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  1. Yes. PARIS IS BURNING is perhaps the masterpiece of gay-related documentaries. Certainly, I've never seen its equal anywhere else. I watch it every year or so, and I know lots of people who use it in college classes on everything from gender studies to studio art to theater to literature. It's much to the NYTimes' credit that the national newspaper of record has recorded the passing of this extraordinary human being.
  2. I couldn't have asked for a more interesting or thorough reply. Thanks. Thanks, too, for opening up my mind to possibilities I confess I have never even considered. Please stick around and post often!
  3. I'm glad that Reece Rothmeier hasn't seen or responded to my questions yet, because I have to withdraw the first one. Yesterday I came across the Colt tape in question, and see that I mistook the name. It's Rick Wolfmeier (with Mike Betts), not Rothmeier. Some day I will learn not to trust my trustworthily unreliable memory. Meanwhile, I apologize to the, apparently, one and only Mr. Rothmeier.
  4. As you've just joined our forum, I don't want to put you on the spot. However, now that you're here, I'd like to ask you a couple of questions that have been on my mind for a long time. Answer them if you like, don't answer them if you don't like! First, I remember a great Colt model named Rothmeier from the seventies, I think. Did you choose your name to emulate him? If so, you're in great, great company, as the recent re-release of his scenes from "Muscle Beach" amply testify. Second (and perhaps more complicated), I have always wondered how a "dominant stud top" or whatever becomes that way. I mean, did you discover in your personal life that wearing leather and being a dominant top turned you on and thus you continued in that vein professionally? Or did your body/personality type suggest that escorting with that particular persona was more likely to get you business? Does it turn you on simply to be dominant, or does it depend on the situation? I realize that this is quite a tall order for somebody who's just signed on. As I said, I really am curious about this, and so I decided to ask you when I saw your name and it was on my mind. Besides, this is the section called "Ask an Escort." And that's what I'm doing! Thanks, Will
  5. But "rapport" is also French, for "rapport."
  6. Don't give up so quickly, Joey. It seems to me that "rapoire" should enter the escort/client vocabulary immediately. It is the perfect hybrid of "rapport" and "repertoire," which is exactly what the initial swaps of e-mails seek to achieve. I'd say your creative imagination was running ahead of either the French or English dictionary.
  7. By my never-reliable reckoning, this will be Message #26, but in reply to Message #15, as Skeptic and Rod seem to have had a cat-fight towards the mid-20s count. I'm moving to safer ground. (But why can't people who don't like a thread simply move on? If Matt or anybody else wants to talk about sucking and fucking -- not that we all don't -- there are plenty of places on this site to do it. Why do they have to scold those of us who are enjoying ourselves otherwise? I don't get that part of M4M Escorts Review.) But back to Rod. You should have bought the Arthur Tress. I think he is one of the great American artists in his particular niche and so far he has not been wildly discovered. But I'd look around. You can almost certainly find older, signed prints through good photography galleries. THE BEST, in my opinion, is Wessell and O'Connor in New York. They specialize in top-quality (i.e., fine art) gay photographers from Gloeden to Lynes to the present. You should especially see the work of John Dugdale. Unbelievable. (If you want to go private about this, that's fine with me. Discussions of where and how to buy contemporary art would be a case of genuine high-jacking.) The reason this little aside seems appropriate (to screwy old me, anyhow) to this thread is that artists like Tress have found that precise edge in male/male sex that makes it utterly different in kind from male/female and (I dare to imagine) female/female sex. It was probably Mapplethorpe who found the sharpest part of that edge; but all the other great ones have their own quality. But, no, dear Rod, not even Robert Mapplethorpe routinely finds a place on the syllabi of even intermediate courses in modern art. I'd even venture to guess that of them all, only (that New England photographer of ca. 1900 whose name escapes me at the moment) can be found on syllabi of courses on American photography. Such an omission of women artists or artists or color would be unthinkable, not even possible, in these our blessed Post-Modern, multi-cultural days. But active anti-Christianism and passive homophobia are still alive and acceptable in even the most ivy-draped halls of higher education. More's the pity.
  8. This time, I promised myself, I'm going to keep my fingers off the keyboard for at least two days. Yeah. Sounds like the last time I swore off of ice-cream. I was already warming up my hands when BG mentioned the science vs. arts types, but when Rod mentioned Arthur Tress, I hit the "Reply" button so quickly I didn't know what had happened until the message panel popped up. I promise, I promise to be brief. (1) I think the dichotomy drawn between "liberal arts" and "science" is bogus. The sciences help us to find answers to our "how" questions, and the arts help us to find answers to our "why" questions. Both sets of questions are natural to human beings, and human beings have to seek answers or they go crazy. Both ways of questioning require skill, rigor, discipline and critical thinking. Neither one is better than the other, and neither has any meaning in the absence of the other. (2) There are people who appropriate what they call "scientific thinking" or "artistic sensitivity" for their own purposes, which are frequently narcissistic, irresponsible, and pathological. I don't have any more time for "artists" who spend their lives picking lint out of their navels than I do for "scientists" who believe that everything important can be quantified. Both sets of folks are in full retreat from life. That's why I brought up this thread. What turns me on like a switch is a guy who is engaged, who is plugged in, alive to the world around him; a guy who is curious and capable of wonder; a guy who can get as excited as a kid; whose response to mystery is a combination of laughter and tears. Physical beauty is powerful; men are hard-wired to be attracted by someone's looks and there's just no denying it. But men are also hard-wired to get bored with somebody's looks, and bored quickly. The hottest men I have ever known were hot not because they looked like Ken dolls designed by Bruce Weber, but because they were so interesting that I knew I could never get enough. In the end, sex for me is about life itself, and nothing else. Sparkle. Zest. Snap, crackle, and pop. Call it what you will, it's the stuff of great lovers and, consequently, of great escorts.
  9. It's often said that the brain is our most active erogenous zone, and recent posts suggest to me that I am not alone in being as much or more interested in what's between an escort's ears as I am in what's between his legs. Looking back over some of the more interesting (to me) threads, I see that Rod Hagen, first and foremost, Gino Mancuso, and Rick Munroe are among the escorts who have exceptionally witty and wise ways with words. Are there other escorts who are as good over the dinner table as they are in bed? I'm not talking about formal education. You don't have to be smart to be educated and not all really smart people have had the privilege of an education. I have four "best friends." Two of them have Ph.D.'s and the other two never went to college at all. But all four are among the smartest men I have ever known. Who are the escorts really skilled in using words? Who are the great conversationalists? Who know how to make sex as much fun with what they say as with what they do?
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