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I've tried seeking, in both popular and academic sources, some hint that currencies like Monero are vulnerable. The product could not protect users from themselves, of course, but it could protect itself. The more I look into this, the more I am surprised that this forum is not hosting offshore and with an anonymous hosting provider. Seems risky

And SilkRoad, and so many others. This aspect is a harsh blocker, definitely. *sigh* I ponder, if such a platform existed, community moderation and administration could achieve the bulk of governance. In such a model, no IDs would be known. Stretching, I know It's what bottoms do!

I think the owners should expect a lifestyle business with sensible margins. Perhaps a pleasure in protest. Rotating the site on offshore servers isn't the challenge. Limiting human error that causes detection by law enforcement is. Also it would have to be a bitcoin/etc only service, and this could be fatal as it means all involved know what to do.

One thing I'd agree with you here is that traction for these types of products is exceptionally slow. Rentboy was 20 years old when it was taken down. No one should do a product like this expecting much more than a lifestyle business with sensible margins. I agree with adoption being a cause of social network failures. Only difference here I think is valid: the market is absolutely shit. Rent.men is the current winner, but they are clearly not innovating and, instead, culling value to avoid litigation.

Totally. The product would be illegal without a doubt. Yet it would, for both humane and PR purposes, have stronger anti-trafficking measures than all social networks, and flaunt it. Wouldn't take much to make that claim. But yes, illegal and thus all the mitigations above.

I'm curious how so many client phone numbers were bundled up nicely and released to these folks. I think I've only done rent.men phone verification... maybe SA. otherwise literally no other system has this number.

I am still pondering this topic a bit. An escort website. Gorgeous experience made by silicon valley designers, empowering features, no censorship. Stronger anti-sex trade and exploitation features then all current dating websites and social networks (strong ID, AI trust scoring, anonymous key-based 3rd party background checks). Payment options, escrows, and subscriptions to escorts. Hit the SA.com market in the same go. Rotating overseas hosting providers. Owners and builders with zero fingerprint, oversight by former government hackers. Major market traction issue around only using bitcoin, etc. Difficult and unwise for owners to convert to any currency ever. Thats a potential deal breaker. Otherwise I am trying to understand why the endeavor isn't honorable, with merit, and sensibly profitable at least as a lifestyle business.

No idea; but I think the default assumption should be no

A fair amount of my interest in better ID verification is that, at a certain angle, I like the stricter laws to make it harder for sex slavery, exploitation, and in my experiences over several years, young guys that are coming from a place of fear or desperation. But once some verification is done (both sides; slower process); maybe some credit card fees, I feel like a fair percentage of the worst scenarios are filtered out.

See? Another market need right there

I'm a couple decades into my software career, and currently the CTO of a firm that builds large, gorgeous web and mobile apps for enterprises. Been hooking up since BBSs and AOL; been hiring since 2008 and several sessions per year since. I have a constant cognitive dissonance between my day job, and my #1 private hobby of renting/etc. I constantly see so many miss opportunities - the ability for renters to recruit; giving rentees private review and support systems; allowing for local private networks; increasing real ID verification for both parties while shifting costs off of the rentees; facilitating recurring arrangements with incentives; so many more. And the UX! I'll skip all the websites and go straight to rent.men. They've done the best of the market, but their journey flows and tech stack are still missing the mark. Also they could go so much further into their advertiser experience than they do. I'm constantly tempted to get some fellow cloud software nerds together and go after this market (have a side glance to the bareback market too but that is another line of thought). Always stop myself because I know how hard it is to launch and sustain (that's my consulting day job!), and I don't know all the ins and outs of international jurisdiction. End of rant . Thanks for letting me get it out there

My friends... Mitch is fuckin awesome. Top, bottom, and everything in between. My advice is to show him tons of genuine respect (bookings, time, his headspace, etc) and he cannot fail ya

I recently reached out and started a thread, we'll see how it goes. Did you reach out?

Hi all, I may be paranoid or overly suspicious so wanted to check with folks here In Portland, 4 profiles recently popped up. See below... https://rent.men/Mikestrongarm/reviews/ https://rent.men/brocksothick/reviews/ https://rent.men/MightyROD/reviews/ https://rent.men/LongLastingHung/reviews/ They have a certain - je ne sais quoi about them that struck me as similar, and maybe phony. Something about the quality of the photos, the inline pricing... I don't know what it is. Then I noticed that they share 3 reviewers across 9 reviews total: MarcAndreus (3) Jimmy_bttm (3) Michealbtmfillme (3) Does this seem fake to you? I'm wondering if rent.men could detect fakes by checking shared reviewers like this (once they invalidate one, they can invalidate those reviewers, etc).