GTMike

Sorry that happened to you. Wishing you a speedy recovery psychologically. Do have a clarifying question which i hate to ask but feel need to . When he asked you to produce payment and you complied, was that payment compensation for companionship for a specified period of time or was it clearly for specific sexual acts?

I am more of a newer (since 2016) user of both sites and despite their limitations have been very grateful to have them as major pieces in figuring out the puzzle of hiring. I don't use the reviews to get specific intimate details about every potential person but do find it invaluable sometimes in terms of determining basic questions of who is a legit professional provider versus a potential scammer/thief and/or spotting and avoiding serial fake profiles. Also for me the use of both forums, (in my opinion) helps to reduce unncessary back and forth questions that I might otherwise have to do before i might feel comfortable in ultimately hiring and meeting a new provider. In that regard some escorts (who don't want to have to answer the same basic questions over and over again) from numerous potential new clients may not realize benefits the reviews could be helping them from a time wasting management perspective. (Just a stream of consciousness thought, hahaha) Regardless even some of the very old dated reviews from years ago can be helpful. So thank you all who have participated in the past and made it easier for a newbie like me to navigate it all.

I could see a scenario where a tweak of the original concept is something more along the lines of the following. As an example. Say there is a "Escort A", who primarily lives in Boston, Tampa, Atlanta or Philly and feels that it is difficult to reliably schedule extended trips to Seattle, SF or Los Angeles. But if in those west coast cities there were 4 or 5 clients that had history with "A" and they all knew that then its possible that the escort could reliably book a trip to the city knowing that at least 3 or so of the regular clients have committed to meet during that time period which protects the downside of travel. In my experience that is what the escort is essentially doing anyways, by having an anchoring client in a city and booking around that. But of course due to privacy issues and professionalism the other clients wouldn't/shouldn't know formally about each other. This way its pretty much the same thing but a little more coordinated with a little more openess with like minded clients. I'm NOT advocating for this specifically and just thinking of a plausible workable scenario.

FYI as well, ( https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/411-star_stud-houston.152604/) Not much info thus far.

Very interesting.

Ohhhh?? That's the same guy. Haha ok. I'm not doubting though these Pic's must be a little old otherwise I assume given the length of his beard you see it, hahaha

I'll be honest I'm kind of confused about many things regarding that profile but the body depicted does look great.

Hahaha

Sorry to burst your bubble. At any given time and historically there are a plethora of guys on RM and other G4P sites, and/or who do G4P Porn who are straight and are not in denial of being gay or Bi and therefore participating in those activities as some sort of psychological cover. They are just temporarily doing that in some way, shape or form, getting by in life.

Any luck making contact?

I am way more inexperienced than most of you on here especially as it relates to massuers. In fact when i started hiring, i assumed that escorts would escort and had their range of offerable services and likewise massuers did the same however only within the range of erotic, sensual and therapeutic massage. I was inexperienced and assumed that it would be considered rude or borderline offensive to even broach the subject or to "go there" with a masseur regarding "escort-like" services that only had profiles on massage sites. I of course have later learned that for SOME, this is a much more fluid situation and there are many reasons why a person has profiles on one site and/or multiple sites and may or may not infer some services publicaly versus privately. So to me the YMMV can be helpful but only as to indicate that a profile that i may have assumed was strictly massage (based on its presentation), that it may be ok under the appropriate circumstances to inquire with that masseur about extra services not mentioned but i don't assume or expect to necessarily get the same results.

Does he travel outside Texas

Have you met him or tried to?

Anyone with recent encounters with him as an escort?

Here's another contextual question. You mention his profile has been up for years and he's well known and reviewed. i know on RM they can no longer mention specific rates but some do mention requiring deposits. If he's been doing this a long time and requiring deposits in his ordinary course of business, i'd find it hard to believe that he hasn't been used to a significant number of people decline that option. Hence getting angry seems unwarranted and a red flag. To me though if you're still interested you could also privately canvas to get a general sense in private messages to RM reviewers (if they're many and you can get a sense of enough authentic ones) and politely ask if that was their experience as well?

Thanks man. Very interesting.

Agree. If you're a respectful person and ask me respectuful, thoughtful questions you'll get responsive answers but also balanced with the privacy and being respectful to the masseur or escort.

This profile (https://rentmen.eu/HawaiiJoe) used to have a different name but i don't recall what it was. Interestingly the photo's may have changed but the video's are the same and in fact a couple were added that seem consistent. Is that perhaps a new way around reverse image sleuths being harder to find video's haha. Regardless really trying to remember prior name to check reviews or if anyone has had experience.

Seems to be building up good reviews on RM and yes i know those can be suspect but these seem to be from profiles that have been around reviewing for multiple years of some known legit escorts. And here is another related thread. (https://www.companyofmen.org/threads/todays-review-of-johnny-la.151661/#post-1782373)

If it mutually and benficially works for all of you guys and everyone's happy, more power to ya'll

Nope but have checked him out. Also has profile on PlanetJockBoys if you hadn't seen fyi, (https://jboymedia.wixsite.com/website-5/copy-of-template-50)

Likewise. Nothing against Daddy's just really wanting to cast a wider net of more data points and experiences.

Just as an FYI, i live in LA and had never noticed his ad on RM until this past 4 to 6 weeks or so. However around 4 - 6 months ago he came to my attention as he had a profile on Seeking. At that time, i had briefly ommunicated with him and back then he commented that he had been coming out of a relationship. He didn't mean a Seeking arrangement but a boyfriend for whatever that's worth.

Very attractive guy though I'd be shocked (with absolutely no proof on my part, just personal observation), if he were 25yrs young per his RM (https://rent.men/Alex_drago) profile.

Don't know if the profile is legit or not but over the RM site he (or someone for him) has been very responsive to simple questions about future availability and scheduling.