Oddities of the Internet.

[Guest WetDream]

Something just struck me as being odd, a peculiarity of this message board. Thanks to the reviews, clients have a good idea of what the escorts look like and what city/area they live in. Judging from the chat here, many of the escorts know each other and hang out together from time to time.

 

Clients, on the other hand, have very little concrete information about each other (see the recent thread about lack of info on the profile pages). Over time, frequent posters sometime reveal personal tidbits (profession, where they live) or hint at their age range; those that review often give a general picture of body type, sexual preferences, etc.

 

Why exactly are the clients (the majority of the users) the most anonymous group on this site? It can’t just be fear of being arrested since police almost always pursue the providers rather than the purchasers of sexual services. Have any of you clients developed friendships outside the framework of this site? Have any of you actually seen each other face to face? Is one of the attractions of the site the fact that we can project qualities onto its posters? Is the attractive man I watch in the building across the street from me really CP8036?

[Guest WetDream]

Something just struck me as being odd, a peculiarity of this message board. Thanks to the reviews, clients have a good idea of what the escorts look like and what city/area they live in. Judging from the chat here, many of the escorts know each other and hang out together from time to time.

 

Clients, on the other hand, have very little concrete information about each other (see the recent thread about lack of info on the profile pages). Over time, frequent posters sometime reveal personal tidbits (profession, where they live) or hint at their age range; those that review often give a general picture of body type, sexual preferences, etc.

 

Why exactly are the clients (the majority of the users) the most anonymous group on this site? It can’t just be fear of being arrested since police almost always pursue the providers rather than the purchasers of sexual services. Have any of you clients developed friendships outside the framework of this site? Have any of you actually seen each other face to face? Is one of the attractions of the site the fact that we can project qualities onto its posters? Is the attractive man I watch in the building across the street from me really CP8036?

[+ bigjoey]

i have met two people from this site. through the messages we can send each other, i would guess that there is alot of communication besides what appears on this board. at muscleservice, people are always emailing each other privately as well.

[+ bigjoey]

i have met two people from this site. through the messages we can send each other, i would guess that there is alot of communication besides what appears on this board. at muscleservice, people are always emailing each other privately as well.

[Guest cp8036]

Well, if he is indeed attractive, then it is me !!!

[Guest cp8036]

But, if your neighbor is in a International Male step-in, it's not me.

[Guest cp8036]

Well, if he is indeed attractive, then it is me !!!

[Guest cp8036]

But, if your neighbor is in a International Male step-in, it's not me.

[Guest WetDream]

He's not, but he is well hung.

[Guest WetDream]

He's not, but he is well hung.

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

Have any of you clients developed friendships outside the framework of this site?

 

Yes.

 

Have any of you actually seen each other face to face?

 

Yes, others are pending.

 

There are several others I'd like to meet but it takes 'two to tango' and then there is the geographical consideration.

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

Have any of you clients developed friendships outside the framework of this site?

 

Yes.

 

Have any of you actually seen each other face to face?

 

Yes, others are pending.

 

There are several others I'd like to meet but it takes 'two to tango' and then there is the geographical consideration.

[Traveller]

cp8036

 

Your serve.

 

Later.

[Traveller]

cp8036

 

Your serve.

 

Later.

[+ honcho]

It strikes me that some of the reasons (not all) that people are willing to be clients might be the very same reasons that they aren't completely forward even in this relatively safe social setting.

 

Some of the clients have stated that it wasn't worth their time to stand around in a bar, which suggests that their free time is limited, which means they might not have very much time to construct considered replies to the threads discussed on the board here.

 

Other clients have cited being very shy, which could also translate to reticence in participating here, or connecting socially. As they say in my millieu, delineation of other examples are left as an exercise to the reader ;-) .

[+ honcho]

It strikes me that some of the reasons (not all) that people are willing to be clients might be the very same reasons that they aren't completely forward even in this relatively safe social setting.

 

Some of the clients have stated that it wasn't worth their time to stand around in a bar, which suggests that their free time is limited, which means they might not have very much time to construct considered replies to the threads discussed on the board here.

 

Other clients have cited being very shy, which could also translate to reticence in participating here, or connecting socially. As they say in my millieu, delineation of other examples are left as an exercise to the reader ;-) .

[+ deej]

>Have any of you clients

>developed friendships outside the framework

>of this site? Have

>any of you actually seen

>each other face to face?

 

I've been hanging around message boards and forums (fora?) for over 10 years. Some of the more "general interest" or even technical forums allow, even encourage, posting photos with your profile.

 

I doubt that would work here. Remember, this site is open to the population at large. WE may not think there's anything wrong with hiring male companionship but lets face it: many in the general population do. I'd also guess we have a fair share of readers/posters who are closeted and wouldn't want to be exposed.

 

I haven't met anyone from this forum (not counting escorts ;-)), but I've frequently met people I know from others. Often it will be at a conference or workshop. Some people I've been corresponding with so long I know them better than members of my own family. At my first technical conference, I had the eerie experience of being surrounded by 1,100 people most of whom I knew quite well but had never met. LOL

 

There are many facets to electronic communication. In the technical arena, for example, women appreciate the semi-anonymity. Technical fields can often be "old boys networks" but in the electronic media that is lessened.

 

Communications can also be intense. When the moderator of one of my regular forums passed away suddenly, the news struck me like a shotgun blast between the eyes. I'd only met him once, but through digital communications we'd come to know each other very well and care about each other.

 

Every forum has its own unique collective personality. Part of this one's is anonymity.

[+ deej]

>Have any of you clients

>developed friendships outside the framework

>of this site? Have

>any of you actually seen

>each other face to face?

 

I've been hanging around message boards and forums (fora?) for over 10 years. Some of the more "general interest" or even technical forums allow, even encourage, posting photos with your profile.

 

I doubt that would work here. Remember, this site is open to the population at large. WE may not think there's anything wrong with hiring male companionship but lets face it: many in the general population do. I'd also guess we have a fair share of readers/posters who are closeted and wouldn't want to be exposed.

 

I haven't met anyone from this forum (not counting escorts ;-)), but I've frequently met people I know from others. Often it will be at a conference or workshop. Some people I've been corresponding with so long I know them better than members of my own family. At my first technical conference, I had the eerie experience of being surrounded by 1,100 people most of whom I knew quite well but had never met. LOL

 

There are many facets to electronic communication. In the technical arena, for example, women appreciate the semi-anonymity. Technical fields can often be "old boys networks" but in the electronic media that is lessened.

 

Communications can also be intense. When the moderator of one of my regular forums passed away suddenly, the news struck me like a shotgun blast between the eyes. I'd only met him once, but through digital communications we'd come to know each other very well and care about each other.

 

Every forum has its own unique collective personality. Part of this one's is anonymity.

[Guest N]

There are certainly more than one or two posters to this board that I feel friendly towards.

 

Some because of their unfailing humor and others because they just seem to be decent people. I know for sure that there are a couple I would love to have dinner with (my personal highest compliment).

 

At some point I will probably get up the nerve to privately e-mail someone I don't know simply because I enjoy what I hear from them.

 

The big question is do they want to meet me? We all fear rejection and don't go gently into territory where we may meet it. Chicken? Yes. Prudent? Maybe not.

 

N

[Guest N]

There are certainly more than one or two posters to this board that I feel friendly towards.

 

Some because of their unfailing humor and others because they just seem to be decent people. I know for sure that there are a couple I would love to have dinner with (my personal highest compliment).

 

At some point I will probably get up the nerve to privately e-mail someone I don't know simply because I enjoy what I hear from them.

 

The big question is do they want to meet me? We all fear rejection and don't go gently into territory where we may meet it. Chicken? Yes. Prudent? Maybe not.

 

N

[Guest JT]

>> I know for sure

>that there are a couple

>I would love to have

>dinner with (my personal highest

>compliment).

>

> Chicken? Yes.

>Prudent? Maybe not.

 

 

Sir, would you like to hear about our dinner special for tonight? :-) We have some very nice Prudent Chicken Breasts, these are free-range chicken that are too prudent to run away from the farm. It's served with a bed of penis with creamy mushroom heads, oh excuse me I mean a bed of penne with creamy mushroom sause! }>

 

JT (former waiter)

[Guest JT]

>> I know for sure

>that there are a couple

>I would love to have

>dinner with (my personal highest

>compliment).

>

> Chicken? Yes.

>Prudent? Maybe not.

 

 

Sir, would you like to hear about our dinner special for tonight? :-) We have some very nice Prudent Chicken Breasts, these are free-range chicken that are too prudent to run away from the farm. It's served with a bed of penis with creamy mushroom heads, oh excuse me I mean a bed of penne with creamy mushroom sause! }>

 

JT (former waiter)

[Guest N]

JT,

 

Thanks for jump-starting my day.

 

N

[Guest N]

JT,

 

Thanks for jump-starting my day.

 

N

[Will]

This is an interesting subject to me, because I've been thinking about these kinds of things for some time. Odd as it sounds for encounters as bleached of reality as only the internet can make them, I genuinely like many of the posters here and think that, if we lived close to each other, we might become quite good friends. From time to time I've had the opportunity to exchange private e-mails with some of them, and in that context they were even more likeable than I'd supposed.

 

So far, however, I have not had the pleasure of meeting any of them face to face. A year or so ago, I once suggested that we throw a HooBoy Benefit in New York. The idea was that the clients would make a contribution for the event, there would be a cash bar, and the escorts could come for free. The only requirement, apart from the contribution, would be a name-tag on which each person wrote the alias he uses on this board. There would be no requirement for a genuine surrender of anonymity; and by having the benefit in a large city, there wouldn't even be the presumption that one lived there. Of course, we could do the same thing in Chicago, Houston, LA and San Francisco. It would be great fun, I think, and might help HooBoy with his constantly tenuous budget line.

 

Of course, all of this is easy for me to dream up, because I don't live near any one of these potential venues!