Rod Hagen

Not delusional, actually. If an escort ad features photos of said escort in expensive locales, he's there likely with clients paying his rate and expenses (and he doesn't look like he flies coach). He and I have very different clients :-) as evident in my photos since I started in 1999, which are always against some apartment wall of an affordable Hollywood photographer.

I miss her terribly.

Blasphemy!

to me it sounds as if 1. you have money, which is great. 2. a friend hasn't taken advantage of your willingness to work for friends for free, which is also great. many professionals are not in a financial position to offer services or goods to friends for free, or even a discount. also, many professionals are more guarded than you explain yourself to be. that's not a fault.

Are you saying they cannot be your friend because they charge you for professional services, which Mike Carey showed, with examples of Lawyers and Plumbers, is complete hogwash (Way to go Mike!), or are you saying that due to the nature of the professional work Es provide, you find their expressions of friendship suspect?

I agree, haggling sucks. Pick a price and stick to it.

They're asking it, that doesn't mean they're getting it. :-) To be clear, I think not answering reasonable emails or texts, for any reason, much less he "can't be bothered" is ridiculous. I'm sorry to go off on the tangent, I'm just kind of fascinated by the prices professional female escorts ($500+/hour) reportedly command versus us (average $200-MAYBE $300/$350, but still I'm skeptical of that higher number being average). I guess fascinated really means, envious :-)

Finished it. Enjoyed it. Well-written, Trashy fun.

Why is it okay for a provider to ask me if I want to meet tonight because he’s trying to pin down timing with another guy if I can’t do the same with a provider from my perspective? What if I want to see two guys tonight? One right after the other…I may need to coordinate that scheduling. A provider shouldn’t feel that’s inappropriate. That’s my prerogative. It sounds like I'm alone in this, which is fine :-) , but it feels like negotiating in bad faith to stack the deck. If men were willing to pay gay escorts the same rates they pay female professional escorts, they wouldn't have to see two clients in a night. I also understand why FPEs earn more, they take greater risks.

HM, I'm curious why you mostly bottom if you feel no pleasure down there?

I don't know if it's underrated, but it's definitely under-appreciated and not well-known. https://www.adamsonhouse.org/

Dude that really really really sucks. I'm very sorry. Any chance you can find a rent-stabilized apartment so that never ever ever happens again? Again, that's terrible. Wow.

I don't know man, when I did exactly this for a Sigur Ros concert, messaged multiple people that I was interested in their tickets, and then bought one pair before the others got back to me, I felt like shit, and still do years later, when one of the other people I messaged was hurt that my enquiry wasn't serious, not from his perspective, and so he was shit out of luck. It would be nice if people were more personable, but I guess if to each individual ticketholder, or escort, you are 100% clear that you're only interested in the fastest-positive response, if that's what's important to you, there's not much else you can do. Still not sure that's the most "polite and respectful", but it's at the very least honest.

xyZ, let me flesh out Slater's argument after an analogy. Imagine, on Craigslist, I see four separate, desirable, pairs of tickets to Sparks at Disney Hall. I may justify messaging all 4 people simultaneously, with some questions, because there are flakes on Craigslist so I'm hedging my bet, one of the ticket sets may be bargained cheaper than the other three, and I'd like to finish this transaction as quickly as possible. I'm expanding Kevin's argument to state that messaging all four individuals simultaneously is selfish, and we expect/hope you will see why it is. In case you don't, here's why. If I purchase one ticket set, of the 4 available, I very well may hear back from some of the other individuals. What do I say to that individual, "sorry, you were too slow, other people were able to accommodate my laundry list of wants before you did." That person had a reasonable expectation that when I inquired about his tickets I was interested in his tickets, not other people's tickets too. This really is the difference between how we should interact with individuals in business vs. companies that prioritize, or at least feign to prioritize, our convenience and wants and take the hits when they come. Respectful business between individuals is a business of mutual consideration.

Remember 20 years ago when companies started offering to (charge a lot to) transfer our photos and 8mm movies into digital files for preservation and simplicity? Perhaps, something similar will happen with Facebook, Instagram, etc. "Would you like paper copies of your last 30 years of tweets? Send $$$ COD to PO Box 451 Lutherville Maryland, 21094"

I sent my first email in 1993. I was astounded. I FTP'd some files shortly after that and did some IRC chats as well. And Telneted now that I think about it. Then of course Mosaic, then Netscape, arrived and the rest is history. I send more emails a day than I do texts. Although, that's not entirely true because I have some friends who use Text as a sort of stream of consciousness and I'll simply reply briefly with a "typical"; that usually applies. Emails I love. I look back at my emails from 20 years ago, and more, and they were much longer. Much more thoughtful and that was due in large part because many of them were responses to emails that were also long, so we'd respond to lines directly underneath each other's lines. Like corrections. Or a message board. I use email to both stay in touch and also to plan things. Details can get lost in text exchanges, but details are fairly easy to find in an email. Also, I save emails. Periodically, I do look through old ones. It's a sort of journaling I guess, or like saving old letters.

apologies, been a long time since I saw the movie. Then just the one character is addicted to alcohol. Great photo, maybe it was a scene that got cut, or maybe they posed for the posters, like they do in porn :-)

My fault entirely. I thought OP meant original post not original poster (where is he by the way?). Sorry for the confusion. I was panning you for your earlier criticism of the Original Post's subject heading; presumably the word "import" offended, troubled, you. Being rankled by playful and perhaps vulgar (sorry xyz48B, I don't drink ) word usages, a "fresh meat" label tacked onto a hot new guy or "import" titling a post focused on helping a hot foreign guy, on an Escort Review site, is just lame.

BullFuckingshit, the OP subject line, nor post, did NOT commoditize people, it was clearly a wink. You all need to read some novels, besides Animal Farm, which was sixth friggin' grade, to learn how to contextualize. Your skins make onions seem bullet-proof.

Wether it's conscious, or unconscious, virtue signaling, or if some are in fact offended by the OP's use of the word "Imported", the implication was clearly tongue-in-cheek, a sly reference to how different from, not similar to, his situation is to bringing in, say, foreign cigars. You all remind me of the students in that Netflix Sandra Oh show about professors, wherein one, hot in a nebbish way (but the actor is not Jewish), professor lost everything after making a small, sarcastic, Nazi Salute that was, in the context of what he was explaining in lecture, completely useful.

If you're in a major city, or if you're like Benjamin NichoIas and people send you to the major cities, it definitely feels like the high-life when you start out. You go from memories of childhood slopeside Holiday Inn stays with the family, to entire weekends at the Peninsula Hotel in...., you know, wherever.

This March it will be full time (for a couple years I had two full time jobs, the other being engineering) for 23 years. I'm still advertising as 26 :-)

That may, in part, be why he started drinking, but that doesn't mean he'll now be able, or willing, to stop. Oh well, best to these two hot, made-up, men :-)