DrownedBoy

Unfortunately Chicago still has a lot of 2021s.

When I've considered escorts who charge that much, they're often so busy and full of themselves that they don't pay attention or care too much about a single customer. Not the kind of attitude I hire for. I'm waiting for the recession to finally hit. I thought 300 was too high prior to the pandemic, and with inflation I think it's much more fair. This is an unregulated market with a very low barrier to entrance. Just pay what you want, reject prices you think are too high, and wait for supply and demand to kick in.

Yeah happened to me because a regular was in my contacts. I quickly hid it - I didn't want to get personally involved.

RM Auto Message allows you to add your rates, which U.S. ads don't. That's why I found it immensely time saving, both for myself and for the provider.

Just ask them. I do all the time for facial hair. Just word it nicely. Like: "I saw your ads, and your hair is different in each photo, so can you let me know how your body hair is now?"

Hopefully he's still active. One of the kindest, I agree.

That's how supply and demand works. "Cost of living increase" applies to both provider and client. And most companies don't automatically give wage increases to clients.

You should post in "The Deli" if he's an escort, not here.

As always, the Japanese are ahead of us in thinking of stuff like that. Ai To Yokubou Wa Gakuen De (Yaoi) manga - Mangago

I think it only becomes a moral issue if the provider is in a position where he really can't refuse, and the client knows it. Like they need the money for food or don't have anywhere to stay. My opinion (not shared by everyone I know).

Got that one too. When he dropped to 450, I just said, "No, I don't like to haggle. You asked for 600, and I have to pass."

Fort Wayne is easily the most sexually repressed city I've ever visited around here (albeit this was back when I was in college). Lots of fundamentalist seminaries and such. One of my uncles wasted a perfectly good brain by "following his calling" there.

I have seen some RM who have an automated feature on their RentMen messenger. If anyone tries to contact them with it, it automatically responds with rates and a reminder to text them if you're interested.

Well the people saying he's "crazy" are people who only texted him, whereas others actually met him. Getting to be a tough competitive market out there.....

Yeah, tell me about it! Such different reviews! I think he had a break from escorting, because he's been in Chicago forever. I met him twice within, I think, the past 6 months. Easily the most intelligent and cultured escort I was able to meet and have a conversation with. Of course, I was more impressed with his mind than his body....which seems to be a factor here. EDIT: I should add that I don't generally hire escorts who mention their intelligence, as I'm admittedly shallow, and I've hired many "educated" escorts who seemed anything but. However, if his knowledge of the humanities is any indicator, this guy struck me as someone who received a humanistic education at a very good university.

A bit expensive for live porn, I think, if they're already hooked.

I don't know if it means anything, but many of providers I've met have given me a variation of this. Hopefully they're just trying to keep their boyfriends under their hat, but I've met a provider who seemed unable to sustain a relationship. I know since he treated me like a free therapist.

Translation: Thanks for the money, sucker.

I thought the same when someone said this. "You look attractive compared to most of my clients."

This has got to be the funniest provider name I ever saw. I would have paid for the laugh if he hadn't already delivered the punchline.

Ditto, but even that can be troublesome, as I mentioned awhile ago in some other thread. Once, in response to a request for my stats, I gave them the relevant ones - height/weight/age/etc. - but I declined to give my race. He insisted and told me that if I didn't give my ethnicity, I should find another provider. I did.

Just a reminder from my OP - we do have a lot of studies (ethnographic) on this area, but only from the provider PoV. They make interesting reading. You can find a LOT of these on the Internet; I found these 2 the best: Surviving the Streets of New York: Experiences of LGBTQ Youth, YMSM, and YWSW Engaged in Survival Sex (urban.org) Chicago_0.pdf (innovatingjustice.org) The NYC study really delved into the issue of race. One brutally honest quote from an interview with a provider:

Nice alliteration.

Yup. Occasionally I turn it on if I want a client to notice I was looking at him. However, that's also led to me getting unsolicited and rude propositions.

I usually use Tor for this, but I can no longer access RM through them. Thanks @maninsoma for the advice on how I should use Chrome on Windows. I saw rates for American providers, but they were out of date.