mike carey

Wise move. I heard flights there are all messed up right now, although the train from Istanbul may still be running.

Sexual health clinics are your friend, there are clinics focussed on gay men, and others that have a wider remit. They have the knowledge and will be more than willing to offer you any advice you ask for, and most likely advice you didn't know you needed. I go to one run by the ACT government (it's in Canberra's main hospital), and the service they offer is exemplary. The practitioners I have seen have all been women (just happened that way, there are men there too), most have been registered nurses or nurse practitioners and one was a doctor, and all of them were quite comfortable talking about M2M sex issues. (The doctor basically told me, rather than suggested, that I was getting PrEP (for use on occurrence rather than continuously) when I had hesitated [don't @ me}.)

Family helps family™!

For those who may be searching for one of the old titles of this now-combined thread, the most recent were: RM not accepting Visa anymore!? What the actual f$ck? RentMen Back to Not Taking VISA At All!!

TL;DR (your post added to the ongoing saga of 'how to pay), but the short answer seems to be MasterCard, not Visa (at least now) and crypto, supposed to be but appears not to work. Yet, a recent as Sunday @jeezopete reported success using Visa and @jusmeinbr replied that it had failed for him. So, our frequent disclaimer (used more often here for escort experiences) of YMMV applies. (As I've posted before, I renew for six months at a time, and have paid that and gift memberships with a Visa card (already on file) with no rejections. So far. But I'm paying in AUD with an AU card, so that my be a factor.) Bon chance!

People do swim in the harbour, there are popular beaches and swimming areas, and it is safe, generally, but yes, there are sharks and attacks even deaths are not unknown. As in most things, safe and unsafe are not binary alternatives.

What could have been! Imagine! I'm sure it's a journal of record.

The Opera House and the bridge are the iconic images but their prominence obscures that the harbour itself is the real star. I find the bridge in the foreground, the Gladesville Bridge, to be quite spectacular in its own way.

Front page of Saturday's SMH, marking the paper's 195th anniversary. Quite the image.

This is important.

Welcome to the forum, @bigfattie. You're likely to get comments from supportive to, well, less so, but you'll also get thoughtful answers. In the US, at 1.85m/95kg, many people would say you're not fat at all, although at 25, and (since you defaulted metric) in another country (like me), you may be self conscious about your weight. Some escorts may decline to see you but most won't care. Just ask them (as I do about my age), if they say no, you know where you stand, and in either case you have set your mind at rest about your decision. Happy hiring!

Link to his ad in the OP is corrupted, at least for me, so here it is again. https://rent.men/IAmMagicWayne

It's reading as in 'I only read Penthouse for the stories'.

A reminder to avoid politics.

No warnings for now, but a reminder that there are two elements to this thread, Cade Maddox and Playgirl magazine. Discussions of either of those are relevant to the thread, other male celebrities and their media (or other) escapades are not.