Charlie

I don't believe that the standards for male beauty were that different a century ago!

Borna Coric, Cristian Garin and Marcos Giron could all make a decent living as escorts.

I am dealing with the same conundrum at this time, but for a somewhat different reason. I have a woman friend who has been my regular tennis partner for a number of years. She has never had much money, but when I met her she had what many people would consider a glamorous lifestyle. She lived on the weekends with a sexy husband in Palm Springs, who had his own glamorous but not financially sound career (race car photographer). During the week she lived in San Francisco, where she owned a small public relations business. She had to close the business, because now she lives fulltime in PS with same husband, who has become a semi-invalid and is almost completely dependent on her, and pretty grouchy about it. She used to be very social, involved in all sorts of community activities, but I have noticed lately that she has become unusually quiet and probably depressed. I was particularly aware of that yesterday, when we were playing with a couple of friends of ours, each of whom was talking about their recent frequent travels, and the simultaneous major remodeling of their homes. She and her husband lost their house during the Great Recession, and they now live in a rental. I don't know what their income is, but I suspect it is small and not altogether dependable. She drives a 1998 Honda, and she became almost hysterical a few months ago when she was having car trouble, so I offered to loan her $1000 to deal with it; she accepted it gratefully, and she still hasn't paid me back. When she is ready to do so, I am considering telling her to use the money instead to indulge in something like a weekend at a resort to restore her spirits, but I wonder if she would consider that condescending. She has always been fiercely proud of her ability to take care of herself and others, and I don't want to add offense to injury.

You should discuss this with Unicorn.

I was inspired by your experience trying to set up financial help for gay students at your university.

I think it would benefit more people if I left my estate to a fund to provide grants to deserving clients who wish to purchase the services of escorts. There would be a list of approved escorts (perhaps maintained on this site), and a vetted client could apply for a grant, which would be paid to the chosen escort upon receipt of a satisfactory review of the intercourse from the client. A non-partisan judge would be appointed by the trustees of the fund to settle disputes between escorts and clients, and the results would be published in a sub-forum in the Deli.

Sounds like he's "aspiring" rather than "inspiring."

I don't know what you consider "huge." Mine are the same size they have been since the beginning of the new opening page.

My friend in Tampa just let me know that her area suffered tree damage, but the flooding that she prepared for never materialized, so she was glad that she hadn't evacuated. She had lived through one of the really bad hurricanes in Puerto Rico, when they were without power for a month, so she knew what to possibly expect.

I stopped hiring years ago, but when I did, I usually preferred to have someone new, because I found novelty more exciting. However, there were a few who were so good that I would repeat when there was no one new on the market whose ad appealed to me. I wouldn't have called any of them a "regular," since the most I ever hired anyone was eight times, and that was over a period of ten years.

The son of old friends of mine had a sport fishing business in the Florida keys. When a hurricane hit there several years ago, his boat was destroyed, along with his business. When someone asked him why he didn't just sail somewhere else to wait out the storm, he pointed out that sailing anywhere takes some time and preparation, but predictions of the storm's path are constantly changing and often inaccurate. That was certainly true of Ian, which was supposed to come ashore at Tampa, but instead came in much farther south at Ft. Myers. I called a friend who lives in the Tampa Bay area the day before predicted landfall, to ask if she was going to evacuate, but she said that she didn't know where would be safe to go, and she was right--many of the inland areas that she might have gone to ended up with more severe damage than the area around her. As for the guy whose sport fishing business was destroyed, the insurance wasn't near enough to resuscitate it; he ended up working as a bartender in Jacksonville.

I leafed through my saved messages yesterday and found posters whom I can no longer remember, posters who are long deceased, and topics that left me baffled. I save too much old communication as it is (I still have a huge box of personal letters I received when I was in college, before computers were invented), so I probably won't miss much if you clean out the files.

We are all praying for your continued good health!!

I was a member here on 9/11/2001. Where else than the Lounge could one post about it that day? One needs a forum to post about subjects that don't fit in any of the other designated fora, even if there are not many posts made there.

A friend of mine acquired a live-in boyfriend through Silverdaddies a number of years ago. It lasted a couple of months, before the BF left, and took a number of possessions with him.

Almost everyone who came to the first Weekend was "local," i.e., a California resident. We didn't imagine that anyone would be interested in coming all the way from Canada just for conversation😊

When Lucky and I planned the first PS Weekend in 2005, we envisioned a social gathering of members of the old Hooboy site, including a group dinner at a restaurant and attendance at a performance at a local legitimate theater, for some high-toned intellectual conversation. The first gathering drew nine members and our spouses, plus one escort who was brought as a guest by one of the members. That model didn't last long, after Oliver came along and said, "Let's have a pool party! I'll provide the pool and the food." And thus a legendary event was born.

How many studs does it take to add a can of oil? Answer, one, and five cute buddies to give advice.

Oh, no! I just got two texts telling me my Amazon account has been locked, because of suspicious activity on it! What shall I do? Should I clink on the link that will take me to a helpful customer service rep?

If you use the "map me" function, he appears to be located next to the county prison.

I get those calls regularly, informing me that X amount has been charged to my Amazon account, and to press 1 if it is correct or 2 if it is not. I just hang up. I am probably the only person with a telephone who doesn't have an Amazon account.

As I remember, he was suspended for awhile as a result of a kerfuffle in which it was discovered that he had also been posting here at the same time under a second handle, with which he was making nasty comments about other escorts. He returned for a little bit, but didn't have much to say. Then a rumor spread that he had married a client and retired from the business. It certainly has been a few years since he has posted anything (as far as we know).

Isn't there any humanpox virus that animals can catch?

Strange that he doesn't list "therapeutic" OR "erotic" massage, only "sensual."

29 year old "Daddy?"