SirBillybob

No. Prostitution is legal in CR so it is comparatively lax, but not Canada. Your source is ads and strippers who are down for private hire. However, strippers are more expensive and much less likely to offer much more than worship, vanilla play, etc. Like anywhere else, advertising providers are not keen for a meet-and-greet in advance.

I have not met a provider in Canada (my home) that seems aware of our prostitution law. Technically, CD can advertise and sell himself, as buying is what is illegal. He cannot, however, offer procurement of a third party. I also worked somewhat, vetting couples for Immigration. The whistleblowers tend to be family members or friends, but in this case the public profiles do call for extra discretion. I also easily discovered “Alex’’ true identity. I met them briefly socially, unaware of their history at the time. Nice guys and they are also altruistic but, yes, naïve. I do not know if their advocacy for international gay rights has paradoxically lowered their guard. I doubt being transparent in commercial sex work is a statement of freedom assertion.

Apart from the poorly edited ad, who but a bobble-head, notwithstanding looks and charm, would publicly broadcast one's American spouse's illegal escort trade here like it's a Pride parade float? 'Oh, my divine husband tag-teams me here if you are lucky ... we are funding his conjugal status sponsorship through our joint prostitution but not paying associated wage taxes while he seeks a legitimate work permit.' (assuming this is the case) Way to use discretion and tact to legitimize your marriage with immigration authorities. PASS.

It is not listed in October Fugues magazine and in Sept there was an ad recruiting dancers.

These guys are often changing their social media. A Facebook page suggests he really buffed back up for a comeback a year ago ... if those photos are real, and I assume they are, he looked fantastic up to 6 months ago, but then it abruptly ends and the IG account listed is now disabled. The twitter also abruptly ends. I would consider meeting him in Madrid if he returns, which is likely. Looks like he last competed in Alicante in July 2018 and looked fantastic.

I have found him attractive for years, peaked in a 2012 competition. I was taken with his pro photos back then. I think his more recent RM photos are the ones in clothing, professionally done. He has the same real name as a competitor from Argentina but they are two different folks. For a fairly accurate more current representation, there are 2 vids at mymusclevideo ... search "domenec". One is from Livemuscleshow but I think now expired on that site. A little grey in the beard from a few years ago. I would put him at about age 32 or more. "Frank"ly, he starts at 300 Euros (at least when in Dubai) but you can get guys just as hot for a half-hour trick for 50-75 at Thermas in Barcelona.

Miami, but somebody else beat me to that joke. The concept of "strip club" south of Mexico may be different than you are accustomed to, as globally the range goes from watching entertainment from a distance, either stripping down performers or dancers starting out and often remaining in skimpy gear, to places with semi-private or private lapdance areas. The latter are few and far between, whereas nightclubs with go-go dancers are more plentiful. What type more specifically are you referring to?

In general, I do not think escorts delineate serostatus or prophylaxis status as a way of dissuading clients from condom use. The original question related to the conceptual understanding of various HIV prevention terms. It did not intend to undermine condom use in general for a host of STI prevention.

According to my Grindr profile settings the closest thing to TasP is "positive, undetectable". Therefore, cross-referencing that auto-dialogue box content with the "about me" component that might include the TasP wording may provide a clue as to what communication is intended.

There has long been a need to differentiate among three versions of HIV transmission prevention, none of which refer specifically to non-ARV protection, via latex barriers for example: post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) for a neg person, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for a neg person, and treatment-as-prevention (TasP) of a poz person for the sake of a neg person. None require a verified poz diagnosis of a sexual partner (at the level of disclosure outside of jurisdictional legal considerations) but any of the three can include such. TasP is conceptual for the neg because it does not hinge on ARV uptake for the neg (nor precludes it) and involves planful rigourous ARV treatment of the poz. TasP refers to treatment of the poz person and is predicated on ensuring and monitoring viral suppression. Because it can be stand-alone as a prevention measure, a unique specific term is needed where transmission patterns are assessed in the context of negative partners not taking preventive ARV. However, it can also obviously occur in conjunction with PEP or PrEP uptake by negative partners. Treatment (TasP) is not prophylaxis but doubles as prevention. PEP and PreP are not treatment but are prevention, essentially anticipatory treatment of a hypothetical exposure (prophylaxis). Condoms are prophylactics. I don't find the above to be confusing or a poor choice of semantics. ------- The escort describing "treatment as prevention" is: (a) Using the term (TasP) erroneously as a misnomer for his PreP, or ... (b) Is poz and relying on and conveying his monitored ARV treatment as an exclusive (or component) mode of prevention, not precluding the component of TasP for poz clients or PrEP for neg clients, or ... © Assessing clients for serostatus and ARV treatment along with conventional markers of viral suppression. I am not getting into disclosure legalities, such as for (b). However, the client "in the know" may take the term TasP or its long form, used correctly, as an opening to discuss prevention with the provider or as an opening to discuss its incorrect use where the provider is neg and on PrEP. My guess is that (a) is the most common. I know for sure that © is the least common.

Campus booth curtains might also require some lighting retrofitting because the cubicle zones are already dark and rely on light bleeding in from the main space. Stock curtains are opaque but the lighting outside the cubicle seems stronger and spills in.

I think that one slang there for dick is “peru” translated turkey, if I am not mistaken? Enjoy going south on your Thanksgiving dinners, a marriage of NoAmer and SoAmer!

Perhaps over-eagerness to cleverly use the shrug emoticon lead to a semantic lapse. But the general tone is offputting ... better to convey if it works great we both have agency and fit each other, not if it does not dovetail there is some deficiency out of my control

Nuuk, Greenland. LOL, too obscure to be fun.

Feb 1996 Remingtons

Yes, it is confusing, isn’t it? Ordinarily open (or non-) curtain suggests less contact and $10 ... I believe Stock has a sign delineating the distinction. I have always assumed all songs are $20 at Campus and not bothered to request a lesser rate, because I want “$20 action”. Perhaps the absence of a curtain supports the notion that all songs are the higher rate, therefore more lucrative for dancers. Perhaps Stock is taking more of risk, or open versus closed there cues a clearer boundary between 2 versions of contact. It may simply be club preference, or a little of “something for everyone” on the strip. I believe the official boiler-plate explanation is that the open concept is less incriminating and closer to the table-dance concept. Protection of all parties. Also, a foreign presence such as morality squad can be noticed more easily and warn that adjustments in cubicle choreography are required. Where some charges have been laid in Canada, the law enforcers have yanked open the curtain so the element of surprise prevents behaviour alteration. I note, though, that open concept at Campus is partially visible but at a distance, so it may encourage curiosity and retail.

Oh, yes yes yes, I agree with your bottom line point. The activity trumps the distinction between a paid employee and, say, being a dancer contractor in the same way the street florists pops in to hawk stem roses. LOL, not the greatest comparative example considering rose innuendo on Grindr, etc. I had to laugh when some board members said candidly to border patrol they planned on hitting the strip clubs here. I’d have substituted ‘leather bar’ and kept a stud bicep bracelet in my bag. (Not: Oh, I plan on breaking your criminal code having a stud simulate anal intercourse grinding down on my crotch)

PS: lucky me in that I lived in TO and infrequently attended Rem’n’s MofS but was fortunate at the time not to be caught up in the raid.

I won’t quote your passage, Jr-Mtl, but I appreciate the additions. I am not a lawyer or expert, but I agree with much of how you see it, some of it may be either one of us splitting hairs on wording and meanings, and we are both missing key parts of the history and the nuances pre- and post- Nordic model application 2014. You made some typing errors I think and some passages do not make sense to me. I avoided the distinction between indecency standards and indictability for simplicity sake. I was trying to focus mainly on vice/morals law and deliberately skirted labour and licensing, but you are correct in that they are relevant. My biggest mistake was attempting to illuminate the reasons for others’ observations about the scene and how their contentment has shifted. Prostitution law here was and is quirky and probably poorly understand by our American cousins. It came down much to communicating for purposes of prostitution (in my books that is enough to have defined it as illegal prior to 2014), and now is protect-provider -- indict John — neo-abolitionism. I don’t know much about the bawdy-house found-in ... seems specific to the setting without concrete evidence of negotiating a trick, the key illegality up to 2014. Technically, now, exchanging champagne service privilege for your dancer, “for consideration” even without cash, qualifies as prostitution if a private lap dance occurs. But what law enforcement system would care? They are interested in exchanging candy for favours from minors, or drugs in exchange for blowies from female addicts. Anyway, how can legal resources keep up when the bar is set so low for what constitutes vice? The Nordic model cares little about MSM trade. It is basically anti-male and as long as The Village clubs are trafficking testosterone, rec drugs, etc, but not females, perhaps things will carry on non-dramatically.

Go to yoga class to limber up and develop the fine art of exchanging saliva while topping doggie-style, contorting your neck and twisting your head up and under his upper pucker while pounding away that lower hungry pucker. Better yet, invite him to hot yoga so you can later meet in the middle, your front middle conjoined to his rear middle. I think he should eliminate the attention span-taxing info about Montreal. Too on the nose. He is either available or not. If not, simply inflates the likelihood of obsessive interest in the one that got away. He has a more conventional, but unremarkable for its being so pedestrian, career based in Canada. With family and social life, accessibility limit is understandable. No need to be an apologist. Mystique trumps social calendar detail.

More to the point to the OP ... You may have hired because many of the 33,000 Calgarian fellows, your queer peers, have not stampeded to your door. Or, more importantly, you cannot simply turn on your horn works for most of them. If you think escorts in general attend and matriculate from the University of MorphingFakeInterestIntoTrueLust, you should enrol yourself and acquire the reach that exceeds your grasp, getting worked up into a lather at every gay lad from Bow River to the Rodeo grounds. You could save a lot of cash but book more routine STI clinic checkups. LOL. Just have fun and try not to take it too seriously.

I only hire straight but good performative providers because they SHOULD NOT be into me. Gay providers WOULD NOT be into me. Well, maybe 30 years ago. I just simply prefer one version of method acting and not second/guessing. I realize this reflects my neuroses. Buy it’s my cash, my prerogative. Straight providers have been the best tops for me. They have cultivated skills in a more refined way and have to perform to be viable. I realized after a time that I could not access in memory a gay provider who really boned me into next week. They have been less able to manage physiological arousal out of synch with lack of subjective arousal. I have become too rigid to test the theory with an expanded sample size. If it’s the strip club setting, the distinction is less relevant. There my focus is more exclusively MY arousal, etc without conventional activity, and the straight dancers have experience acquiring tumescence for sub-sexual interaction. Bottom line: You cannot buy love, or 60 minutes of authentic lust. If they are truly turned on it may be their erotomania off their bipolar- stabilizing prescription psychoactive meds.

The provider who got ruffled’n’rude when deposit request denied is not bright. He eliminated the option of filling a vacant spot with a good client more on an impromptu basis when in town, ie, “hey, I am happy with my booking time here and have not been screwed over; maybe we can work out an appointment if it appears you are the real deal and flexible enough to attend at such and such time without a deposit”. Or the client might change his mind and risk the deposit. Otherwise the guy is just telegraphing he is inherently deserving of privileges, has no grasp of the client putting himself out on the limb (not a dental booking), and letting his psychological issues bleed into the business. There is simply nothing intelligently purposeful about his behaviour. But more importantly, shooting himself in the foot by reinforcing the correlation between pouty entitlement and the direction in which clients lean in jeopardy assessments regarding fronting cash. We are human. One bold Mileroticos guy asking for a pay advance has tainted my trust in all their ads. Maybe not such a bad thing, as in a foreign place one should let the big head be bigger than usual.

——- I think that there are a lot of factors at play, not the least of which is perspective. I live here, have gone to Campus for nigh on 20 years, and have never experienced enough afternoon selection or quality to take a private during the early evening shift. I think, though, the inventory has dwindled overall both shifts. Like I said, song/dong rates doubled during great econ times just prior to the Sept 2008 market plummet, a little less exaggerated than the new film Hustlers, but the change was palpable. I do not find assertions of more recent very marked decline particularly relatable. I have for decades witnessed the contrast between off days and big crowds, without any clear explanation. I do note that there is a manifold increase in appealing RM ads the last few years, when in the past just a handful. The cost of an escort hire can fall short of the rapidly escalating song tally in a club private. That may be a factor. Dancers can be spirited away ... I did so myself with a guy for 4 years. Also, I think that a higher proportion of gym guys are actual competitors and they find the hours do not fit well with their rigorous training routines. —- Le Bourbon Condos will be completed next year and should bring in at least 200 residents. That may lift the energy a little. However, its commercial space may not do well. People just really like to shop on StC West, in my area, where the big brand names are. It is getting too big for its britches. There are several immense residential towers going up. A total of 200 stories just steps from my place and hundreds more within 5-10 minutes walking. The immense underground retail will thrive and draw more shoppers away from The Village. The Village offers niche shopping, nice for visitors but not so convenient for city dwellers.

The clubs were very busy last night (Fri). I don’t know what was going on on the strip under the rainbow canopy. It was packed with people even though rather cool. No apparent defined festival. Maybe it was a composite of college/unit students early in the term taking in the last of the pedestrian zone and the permanent end of the installation.