When did you first start escorting?

[Keenan]

There is a similar thread under the "Lounge" area for clients but I thought it would be interesting to find out when escorts started escorting and how you started?

 

As for me I started during my first year in college to help with extra money. I have since continued of course.

 

Keenan

[ragazzolupo]

Dear Keenan,

 

Thank you for this thread. I would be interested if you could expand on your "starting". I understand the need for "extra money", but how did you come to escorting. Were friends also doing it? How did you know about the possibility, how did you first advertise your services, what services did you offer when you started, what was your first encounter like? RL

[Michael Wayne]

IN 1993 IN WEST PALM BEACH Florida. I was a mere puppy then...... Roomate moved out and I was flat broke after the church kicked me out for being gay. I was a pastor/evangelist. The biz quickly expanded to Ft. Lauderdale and Miami

[Keenan]

Dear Keenan,

 

Thank you for this thread. I would be interested if you could expand on your "starting". I understand the need for "extra money", but how did you come to escorting. Were friends also doing it? How did you know about the possibility, how did you first advertise your services, what services did you offer when you started, what was your first encounter like? RL

I actually came to escorting through my work at a gay stripclub, now closed. As I said I needed the extra money so I started off taking my clothes off on stage. My first time stripping at the club I was extremely nervous. Though I met some of the other dancers that helped me through the nervousness. One of them suggested I try escorting and told me the money was good. Needing money I gave it a try and he set me up with my first appointment, a guy probably more than half my age at the time. Of course I was extremely nervous but I just did what I thought to do instinctively. From the beginning I offered basically all the services, sucking, as a bottom I'll bottom for clients, etc.... Advertising first started while I was still dancing at the club, it was sorta word of mouth by a certain point but when I was with a customer at the club one on one I'd let them know I was available for more, the club never caught on. Anyway that is a brief story of how I got started. Now I advertise online.

 

Keenan

[ragazzolupo]

Thanks Keenan, that was exactly the information that I was hopong for. I can see that, in your case, the progression from stripping, to escorting was seamless. Are you still stripping?

 

Thanks Ragazz

[Keenan]

Thanks Keenan, that was exactly the information that I was hopong for. I can see that, in your case, the progression from stripping, to escorting was seamless. Are you still stripping?

 

Thanks Ragazz

 

Not stripping on a consistent basis right now. Mainly just escorting.

 

Keenan

[nate_sf]

My initial venture into escorting had to do with finances, but also maybe weirdly was the outcome while in college of having read an article in the local alt-weekly newspaper SF Weekly titled “It’s a Living: True stories from the working lives of ‘middle class’ prostitutes.” The story made the whole thing sound intriguing, but also something I could relate to. The guys interviewed in the story sounded intelligent and thoughtful, and instead of sounding seamy or threatening the idea sounded reasonable. (Here's a link to a pdf scan of the article - pre-internet! www.natebruno.com/itsaliving.pdf)

 

It wasn’t until a couple of years later though that I gave it a go. The SF Weekly article kept kicking around in the back of my mind, and meanwhile I’d seen a couple of masseurs, including one who had previously escorted. As I began to run through the last of my student loan money in the last year of college, I decided to take the plunge and place an “erotic masseur” ad in the Bay Area Reporter.

 

With those first appointments money was a big motivation, and I have to admit I loved the feeling of depositing cash into the ATM rather than pulling it out all the time. It was great to be able to pay my bills without having to contemplate more loans, let alone having to hit up my parents. But I found I also really liked the encounters themselves, and enjoyed meeting the different guys. With the first repeat clients, I realized that, yes, guys actually would pay me for sex! And that was a turn-on.

 

After college, I figured my escort adventure was over as I took on conventional jobs that covered the bills well enough. But a few years later, when I found myself working in a boring suburban office park with nothing to do at lunch, the inclination for escort work presented itself once more. I first started just looking for tricks at lunch and after work, but eventually thought I'd try my hand at escorting again, both for the extra cash and to regain some of the thrill from before. Now a few years older, though, I attracted a totally different clientele, and found the encounters even more interesting and enjoyable than before. I met some great guys and found I enjoyed the escorting more than the tricks I'd been doing previously since there were set parameters with the appointments and the sex was better. This was a boost to my confidence, but what’s interesting is that this translated into more confidence and assertiveness in my "real" job too. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything.

 

I hate being one of those guys who says "I wrote about it on my blog" but, well, I wrote about it on my blog.... The longer version of this recollection is at http://natebruno.com/blog1/2012/06/14/the-other-me/