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No. But a full report would whet my appetite!

Wait. Did he make an exodus? Did I miss something?

While we’re putting in requests, why is there no laughing reaction?

Thanks... ?? Part of your under-40 cohort

@Jarrod_Uncut - Have you considered seeing a therapist?

There’s something about Reno Gold’s model that rubs me wrong. Every interaction monetized. Not even my doctor charges me to call in to see if I can get an appointment. To communicate with him, you have to at least pay to access his OF. I don’t care who you are, but I’m not paying just to say “hi.”

Same. I’m not paying for porn when I can get it for free. I’ll pay for real time spent together though.

@Pensant – sounds like they left it better than they found it! ?

I have to admit, being that I’ve always stayed in a hotel with my providers, it never occurred to me. So now a question – is the “proper” etiquette even in hotels to worry about the sheets.

What is the most interesting thing you learned recently? I’ll share mine to get started… “Fish can’t talk, but they do have gills—and that’s where our voices come from. Just like fish, human embryos have gill arches (bony loops in the embryo’s neck). In fish, those arches become part of the gill apparatus. But in humans, our genes steer them in a different direction. Those gill arches become the bones of your lower jaw, middle ear, and voice box. Hiccups are triggered by electric signals generated in the brain stem. Amphibian brain stems emit similar signals, which control the regular motion of their gills. Our brain stems, inherited from amphibian ancestors, still spurt out odd signals producing hiccups that are, according to Neil H. Shubin, PhD, Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, essentially the same phenomenon as gill breathing.”

My asshole wouldn’t forgive me for a week…

@Luv2play – All of everything you wrote. All of it.

Exactly. Decency all around. That’s why all this trapeze work some escorts seem to expect of clients to ward off potential bad clients seems overkill to me. I think of myself as a pretty understanding guy, but I don’t like to be assumed out the gate to be a flake either. Clearly I’m sending the wrong vibe to some potential providers – or some providers are just as flaky as some escorts fear of clients, only in a different way.

I find his interview very insightful!

Seriously. Some escorts, on this forum even, consider the planning of time together as time to be comped for under the guise of “consultation fee.” What else is there? There’s some escorts seeing clients as ATMs they fuck. To be clear, I believe escorts desire for clients to have a good time. The vast majority of them. But there are those who seem to believe they’re doing the clients a favor and forget that the client is paying for a service.

Agreed. 100%. And exceptionally reasonable. Thing is some escorts aren't at all personally invested in making that happen. They see it as a waste of their time.

When you’re paying for an overnight, and the travel, and everything, and an escort, even through no fault of his own, is 3 hrs late yet still takes the whole amount for a 12-hr overnight that ends up being 9 hrs, and you had to reschedule the dinner reservations twice, then that’s irksome at least. Yes that’s happened to me. And when the escort is MIA in communication during those 3 hrs because of being on a plane, that’s a bit unnerving. Worse though was the escort who was coming in on a bus and wouldn’t respond to texts even though he was 2 hrs late. Did he end up showing up? Yes. But it wasn’t a pleasant, stress-free situation leading up to it and he could have mitigated that by being more responsible. People generally do understand. I understand. But escorts act like theirs is the only time of value. At least some do. As stated above. If I’m paying you $2400 for 12 hrs and your travel etc. and your travel lands you at my place 3 hrs late, the decent thing to do is say, “Hey, 25% of the overnight isn’t going to happen so I’m only going to take 75% of the fee.” In such a situation I would’ve been impressed and said keep it all, and sung his praises all over. But no. He took it. If I’m paying for time, and a 12-hr overnight is $2400, then I shouldn’t have to pay $2400 for only 9 hrs. Now – if it’s NOT time...that’s another thing. And if it’s NOT time, escorts need to stop saying time spent prepping via texting and/or phone calls need to be compensated. It’s either compensation for time, or it’s not. If we’re going to be crassly reductive about this...

https://rent.men/LiamV Doesn’t this just make you want to sign right up!

Is that some sort of rent freeze?

I tend to be a meandering conversation partner. I like tangents so I’m fine with a discussion growing organically.

Sometimes it’s good to have a list of non-starters instead of nebulous things like “good hygiene” on a list of positives. I wasn’t interested in what makes for a return client. I wanted to know what proportion of clients are bad clients – not what makes a bad client. I asked the question I wanted to get the answer to. For what it’s worth, every time I’ve hired an escort for the first time, he’s been extremely late. Punctuality goes both ways.

Not soooo easy: 1.) Commuting costs 2.) Commuting costs 3.) Working multiple jobs to secure minimal standard housing where you work is a sign COL is disproportionate to income 4.) Not all leases allow subleasing nor should you need to resort to that if COL were commensurate with income 2.) Extreme, suboptimal non-solution. You should be able to afford minimal standard housing where you work with a so-called middle class job. If you work somewhere that you can’t afford to live, your job isn’t paying you enough.

They really can’t. NPR stated a few months ago that you need to make $76k/yr to afford just a studio apartment in Boston proper. That’s insane.

Un.ac.cept.a.ble… It’s one thing to think something; it’s another to write it in a (semi)public forum. Any provider who would write that, even about the worst clients, sends a clear signal that discretion is not at all important. It reminds me of the review of Collin in Boston on Daddy’s. Bad behavior on the part of the escort will get out.