Rod Hagen

Well, I may know someone who's known for exactly that :-) But, wrong coast. SORRY

Thank you Musru. I should have said that the license allows you to conduct business, to work under your license, not that it makes you a business.

Licensed means he is registered as a business. Certified means you have enough hours to be "certified" by state (or national) board as a trained masseur (or whatever). Generally, you have to be certified to be licensed. You do not need to be licensed to be certified. Most of the time when people talk about a licensed masseur, they mean a certified, or trained, masseur. And the OP is right, discussing "naughty" specifics about interactions with a licensed and/or certified masseur can bring problems to the practitioner.

I go to the movies at least once a week, and the studio is pushing this movie fairly, and surprisingly, hard. The trailer runs pretty much before every movie. It looks awful. I hope it does well.

Now THAT is a very very good question :-)

It's not preference, it's nearly a quarter-century experience. Additionally, and not your fault, I can't begin to express how deaf people my age are to anything preceding or proceeding "another's truth". If a provider feels uncomfortable waiting for payment until the end of the session, that may impact the session, so on the timing-of-payment front, providers should do what makes them comfortable. That will help the session go better.

That was hilarious, thank you. I wonder if he did it to be funny for those of us watching.

Disagree. I've been escorting for (this coming March) 24 years. Never have I asked for nor expected money up front. I've had a problem only 2 or 3 times.

I hate myself for laughing at these three. The first two are especially awful, funny.

I've heard that of course, I just don't understand how the excitement of the expectation vs. the uncertainty and likely disappointment makes the anticipation worth it. It's me, personally I don't get it. I do get it's a thing :-)

In the past on hide.me I always selected Germany. Recently I've had to switch to "Netherlands" and it works again.

Can't recommend Brother Printers highly enough. Mine never ever drops the connection. If the power fails (somehow West Hollywood is like San Pedro, Honduras: the power goes out constantly), it picks up the WiFi connection no problem. https://www.brother-usa.com/home/printers-fax

Loved F. Murray Abraham's response to his entitled, smartass Zillenial Grandson: “It’s not like it was ever so beautiful to look at anyway. It's a penis, not a sunset." !!

I've never understood why clients go through the work and frustration of hoping/searching for more with a masseur. If you want more, hire an escort, problem solved.

Time is Provider's responsibility, 100%

Why? How? Why? She's just lifeless.

I don't know who Selena Gomez is, but if she's an actress, but she's a TERRIBLE actress. Unfortunately, season 2 underused Shirley McClaine. She must be expensive. Still, Second season was better than the first. I used to see Steve Martin at il Picolino on Robertson. He always sat alone, wore a hat and read the New Yorker. A few months ago, Il Pic, my favorite restaurant in America, closed. I wonder where he'll go now.

Wasn't able to watch it last night. Can't wait to watch it tonight. Was suprised there was no NYTimes review, I guess there's just too much content out there and they have to give space to stupid dragon shows and such. Hope Season 2 is just as fantastic as S1.

I read the book. I wanted to like it more than I did. Oh well. I forgot they'd made it a movie. A similar, much better book, I hope you like: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Marriage-Andrew-Sean-Greer/dp/0312428286 Until 5 months ago I had no idea who/what Harry Styles is/was. Now I can't get into one of my favorite cafes because he ate their once and now it's always mobbed. Or he mentioned it in a song. Or both Or whatever. Beachwood Cafe. I still don't know really who he is.

Alec was/is WONDERFUL. Someone I'm very close to and I worked with Alec in 2004. This was before Alec was a body builder and was simply fit (and, in our opinion, simply fantastic). Here are his reviews from his non-superBuilt days. https://web.archive.org/web/20050201061733/http://207.14.53.20/reviews/alecandrewsla.html Saw him around the neighborhood and we both shared the same gym. Great guy.

I love all these remembrances. He hired me long long ago, we had a great time and I was very happy to have met this wonderful man.

The pressure from others and from oneself to get "off-meds", meds that are working, can have dire consequences. I often think of David Foster Wallace. The medication for depression, and other mental illnesses, he'd used for decades was becoming almost obsolete when compared with newer medication. And, so, he changed to the newer medication which allowed him to streamline his medications. Unfortunately, the newer stuff didn't work as well, he went back to his old medication, but it just didn't work like it did before he stopped it. Shortly after, he hanged himself and the world, and his wife and dog, lost a genius. As to the original post, Escorts take medication, just like people.

I just saw him two weeks ago at WeHo Starbucks. I used to talk to him during lunch at French Market. An INCREDIBLE flirt. :-)

I find the pervasive feeling taken advantage of problem interesting. At 21 I was leaving for Costa Rica to do some field work. I was also flat broke. A friend who was coming to Minneapolis from Honduras for the summer agreed he was going to rent my apartment at $150/month while I was gone. Two days before my departure, he told me he was going to live in his parent's empty for-sale house in Minnetonka instead. I was incredibly hurt. Part of that hurt was the panic, I did not have $1 to play with, much less $150. I ended up selling skis, back pack, climbing gear, all sorts of stuff at Play It Again sports, at a HUGE loss, just to make up the money the day before I left. My point is, we had an arrangement, he backed out of it, and I felt taken advantage of LARGELY because I had no resources. What I don't understand, is when people who have resources allow themselves to feel taken advantage of, or, rather, I get it, but I think that people should be able, maybe with therapy, to think past it. My blindspot on this problem may stem from the fact that I've never had money. I can't know what it feels like to have money and to feel like others have their eyes on it. Still, as I've said here before, if you have the means, gift to people, don't loan. (Fuck Polonius, he's dead...and made up). If you can afford to let a hot young guy stay at your place rent free for a few months, for a year, for the foreseeable future, forever, do so. If you can help someone, and it's no big financial cost to you, maybe try to adjust your feelings and take a look at the benefits....to both of you.

You are of course very savvy, go for it. I'm curious, why are you not sharing your bedroom as part of the "rent"? I know you want to give him his space by giving him his own room, and that's very thoughtful of you, but can't you give him his space and cuddle every night?