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That’s a good rule @lonely_john. When I hired, I sent a polite email with all my info to enquire about availability. With the 2nd email, I checked that we were compatible (if it had not been clear in his first reply) and booked....and I always asked how and when he wanted me to confirm as I usually booked in advance. Being prolix or sending several vague messages makes it seem as if you are not serious about meeting. That said, I hired a lovely guy in LA who asked me to phone him from Europe just so we could “get to know each other“. I did so and called him 2x more in the 3 weeks before I visited LA. The date went very well indeed.

I wish you good luck @bdmarkny. Hot young guys may be fewer than you expect. I was there on vacation a couple of years ago, and the only hot muscleboys I met were visiting Aussie male models. There is however some eye-candy at Blacks Beach; I met a very fit guy there who, tho str8, was extremely gay-friendly.

When dating men, my rule-of-thumb for working and non-working guys has always been that if, after a date, they ASK for “something extra”, I smile and say No. When I’ve had a great date after dinner with a man and I want to see him again, I take him out for breakfast. If he insists on paying for breakfast, I OFFER to do “something extra” for him when we next spend time together.

I guess that this shows just not only how costly it is to put on a play on Broadway but also how tough it is to make a profit on a drama, no matter how garlanded with praise and good reviews.

I take it to mean they’re looking for “the one” or “Mr Right”, and it implies a high-level man who will be their ‘rock’.

As a client, I would smile and say ‘Suck me off and drain my balls dry”

I feel @maninsoma and @RJD have made some very good points. I also feel that many people underestimate how much money a very handsome guy could in the recent past earn as a conventional escort. In 2010 I had a year-long affair with a beautifully ripped 23 year old in LA, who went on to be an Abercrombie model and a fashion cover-guy. We’d first met when he was a provider with a small (no face pics) profile/advert, but after 3 paid overnight dates in a week he took me to dinner and told me he wanted me to be with him. I commuted to LA each month and stayed for a week with him in his condo. He didn’t charge me but I picked up all the bills (restaurants, concerts, long weekend trips etc). He was handsome, medium height, 4% body fat, versatile sexually; he liked to top but he was a wild bottom for me. Now the point of all the above detail. He wanted my advice, so he discussed his finances with me in detail. He had overall monthly costs of $6000 (mortgage on his condo, tuition, gym and personal living expenses) so he ran an advert (then Rentboy) when he was short of cash. When he’d made $6000, he took his advert offline and didn’t answer any work-calls. I know for a fact that he often took his ad offline within a week, ie he earned $6000 in a week! Also, he generally saw clients only once as he didn’t want guys to know much about him; he told me I was the first guy ever to live with him.

i enjoy getting massage regularly, especially from a fit young man like MasseurBrazil. May I ask @Dirks if he is skilled therapeutically? And just how ready is he to get naked, frisky and have fun during the massage?

Of the two men I mentioned above, 1 is quite savvy: he puts out new content regularly, and at intervals he responds to his fans. He told me he’s pulling in more than $20,000 a month.

Very well put @Keith30309 I know separately 2 Englishmen (goodlooking, muscled 20s). Each likes being admired by other men, neither defines as gay and for each, their intellect is not their greatest asset. Both have great physiques and are not shy about posing in brief underwear. I know one did monetise his physique before OF and I’m told the other has toyed with the idea. Now each earns a remarkable amount monthly from their OF accounts, seemingly tax-free. Regular employment for these guys would probably be as gym trainers or waiters; both jobs would demand longer hours and regular attendance at work for much less money. I can see the allure of OF for the content-providers. I’m mystified as to why guys subscribe, but then I‘m mystified by guys spending time and money chatting on webcams. I’ve zero interest in masturbation; I’ve always preferred to engage with a person in real-life.

Intriguing email @Keith30309. 1. I’d never heard of WhatsYourPrice.com but I’m glad they signed off with “Warm Regards” to you. 2. They accuse you of “soliciting sex...for compensation” - the site wants ”generous members” who solicit dates for compensation. 3. Such “generous members” only pay “for that first date”. I’d like to know how the website polices all these first dates, which obviously are entirely platonic, and ensures that all further dates are not ‘compensated’ in any way. Truly, heterosexual men (aka generous members) lead strange lives meeting “out of your league” women (aka attractive members) who “get reimbursed for the time and effort (preparing) for the date”. Perhaps as a gay man and only a top, I should now think of reimbursing all my ex-boyfriends and former lovers for all the time they spent douching to be ready for our ‘first dates’ ;-)

Woof! Perfect except for too much clothing.

Isn’t this the very occasion @dcman when you wish your phone had a camera?

Please report back @EastMidsDaddy

He looks nice...but he also looks as if he needs to be fed a lot of protein!

Do you get out much ?

There’s a very fast train connection from London (Paddington station) to Reading (his base) with lots of trains hourly and a journey time of 22/23minutes.

Then you must seek help from a professional @Trick. You may have escaped serious harm from your poor choices so far, but you cannot continue like this.

You’re so right @big-n-tall I booked through an intermediary only once and it was years ago. I played with Mark, a very handsome blond South African - wonderful physique, 24 and newly arrived in London. Booking was easy. He arrived on time the next day and he knew exactly how to please me without any reminders/prompting on my part. In our post-coital chat, I asked Mark why he used a booker. He was so good looking that I knew he would be high earner. He told me he wanted to earn money ”without any hassle” and with his first advert online, he’d been inundated with calls and requests for more pics, info etc. Luckily the intermediary was one of the guys who called and offered to handle all calls for 25% of what was derived from the resulting bookings. Mark was very good and gave me his personal cellphone number. He also left his watch by my bed. So I had to see him for a 2nd date the next night to return his watch.

It’s heavily discussed in UK media. China is regarded as having responded very promptly in isolating the large populations (33million estimate) in Wuhan and other nearby cities, that are now effectively closed cities. There’s also been close screening of flights from China for some days. In the UK, 9 people are quarantined for investigation (having travelled from Wuhan) while 4 people who had been in Wuhan and were thought to be symptomatic have now been cleared and released.

Thanks @BabyBoomer - I’d completely forgotten there’s a review site! Rory looks very attractive but he’s not the red haired muscle-bottom I was thinking of.

Well spotted @liubit He looks terrific, but I wonder if he is really based in Austria?

Without seeing a pic of Rory, I’m wondering if he was a red-haired muscular guy whose day job was as a trainer in a central London gym?

What a beautiful young man. With a lovely torso too. Reminds me of that handsome gay law-student in ‘How to Get Away with Murder’

I applaud your investigative work @coriolis888 - well done! But I cannot let this assertion go unchallenged. No male model has that much money; a male model only earns big money if he is the face/physique for a fragrance (I know 2 such models and each told me what they earned). Similarly being a successful actor in Brazil means a middle-class life style but they are not highly paid by US or European standards. I have a good friend who works constantly as an actor on TV in Brazil - we’ve been on vacation in Europe together, and he certainly cannot afford business or first-class flights - and I also know 2 men who ‘starred’ in reality TV shows in Brazil; their pay was not great but it helped both become established as celebrity personal trainers. FWIW my guess is that if he has been lucky in his jobs and saved wisely, Luca Viana might have amassed US $1million but certainly not “more than fifty million dollars”.