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It depends on what you like/are attracted to. I often see members here all excited about some escort that I would never pick. For example, there are some members who really like the young, twinks. And there is nothing wrong with liking legal age twinks. But for the most part, I have no attraction to them at all. So how hot ‘all’ escorts are is going to depend on how eclectic you are. You hear about-at least in books-straight guys who talk about how all women are beautiful-just some more than others. There’s probably a gay equivalent to that. But I’d say that for most us on here we aren’t quite as eclectic as that. There are types we like and types we definitely don’t. Gman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6NBcuO20tE Gman

For years I’ve received emails from Facebook listing people I might want to be friends with. And occasionally I’ve recognized some of these people as escorts. I’ve always figured that Facebook somehow looked at my email contacts and matched emails and/or my phone contact list. That’s why I’ve never given Facebook my phone number. Gman

I understand your point. But I actually find the praising to the sky comments more suspect by new-ish members—esp when there have been questionable comments made prior to their paeans of glory. Gman

You see ‘smoking’ listed on so many of these profiles in their “Likes Section”. While I realize some escorts smoke, I always wonder if a lot of them just check all the options to try to appeal to the widest selection of clients. I also wonder if this guy is one of the bisexual4pay group. I’m not sure if I ever hired a guy who listed his position as ‘Ask Me’. Gman

Ah we are different. While I don’t like bag check fees, I hate not having an assigned seat. I also hate that they don’t have food. And on long distance flights I’ve often thought their seats were incredibly uncomfortable. They are fine for a short jaunt from Dallas to Houston or Dallas to Austin, but I find long flights on SWA to be murder. And nowadays unless you book really, really far in advance they are just as expensive as the legacy airlines with the added bonus that depending on where you are going, if it’s a long distance flight/cross country flight, it can often take you all day as there’s a good chance you are going to have to change flights. Mind you, I don’t think American has particularly comfortable seats either. Alaska Air has pretty comfortable seats. But their seat pockets on the backs of the seats in front of you are (intentionally I’m sure) a joke. But I’m glad you made it home safely. Gman

I’m glad if you are on SW that you are only going to Chicago and that you have munchies. I used to have a non-sexual friend who lived in suburb of Baltimore -actually he still does although is about to move to Atlanta. I haven’t seen him for a long time due to financial circumstances. But when I had the money, I visited and once either took a SW flight from Baltimore all the way back to Seattle or possibly it was to Dallas. In either case there was a stop in Chicago. By the time I arrived at Midway I was extremely hungry. We weren’t changing planes, but the flight attendant told us how long we had before we had to re-board. But she had the time zones mixed up. We had much less time than she indicated. I think we only had 20 minutes. I remember being in line at the Potbelly worried it was taking too long. On a the plus side, I had never been to a Potbelly before. I’m a fan of their roast beef sandwich. But I make them put extra mayo on it as it has a tendency to be too dry without it. Gman

Now that would be telling. Gman

My libido is pretty low too. I don’t know if it’s from low testosterone or not. Last time it was checked- a few years back it was normal. But my libido was low then too. Gman

I think there is at least one lie on that website. I don’t think the drugs can be FDA approved if they aren’t legal here in the USA. One of the problems I have with these places is the problem of counterfeit drugs I saw a Dateline or similar program years ago where they found a shipment of totally fake Viagra. They looked exactly like the real thing. The only way you could tell the difference was on chemical analysis. Gman

While technically the patent doesn’t expire until 2020, Teva has come to an agreement with Pfizer and is selling a generic. But Teva’s generic is still expensive. At this point, getting generic Revatio is still much, much cheaper. I can get the equivalent of 6-100 mg doses for about $19. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viagra-to-go-generic-in-2017-according-to-pfizer-agreement/ Gman

I’m sure you can get a paper prescription if you ask for it. There are always reasons-for example you might be going out of town on a trip-and need one in case you run out. Gman

But the bottle itself should say the name of the prescription. If the bottle says Sildenafil, rather than Revatio, then it’s the generic. Also here are pictures of the branded Revatio. http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rbi80dz8fg84ap3/File%20Jan%2011%2C%202%2051%2013%20PM.png?dl=0 Gman

Are you sure you are getting Revatio and not generic Revatio? I’ve never seen that low a price for branded Revatio anywhere. If it’s really that low, I’d love to know the pharmacy. Gman

That’s a good price. If you don’t mind taking multiple tablets, the generic 20 mg tablet can probably be obtained for about the same price using GoodRx. I can get it for about .59 cents a tablet, so taking 5 costs me about $2.95. There’s the inconvenience of taking 5 tablets, but the convenience of being able to pick it up at a nearby pharmacy But thanks for the info on Big Mountain. Gman

I’ll have to agree. I hadn’t seen pictures of him in a while. It seems to me that when I saw him last, he had some stripes on his abdomen and some type of sunburst or mandala on his arm. These new ones are a shame. Gman

That’s too bad. He can be a bit reserved, but I count him in my top 10 experiences. A quick story... This was years ago. I had been visiting Los Angeles. I had always wanted to meet him. But he had retired for a bit. The day I was leaving I saw he was in LA and advertising. I believe he was staying in Beverly Hills, but I’m not familiar with the LA area so it might have been somewhere else. I decided that it was worth the possibility of missing my plane to see him. I called him up, and he was available. He gave me his directions, and I drove to see him. Once I got there, I was really nervous-not about meeting him but about missing my plane. He was very nice throughout it all. When he were finished meeting, I tried to pay him more than we had agreed upon because I had been so nervous throughout the meeting. He refused to take the extra. Gman

Big Pharma is getting ridiculous. I just priced 6 branded Viagra 100 mg pills using GoodRx. The least expensive price was $389. That’s $64.83 a pill. I know I didn’t play that back around 2005. I never would have been able to afford it. I think they were around $20 a pill then. Is this massive price increase recent since the generic came out? What market are they going for? I doubt an insurance company, unless they have a deal with Pfizer, is going to cover Viagra -assuming they cover ED drugs at all-when the generic is about $18 a pill. Gman

I should have said in the majority of cases generics are usually considered to be equivalent to brand name. But even I know some examples where they aren’t. I believe there can be problems with timed-release formulations with generics compared to the branded drug, I know that my father’s physician wanted him to get branded Coumadin (a blood thinner) rather than the generic warfarin. I also know that the standards for most generics don’t say the absorption has to be 100% of the branded drug-they are allowed a range of absorption. I’ve even had experience where a long time ago I was taking generic adderall. I could definitely feel a difference in effect between two different brands of generics. But as regards Revatio vs generic sildenafil, I have not been able to find anything that says Revatio is approved for erectile dysfunction and the generic of it isn’t. ***** On another note-as probably a lot of people know. Viagra itself is now generic. But the generic is still on the expensive side. Teva is one company making a generic. I found a prescription assistance program Teva was offering for those with non-governmental insurance-Medicare, Medigap, and Tricare don’t qualify either-where Teva would pay up to a $100 copay for 6 tablets. Google Teva Assistance Program and you should be able to find it. For some reason the assistance program for Viagra at least is not available in Massachusetts and won’t be in California starting sometime in June 2018. Gman

Unless I’ve misunderstood the discussions I’ve had regarding generics with my own physicians over the years (which is not impossible) or the laws of NYC are different than a lot of other states (I’ve lived in multiple states), I’d have to say that what your physician has told you seems very wrong to me. Sildenafil is a generic. Generics are approved for the same treatments as the branded drug. Many states even have laws that prescriptions can be filled with generics if the doctor approves. Would any of the physicians on the Forum comment on this? Plus from my reading of the drug information sheet for Revatio, it seems to me that Revatio is indicated for a disease called pulmonary hypertension not erectile dysfunction. Erections while using Revatio for pulmonary hypertension would be considered a side effect. As for your price for Revatio, I have to wonder if it’s being convered by your insurance. Because if not, then NYC has the cheapest prices for Revatio that I’ve ever seen. In fact I just plugged a zip code for the Upper East Side into the GoodRx app. Here are the non-insurance prices for 90 Revatio tablets using a GoodRx coupon at local pharmacies http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/pm0osfo8chu6i0y/File%20Jan%2011%2C%209%2056%2004%20AM.png?dl=0 And here are the non insurance NYC prices for generic sildenafil using a GoodRx coupon. These prices are pharmacy specific. As you can see at the bottom, Walgreens/Duane Reed would charge $432 dollars for 90 tablets whereas Acme Markets only charges $37.10 http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/duz5l6iud8lm53p/File%20Jan%2011%2C%209%2055%2043%20AM.png?dl=0 Prices can definitely change over time. I originally used the GoodRx coupon for generic sildenafil at Walmart. Then that became very expensive even with the coupon. I currently get a low price for the tablets at Safeway. (Which just as an FYI if you are in Texas would be the same price at Randall’s in Houston or Tom Thumb in Dallas). Gman

Well it’s not always the best. But in many cases we have more choice. For example, I was at a lecture on Ethics in the 1980’s by one of the first women pediatric surgeons. She was probably in her early 70’s at that point. She had retired and had obtained a Master’s in Medical Ethics from the UK. While telling us about the wonders of socialized medicine, she did bring up a hypothetical of someone her age needing a kidney transplant. She said they told her the National Health wouldn’t ok it for someone her age-but that they would for her since she was a physician. So no system is perfect. Gman

I realize this is an old thread. And I don’t know whether my comment will be needed. I found the thread and @jjkrkwood’s comment whole searching for something else. I’d like to make a small corection to @jjkrkwood’s comment above-and again I realize someone may have already caught it. But there are at least 63 posts in this thread, and I don’t want to go thru them all (sorry) While if not covered by insurance, it is cheaper to take the 20 mg sildenafil tablets, it’s the generic that sildenafil and not the name brand (Revatio) 20 mg which is cheaper. Revatio is very, very expensive. Here are screenshots from the GoodRx app (an app and website where you you can often obtain free coupons that give large discounts on medications that aren’t covered by insurance. Occasionally it might make the medications cheaper than expensive copays. The classic Goodrx is free. Anyone can download the app or use the website. There is also apparently a new subscription option which might save you more money-but I haven’t looked into it yet). Revatio Pricing using GoodRx at my local pharmacies http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/67ado4l1azrixo0/File%20Jan%2010%2C%209%2043%2029%20PM.png?dl=0 And the prices using the GoodRX coupon for generic Revatio-ie sildenafil http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/nm71buw1rvu92xs/File%20Jan%2010%2C%209%2043%2047%20PM.png?dl=0 Gman

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Happy Natal Day Anniversary -two days late!! Gman

Obviously not all gay men like to kiss. So it just brings up the question of whether maybe he likes to save kissing for his private relationships or whether he’s only bisexual for money-ie gay4pay. Gman