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58 minutes ago, Skip said:

Finally someone that can chime in, if you can't spend in the thousands per year and not have it matter...you should be watching porn. And for those of you that don't get it, Cany is talking about forty to fifty thousand dollars.  I don't add mine up but it's more than twenty for sure. This is not a poor man's sport. It wasn't cheap in Oscar Wilde's day and it isn't now. Stop complaining about $400.  OK guys, jump on.. I have officially asked for it 

That’s your opinion and you’re entitled to it. Why gang up on you if you disagree?

3 hours ago, Charlie said:

Unlike Lucky, I am not a fan of the rainbow colors, which I think have become over-used.

It was meaningful in its day, but now it seems trite and campy.

2 minutes ago, rvwnsd said:

A worker is required to report all of their earned income and pay taxes on that income net of deductions.

And @Beancounter’s post:

1 hour ago, Beancounter said:

Let’s not kid ourselves here guys.  This is for the most part a cash and carry profession.  Precious little is reported as taxable income.  

Please don’t insult our collective intelligence and think that “it’s escorting” will hold water in an actual case, with the IRS or the law on the whole. We all know what we’re about, and if found out, so would everyone else. It’s disingenuous to insist otherwise.

This site evaluates people against sexual performance…Any lawyer will make the easy case that if money is exchanged during the escorting period and something sexual transpired and is evaluated based on sexual performance on an escorting site, it’s prostitution. So what we do here is participate in something that wants to pretend to be something it’s not officially but unofficially wants to insist upon norms and mores that something it pretends to officially be would require.

4 hours ago, CuriousByNature said:

Condolences on the loss of your mom.

It is fine. My mother and I had a difficult relationship, we loved each other.

I do appreciate your words, though. Thank you. It wasn’t always the healthiest relationship with her, but I feel her absence…

Anyhow, we don’t have to dwell on that.

2 hours ago, guru68 said:

for me whether or not it was too much would depend entirely on the quality of the experience

Yes. Sadly quality isn’t known at the time of money agreement talk. And like I said somewhere, maybe earlier in this thread, no one is getting a refund for unsatisfactory experience. I would pay more to have the peace of mind knowing that the experience will meet expectations.

1 minute ago, Scott Virginian said:

Assuming your recollection is correct (and I don't doubt it), $150-200 in 2000, adjusted for inflation, equals $250-325 in 2022.  So $300/hr is keeping up with inflation; $400/hr is a bit more than just inflation. FWIW.

I believe that was pointed out a few pages ago, but it does well to point it out again. I agree with you. But some may not.

I like the ones with the male symbol, ♂

Not excited about the rainbow anywhere. 

14 minutes ago, Beancounter said:

While it would be advantageous for escorts to report all of their income on Schedule C you may rest assured the VAST majority of escorts report little to none of their cash income on their tax returns.  You are one of a very few who does.  
 

If I spend $600 with an escort and ask for his SSN and address so I can provide him with a 1099-MISC, how many escorts would fork over that information?  Precious few.  Let’s not kid ourselves here guys.  This is for the most part a cash and carry profession.  Precious little is reported as taxable income.  

And if they do report it, as some say they do through a business like personal trainer or life coach or whatever, that’s called money laundering. The penalties for money laundering are much graver than for prostitution.

@Kevin Slater– Don’t shit on a plate and tell me it’s a chocolate covered brownie. If what you say is true, there’d be no one worried about VICE operations or the FOSTA-SESTA. We most definitely discuss it. Please don’t be disingenuous.

If escorting is what is reported on schedule C as the business, then it’s not sex work that’s taxed. It’s escorting. Which, as you say is legal. But sex work is not. Sex work is a euphemism for prostitution.

So…is sex work taxed or is escorting taxed?

12 minutes ago, Kevin Slater said:

Sex work is taxed, just like any other kind of work.

I suspect rates would fall as one major barrier to entry would be eliminated.  I think more guys would be interested in offering their service, driving prices down. 

Kevin Slater

Could you explain how prostitution is taxed?

More like golden sprinkler…

5 minutes ago, DrownedBoy said:

I'm wondering - what would happen to rates if, in the United States, sex work was legalized, regulated, and taxed like any other kind of work?

I can think of several opposing factors.

I expect you’d see a vital black market due to taxes, but also law enforcement much more interested in sex workers because of tax evasion. That’s my immediate thought. I doubt it would make the prices any less. If anything, it might make them higher as it’s sanctioned then. The black market may offer lower prices, but the “better” escorts who abide the law would be more expensive precisely because they can provide a legal option. A premium for legality, if you will.

50 minutes ago, Unicorn said:

In case this is giving anyone any ideas, if you pierce your urethra, expect urine to come out of multiple places. Repairing the mess is time-consuming and can be difficult. 

This has made me squeamish. 

16 minutes ago, purplekow said:

I believe one could say he has a "chubby" in his briefs.  Encouraged but not hard.   

Yes. People already suggested I was wrong in thinking that some guys would consider his lack of abs chubby and it was in fact his bulge. I suppose that’s valid, but I also believe it’s just as valid to maintain that many guys would find his physique chubby. We don’t have to agree.

2 hours ago, Coolwave35 said:

I learned the meaning of vicissitudes and temerity from this thread. 
 

thank you. 

At the risk of going off topic, I am a lexophile. I love words. They have personalities…each of them. There’s always a good word for every situation…You just have to know it – or create it. Language is a living thing and neologisms are the mutations of its DNA.

27 minutes ago, latbear4blk said:

11 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

Lexington, Massachusetts?

Los Angeles, California 

21 minutes ago, purplekow said:

an indication that I am around if you want to talk more after your visit to my page

Reasonable…if I didn’t have my RM settings such that I’m not visible when I visit a profile. Also – I had never seen the guy’s profile before he messaged me.

Look – I was polite. The problem isn’t this guy; the problem is the incessant talk here that such a message from clients is inappropriate but when a provider does it, we have folks who will find a host of explanations for why it’s acceptable. Both providers and clients will engage in apologetics about it. It seems to me, if you’re soliciting someone for sex, you’re a client. The one who makes the first move in the transaction is the client. If a guy who’s normally a provider approaches someone for sex, in a transactional sense, he’s a client.

If a guy wants to come up to me and ask me to fuck him, I’m likely to say no. If he offers to pay me, I may reconsider.

The lines of what makes a client and a provider aren’t nearly as defined as some might like. If you’re horny, bored, and hit someone up for sex with an expectation that it’s transactional, why would I pay you to satisfy your boredom and libido? It seems to me that’s the very definition of being a client…approaching a potential guy for transactional sex. I’m not paying a provider to satisfy his needs; I’m paying him to satisfy mine. 

17 hours ago, WilliamM said:

I met my first hire at Rounds, a New York City hangout for young men who needed extra money (it closed in the 1990s).

I don't remember guys in their early 20s being stupid!

 

I didn’t say they are. But communication can be frustrating with folks under 30…That goes for anyone under 30, not just escorts. 

Wow. There really is everything imaginable out there…

Not my cup of tea.

12 minutes ago, The Big Guy said:

Good comments.  I do not post here very often but spend a great deal of time on this site and do enjoy the back and forth that occurs between the members and those that are somewhat provocative help to hold my interest.  That said, I would also welcome the chance to have a dialogue that was initiated by a rentmen provider instead of by myself.  That way even if my interest was low, I would enjoy the chat and would not have to worry about wasting their time. Best wishes to all.  

Fair enough. I hadn’t thought of it from that perspective.

That said, if he’s bored and wants to sext or to fuck, he can comp me my time.

But seriously…

My father is still living, and was the oldest of my two parents. He was 30 when I was born and my mother 21. She died just this past November from COVID, so that clock has stopped.

My grandma is who was my “real” mom though. She raised me from the time I was 11. I always figured I’d have to say goodbye to her before my actual mother, but fate had a different idea. Grandma is still going at 90…I still call her daily, although she’s not the woman she once was. Dementia is a fucking bitch. And she has CLL, which causes issues. If her husband were still alive, my grandfather, he’d be 114.

I have stepparents too. Stepfather is 18 years older than me and my stepmother is 29 years older than me. All over the board in other words. 

Jesus. Some of you are dinosaurs!

@StLouisOct– unlikely that it would’ve “gone” anywhere, as I said, with him in LA and me in Boston. 

3 minutes ago, JQ915 said:

Hmm… when I was in my 20s, this hot Brazilian guy messaged me. I knew he was an escort but I replied to his message anyway. I didn’t get charged nor was a transaction ever discussed. He said he was just really horny and needed a good lay.

That wouldn’t be objectionable! This guy was from LA…I’m outside of Boston. That would a pricey Uber! 

So everyone but me is in agreement then that an escort approaching a potential client with “Hey 👋🏻“ as an opener is a-okay, but a client doing the same to a potential provider is an indicator of a waste of time? Just so I have the facts straight…