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That is the correct way to view Prime. If one doesn't want to buy physical items and get faster delivery of said items, Prime doesn't make a lot of sense unless you don't have access to much entertainment from other sources (physical copies of movies and music, cable/satellite/streaming service). In that case, $10 per month wouldn't be a bad price to pay for Amazon's rather limited catalog.

I seldom even try to use it any more since (a) some websites make it more difficult to search their photos and (b) when I am able to search photos, I almost never get any meaningful search results. What was once a great tool is now worse than it was when it was first launched and men with erections would match photos of people handling brooms.

If it ended at thirty minutes, I guess you could have just handed him half of his stated 60 minute rate. It's one thing when someone lists a dollar amount but doesn't specify a duration, but when a provider says (as this one does) $120 for an hour and then he ends the session early (which is quite different than a client having a happy ending and deciding that he wants to leave), he cannot very well complain that you aren't paying for an hour of service. Or, if he does, you can point out that only 30 minutes have passed so you assumed he was only interested in working for a half hour for some reason, offering him the opportunity to continue. But I get your point. Sometimes it's easier just to pay for an hour and leave, with the knowledge you wouldn't ever book the guy again because of his poor business practices.

I quite enjoyed this show but I don't think I caught all 10 episodes. I thought I had programmed my TiVo to record the entire season but I must have just set it to record a few episodes so I could check it out first. Hopefully it's available on demand or the shows are repeating.

Thanks for reminding me about how useless masseurfinder has become.

The link in the first post of this thread is still active.

In other words, twice as much as the rate listed in his ad. I also think that $200 per hour for an erotic massage (I assume that's what he means by "mutual nude") is too high since there are many other men offering that for less, but if he can get that rate then who am I to judge? Well, I will judge this: At least make it clear in the ad that the $100 rate is therapeutic only and that other options are available for a higher rate.

I just remembered another film I walked out of, though for this one I stayed in the theater for almost the entire film but just could not take any more so I left when it's final sequence began. The film was Pasolini's Salo, 120 Days of Sodom. To my young adult mind at least, without any redeeming qualities unless you enjoy seeing people -- particularly children -- abused in the extreme. I only have vague memories of it at this point (thankfully!) but I recall sequences beginning with titles like "circle of shit" and "circle of blood." I know that some critics hail this film as politically insightful, I just found it an indulgent excuse to show physical and sexual abuse of teenagers. When it was clear that the film had reached a point where the victims were going to be murdered, I just couldn't take any more. It didn't help that the film looked so realistic. I have no idea what the actors were actually subjected to, but the torture looked so real that it was extremely difficult to watch.

You missed my point -- a point I probably wouldn't have made had you linked to some research in your first post. As it stood, however, your previous post was simply an anonymous person on the internet claiming something is true. Was just having a little fun pointing out the irony, not trying to challenge the actual merit of your argument.

Interesting to read this feedback. I, too, hired him once many years ago. I actually thought the massage was good and he tried his best to provide a happy ending, but I was a bit anxious because I found him so sexy that I wasn't able to cum. (I have found in my life that if I'm with someone I find incredibly hot, they really have to up their enthusiasm level for me to let go; otherwise I actually prefer much more average-but-still-sexy guys since my self-doubts don't nag at me so much.) Interestingly he had my review scrubbed from Masseurfinder even though I submitted what I thought was a positive review that matched what I wrote above (good massage by a guy I found a bit intimidatingly hot). Maybe I should return now that he isn't in the same physical shape as when I saw him a decade or so ago?

Wouldn't that also apply to what you wrote?

Calling one's insurance company to ask whether a specific treatment is "covered" is probably not the best way to approach the issue. First of all, having worked at an insurance company many years ago, I can tell you that plans can be very complicated and the phone representative might not fully understand your plan. Secondly, someone else's post above pointed out the problem with asking if something is covered. If your doctor prescribes it because it's medically necessary and there is no generic available, then your insurance company will probably cover it; if they don't, there is an appeals process. But if you just call a phone rep to ask, in essence, "Will you pay for this expensive brand name drug?" don't be surprised if the boilerplate answer is no. It would be more accurate for them to say, "maybe." Even though I am in a high risk group for colon cancer, Blue Shield once denied a preauthorization request for a colonoscopy. When I called them and asked why they were indicating they wouldn't pay for this screening when my doctor ordered it due to my high risk status, the phone representative acknowledged the medical necessity for me and changed the preauthorization status. Remember that a lot of insurance companies' M.O. is to deny as much as they can in order to maximize profits and, thus, salaries for higher level executives and stock prices for investors. Therefore a first "no" should never be taken at face value unless it's something that clearly won't be covered (e.g., purely cosmetic surgery).

I have walked out on a few: One LGBT film festival entrant (about 20 years ago, so I don't remember the name or director) whose opening "scene" was an incredibly long static shot of a field or train track or something. I swear the image didn't change for over five minutes. I sat there for a bit wondering what the hell was going on (was this actually a film or a slide show that hadn't begun?) and just eventually bailed. The Wiz back when I was in high school. I finally watched it as an adult many years later. It isn't very good, but does have some good musical numbers. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. Again, back in high school. My friends and I were hoping for a new midnight movie/cult classic a la Rocky Horror, but it was just stupid.

I'm far from an expert on "gay for pay" men, but I thought one of the main things a lot of them won't do is open mouth kissing because that seems more intimate than letting a guy blow you or fucking an ass. Generally the BelAmi guys are versatile on film, so they obviously don't have the sort of rigidity that some g4p performers have. But I liken passionate, open mouth kissing to someone who clearly was excited by the sex he was having and pulls out (whether it be an ass or a mouth) to ejaculate immediately. If you notice, most BelAmi scenes have edits after the dick comes out of the ass, and then there is a brief bit of jacking off until the top ejaculates. In other words, very few of those guys actually cum from fucking.

Maybe it's because a lot of those guys don't identify as gay so they aren't very passionate about kissing other men? I like the looks of a lot of BelAmi's models but a lot of the scenes are mechanical, not particularly exciting, and I assume that's because the models aren't really enjoying M-M sex but are just going through the motions for cash.

One of my favorite sleazebag stories about Travis Kalanick: Even after all of the bad press and the supposed efforts to rehabilitate the image of Uber (and for him to personally behave more professionally), he decided to use a women's lactation room to meditate and the company's board members were stupid enough to publicize this as if it was an indication about Travis' spiritual growth as opposed to evidence that an entitled straight white man who has a private office instead decided to take over a space devoted to new mothers. In the grand scheme of things not the biggest offense Travis committed, but it was just so tone deaf after everything that came before that I honestly could not believe he and the Uber board could be so stupid.

Now that rates aren't posted in RentMen ads, I think you'll have to contact him to ask.

Now that rates aren't posted in RentMen ads, I think you'll have to contact him to ask.

https://rentmen.eu/SFGoodBoy

Burning Man is now in Rome?

Only because you kept quoting me with responses that suggested that I didn't know what I was talking about. I think we can both agree that (a) San Francisco is expensive relative to most other places in the U.S. and (b) it's much less expensive to eat at home, but most people don't think of having a home prepared meal as going out on a date.

I live here, too, so you cannot just make up stuff and expect not to be challenged: I can order a footlong cold cut combo at Subway near Van Ness and Market right now for $4.99 (seems like a sale price; I think it's normally $5.99). Sandwiches at Safeway are now $6.99, but if you buy sandwiches there regularly you probably get one free for every 6 or 7 you buy in a month, making the effective cost about $6. Maybe you go to Ike's instead (or another higher quality sandwich shop) where, in fact, the least expensive sandwich is $9. I'm not trying to argue that eating out in San Francisco is generally inexpensive, just that if one is on a limited budget or simply wants to buy prepared food and doesn't want to spend a lot for it, there are places where meals can still be had for $10 or less.

He had personal issues, but they made one hell of an album together billed as Allman and Woman titled Two The Hard Way. It was largely panned by critics and not well received by the public in general, but it's one of my favorite albums Cher has done.

A burrito and water. A few tacos and an agua fresca. It can be done, though I agree that (as with almost everything else in this world) food at a taqueria costs more now than it did even 10 years ago.

I live in one of the most expensive cities in the U.S. Coming up with a price of an "average" date is nonsensical if the date includes dinner (and this survey included dinner for two). You can go out to an inexpensive place (yes, they still exist in San Francisco) for around $20 for two people (I'm talking about taquerias and hamburger places here, and not the new ones that try to pretend to be high end so they can jack up the price). You can go to a place with actual table service with decent food for anywhere from $30 to $70, depending on how much food you want and whether you are drinking any alcohol with your meal. You can go to nicer places and spend around $120 or so for a good meal for two. Or you can go to a truly fine dining establishment and pay hundreds of dollars per person. I assume that people who make a lot of money here are able to go on dates to restaurants in the latter category, but even though such places are beyond most people's reach it doesn't mean that people without much disposable income cannot go out on a dinner date that seems special to them. As far as movie tickets, I think that most films produced by Hollywood are garbage so I seldom go to a theater. I understand that there are monthly passes that one can buy that allow one to see either unlimited or a very high number of movies per month, and those only cost about $10 per month. So, if anything, perhaps $8 for a movie ticket is a high estimate for people who like to go to movies often since you might as well buy one of those passes instead of paying for each ticket.