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So maybe I'm wrong about it not being Dave's Gino. Dave, I think, may still be operating, but on a much reduced scale. He closed down his website because he said he was having trouble getting/keeping guys. He said that guys wanted more discretion. To find out his exact status at the moment, you'd need to email him at [email protected]. Gman

You never met a man you didn't like, PK? Gman

I don't want to start an argument- only offer another viewpoint. While it's difficult to be certain without face pictures, this guy to me looks much more ripped than any pictures I ever saw of Dave's Gino. But maybe I'm misremembering. I'm not the best at comparing pictures without faces. Gman

Let me say that I am often not good at discriminating with pictures/photoshop editing. In this case, it occurred to me that the pictures might be too good to be true- but the torso is in such different positions in each photo that I wouldn't be able to tell for sure whether it's the same guy or not. His abdominal musculature in all the pictures looks pretty similar to me. Gman

While his ad doesn't list it explicitly, I gather he's a top. Gman

If you read the ad, it states 'Anal (top)' but he is orally versatile. Gman

I had a similar experience with a surfer bodybuilder type from Miami. He had most options checked under Primary Interests on RB. When I found out he was straight after he arrived for the weekend, I asked him why he had checked off all those options. He said someone told him that was the way to get more clients. Interestingly enough he said he would let me attempt to top him. By that time I was so disgusted. And I figured if he had never done it before, it probably wasn't going to work. So I said no. The other funny thing was he kept asking me if I was having a good time with him. And I kept thinking to myself-well I wasn't really happy about paying for a long weekend with a straight guy. Gman

Alain is one of the only g4p guys that I really considered meeting. But I just couldn't get over him being straight. Unfortunately he has quit bottoming and I've pretty much quit hiring. And in general as a vanilla top- I have no use for a g4p escort. If I were to hire one who advertised as such- they'd have to like kissing, performing oral, and bottoming. I have no wish or fantasies to be dominated by a straight guy (or a gay guy either) or to service one. I mean sure I've been attracted to straight guys before -who hasn't? But my imagination isn't that good, and in general I don't fantasize about having sex with unobtainable straight guys. Gman

I don't know what happened to him. The last I heard he was living in Las Vegas. For a lark I just tried his old website www.alecpowers.com It is still online . But it looks like it hasn't been updated in over 10 years or so. Gman

Alec Powers!! I can't tell y'all the number of times I stared at his pictures on the old Boys Next Store Escort site or his own web page. Unfortunately that was back when I only looked at the escort sites and thought that I'd never be brave enough to try hiring. Plus Boys Next Store had somewhat of a bad reputation. Supposedly the guys would show up and then start adding ala carte pricing. And for the time period, they were already expensive. It seems to me that their fees were starting out at $300. And that was 12 or more years ago. And very few or any of the guys on the Boys Next Door site ever had a review here on Hooboy's that I can remember. Even if I had been daring enough to hire back then, I don't know if I would have trusted BND. Plus I think in his later movies, Alec only topped. But boy if he had been versatile and a good guy, I would have loved to have met him. Gman

I thought Colton seemed the same. Gman

Why do I have a vague remembrance that he left Chicago and moved to the West Coast-maybe Seattle. Gee I wish Ben Archer had been versatile. Did he kiss? Gman

I was interested in hiring him. But he was a top. Gman

Gosh, I loved him. I don't remember how I came across him. And I never paid to see any of his pictures-just looked at the freebies online. I remember there was a website called Hairway to Steven or something like that which had a lot of his pictures. I saw his pictures years before I ever hired. But if he had been escorting, I might have hired years before I did. http://global-4-lvs-colossus.opera-mini.net/hs24-07-04/116190/1/-1/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/671101736/0aff3a25678d3452d8dee3b9b31e17a2.jpg Gman

You know I first started looking at his website long before I ever hired. But I think I contacted him once I did start hiring, and that was what he told me. In the words of the Pink Ladies and Greasers from Grease-if you know something different,please--- TELL ME MORE!! TELL ME MOOOO-oooo-ORE!!!! Gman

I was always interested in him. I looked at his website so many times over the years. Unfortunately for me, he was a strict top. Gman

I had a horrible time with Trey Rexx back in 2006 or so. I hope I can say this here since it was so long ago, and he's retired. Totally conceited and into himself. I'm a clean guy but overweight-he wasn't into kissing-and I'm not sure if I ever managed to top him. Stunning guy to look at though. Gman

But they only do massage right-not escort? Gman

Why don't you contact him and ask politely for a current picture having him hold up the date? When I used to ask, I would tell the escort that I wasn't asking for a dirty picture- just one showing his chest/face and a piece of paper with a date or a current magazine/newspaper. I figured that with just asking for an ''innocent' face/chest picture he would realize I wasn't trying to be a picture collector. I only wanted some verification that the pictures in the ad were accurate. Most of the escorts I ever asked were fine with it. It's not like most of their ads didn't already have shirtless pictures on them. I mean nowadays it's easy to make a screenshot either on your computer or on your phone of a picture in their ad. So it's not like them sending you a shirtless picture is giving you something/revealing something they aren't already showing in their ad and that you couldn't make for yourself anyway. If any escort refused to work with me on that , I figured they weren't that interested in my business or were some kind of scam. Gman

I can't say he looks better to me now. But I wouldn't throw him out of my bed if he showed up there. But boy what a hubba hubba in the Colby's or in Empire Records. Gman

This cover of 'Whatcha Say' has also been difficult to get out of my head. [video=youtube_share;p7A2IFcrluk] Gman

Here's another a cappella version of it [video=youtube_share;MCQVGYDbrSw] Gman

Various versions of Pompeii-originally done by a group called Bastille. I first heard the song at an a cappella concert by the Maccabeats and looked it up. [video=youtube_share;wJIap5cOeus] Gman

Thank you I do know about Goodrx.com-there is even an iPhone app of it. The site saves me a ton on my generic Diovan HCT. I was going to use it for the Meloxicam but the Walgreen's card, while like 60 cents more expensive, didn't have the tablet limits that Goodrx did. I don't know of a Gay/Lesbian Health Center around here that does more than test for HIV and STDs. There is a site I've found that contracts for discounted radiology services. It was helpful when I needed a thyroid ultrasound a few months ago. It offered neck MRI for around $780 dollars-still a lot of money. And their closest facility to me is 80 miles away. But sometimes they can do one time contracting with a faculty locally. For people who might be interested in that site it is https://www.nextimagedirect.com/ Gman

Thank you for the info. As for the 85 out of 100,000, I pulled that from two different Internet articles. One was on eMedicine.com which is usually pretty reliable. It's a juggling act about the Meloxicam. I am on Prilosec which can increase Meloxicam's levels and on Diovan HCT for control of blood pressure. Meloxicam might antagonize the diuretic in the Diovan and might injure the kidney in combination with the angiotensin receptor blocker. Luckily while my BP is high it's not super high. I decided today to not take the BP med (luckily my BP med isn't one with rebound hypertension if you stop it). I'll monitor my BP -again my BP is usually in the 150's over 90's without meds not talking 160's over 110 or anything-and I took 7.5 mg of the Meloxicam along with only 20 mg instead of 40 mg of my Prilosec. I fell/slipped out of the bed this morning (I have sleep apnea and sleep at the edge of the bed for convenience). While I've had low back pain-I have it now-the back of my left leg hurts. Hopefully I just strained it when I fell and it's not my entire back that is off. Another wonderful thing, I don't have insurance or Medicaid, don't ask me why. But I'm not looking forward to an MRI Bill. Gman