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Just because a product is "manufactured" doesn't mean it's safe, either. I see what you recommend lists colloidal silver as one of its ingredients, and that isn't something I'd want to take internally or to apply to my skin. I'm not sure about the other ingredients; only that one jumped out at me because there's so much misleading hype around it from many in the "I don't trust modern medicine but I will trust the unregulated supplement marketers" camp.

A urinal by my bed? If I had severely limited mobility, then yes. But as a recommendation for everyone? Seems a bit overboard to me, and in order to use it you're still having to wake up a bit. Might as well walk down the hallway to the toilet. It typically doesn't take me long to fall back to sleep anyway. A do have a low intensity, color LED bulb in my living area that goes on at dusk and goes off at dawn. I do like having some visibility in the middle of the night when I get up. I don't see the need to have a light in every room, though. If you're actually going to get up, wouldn't you just turn on the light in the room you're using. I do like some of the suggestions at the top of the list, though, particularly putting contact information on the refrigerator and in my wallet. Rather than typing out medical information, however, I would add something to the list: Always have a copy of your health insurance card with you, even if you're just going out for a jog and not carrying anything else. If an accident happens this will not only identify you but also provide access to your health information since EMS will know where you receive care. (Well, come to think of it, this works for me because I'm part of an HMO that provides both the insurance and the services; I guess if you're insurance company is not your provider then it might help to have your medications listed along with the name and phone number of your primary care physician.)

I guess I have a different view of someone being a "clock watcher." If someone is wrapping things up early so they are out the door right on the hour, that's wrong. If someone schedules himself so he needs to be more-or-less done right on time, it might not feel great as a client because it does highlight the transactional nature of the meeting but the best way to avoid that is to arrange for a longer appointment in advance or to ask if there's some flexibility about extending the appointment time in the moment. I frequently used to hire guys for an hour but would say that in the moment I might want to extend that to 90 minutes and ask if that would be possible. Most of the time the men I hired were okay with that.

I think the risk of running into law enforcement while hiring off Rentmen is far, far lower than the risk of simply hiring someone who fails to deliver on what he advertises. That's the real reason to vet the men whose ads interest you. Sadly, I think this is far more necessary now than 25+ years ago. I think in the earlier days of hiring off the internet, the scam artists hadn't yet figured out it was an avenue they could easily exploit.

Like it or not, but tattoos have become the norm now rather than an exception, so I don't think you can generalize about people who have tattoos (even people with their bodies covered in them like Bad Bunny). I personally don't like tattoos and while I can overlook a few smallish ones, once someone is covered like Bieber or Bad Bunny I don't care what the tattoos themselves look like. I just have a visceral reaction that says, "not for me."

Use the search function to see if there's already feedback on guys whose ads interest you on Rentmen. If you don't find any previous discussion, you can start a thread to ask about them.

This series apparently began several years ago but I only found out about it a week or so ago. I looked back through this forum and didn't see any previous discussion of it, so I am sharing it here. How would I describe it? Campy. Hot guys. Funny. Strange. Murder-mystery. Predictable and unpredictable at the same time. At first I wasn't sure what to make of it, but the more episodes I watched the more impressed I became. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD-C5oWd8Is&list=PL8indjdn_qTUc-LSS8v-mrKuPzxhd1Q0H

Are you sure about what happens if you cancel versus pause your Prime membership? It isn't like a membership is required to shop on Amazon, so I don't know why they would delete all of your information if you stop being a Prime member. If anything it makes sense for them to keep everything else available in case you want to still shop on Amazon and either pay for shipping or buy enough to qualify for free shipping.

I don't know you or your family and friends so my reaction may be off base, but here's how I read what you wrote: You have family and friends who are trying to tell you that they wish you would be more open with them about your sexual orientation so they could feel closer to you/know you better, but instead of allowing that to happen you continue to hide from them. Your actions aren't actually protecting anyone (including yourself); they are hindering your ability to be closer with other people and, it seems, hindering your ability to accept yourself.

The problem with rates posted by clients on Rentmasseur is that it typically isn't clear what the nature of the session was, particularly for providers who advertise on both Rentmasseur and Rentmen. I would hope that the client who paid $350 for an hour hired him as an escort, not a masseur.

Even without an NDA, if Geffen treated him well while they were together and is appropriately generous now that they are separating, hopefully the guy just leaves the details of his relationship with Geffen between them. No reason to harbor ill will or treat someone callously who treated you nicely. I understand that some might have the view that Geffen couldn't possibly have treated the guy nicely because he was using his position of wealth to get sex with a much younger man, but unless there's coercion involved I don't judge either party who wants to get involved in that kind of relationship. If I did, I wouldn't be a frequent visitor to this forum.

I wouldn't even go that route as it seems to present different legal problems since sexual harassment of an employee is illegal and it isn't legal in California to hire someone to provide sexual services on demand.

Unless the Mexican locals knew of places to get more from the US dollars than I did as a tourist, the places accepting dollars there always gave a worse exchange rate than available from my bank via ATMs. I doubt that many, if any, of these men were well off enough to just hold onto the money they were earning, so I don't think they were stockpiling US dollars as investment. This all did occur during a time when the peso was losing value relative to the dollar, though, so I guess it makes sense that some of them thought that even if they held onto the dollars for even a short period of time they would be ahead.

Many guys I hired when traveling in Mexico asked to be paid in U.S. dollars. It didn't make much sense to me since it seemed like they would lose money in currency conversion, but they seemed to think it was financially advantageous for them to be paid in U.S. currency. Only one refused pesos, though, after I told them that I wasn't traveling with enough U.S. currency to cover the cost. For the one who insisted on U.S. dollars, fortunately I had befriended a fellow American and he exchanged some dollars for pesos for me.

I have mostly used rent.men for quite a while and was not seeing measurements in the metric system like you. Are you by any chance using a VPN which makes the website think you are located somewhere else that uses the metric system, and maybe some recent change in that allowed Rent.men to identify you as being in the USA?

I'm pretty sure that a spouse under 62 can only collect social security spousal benefits if they are caring for a child under 16 or a child with a disability.

But your answer could be as simple as what I asked the psychiatrist when I was 17 years old: How did you come to know you're straight? On a gentler note, I still remember when my boyfriend's nephew asked me why his uncle and I were together and not with women. I simply replied that some men love each other the same way that a man and a woman can love one another. His mom approved of my answer (after the fact). It really is homophobia that equates being "out" with being sexually inappropriate or sharing too much information about one's sex life.

Just to clarify: Coming out doesn't mean you have to discuss your sex life any more than straight people discuss theirs. In other words, some people actually do have explicit conversations with others about their sexual activities, but plenty of people (gay, straight or otherwise) don't. Just acknowledging to someone that you are gay is not the same as discussing your sex life. I know that some people try to make that argument ("I'm not against gay people, but they should keep it private."), but when given even a little bit of thought that argument falls apart.

This guy is too young and wasn't married to Geffen long enough to claim Social Security benefits.

Are you referring to RentMasseur or RentMen? I've long noticed words like "sexy" being replaced with asterisks on RentMasseur. I'd be surprised if RentMen didn't allow such words given all of the other sexual information listed in escorts' profiles.

If I had the disposable income, I'd pay $1K for an hour with former Helix star top Luke Wilder, assuming he still looks good. Max Carter was never one of my favorites, but maybe he's the fantasy of some other very wealthy men.

I came out when I was 16. I won't go into all of the details here, but after meeting a few other gay teens and then coming out to some of my friends, I wanted to come out to my dad since one of the gay guys I knew had just come out to his parents and it went well, despite their initial asking of some silly questions. Unfortunately my experience did not go well, and I seriously contemplated running away from home when I was a senior in high school because my home life became even worse than the miserable existence I was already enduring. Fortunately a school counselor convinced me that it would be a big mistake to drop out of school to drive to San Francisco (that was my plan; I can only imagine what would have happened to me as a 17 year old in the Castro in the late 1970s), and told me that if things got so bad at home that I couldn't tolerate it that I could move in with her. So I stayed in school and stayed at home. Ended up seeing a therapist because our family doctor advised my parents that I should be assessed by mental health professionals; the psychologist was cool but the psychiatrist was a big jerk. I still have a funny memory of my session with him, though: He asked me how I knew I was gay since I had never had sex with anyone. I asked him how he knew he was straight before he first had sex with a woman. Fortunately my friends were all okay with me being gay, and I was already being bullied for being "a sissy" by some of the "jocks" since a very young age so my school experience really didn't change except that I was able to be more open with my friends.

I agree that a significant age difference shouldn't be an issue that anyone else concerns themselves with, assuming neither party is mentally incompetent. I briefly dated someone 25 years younger than me (I was in my early 50s and he was in his late 20s). We didn't work out as a couple, but more than a decade later we're still good friends.

One thing that occurs to me, simply based on the cities I'm familiar with: Palm Springs has a much lower population than many other cities listed, but it has a high percentage of gay men, particularly gay men of a certain age who may have both the money and inclination to hire. Maybe that's why the number of escorts there is so high relative to its population size. Having lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for nearly four decades, my understanding is that San Jose has a very minimal gay scene. The gay men who want to live in a city are likely more drawn to San Francisco since there's more going on here; otherwise they can live in any number of the 'burbs between San Francisco and San Jose. I don't know Atlanta (have never been as an adult), but it was known as "Hotlanta" in Michigan when I was a young gay guy -- basically known as the most significant gay city between Michigan and southern Florida. Maybe that explains why it has an outsized gay escort population?

Even though you said I was ok, I'd still like to apologize for stating that you had to be lying about your age. As a fellow fair skinned person, however, unless you are already aware of and taking actions against skin damage due to sun exposure, I'd suggest consulting with a dermatologist and following their advice. The sun is particularly harsh for people with fair skin, and everyone I've known who avoided sunscreen and hats while outdoors looks decades older that they are by the time they hit their late forties. I was stupid in my teens and early twenties, but I finally woke up and realized that even if I'm relaxing on a beach I need sunscreen and a hat AND still sit in the shade.