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  1. I use words that exist in newspapers, mainstream magazines, etc. Surprisingly, perhaps, such publications also draw on vocabulary found in more academic material. My one misstep was thinking you might look up What You See Is All There Is, as I used the acronym form. Various impressions of the escort's character emerged from differences in initial encounters describing him and/or interaction with him. I was making a point about staying centered and objective in the face of polarized views. You are helping to make my point about bias. You likely have an impression about me that you might go to great lengths to defend. Your contribution may shape and reinforce others' impressions if they share your preferences for styles of written expression. It can be a struggle to roll back a point of view. I already admitted that I had a positive biased impression of this chap, but then two opposing descriptions of the escort demanded some mental work about choice. I do not proclaim to have particular skills in avoiding the tendency of bias myself. I think that the intense way in which you expressed disapproval reflects a need to gain approval in some way. I know I like acceptance myself. (This is universal, not a jibe attempt.) Illhelpya was evidently not attempting to start a war in which sides need to be taken. Discussing the dynamics of conflict in perspective is typically going to involve going deeper into ideas, at the risk of drawing on more complex language. Otherwise, it might end up a polarized fight to the death concerning whether the guy is A-list or A-hole. Failing to recognize blind spots, not acknowledging that what you see is not all there is, is the basis of most problems. I find this to be an uphill battle myself. I actually do, fairly quickly, make good enough judgements about hire choices. I think my own take on a guy is pretty independent of what might be predicted based on others' experience. Nevertheless, there is some comfort in accessing the 'skinny' on a prospect. I consider many factors but do not usually get tripped up weighing them. I suspect this holds true for all of us here.
  2. The best ad messages are believable, legible in font type size and saturation, do not use complex language when simple is adequate, memorable (eg, ideas in verse, such as simple rhyme, are taken as more credible and insightful), name the product easy to pronounce (attention to logical correct upper/lower case; no symbols, only letters and numbers but only where digits create an associative response in memory !), with possible consideration to priming consumer action. Moreover, maybe contain partial ripoff components of other popular brand names in associative recall.. HiramHung123Go ... just an example, likely too long and silly. This is very impromptu. But Hiram is boozy denoting mellow, conveys anchored position 'here I am', whisky is macho, HH is alliterative, Hung primes Hunk associativeness, the starting pistol is athletic phallic charged explosive and alerts to temporal expediency while priming action over complacency. Hiram holds as legit abbreviation and some readers connect it to Walker, George to curious, Sam to Yosemite, Steven to even ... most conventional names evoke association, so make it a good one. Do not do what some cruel parents do, use a name that is more befitting a beloved pet, unless you want to deliberately create a milder meeker persona. Effort is aversive to consumers. Adding the complexity of a Russian Doll approach to layers of information is not enticing. It undermines the advantage of speed, clarity, conciseness, and a balanced judicious degree of embellishment. Giving directions and cues to the task of reading attention? "What now ... proof is needed that the first stage of content is true?" is the readers intuitive response. Do not make him need to identify with any complex justification, including the idea that a reserved private compartment of viewing offers more titillation. It rings defensive and overdone, like if I did not hook you at hello let me give you the real deal that I failed to demonstrate at the get go. In other words, use my posts as an example of what not to do in devising a grabby ad. The idea of imposing on the viewer extra steps to access a secondary cache of ad content is preposterous. Save that for direct communication or undressing later.
  3. Grain of salt, me too. For everything, as suggested. The WYSIATI bias applies to all of us. I am reluctant to discredit somebody's good experience, in spite of individual impression. I was primed to admire this Brasileiro long ago based on photos, so a good report is easier to integrate. The two competing narratives create dissonance and conflict, but are not logically incompatible. The bar is understandably set higher in evidentiary terms for validating shadiness.
  4. Yes, I can confirm that the two run in the same 'woof'-pack of about a half dozen Colombianos and are training together, perhaps sharing accommodations as well. I think he is cuter than 'Alejo' who is a slightly bulkier tractor. 'Davis' is a few inches taller. Question is: what can happen if they are new at this? Likely all pulling in cash to support their physique goals. Too bad an upcoming visit to NYC is not in the cards for me. These guys are top of their class in competition. BTW, I am just confirming their association. I don't release private details ... it's a matter of principle, neither here nor via PM. Some of us are always going to have more info played close to our chest.
  5. Yes, I can confirm that the two run in the same 'woof'-pack of about a half dozen Colombianos and are training together, perhaps sharing accommodations as well. I think he is cuter than 'Alejo' who is a slightly bulkier tractor. 'Davis' is a few inches taller. Question is: what can happen if they are new at this? Likely all pulling in cash to support their physique goals. Too bad an upcoming visit to NYC is not in the cards for me. These guys are top of their class in competition. BTW, I am just confirming their association. I don't release private details ... it's a matter of principle, neither here nor via PM. Some of us are always going to have more info played close to our chest.
  6. One ring-dingy ... we need an Ernestine type to do a skit on this. Yes, he's been a bottom since his high school production of Midsummer Night's Dream [snort]. No, he does not accept cheques but he is one [snort].
  7. One ring-dingy ... we need an Ernestine type to do a skit on this. Yes, he's been a bottom since his high school production of Midsummer Night's Dream [snort]. No, he does not accept cheques but he is one [snort].
  8. Passportindex.org does it by rank. UAE, Luxembourg, Finland, Germany, ... Iraq, Afghanistan.
  9. Passportindex.org does it by rank. UAE, Luxembourg, Finland, Germany, ... Iraq, Afghanistan.
  10. I wonder if sustained holds, in contrast to those in conventional sport aimed at a rapid conclusion, are simply more taxing and depleting for the provider than we might acknowledge. The contract:expand time ratio is different. The energy for a fast choke-out may be less than the energy for a slower, regulated, pre-asphyx hold. The graph may not be straightline. Elapsed time may elevate consumption curvilinearly. Mental energy (the cognitive processing alertness grade assuring safety while satisfying a unique request on which kink arousal is predicated) also competes for the same effort pool as physical energy. This is empirically proven, that the components of expenditure trend to zero-sum. Another Example ... Do alternate-side bilateral standing dumbbell bicep curls at a set weight with arbitrary set reps (left, right, left ... ). Then when rested or at the same baseline energy pool, do unilateral curls, flexing and releasing the same number of reps one side while holding the opposite arm flexed at 90 degrees holding the same weight stationary, then change sides and do the same. Identical weight and number of reps for each arm in the two models, but a different experience of strain and energy expenditure. And not the same net work as the first sequence. The non-rep arm is stationary for a time at the mid- point juncture of movement, while not sharing the same work simultaneously. Also requires more mental attention. The rep work sustain, plus the added mental energy to attentively hold a second physical task stationary perpendicularly, compete differently for available resources compared to the first sequence. My trainer used to have me do bosu-ball push-ups for a duration versus holding a mid-range position. Naturally my body started involuntary trembling far sooner in the latter.
  11. PS: Do the ad platforms prohibit your inclusion of a justforfans handle in your basic ad? Or can you privately send inquirers same, setting a low pricepoint? I believe it is easy for mongers to confine purchase to one month for each individual provider. How pimpy is justforfans in their cut? How viable might it be to level out profit?
  12. Are not all ad platforms postmodern promotional pimps, grinning never smiling? Getting as much cut as possible? Holding registered mongers' personal details? Distancing from deal fallthroughs and offsetting providers' drought by casting the net to entice new added inventory? Ensuring enough pimp role sustainability, indirectly or directly penalizing workers, to adapt to profit ebb and flow? Is pimping not the second oldest profession, with solidly anchored unalterable dynamics? [baby you know I love you, use you, and my job is to convince you I am the only choice.] I am not miserly when I hire, and maybe pimps are sometimes necessary evil to that end (I spring for purchase via ad platforms less than 1% of trade), but no platform pimp will see a red cent from me. If that spills over punitively, sorry about that, but I cannot mitigate entrenched systemic ills and I waive ownership for flaky consumer wavering. I realize there are very limited options, but if you want to have a broker with a conscience like in some other professions, don't have a MacDaddy helping to push your meat. Perhaps SESTA, certainly misguided overall, conceptually got it a teeny bit right and has underpinned the heft of related legislation with this inarguable reality.
  13. I spent lunch and a full Sunday afternoon in Basel. It is a sin to visit Zürich and not try to sidetrip by 70 minutes train and see most of the main sights by foot.
  14. Ha ... I had better put a fire under it. In the blink of an eye dinner will be a 16:30 o'clock affair with evening liquids restricted due to overnight incontinence.
  15. One might base decisions on a number of factors. How much douchebag politicians can say with impunity, pandering to their base and getting press. Remember that Bolsonaro and Rio mayor Crivella are generally thumbs down on any diversity and are happy to deflect from the realities of actually serious out-of-control social problems. Re: orientation and transgender, 15% of the general population lacks acceptance for a defined 10% of the general population. This performance record still outranks American attitudes in favour of LGBTQ Preponderance of violent hate crimes committed on LGBTQ nationals. Terrible performance record, as is the alarming overall national homicide rate. Decriminalization of sodomy. Done and dusted. Not so in some other countries. Professional regulatory licensing bodies. They have a very dim and intolerant view of pathologizing sexual diversity, and shit-for-brain therapists are shunned. Socioeconomic status of the homosexual minority. More represented in the top tiers of wealth, consumer privilege, and quality of life compared to hetero. Societal and legal advances since 1980 favouring acceptance and rights protection. Less than Europe, a little less than Canada and Australia, on par with Latin America, better than USA. How much a country is already stereotyped as a gay tourism mecca. Brazil in top 10? Top 3? Likely gets under the skin of local evangelicalism, homonegative fundamentalism. The perception of gay-magnetizing likely amplified by absolute numbers outside of statistical reality, for example breadth of Pride attendance, as well as the relaxation of self-presentation towards fluidity in all forms of identity during Carnaval madness. How much a country wants to inflate overall tourism and taking measures for same. Muchly. How much vitriolic hatred and disapproval that is front of mind within the individual and directed to select soccer players and teams compared to other minorities. What repeat visitors say ... Personally, I am not gifted with foreign language skills but that does not pose an impediment for me when in Brazil. I worry most, like anyone there, about being robbed, though I have not been targetted over many trips. As a gay sex tourist, being defined as "other" by straight trade who are able to suspend their anxiety and differentiate their MSM behaviour as more performative than self-defining viz orientation, actually works out fairly well. The complex balance of easy cash access and financial expediency, as well as the capacity they possess to distance their motives from mine because of the very compartmentalization of orientation that otherwise potentially yields discrimination paradoxically works for some of us. To equalize socioeconomic status they draw selectively on the collective psyche to help create a narrative that mitigates the negative implications involved in prostituting themselves. It is a complex phenomenon to explain, but I think that the ability to reconcile commercial sex with conventional heterosexual roles is somewhat more uniquely advanced for these men. Muscle worship is a foreign concept; it is a point of pride to top johns skillfully and impressively. Simply put, my impression is that gay-for-pay there is more easily integrated into what is occupationally viable. Mind you, it may be absolute numbers, as in other examples. A vast population may statistically better sustain the existence of a miniscule minority that nevertheless exceeds the actual inventory of other destinations. Not to mention that a small proportion of men can sustain physiological arousal out of synch with subjective sexual cue preference. The appeal of travel to a densely populated place, with sex trade infrastructure capturing the trickle-down effects of variables supporting sex play experiences in line with my self-serving fantasies, is always going to far override the transient mouthing off of a temporarily tenured blowhard.
  16. Just Gorgeous. The contact number is cellular. He is showing up on my Whatsapp contacts.
  17. Good insight, to be sure, Viconte. The question about their travel plans is seduction gold. Maybe I should soften my comment on their cloned posts... "I loved the initial release, and now the Netflix, Prime, and DVD versions have me hooked. Keep it up. How can I get your autograph?" Too much on the nose? ?
  18. In many cases their phone number, once in my smartphone contacts, seems to add them to FB and IG suggested follow-worthies. ------ One issue that I have is that many hot guys post the same photos scattered throughout the collection, and the photo timeframe actually gets distorted unless you scroll to its initial presentation. Now I realize that perhaps they do not remove the previous post after reposting it because it would eliminate the earlier comments ... is that the case? Sometimes it is framed as a "throwback", but otherwise what is the point? It just seems to be attention-seeking and obsessional. For me, it lowers their stock value. I am tempted to comment: "Yeah, looks identical to the previous [x] number of occasions you posted this pic. How many validation comments will satisfy the bottomless pit of your need for admiration? Do you suffer from narcissism or early onset dementia?"
  19. People always tell the OP he is missing out by not getting with a sex worker, because he is so hot. My only surprise is that he did not qualify always and hot with "literally". Imagine the poor guy getting routinely bombarded with this message. Friends, family, other hot bedmates, colleagues, tradespeople, the local barkeep, barista, gym buddies, etc etc, spontaneously asserting: "U r hot and desirable; get thee to a queer brothel and pony up some cash for an escort!" Upon entering from Brazil, the border patrol agent sizing him up ... "bae, you are fuckin' smokin' and our local escorts will think it is such a waste that you are giving up that sweet ass without paying!" It must chip away at his sense of objective reality so that he believes it to be one of the most pressing life goals to be met. Furthermore, trapped into this agenda with nary a clue as to how to procure, notwithstanding having tripped into a related forum with thousands of playbook cues.
  20. Apart from the statistical reality of personality morbidity and the implications of displeasing a provider that the client can move on from (contextual consideration-sorting), sexual excitation situations typically involve impulsive, less deliberative filters on behavioural choices. In heat in the heat of the moment, the elevated possibility of disinhibition. Failing to apply a condom where in this case the prophylactic is a metaphor for more thoughtful cognitive processing. The outcome risk not pregnancy or STI, in analogous terms, but a poor impression of character. Horny clients, like many guys, are using more intuitive fast brain functions, dodging conventionally valued social comportment, consequences be comparatively damned, whereas the provider is drawing on more advanced sophisticated slow brain processes (slow not meaning dumb). I think this has been described as the little head governing the big head. Sex is transient mental deficiency. Treat it with release or a bucket of ice water. Sure, some folks are simply bat-crap cray-cray, but I would not judge personality according to a loaded and thematically circumscribed commercial situation where the interplay of physiology and rational thought can be so off kilter. If ANY of my family and social circle knew what I got up to as a hirer, even though I am financially very solvent, I would be deemed to be perverted and wasteful, sick, damaged, worthy of a structured intervention. It would eclipse most salutary aspects of their view of me. Similarly, I am only human and quick to judge behaviour out of the (my) ordinary. And, for me, my choices about engaging trade make perfect sense, mainly because they are mine. Providers should perhaps hope that clients are just disturbed enough, viz suspending rational thought, to capitulate to purchasing fleeting pleasure, yet fall short of the thresholds of psychopathology that would make the profession untenable.
  21. In clinical parlance, the person has to meet an expansive list of criteria rigorously assessed by a registered pro in order to be diagnosed with Anti-social Personality Disorder, under which the more outdated 'sociopathy' is loosely subsumed. There is considerable consensus that there is little that can be effectively done to mitigate the disorder. As such, the diagnosis pretty much stands permanently. In layperson settings, someone termed personality disordered has typically done an objectionable, unlikeable, disagreeable thing to the assessor in order to earn the label. The "diagnosis" pretty much stands permanently, the difference being that the record is not professionally sealed disclosure-wise.
  22. It has come to my attention that Sauna Sunnyday across the river from Basel's main art museum may be a place, like Paragonya in Zürich, where one might hire for play. First, two online escorts, one a Czech muscle dude mentioned previously by other posters, gives it as a location for an upcoming Basel visit timeframe. Second, Spartacus Sauna Guide mentions Massage by Porn Stars in its bullet points in the description. Third, the club's photoset depicts at least one picture of an older average looking client flirting with a young gorgeous built stud. Thoughts?
  23. The math, then, is the same proportion of escorts and clients alike are full-blown sociopathic at the epidemiological prevalence rate. Sub-sociopathic patterns slightly differ ... (Some) Escorts may alter or embellish facts to their advantage as a natural and understandable component of performative labour. (Some) Clients may alter truth or reality more specifically within the context of hiring, more so than in daily life, as there is implicit latitude in a substantially priced role-play scenario, possibly leading to the perceived fallacy that clients as a whole may be somewhat over-representative of pathology compared to the general population. This is an interesting thread. And I admit I have been made. Upon reflection, I qualify as situationally sub-sociopathic. In other-words, the entire enterprise is benignly crazy-making. Thank god for money and money shots.
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