WmClarke

I think people have an unrealistic expectations of what once expects from a partner/ boyfriend / husband. This includes
- Fantansic sex. 
- Also not do be discounted, some people don't really want to have sex all that much. The last person i went out with had this problem. And i personally know 2 couples in a relatively sexless marriage .  These are gay couples by the way, one is 42 with a stupid kept boy of 28, and the other are in their early 50s. The 42 year old likes just having the 28 year old around. ( he's a young thing but not all that) 
- Gorgeous / Physically attractive ( to me)
- A great companion + life partner + friend + with complimentary values 
[ and somehow people expect the whole package ]
 
Thats seriously a tall order. A fantasy. Coupled with the whole bottom vs top ratios in the gay world, is no wonder why so many people are single or just gave up.
Since I started hiring, I'm down to looking for someone who would be a great companion + life partner + friend + complimentary values and is physically attractive to me. If he's great in bed thats a bonus, if not i can farm out my sexual desires to professionals.  My hiring habits would be a topic for discussion…..

@Epigonos I’m not aware of any CA minimum/living wage in the $20.00 range? I do know employers are required to report tip income to the IRS and contribute FICA/etc on this tip income, and maybe withhold taxes too.
As someone associated with the biz, I tip generously - starting at 20% and up from there - unless service has been poor.
Many employers are paying far higher than minimum nowadays due to current labor shortage. Signing bonuses are not unheard of in fast food chains!

I’m really happy to see so many off these forum members embrace the idea of ‘second chances‘ / reading between the lines to see what’s really what, with a given situation. In sports, or with celebrities...we have all seen many a great man(or woman...) laid low, by the impact of substances, relationships, or a fast paced lifestyle. From my perspective; I’d rather focus not on what catalyst laid such a person low; but rather on what made that person GREAT to begin with. He’s redeemable ALL day long. Has anyone had any contact with him recently?

I look at escort pricing like picking the right (or perhaps, appropriate) card table in Vegas.
Some people are comfortable with $5 blackjack.
Some gamble $100 a hand.
Then there are those you never even see because they're in private salons, easily spending six-figures in a few hours.
What makes Vegas great is that there's something for everyone.
And the same goes for rentmen.

No such thing. 
Rates have always been on a case by case, individual escort basis. There is no general consensus- and never will be- because some clients have more discretionary income to spend while others don't. 
Furthermore, this forum isn't a wide enough cross-section to confirm or deny when it comes to what those rates are. 
 
 

I loved Lynda Carter’s reaction 
Wonder Woman on Fat Bears

In fact, spending time here yesterday had me so turned on (and since jerking off at the office is frowned upon) that I stopped by one of these fine establishments at lunchtime.
The one that I visited has an opening about 6” tall at waist level that runs along the walls between booths. At this place there is one booth that accepts bills larger than singles so that is generally my choice since I am lazy and had having to pause the action to feed the booth. That booth was open and I slipped in past the 3 or 4 guys milling around outside.
Once in I slipped what I thought was a single into the machine planning to get a quick BJ and bail. Oops! It was a $5 so now I was in for a bit. I had taken precautions earlier just in case so I was ready either way. I dropped trou to my ankles, found a nice trans porn movie and started to stroke. Almost immediately I heard the booth next to me close and the machine go as money was fed in. I looked down and a small, cut, soft pink cock slipped through the opening.
I knelt down and took it into my mouth, noticing that its owner was shaved. He got hard almost immediately and let me tell you: he was a GROWER! What started small soon was soon long and hard and curved and not too fat and was poking at my tonsils. I eased him into my throat and let him fuck my mouth for a few strokes and just as I was getting into it he shivered and exploded in my mouth.
One of the nice things about these booths is that you can slip a hand through and I was able to feel his ass tense as he pumped rope after rope of thick, hot cum into my throat. I swallowed as fast as I could squeezing his ass as I did. Before I even swallowed the last drop he pulled away, zipped up and was gone.
I wiped my mouth figuring I had at least $3 worth of time on the machine. 
Turning to stand up I saw another cock sticking through the other side. About 7” long, white and cut and hard and with a bead of precum dripping off the tip. Whoa. Lucky day, huh?
I pivoted and ran my tongue under the head, licking up that sweet precum and quickly swallowed the whole head. I didn’t want another quick mouthful this time so I was careful and worked it just enough to keep him hard as I let some spit dribble into my fingers and worked it into my ass lubing it up. I quickly swallowed him balls deep twice and then pulled off, turning as I did to press my ass onto his cock.
He slipped into me easy enough and was slow about letting it slide deep. I leaned forward and gripped the opening on the other side of the booth as I started to grind back onto his cock.
I must have closed my eyes for a second, it felt so fucking good, because I did not even notice that someone had come into the other booth and presented a small brown cock for me to suck while I got fucked.
I took that small soft cock in my mouth and tongued the foreskin back as it got hard. The guy behind me was starting to get into it now and I could feel my dick getting hard as he pounded my prostate. I was trying to time it so that my mouth and ass were moving at the same time and started to get good as I felt the small cock in my mouth hit that moment when you know he is about to cum.
The whole booth was rattling with the guy pounding my ass and grunting, “Yes, Daddy! Take that cock! Take it in your tight fucking ASS!”
I felt him swell in my ass as I pressed back feeling him fill me up as I felt that exquisite moment when the cum pours from you without so much as a touch. The explosion in my mouth came as a shock and I swallowed as fast as I could before he pulled away.
just as quickly the guy behind me pulled out and I was empty but dripping from every hole. 
The money ran out just as everyone - including me - finished. I had to drop another dollar in to clean up. 
More often than not a visit to this place is $2 and a quick explosion in a strange mouth. But sometimes…sometimes.

I'm sure a lot of guys on here have had some experiences where they have been with a provider on his phone unfortunately 😅

I assume the thumbs down I received for my post was from someone who couldn’t suck his own dick. LOL.

That STUPID, IDIOT client was me. And the MF escort is still there, both in Rentmen and in Rentmasseur. 
Awful experience. Bitter way to learn the lesson!

I loved Lynda Carter’s reaction 
Wonder Woman on Fat Bears

I used to believe that monogamy was the only appropriate relationship mode for two people.
Then I grew up.

I've got news for Bill Gates. Piss is drinkable, straight from the tap. Why mess with a good thing.😛

I think they are most attractive to adults who collect them and attempt to sell them on ebay years later.

Anderson Cooper Will Not Leave A Lot of Money to His Sin
I generally spend a lot of money on my sins.
Kevin Slater

Shit happens.

I'm not a fan of feces on my penis, so condoms help prevent that when I top

I loved Lynda Carter’s reaction 
Wonder Woman on Fat Bears

It's good thing that providers don't gossip about clients.

March will be three months in on paying my mortgage. I hope time goes by fast lol
 
Hugs,
Greg

Over the past month, you've may have noticed randomly off and on times when the site would choke up and not work for a period of time...  typically anywhere from 5 minutes to an hour.  
In the background when this was happening there would be a large number of connections to the server that were just "stuck".  They were not closed, but not doing anything either.  Eventually this would reach a point where there would be thousands of these stuck connections that would just cause the server to run out of resources and fail.  
This was something that was challenging to get to the bottom of because there was no error logs that were generated and there was no indication of what was actually happening to make these connections would become "stuck".  It meant that I would literally have to just keep checking the site as often as possible to make sure it was actually online.  I would wake up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and check to see if everything was still running.  I would check the first thing as I woke up, or during lunch, or in between Zoom meetings to ensure the site responded.  If not, I would have to restart the web service which would reset everything and bring the site back online.  Restarting the server however was just a bandaid and did not address the root cause of the problem of why it was happening in the first place.  That's why we saw this happen over and over several times.  
I spent a lot of time reconstructing each failure looking at was happening at the time leading up to each failure.  At first, nothing out of the ordinary stood out when looking at the single event.  However if I started comparing each incident to other failures, I noticed a couple of things:
Just before failure, there were a large number of accesses by search engines such as Google and Bing.  They're trying to crawl the site so that results show up in various search results.  While this can be good, the search engines tend to make a LOT of requests in a short period of time from a lot of different locations.  These requests when added with our normal traffic would cause a bottleneck. While the search engine was crawling the site, it would look for many things that were no longer there.  This could be old profile pictures, or content that was deleted, etc.  Each time one of these "not found" objects was triggered, instead of the web server serving a standard "404 NOT FOUND" response, it would instead route to the forum software itself since it had to figure out if there was a different address for the content that should be returned.  (THIS TAKES UP A LOT OF RESOURCES!) As a result, it looks like when search engines would start crawling our site, it would trigger much more usage than normal and things it was doing generated even MORE resources than activities done by a real person.  
To fix this, I've made several changes:
For users that are not logged in (such as Google, Bing, etc), content is not updated in "real time" like it is when you're logged in.  Instead users not logged in will see a "cached" version of pages that are updated every 5-10 minutes.   If a file is not found by the server, instead of letting IPB also look to see if there is a different address available, the web server will just return a message that it was not found.   I've implemented more caching of system common files such as images and javascripts.  The good part of this is that there are fewer requests to the server.  The downside is that if an IPB file changes, your browser cache might the old one still saved instead of getting a new version for EVERY SINGLE page request.  (This is why you might have seen me tell people to clear their browser cache from time to time when a problem is reported.) I've split the search system from the main site database.  By having these functions separated, several people searching can't hang up the site waiting for search results while others are waiting to load topics/posts, etc.  They can be done concurrently as separate tasks.   Since making these changes and a few others, the sever load has dropped by more than 75% and reduced the memory usage by almost half. In addition, I have not seen any situations in which the server has locked up when being crawled by a search engine.  Finally it should be making the site faster and more responsive.  For each page you view, there are fewer things that have to be requested from our server since your browser will now reuse certain "static" pieces of content.   When I benchmark the site's performance compared to another test from a month ago, it's about 40% more responsive.  This is pretty impressive considering most of our users are in the US and our server itself is located on the other side of the world in Amsterdam due to political/legal issues.  
At the end of the day, what I'm saying with all of this techno mumbo jumbo is I think I have gotten to the bottom of what was randomly choking up the site.  And I think the fix should hopefully be making the site be a little faster and more responsive than it was before.  

In the past, when you've had a question that was to be posed to the moderator team, we've asked you to use the Contact Us form on the bottom of the site.  This created a ticket within an internal system that moderators could use to reply to you via email.  
While the system worked, it also left something to be desired.  It was separated from the flow of the site and replies could only be done via email.  As a result, I've added a new forum called "Ask a Moderator".  It can be found on the bottom of the forum lists.
What's special about this forum is that members can only see topics they make.  Meaning if you have a question that should be seen by the moderators only, you can post there.  Moderators will be able to see everything and can respond.  That forum will always appear to have no new topics in it unless it's created by you enabling private/secure communications with the entire moderator team.  While we love chatting with you via Private Message, if it's something that is related to the entire team, we would ask you use this tool so we can all see/respond.  
As this uses the normal forum tools, you can follow topics and receive notifications of new replies, etc.  
The Contact Us link will remain in the bottom of the site's navigation menu as it's the only way for guests and non-registered members to contact us.  (Since you can only see your own posts, it means you have to be a member to see it.)

Tristan, your are a mensch.