Charlie

I wonder whether the escort who wrote the ad has ever been offered a check in payment for his services--he may be pretty inexperienced at this trade.

I haven't hired in a long time, but looking over my records of my hires between 1979 and 2011, I do see patterns that can mostly be ascribed to circumstances tied to my living conditions and my age. After an initial burst of about once per month, the numbers fell off during the prime years of the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s, picked up again in the late 80s, fell off when I was living and working in another country in the early 90s, and then when my mother came to live with us in the mid to late 90's, picked up again when she left and during my early retirement, picked up when I became active on this site in the early years of this century, and finally declined to only about twice a year during the last four years before I stopped hiring altogether as I approached 70. My highest totals were 16 hires in 1987 and 15 (sometimes with a pair of escorts) in 1989. As you said, the practical difficulties of arranging hires usually had more to do with the numbers than my sexually energy did, until the last years.

It is. I sat next to him once on the ferry to Cherry Grove, which was probably where that photo was taken.

I'm in favor of it.

What is this "sex" of which you speak?

Bizarre: the ad that says his home is Reykjavik, Iceland still uses the text from the former ad that says his home is Astoria, OR. !!

Is 104 a Peter Berlin lookalike?

How do you know they are in the same studio?

Despite his claim that his home (and presumably his masseur job) is in "downtown Astoria, OR," the area code of the phone number he uses is in south Florida.

Those certainly don't look like photos of a 40 year old.

About 40 years ago, I hired really hot Italian-American brothers in their 20s, but not together. The older one was gay, and he recruited his straight younger brother (cf. the thread about that subject) to work with him as a team. That didn't last too long, because the younger one was uncomfortable about the fact that clients often expected them to do sexual things together, whereas he and his brother were both tops, and the older brother naturally expected to be the dominant one in any scene. So he split with his older brother and went out on his own as soon as he learned the business. I had hired the older one alone first, but found him scary and didn't want to do it again. I learned later from another provider that the older one had eventually been confined to a prison for the criminally insane, after cutting off a client's arms and leaving him to die (he didn't). A few years later I hired the younger one without knowing of the relationship until I saw him, and realized how strongly he resembled the older one physically. He admitted the relationship, and explained that he only worked when he needed extra money; he also knew about what had become of his brother. Although he was straight, he was actually much easier and more enjoyable to be with, but his ad disappeared shortly afterwards, and I never saw him again.

I walk much faster than my husband, who is 7 years older than I am, but then I have always walked faster than he did, even fifty years ago. It could be just because I have longer legs than he does. Yesterday I was playing tennis for the first time with a young woman in her 20s; when I happened to mention my age, she said, "But you're older than my grandfather, and he couldn't possibly keep up with you!!" If I had read this thread, I suppose I could have just explained, "But I'm gay."

"Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the Midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the 18th of April, in Seventy-five, Hardly a man is now alive, Who remembers that famous day and year." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To me it suggests a 22 year old's fantasy.

For those who like correlations, can anyone explain why the gay males on both sides of my family are named "Fred" (except me)?

Aww, that poor kid with the deformed cock. The other kid is probably trying to comfort him.

It is pretty hard to say definitively whether the fact that the men in the study are gay and happen to have older brothers is related to biological, psychological, or sociological causes, or is simply a random mathematical relationship that piques the curiosity of those who want to know why some men are gay and others aren't. BTW: The only gay males I know of in my family are me, an only child of older parents; my father's first cousin, the only child of young parents; and my second cousin, the older brother of a straight younger brother, born 18 years later--but born between them was a lesbian sister. So go figure.

Of interest to me also: I was an only child, and my parents were 39/37 when I was born.

My spouse is the oldest of four brothers; he and the next oldest are both gay. The two younger brothers are the straight ones. I always found it interesting that the two older brothers had a much stronger physical resemblance to one another than to the younger brothers, while the two younger brothers strongly resembled one another. A stranger seeing a photo of the four of them together as adults is usually surprised that they are all children of the same parents. The older two look more like their mother (small and slender), while the younger two look like their father (big football linemen).

Yesterday I was playing tennis with an elderly white married couple from L.A. whom I have known for several years, who spent much of the time between games reminiscing about their social experiences with O.J. before the murders. They thought he was an extremely pleasant and intelligent man, and were shocked by the murders, although they had no trouble accepting the claim that he was guilty.

"Musky" can be an attractive or unattractive odor, depending on who is doing the smelling. One specific dictionary meaning is the smell of "unwashed human genitalia after sex." People sometimes fail to distinguish between "musky" and "musty," which usually refers to something that has become smelly from being left uncleaned for a long time.

His ad includes "manscent" and "armpits," so I'm guessing that he is actually pushing those aspects for clients who might have a fetish for someone who smells "like a man" rather than deodorized or perfumed; in several of his photos he appears obviously sweaty. But you are correct that "musky" usually has a negative connotation (unclean and unaware of the fact), especially in Black society.

And how do you explain those stains to the other people in the office?

I believe that the only majority Muslim country I have ever been to with my partner was Morocco, and it was when a gay friend decided to throw a landmark-birthday bash for himself and friends and family from all over the world, and chose to do it in Marrakesh. He booked a couple of riads for his guests, who naturally included a number of male couples, 2 to a room. The riad and restaurant hosts seemed fine with that. Of course, the party wasn't exclusively male or gay, and many of the guest couples were middle-aged to elderly, which may have made a difference in their attitude to the group.

I misread this as "Start licking your penises good-bye," and I panicked for a moment.