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I haven't met him, but I know I've been seeing the same photos for a long time. (The Rentmen ad indicates he's been advertising since 2009, so I'm guessing that many of these photos are at least 15 years old.)

One can not only text on an older flip phone, but you can create a Google account on a computer and then send texts using Chat at mail.google.com

My advice is that if you hire again, then get naked with the guy early on and enjoy yourself. Maybe your anxiety would have been diminished once you were embracing each other? I do think that some of the provider's behavior (as described by you) was problematic, but as the previous two posters wrote you certainly contributed -- in a significant way -- to this meeting going wrong.

I like his porn a lot, too. To me he has just the right amount of arrogance/cockiness/dominance where I imagine how much fun it would be to bottom for him, plus I think he's just overall very sexy physically.

With respect to the tattoo and piercing, he has a large tattoo on his back between his shoulder blades and at least one of his ears is pierced.

If someone wants to summarize the highlights, I'll read it because I did like watching their videos. I'm not inclined to watch 90 minute long interview video, though, particularly when at least one of the comments indicates that Elijah is just playing games by revealing very little information.

I'm not sure why you all believe this guy cannot be 46. Lots of guys in their mid 40s look great. If his age on Rentmen is a typo, he made the same typo on X.

Ad is already gone.

I think this guy is very sexy. Also goes by Steve Q/Steve Quin. I'm kind of surprised he would place a Rentmen ad since I assume he makes a good living creating porn. I notice his list of "intos" includes muscle but not daddy or bear, so maybe he's just looking for jock types who might agree to film with him?

I know tans aren't healthy and I couldn't get a decent tan if I tried, but I do like seeing men's asses when they have that classic Speedo tan line.

I'm not sure, but it might be Oliver Marks.

Some people definitely have thoughts, feelings and behaviors that are in conflict without seeming to suffer too much cognitive dissonance. I wouldn't assume that someone having a strong connection to an organized religion to be free of behaviors that that religion might rail against, which still includes being gay (not just working as an escort) for many religions.

Odd with respect to the date. My post was based on an eBay listing for this magazine, so clearly that seller got it wrong.

Correction -- I think it's October 2024.

Sad. It wasn't clear from the article (unless I missed it) whether he was the one murdered or the one who shot himself.

I don't frequently see retirement mention in ads, but I do remember that two escorts I never met but who had excellent reputations on this forum retired within the past year or so and both of them announced their retirement in their ads on Rentmen for several months prior to their ads disappearing. (One was Nicolas Mixx and the other -- whose name I don't remember -- might have been his partner.)

It's new to me as well. I looked up "lemonade drug reference" and am still confused because it seems like it could refer to more than one thing, but I guess the most common meaning is a mixture of lemonade powder and dextromethorphan (DXM). If that's what Axiom was referring to, that sure sounds like PNP to me.

Only use porn sites with some heavy duty pop-up blockers. I use a Windows pc, not Apple, so your options might be different but I use both Ghostery and an ad blocker. If a porn site requires me to turn off blockers to work, then I simply don't use that site. In the event a pop up makes it through, I've learned that if you cannot close the window normally that it's important to use the operating system to force close the window. Never click on any button that presents itself as "close" or something like that because it very well might execute a command to install a virus, not close that window.

I will say first that I've always thought you were very attractive and, based on these photos, you still are. I'm not sure why you have so many new photos with your tongue sticking out. That look isn't particularly attractive to me, so maybe only one or two of those would be better and definitely don't use one of those as the first photo displayed in the ad. I think all of the other photos are fine with a couple of exceptions. Maybe get rid of the ones that look too amateurish (e.g., like the last one that is a grainy selfie). If you don't want to spend the money on a professional photographer, I assume that you have a friend that could take some photos or that some client would agree to photograph you during an appointment. (I am not suggesting bartering that service; a few times I took a lot of photos of a guy I hired regularly and I was simply happy to do it in order to have a lot more photos of him for my collection. )

I couldn't read the article, but two thoughts come to mind on the subject: I can understand a couple remaining married after one realizes they are gay, and not just duplicitously. I had a therapist decades ago who was gay but still married to his wife of a couple of decades because they had a strong friendship and didn't want to disrupt their family. Some people marry for reasons other than sex and love. I knew a gay man and a lesbian who -- again decades ago -- married each other to get their families off their backs and to ensure they wouldn't be cut out of their parents' wills due to being gay. If this article is about two people getting married where he already knows he's gay and she's straight, unless it's done for some practical reason it does seem odd to me.

I haven't met the guy, but even the photos he uses reveal that he cannot possibly be 43. He could probably claim 53 and not raise too much suspicion (again, just based on the photos), but there's no way that's the face of a 43-year-old.

I wonder if it just seems creepy to us as gay men. I can imagine that whoever made this decision back then simply didn't even think about whether either the younger or older men were gay, so to them it just seemed like two men sharing sleeping quarters with no notion that sexual attraction/attention would enter the picture.

Yes, I thought about it after I posted. I didn't mean to give the impression that the guy has no standards. I just meant that I've seen content he's filmed with guys who aren't especially lean and whom he described as "older," though I have no idea what his upper age limit is.

I'm sure most of us have been rejected many times. One that stands out in my mind occurred about 30 years ago -- in other words, shortly before the internet started to get used by the masses. I don't remember how we first communicated, but it was probably via a personal ad in a gay newspaper. At any rate, I don't think we had exchanged photos but we had a nice, long conversation and the phone and agreed that we had a lot in common so we might become friends even if we didn't click physically. We set a date for him to come over to my apartment to pick me up to drive to the beach. When I opened the door to walk down the steps to meet him, he immediately said "this isn't going to work" and he walked away. I remember laughing because it was so absurd, even though my ego was obviously also bruised a bit. He was attractive but not exceptionally so, so that softened the blow. That was one of my early lessons as a gay man that even if a guy on a dating app or platform says he's open to making friends, he likely won't actually be interested in becoming friends unless he also wants to have sex with you.

I've seen a lot of his videos and they feature a variety of looks in terms of scene partners (including some older bears), so even though the guy isn't available to hire he may be approachable in terms of collaborations as long as you're willing to be filmed. Some of his videos features guys wearing masks/hoods, so one wouldn't even necessarily reveal one's face in order to become a content creator.