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maninsoma

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  1. I don't like the middle finger in an ad, either, but I've wondered whether some guys think it's a way to communicate that they are a dominant top. Given that it means "fuck you" in the U.S., when I see a photo with an expressionless face and a middle finger raised I can almost hear the guy saying in a gruff voice, "I'm going to fuck you until you can't take it any more." I like a more mellow kind of guy who can build excitement and then give me what I want, so an aggressive posture doesn't turn me on. Someone who is attracted to a "bad boy" type might find a photo like that more enticing.
  2. I am reminded of that young kid whose family has monetized his reactions to playing with toys. I don't remember their names, but apparently he is one of the highest paid (if not the highest paid) YouTuber. We're talking serious money here, not pocket change. Apparently one year the channel made about $11,000,000! When I first read that some tyke was raking it in by opening toys and playing with him, I decided to watch a couple of his videos. Obviously I'm not the target audience (no longer a kid and not a parent), but I just didn't understand the appeal. Not that the videos were horrible, but I didn't understand why millions of people would regularly want to watch him and his parents. With that as a background, there probably are enough people who are willing to fork over money to some young man so they can tell him to eat broccoli and not hamburger today. I don't get it, but the Kardashian family has enjoyed enormous popularity for many years now and I don't get that, either.
  3. hide.me still works for me in Chrome.
  4. I read the interview and don't get it. It doesn't seem that different than other people who've branded themselves online. People pay to follow them on various platforms, and frequently those people will make requests. For example, if it's a porn performer a subscriber might ask for a certain kind of video to be made. Or the performer might ask for feedback from the audience generally as to whether they want to see something specific. Isn't this the same thing, albeit with clothes on and high-tech jargon being used?
  5. I've seen people post videos like this on YouTube as well. Unless someone has some expert or inside knowledge to add to a show, I cannot imagine wanting to watch people watch a TV show for more than a couple of minutes (and only that length of time of the guys are cute).
  6. Just to clarify: I don't think anyone is suggesting that an individual needs to use a broader term when referring to themselves. If you are a gay man then you are still a gay man unless you want to call yourself something different. The broader terminology is meant to be used when referring to the community as a whole. If one writes LGBT this specifically means lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender; what about those individuals for whom one of those labels doesn't apply? That's why the acronym has been expanded.
  7. It doesn't matter to me. I've even seen additional letters added -- another Q for queer, A for asexual, sometimes a second A for ally and P for pansexual. And then there is LGBTQIA+, the "+" referring to a number of different gender identity and sexual orientation labels across the spectrum. Acronyms like these are easy enough to use in writing, but it does become unwieldy when speaking. I doubt there could ever be a consensus of a single term to use because inevitably some people will feel left out of whatever label is used.
  8. I'm not sure why someone would be relieved to discover he has already been exposed to the novel coronavirus since it is unknown at this time whether someone exposed could be reinfected. I guess if you know you were exposed and never had symptoms then maybe it would give you piece of mind that if you got exposed again you are still unlikely to have symptoms, but I don't even know if that's known at this time. There is still so much unknown about this virus.
  9. When I was putting more effort into online dating, I frequently came across profiles where I would think, "Oh, this guy looks similar to me in terms of age and body shape, and he's looking for a relationship like me, yada yada yada" and then I'd reach the end of the profile only to see the guy was only interested in guys half his age who were in much better shape.
  10. By seducing them, I meant that was the fantasy portrayed in the video. There is a whole genre of videos like this -- mostly older (but sometimes not that much older) guys who are clearly recording their paid sexual interactions with men. Obviously not every escort would be willing to have his encounters filmed like this and it's probably for that reason that many of these producers of porn feature guys who aren't pros and don't end up doing work for other studios. Sometimes I wonder how much a guy like Jake Cruise or the guy behind Military Classifieds pays the men they have sex with on film. I assume that before it was easy to watch porn online that guys like that ended up profiting from their hiring; nice work if you can get it, assuming you don't mind having your sexual encounters filmed. I personally never would have been comfortable selling videos of my sexual encounters.
  11. This is sort of the appeal Jake Cruise had for me 20 years ago. He was even older and fatter than me at the time and yet he was seducing all of these hot younger men. Of course I knew that there was money involved, but it still enabled me to fantasize more about being in his shoes in the moment than when I watched two men who didn't look at all like me going at it. Not that I disliked the latter, either; I'm somewhat of a porn hound.
  12. I had no idea that KitKats in Japan come in so many varieties. Most of the ones listed on this website seem like they would be embraced by Western pallets; I don't even know what some of them are.
  13. I like onion pancakes, but it doesn't mean I want to eat them with milk poured over them. Maybe Koreans don't eat cereal that way, but that was my first thought. If it's eaten dry, then it's basically a cracker and I have no trouble with the notion of eating an onion flavored cracker.
  14. Having been fat for quite a long time, I can attest to the fact that many gay men aren't very welcoming of fat men. I have occasionally -- but thankfully very rarely -- been subject to the verbal abuse that this guy describes. I feel more invisible than anything else. I do wonder if this guy is contributing to his misery by perhaps focusing too much on the kind of men whose photos are shown in that article. Not that it excuses boorish behavior, but if someone fat is relentlessly cruising muscle men he cannot be surprised when most of them (or even all of them) aren't interested. Generally guys who devote that much effort into looking that way aren't particularly interested in guys who don't share that priority. I also noticed that he seems angry at the types of men he assumes are exclusively desired, even trying to equate being young and skinny with being a meth addict. I think a lot of this guy's misery comes from within and not the community. It reminds me of one of my favorite sayings: Wherever you go, there you are.
  15. Yes, Edge was updated in a recent Windows 10 update. I think Microsoft is really trying to push the use of Edge because, as far as I can tell, the only purpose of the recent Windows 10 update was to promote Edge. If you don't want to switch to a different browser, you can save photos you are viewing in Edge (or any other browser) by using Windows snipping tool. It's under Windows Accessories under your list of programs. It isn't as simple as mouse click save as, but it's easy to use and the benefit is that it allows you to save any area of your screen, not just an isolated element such as a jpg that's being displayed. For example, if you wanted to save the text of a guy's ad you could do that. You basically just select what you want to grab (if it's a photo, you will simply draw a box around the photo in question) and then save what you indicated to a filename of your choice.
  16. Really? Maybe it's my imagination but many times I thought I could see the outline of his dick clearly enough that I could see the outline of the head of it. Pause it at 8 seconds and look again.
  17. Wait. He was giving a lesson on jumping rope? I was a bit distracted watching something else jumping around in his pants. Seriously, I did pay attention to his lesson as well. I'd say he did a good job of explaining and demonstrating a lot of technical information in a relatively short amount of time.
  18. Used to have an ad under the name JasonJamesX according to Google Image search. There were a couple of threads on him where there was a little banter but only a couple of posts from people who actually met him.
  19. I like cilantro so much that I usually ask for extra cilantro and onions when getting a burrito or tacos. Another cuisine in which it's widely used is Thai.
  20. 1. Don't attempt to "read into" ads unless you are willing to pay a high rate for what you think will be an exceptional experience that ultimately might be disappointing. Some guys knowingly write enticing ads even though they know they are going to fail to deliver. Some of the most expensive and disappointing massages I've had have been by guys with lots of provocative photos and texts who then provided untrained (not therapeutic) massages with nothing erotic beyond having a guy in a tank top touching me. 2. Have a specific conversation as to what you are looking for. If you are not comfortable doing that, then at least do your research here and commit to hiring guys who have feedback that indicates you are likely to get what you are looking for. There is still no guarantee as I truly believe (and respect) that just because client A has a certain experience with masseur X that doesn't mean client B will. There still shouldn't be a night-and-day difference in experience (if a guy advertises erotic massage, one should reasonably expect something more than a mediocre rub from a clothed guy), but just because a masseur goes beyond mutual touch and a happy ending with one client doesn't mean he's going to do that with every client. There is still such a thing as chemistry between the masseur and client so that's why I'm accepting of the notion that "your mileage may vary" is reasonable. 3. If you really want an escort experience, book an escort from an escort website. If you want to book an erotic massage with the option of negotiating more once you are there, then look for guys who have both masseur and escort ads or, again, have a conversation with the guy before hand about your desires. This can be tricky if you don't have a clear indication that the guy is open to more, though, so I would personally be hesitant to have that conversation with someone I've never met unless I know based on his ads or reputation on this site that he's open to more than massage.
  21. If this show was brought back it would certainly not have the same vibe as it did then since the culture has changed so much. Even the 1970s version of the much more risque Match Game had to be made even more crude when it returned to TV four years ago. I also love watching What's My Line. It's on Buzzr in the early morning where I live. Right now they are running episodes from the later reboot with Larry Blyden as host. Those episodes are okay and still feature Arlene Francis, but I much prefer the original incarnation with John Daly.
  22. Yes, I have had guys I have not hired AND guys I did hire relock their photos. I don't take it personally; I assume the guy simply wants to keep some photos more restricted so he regularly relocks them for everyone. I'm not sure why you are giving this guy a second thought. You told him you're not interested in him so why would you want to look at his ad again even if he kept his photos unlocked?
  23. You must be joking. An escort asking for a deposit for a simple 1-hour appointment is not communicating commitment since, as many posts over the years here will tell you, a lot of clients have paid up front and been ripped off and there are a lot of escorts with stellar reputations who don't ask for money up front. It's up to each client whether he's willing to pay a deposit up front, but I think that apart from longer engagements the majority view requests for money up front as a deal breaker. The reverse is definitely true, though: I don't think a client is going to send payment in advance if he isn't serious about keeping an appointment.
  24. Not sure why this is in the Deli instead of the Spa since he runs a massage ad, not an escort ad. That being said, I wouldn't repeat. I'll send you a PM, Phx3rings, so as not to violate the policy against writing reviews on the message forum.
  25. I don't recall his name on Rentmasseur and I don't see his ad there now (though I'm pretty sure he had one when I hired him about a year ago), but the only guy advertising on Adam4Adam in Ann Arbor was a disappointment for me. Seriously outdated pictures and a mediocre massage - more like light rubbing all over.
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