that look.

I used to enjoy seeing their oversized posters in the store windows, taunting me with ripped young flesh. I think I only went in the store once (with a friend who wanted to go) because I knew their clothes weren't for me. I wasn't plus sized then like I am now, but even then I knew that their brand was made for people built differently than me. Some clothing brands are just cut for extremely lean bodies; if you don't have a body like that, you either need to buy a size larger than you'd need for some areas of your body in order to accommodate the bit of fat you have in your midsection or just buy other brands designed with your body type in mind. I have less a problem with A&F marketing itself to the athletically built than I do with their racism. Does anyone remember the scandal when it was revealed that the stores would put white people on the sales floor but people of color either worked in the stockroom or weren't hired at all? Or their t-shirts that used stereotypical, insulting images of Asians? Yes, their models were cute but they were also almost always white. The racism behind A&F was very obvious.

That's a minute of my life I'll never get back (that's how long I lasted before I closed the window playing this alleged "music").

I can understand the logic of wanting to protect everyone somewhat versus providing greater protection to only some people when supplies are low. I know that originally the thought was that the first shot only provided about 50% protection but that was only looking at the first two weeks after injection. It's interesting that the protocol remains two shots if, in fact, the difference in protection is only 2% after more time has passed.

Your shots are being scheduled more than 3 months apart? I thought the second was typically given 3 weeks after the first.

I'm not vegan but can enjoy a good vegan meal. I highly recommend Native Foods (a small chain with a few southern California locations and a few locations in other states). Unpretentious but tasty, and unlike some vegan restaurants a carnivore isn't going to find the portion size lacking. What I don't understand is how difficult it is to find good Thai food, not just in Palm Springs but in southern California in general. Maybe I just haven't had good luck at picking the right places, but of the several Thai restaurants I've gone to in the greater LA area and in Palm Springs the only one that came close to serving something that didn't just seem like generic "Asian" food (meaning that it actually had flavor from lemongrass, galangal, thai chilis, etc) was a place in Desert Hot Springs -- and that was far from the best Thai food I've ever had. Guess I'm spoiled where I live since it's easy to find decent or better Thai food in San Francisco. Hint: If you go into a Thai restaurant and you see things on the menu like sweet and sour chicken you are not going to be eating Thai food. I echo Rick's for breakfast. I like Sherman's, too, but enjoy their sandwiches a lot more than their breakfast. My favorite place for dinner in Palm Springs is Trio, in part because I like their food but also in part because they hire so many attractive young men as waiters.

Good for you that you got that all sorted out by directly asking for what you wanted.

The phrase "piece of work" usually has a negative connotation to me, as in someone is difficult to get along with. I doubt that's what you mean since you wrote it in response to him opening his private pictures. Did you just mean that his "piece" looks like it would take "work" to handle? Or did you mean something else?

The phrase "piece of work" usually has a negative connotation to me, as in someone is difficult to get along with. I doubt that's what you mean since you wrote it in response to him opening his private pictures. Did you just mean that his "piece" looks like it would take "work" to handle? Or did you mean something else?

This thread reminds me of a forum member who is an escort who expressed a belief that everyone he met socially who knew he was an escort should be willing to pay him if they ended up having sex. That seemed rather presumptuous to me and is something I've encountered more in Mexico than in the U.S. I am not particularly enamored with guys who try to hustle me. The main difference in this case is that the initial meeting came about through an advertisement for paid services. One way to approach this, as someone else suggested, is simply to decline his offers to come over for a session for which he expects to be paid. At other times, contact him and ask to get together, making it clear that you are expecting an uncompensated date. If he takes you up on your offer, then your answer is clear: he is motivated to hook up with you outside of the confines of a professional relationship. If he isn't interested in your offer, then you know one of two things: The guy really isn't that into you or the guy isn't into you enough that he's willing to do it without getting paid. I personally have no problem with getting together with a guy who initiates contact with me as long as I've established that sort of understanding with him. The two men I hired the most both initiated a lot of our meetings, one because he traveled a lot and wasn't always around and the other because he was a college student in another area and contacted me when he was back visiting family during school breaks. I didn't get my mind twisted in either case that because they reached out to me and seemed to enjoy our time together that I should be unhappy about still paying their fees.

This thread reminds me of a forum member who is an escort who expressed a belief that everyone he met socially who knew he was an escort should be willing to pay him if they ended up having sex. That seemed rather presumptuous to me and is something I've encountered more in Mexico than in the U.S. I am not particularly enamored with guys who try to hustle me. The main difference in this case is that the initial meeting came about through an advertisement for paid services. One way to approach this, as someone else suggested, is simply to decline his offers to come over for a session for which he expects to be paid. At other times, contact him and ask to get together, making it clear that you are expecting an uncompensated date. If he takes you up on your offer, then your answer is clear: he is motivated to hook up with you outside of the confines of a professional relationship. If he isn't interested in your offer, then you know one of two things: The guy really isn't that into you or the guy isn't into you enough that he's willing to do it without getting paid. I personally have no problem with getting together with a guy who initiates contact with me as long as I've established that sort of understanding with him. The two men I hired the most both initiated a lot of our meetings, one because he traveled a lot and wasn't always around and the other because he was a college student in another area and contacted me when he was back visiting family during school breaks. I didn't get my mind twisted in either case that because they reached out to me and seemed to enjoy our time together that I should be unhappy about still paying their fees.

I visit porn sites using Firefox with two extensions installed - AdBlock Plus and Ghostery. Some sites won't work with those enabled, but they do a good job of filtering out the sties that are trying to trick users into installing malware by blocking pop-up windows.

I drank whole milk as a kid, sometimes with chocolate flavored powder added and sometimes with strawberry flavored powder added. I don't drink milk by itself now. I only buy it to add a bit to my morning coffee.

I use eu as well. I like the layout more. Even though Google image search largely fails to find matches now, I still try it when a new ad catches my attention. I cannot drag images for searching from rent.men the way I can from rentmen.eu.

My parents did not drink. For a few years, we lived in a house with a nice bar downstairs that was stocked with various sorts of alcohol but they never touched it. I have some photographs of my parents from earlier in their relationship where they seem to be imbibing with other young people, so I assume that they drank alcohol when they were younger and then made a conscious decision to stop at some point. As a result, I never touched alcohol until some older teen supplied some to be once. It was nasty, cheap "cherry vodka" which I barely drank. I didn't try it again until it was legal for me to do so and, initially, could only tolerate very sweet mixed drinks like black Russians.

I think that in the earlier days of masseurs advertising on line, having provocative photos in the ad was a likely indicator that the masseur was willing to go beyond a basic, therapeutic massage. Over time, though, I think that some guys realized that they got more interest by showing flesh even though the service they provided was not erotic in the least. In other words, don't assume that a guy who shows a bare torso or a photo of him in a jockstrap is going to provide any specific service. Communicate in advance what your desires are.

As a teen I worked as a busboy/dishwasher. When the restaurant was busy, the pace was grueling. I didn't know until my first shift that even though the restaurant closed at 10pm, that meant they would seat customers who came in prior to 10pm. Because people kept coming in until just before closing time, I ended up working more than an hour past when I thought I would be off work. The bonus was that this position was also the restroom cleaner. It's amazing how dirty some people can leave a public restroom.

Maybe we'll get lucky and Decades will run a Phyllis marathon due to her death. If so, I'll set my DVR to record it.

I see it more like you. It is a business transaction, and like most businesses there are those where "the common man" can afford to shop and then others where the cost limits the customer base to people with high incomes. Just because someone who makes minimum wage or slightly better buys clothes at Target doesn't mean he is "exploiting" Target by not paying the same as it would cost to buy clothes at Saks Fifth Avenue. Saks isn't sending a message about power and exploitation by carrying luxury brands and pricing them accordingly; they are offering products at a certain price and each individual can decide (a) whether he can afford the price and (b) whether he thinks their goods are worth the price. So, back to Cade -- is he worth $1,000/hour. To some he might be, especially because of his porn background. To some with the means to hire him, maybe they just aren't interested in what he has to offer. And then for many of us, we simply cannot justify spending that much to spend an hour with anyone. That doesn't mean we are looking to exploit people but rather understand that the market is such that not everyone doing this type of work can command that price.