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Here in Phoenix we have a real-life "Phoestivis."

Here in Phoenix we have a real-life "Phoestivis."

This one's for @mike carey and everyone else struggling with the fires and extreme temperatures in Australia:
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I'm usually very controlled in my response to anything on this site, but with people dying, countless homes being destroyed, hundreds of thousands of animals being killed, why would anyone worry about the Australian Open Tennis Tournament?

Yahoo News article about director Bong Joon Ho and Parasite's Best Foreign Film win at the Golden Globes.
 
https://news.yahoo.com/bong-joon-ho-south-koreas-biting-film-satirist-052714504.html

Yahoo News article about director Bong Joon Ho and Parasite's Best Foreign Film win at the Golden Globes.
 
https://news.yahoo.com/bong-joon-ho-south-koreas-biting-film-satirist-052714504.html

Lincoln Center currently has a retrospective of Bong's work. They are all worth seeing.
 
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/the-bong-show/#films

I was riveted. I hope it gets nominated and win Best Picture. Totally deserving. It's a socially conscious movie that delivers its message loud and clear without being preachy and hammering the audience's head with it. Seen it three times and just amazed at how tightly constructed the screenplay is and how fluidly it was filmed. No wasted scene. Even seemingly throwaway lines about "Cub Scout", "eating for two", "it's a deluge", "American Indian", even "subway smell" take on crucial meaning in the story's twists and turns. I hope it wins Best Ensemble at the SAG and nominations for the actors playing the Kim father and daughter at the OSCARS.

While I think The Irishman is going to win, I would love to see Parasite actually winning. Parasite is my favorite 2019 movie. I am glad it’s getting recognized too.

So sucking cock is considered base level of service, but licking armpits is an extra-charge fetish? That's pretty funny.
 
Asking an escort to abstain from wearing scents, deodorants, antiperspirants, etc. is not an unusual request so I don't think would ordinarily warrant an upcharge. On the other hand, if the request extended to wanting smelly pits (also not an unusual request), that would make more sense for an upcharge since it would require more preparation and could impact other scheduling.

Bitch rant: the negotiating and hiring of escorts in the good old days (1970's/1980's) was much less complicated and a lot less expensive (much like everything else, I suppose).

Forum members are either hot or cold about Unicorn. Actually, a lot of people post about details of their lives. There's no reason why Unicorn shouldnt also. The thing that's distinctive about Unicorn is that he just has so many complaints. He suffers a lot because things aren't to his liking. It is the type of suffering referred to in the Three Noble Truths of Buddhism.

An a la carte pricing system is one where the customer puts together a product package and develops a buying price based on product options. When a la carte pricing is used with the right guidelines, it can help to create a more efficient way of generating revenue.

I mean this politely @Unicorn but why do you feel the need to broadcast every little aspect of your life?
 
Don’t you have a friend you could call and meet for a coffee, then laugh about this? I think it might be more helpful for you.

Different strokes.
 
You're not weird.

I never give my real name unless they need it to purchase a plane ticket to travel to them....In which case i’ll acquiesce and share my real name .....otherwise, its not necessary for them to know my real name, or for me to know theirs.
 

Thats not what I said but if that was your takeaway....you’re simple minded. Congratulations.

Everybody has his own level of comfort when it comes to privacy. Both parties should be respectful to that, so the answer highly depends on what you & your choice of companion decide to share.

However you want to spin it, the person you hire someone to be and the person they are outside the confines of your arrangement do not correlate. It may seem "silly," but it really is necessary for some escorts to mentally check in and out by using something as simple as a fake name. Blurring the lines of professional and personal in this industry isn't healthy for everyone.

I assume it's one of the rules the escort game, and that's that. Several escorts have volunteered their names, but I don't ask.

I find it creepy when clients wanna know my “real name”. I use a chosen name for a reason. You’re hiring Zachary. Not the real me. The real me isn’t anywhere near as professional and selfless when it comes to sex. Zachary is a real fireball of a character. Calling me by any other name or expressing a desire to would take me out of the headspace that I’m always in when I’m “on the clock”. Not to mention trigger privacy concerns. And make me feel like the client is being invasive unnecessarily. I know a lot of you think you want the “real person” behind the escort, but you don’t. If that’s what you really wanted then you’d be on grindr or cruising in bars instead of hiring. If you want a professional experience then call Zachary for a good time. If you want my “real name” then go find me in a bar or at the gym and ask me for my name. You’ll get my name but you won’t get the experience that Zachary can give you, that’s for sure...

I thought automated dialers just called everybody, every number possible. So that doesn't necessarily mean they scraped your number from somewhere.

Ignore it... totally random.

I'm not asexual, but I am disabled, and there are times I would rather nap than have sex because I'm tired and achy and thinking about any amount of physical effort makes me feel even more tired and achy.
 
Also reflexive "you're doing it wrong" statements about people who suspect they are asexual are about as justified as a straight person telling men that they're depraved and wrong for liking dick. Maybe we can skip the contempt toward what some of us not only don't know but can't understand.

I'm not asexual, but I am disabled, and there are times I would rather nap than have sex because I'm tired and achy and thinking about any amount of physical effort makes me feel even more tired and achy.
 
Also reflexive "you're doing it wrong" statements about people who suspect they are asexual are about as justified as a straight person telling men that they're depraved and wrong for liking dick. Maybe we can skip the contempt toward what some of us not only don't know but can't understand.