P Gren

Hey, anyone have any updated info on this topic?

Our communication with clients and other pros is overwhelmingly positive. We stay nicely booked and have hundreds of fans page subscribers. However, we do have some hate mail every once in a while. We’ve had the predictable ones in the past ranging from disgust that we “flaunt” our relationship to criticism for being gay stereotypes. This one today, though, surprised me as I made initial contact to give a compliment to another escort and maybe some encouragement. His response was to ask if we wanted to book him. When I answered “no, just giving a compliment to another pro”, his response was “I just threw up in my mouth a little, but thanks for a compliment.”.

 

It’s always disappointing since we are just having fun and know we aren’t for everybody any more than everybody is for us. However, I don’t think I’ll ever understand it. I’m of the persuasion that nothing-nice needs nothin said. Why do some feel the need to lash out? Thoughts? Maybe some here feel disgusted by us, too? I have thick skin, so I’d be interested in your take.

Was he maybe not interested in older guys, and then communicated that really badly?

Belly button Innie. Penis hanging Outie.

Same and same

how do I double "like" this post?

I read an interview with Cindi Lauper from that time. She's was asked to comment on the Pee Wee controversy. She said something along the lines of "you know there's a summit happening in Moscow right now" … perspective. I love Cindi Lauper

I think this is the gayest thing I've ever seen! I wouldn't want to be the one trying to clean those theater seats!

 

Kipp

That's kind of what I thought when I heard about Pee Wee Herman getting arrested for jerking off in a porn theatre. Other than the cleaning staff, wasn't that a victimless crime?

A serious news reporter, but he really could do us a favour and try reporting without wearing pants

One of the supermarkets I shop at sent me coupons. $5 off $25 in weeks 1 & 3, $2 off meat in week 2, 2 off produce in week 4.

 

FREE:

 

Shadybrook Turkey Burgers week 1

Baby Roy's Barbecue Sauce week 2

KLONDIKE BARS (!) week 3

Kraft Salad Dressing week 4

Well … I got it. Haha

Sometimes using it as a bully stick is very effective. Drug Courts are great.

I've never seen the usefulness of threats. At best it seems the last strategy after all others have failed. And very few options - beside crime, police and mass incarceration - have been adequately provided and tried in the mass addiction era we are in. (And why are addicts of drugs thrown in jail but not addicts or sex, work, or gambling?) Drug courts are better than the regular criminal court system, and they are few and far between for such a massive social problem

I know you all may think I'm crazy but I actually visited an escort that I had seen multiple times after he got arrested

 

a mutual acquaintance found out his real name and that he was in a facility near me

 

I emailed him he was shocked but happy to hear from me

His family disowned him as this was his 3rd or 4th arrest

Due to substance abuse

 

Visited him twice....then I was thinking maybe not a good idea

Emailed him that I could not come any longer he understood was happy I made the effort

 

Fast forward to this year, sadly he passed in Miami Florida in late January. He was 34

Jail for substance abuse is such bad social policy, the punishment does not fit the crime. Slowly we are starting to look at it more as a health issue than a criminal issue.

I am planning to meet a guy in a few weeks in NYC, but unfortunately neither of us can host. Turns out that Airbnbs are a lot cheaper than hotels in the area, so I booked one. The renter of the space asked for some basic information about the trip, and I told him I was coming to NYC alone to visit a friend. He responded by requesting that I confirm that I will be the only person staying "in total." I told him that my friend and I had made plans for him to come over and for us to "make dinner together." He said that would be fine.

 

I don't know, but something about his follow-up question raises a red flag for me. I think the reason he was asking is because his building has a 10 PM quiet-hours policy, and he doesn't want tenants making noise and drawing attention to themselves (he told me to tell anyone who asks that I am a friend who is staying at his place while he is away for the weekend). The question does seem a little strange/intrusive regardless, but it is his house, his rules.

 

Should I be at all concerned, or am I overreacting?

Often Airbnbs charge a little more for an extra person as well.

Who wants him to? I like him just the way he is.

Oh, don't get me wrong, it was merely an academic question

How does he find pants to fit over his ass? How does he find underwear to fit?

This was my go to newspaper for topics on Gay news & entertainment . Used to always cut out the discount coupon for the Gaiety. Before the internet & sites like Grindr the Classifieds were the way to meet people.

 

Sad to read that their on-line news will also be closing.

 

RIP Village Voice.

Classified ads were a big revenue source for the paper and helped keep it going

You can play the drums on that ass!

that'd give me a chance to work on my one stick drumming

Yeah that was the good old days when masturbation was looked at as a real health issue. It was the original reason for circumcision.

 

Kellogg believed that masturbation lead to a whole host of health problems. That was the reason he came up with Kellogg's Corn Flakes. He believed that plain foods would curb filthy Minds.

He also promoted eugenics, and race based intelligence. It's why I never buy corn flakes, and, well they get too soggy too soon

I've never known anyone doing it for health reasons. If it was a real health problem then most of the European guys you would expect to be having issues but it seems it's just us Americans that have the issues. Mostly mental.

I think it emerged within the 1920's 'health discussion' promoted by Kellogg (as well as his promotion of eugenics)

I am glad my parents had me circumcised when I was born. I know a few older guys who are having to have it done now for health reasons. Not a pleasant experience.

It never was

No. To our close gay friends, of course, our relationship was known, but to most other people we were simply roommates....who happened to share a bed in a one bedroom apartment. When we bought our first house together in 1971, it had to be in his name, because only one of us could get a mortgage, as a "single man." Our first cars were all owned by me. By the time we bought the second house in 1983, there was no problem purchasing and getting a mortgage in both names. However, we didn't purchase and register a car together until 2004.

 

By the mid-1970s, our relationship was open knowledge to all our friends and neighbors, as well as to our work colleagues and our employers. (At his retirement reception twenty years ago, I was formally included as his partner.) His siblings--one of them also gay--recognized the relationship early on; other family members undoubtedly understood, but didn't openly acknowledge it. All our parents were deceased before we could legally marry, which probably saved them and us from a lot of angst, because they were fairly conservative. My father had a favorite cousin who had a male "friend" for many years, but in the 1930s and 40s, living together as a couple would have been unthinkable.

Thank you for sharing that. Have you written about your lives together more formally, as part of a lived history story?

Or something? Hell!! He needs his cock nursed. If you’ll excuse me, I’ll be right back.

Ah. I was going somewhere else with that, but dive in

My spouse and I decided to move in together the day we met--which just happened to be 50 years ago from the date of your posted question. (I didn't see the post because we were celebrating.)

Congratulations. Your relationship has spanned a sea change in social attitudes. Have you always been able to be open about your relationship, or if not, when did that eventually change? And, again, congratulations. Nicest thing I've read today.

Definitely … 'or something'

Indeed Brendan in the 90s was the epitome of big dumb jock to milk mercilessly...

How about James Norton

Does anyone have any update for this thread, any details, tips ?

There are other threads on here about Taboo. Just use the search function with Taboo

I do know and acknowledge my faults and they are many. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa.

And still, when men on here tell you that you post CONSTANTLY about inane things, it has NO effect on your behavior. This is just a community of men (and apparently transgender women .. I didn't know … sorry if I have offend anyone), with a necessary amount of give and take and getting along. And you proceed along, as if you haven't gotten any clear feedback from others.