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Maybe because they feel the options available to select are too limiting and they'd rather have a conversation/exchange of texts about it.  I can imagine a guy being versatile for some guys but not others (e.g., not wanting to bottom for guys with larger than average penises).  
I agree that this guy is cute, and I'd probably find him even cuter without that wisp of a mustache.  

First of all it's important to remember that just because a post about an escort purports to be from a client doesn't necessarily make that true.  I was researching a provider yesterday and found a thread from a year ago where one person chimed in to offer high praise.  Another member responded, "Welcome to the forum," which is an indirect way of questioning the veracity of the post since it might actually just be the provider or someone who's friends with him creating an account here to drum up business.  Turns out that person made no other post on this site after that first one.  How likely is it that someone would join a site like this just to post one glowing review of one provider?
As to being skeptical about legitimate praises posted by genuine clients, as others have written it may just be that they had great chemistry with someone that won't necessarily translate to every client that provider sees.  This is true for everything in life.  I might love a particular restaurant and someone else will find it lacking; it doesn't make either of us right or wrong.  One of my biggest disappointments in hiring was with someone who had glowing reviews on the previous site (back in Hooboy's days).  For me he showed up a bit late, sweaty and couldn't get hard.  I suspect he was coming down from a meth binge.  I didn't review him since my experience was such an outlier.  

First of all it's important to remember that just because a post about an escort purports to be from a client doesn't necessarily make that true.  I was researching a provider yesterday and found a thread from a year ago where one person chimed in to offer high praise.  Another member responded, "Welcome to the forum," which is an indirect way of questioning the veracity of the post since it might actually just be the provider or someone who's friends with him creating an account here to drum up business.  Turns out that person made no other post on this site after that first one.  How likely is it that someone would join a site like this just to post one glowing review of one provider?
As to being skeptical about legitimate praises posted by genuine clients, as others have written it may just be that they had great chemistry with someone that won't necessarily translate to every client that provider sees.  This is true for everything in life.  I might love a particular restaurant and someone else will find it lacking; it doesn't make either of us right or wrong.  One of my biggest disappointments in hiring was with someone who had glowing reviews on the previous site (back in Hooboy's days).  For me he showed up a bit late, sweaty and couldn't get hard.  I suspect he was coming down from a meth binge.  I didn't review him since my experience was such an outlier.  

First of all it's important to remember that just because a post about an escort purports to be from a client doesn't necessarily make that true.  I was researching a provider yesterday and found a thread from a year ago where one person chimed in to offer high praise.  Another member responded, "Welcome to the forum," which is an indirect way of questioning the veracity of the post since it might actually just be the provider or someone who's friends with him creating an account here to drum up business.  Turns out that person made no other post on this site after that first one.  How likely is it that someone would join a site like this just to post one glowing review of one provider?
As to being skeptical about legitimate praises posted by genuine clients, as others have written it may just be that they had great chemistry with someone that won't necessarily translate to every client that provider sees.  This is true for everything in life.  I might love a particular restaurant and someone else will find it lacking; it doesn't make either of us right or wrong.  One of my biggest disappointments in hiring was with someone who had glowing reviews on the previous site (back in Hooboy's days).  For me he showed up a bit late, sweaty and couldn't get hard.  I suspect he was coming down from a meth binge.  I didn't review him since my experience was such an outlier.  

I can sort of understand his perspective if at the outset you had a clear negotiation to see him on a discounted basis due to your economic situation at the time; he may feel like you continued to take advantage of a discount that you no longer needed, and at the same time paid another provider more.  That being said, as others have written it's this guy's responsibility to set his rate and if he wasn't satisfied to be paid the discounted rate by you on an ongoing basis he should have communicated to you that you'd have to start paying more.
As others have written, it does seem like this is about more than money, though.  It sounds like he has a fragile ego and your behavior (paying a discounted rate to him while paying more to someone else) has been interpreted by him as an indication that you think he's less worthy.  I stepped on a weird land mine once while trying to schedule a first time appointment with someone.  We were having what I considered to be a pleasant back-and-forth chat online in anticipation of meeting and I made some comment about how I liked one of his porn scenes a lot because his scene partner was so sexy.  I guess he took that as me saying he wasn't as sexy as the other guy and blasted me for insulting him.  He then blocked me.  I could sort of understand my faux pas after the fact, but I really wasn't trying to convey that he was less sexy than the other guy.  I wouldn't have been pursuing an appointment with him if I didn't find him sexy.

I can sort of understand his perspective if at the outset you had a clear negotiation to see him on a discounted basis due to your economic situation at the time; he may feel like you continued to take advantage of a discount that you no longer needed, and at the same time paid another provider more.  That being said, as others have written it's this guy's responsibility to set his rate and if he wasn't satisfied to be paid the discounted rate by you on an ongoing basis he should have communicated to you that you'd have to start paying more.
As others have written, it does seem like this is about more than money, though.  It sounds like he has a fragile ego and your behavior (paying a discounted rate to him while paying more to someone else) has been interpreted by him as an indication that you think he's less worthy.  I stepped on a weird land mine once while trying to schedule a first time appointment with someone.  We were having what I considered to be a pleasant back-and-forth chat online in anticipation of meeting and I made some comment about how I liked one of his porn scenes a lot because his scene partner was so sexy.  I guess he took that as me saying he wasn't as sexy as the other guy and blasted me for insulting him.  He then blocked me.  I could sort of understand my faux pas after the fact, but I really wasn't trying to convey that he was less sexy than the other guy.  I wouldn't have been pursuing an appointment with him if I didn't find him sexy.

I can sort of understand his perspective if at the outset you had a clear negotiation to see him on a discounted basis due to your economic situation at the time; he may feel like you continued to take advantage of a discount that you no longer needed, and at the same time paid another provider more.  That being said, as others have written it's this guy's responsibility to set his rate and if he wasn't satisfied to be paid the discounted rate by you on an ongoing basis he should have communicated to you that you'd have to start paying more.
As others have written, it does seem like this is about more than money, though.  It sounds like he has a fragile ego and your behavior (paying a discounted rate to him while paying more to someone else) has been interpreted by him as an indication that you think he's less worthy.  I stepped on a weird land mine once while trying to schedule a first time appointment with someone.  We were having what I considered to be a pleasant back-and-forth chat online in anticipation of meeting and I made some comment about how I liked one of his porn scenes a lot because his scene partner was so sexy.  I guess he took that as me saying he wasn't as sexy as the other guy and blasted me for insulting him.  He then blocked me.  I could sort of understand my faux pas after the fact, but I really wasn't trying to convey that he was less sexy than the other guy.  I wouldn't have been pursuing an appointment with him if I didn't find him sexy.

If you were paying him what he asked for, why would he be disappointed?
If you were to pay a lower fee to another provider, will he then lower his fee?
Tell him to grow up or find another client.

I'll ask the obvious (at least to me) question:  How does one get to the point of being engaged without knowing something as basic as what each other does for a living, or even as a side-hustle?

I was only addressing the issue of how to respond to a fire, not any behaviors that would start a fire in the first place.

The reality is that most men will respond sexually if their genitals are being manipulated (assuming they don't have any sort of erectile dysfunction), even if they aren't attracted to the person doing the manipulation.  It's just biology.  As to whether you're bi, only you know.  Were you turned on by the woman (her face, her body) or were you just horny and anyone would have sufficed?

I was only addressing the issue of how to respond to a fire, not any behaviors that would start a fire in the first place.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Aha!  You are the first one who noticed the error.  I just auto-corrected it in my mind to $500.

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.

If you're getting $10,000 a pop and not financially secure after 9 years of it, that's juat EXTREMELY poor money management.

Do you actually mean Vaseline as in petroleum jelly by itself, or one of their moisturizer/lotions that also contains other ingredients?  I can imagine someone using the latter, but the former sounds like it would be exceptionally greasy when used all over.  (Great for a sexual lubricant if you're not using condoms and even recommended by dermatologists to cover small wounds while they are healing, but I've never heard of someone wanting to use it on the entire body.)
 
Not that it matters, I guess, because the other negatives would make me stay away anyway.

Almost everything about his ad, other than his photos, is unappealing.  

Unless they were some other triggering event.     For instance, let’s say the escort is underaged, trafficked, or that something happened that lacked consent - rape, robbery, etc
Paying a lot for someone’s time isn’t a crime - otherwise my attorney and accountant would be advising me from jail on visiting day.  
I think that the devil is in the details of what the exchange of compensation is tied to.   Unless there’s more to this than you’ve described, I don’t think that law enforcement is concerned with past consensual activities because misdemeanor offenses typically have short statutes of limitation - say 1-2 years.
But, I’m not a lawyer…

I clicked on this video because the object owner looked so hot.  Once the video started playing, I immediately recognized him as Ryan Reynolds.  I didn't know he had done a film where there was an Antiques Roadshow spoof in it.