Backpage is getting very scary

[jcmiami1]

Has anyone looked at Backpage male escorts lately -especially New York City? These guys look like street hustlers, thugs and prison parolees including the infamous "tear drop" tattoos on a few. You only see them on Backpage ...not on Rentboy, Rentmen, M4Rnow. No I'm not being racial I'm a Latino and even I wouldn't hire some of my own people there!

[ZhenXBear]

Just asking because I don't know, but what's the significance of a "teardrop" tattoo? Is it gang related?

[bigvalboy]

One thread says too many twinks, now too many thugs...Backpage is not for everyone....If you have issues with it, then it's best to just stay away.

[jcmiami1]

Several meanings: time in prison, loss of a fellow gang member or you've killed someone

[jcmiami1]

I bought this up because it's becoming more and more like that starting about a year ago. Yes it's not for everyone but these guys are looking more and more criminal unless you're into that scene or love to live a very risky existence.

[BabyBoomer]

JC- Great new avatar!

 

~ Boomer ~

[jcmiami1]

JC- Great new avatar!

 

~ Boomer ~

Thanks I found that recently I love it ! kind of breaks preconceptions of gay men

[MiamiLooker]

I bought this up because it's becoming more and more like that starting about a year ago. Yes it's not for everyone but these guys are looking more and more criminal unless you're into that scene or love to live a very risky existence.

Huh?

[Steven_Draker]

It is scary ...

Hundreds Of Johns Arrested In Sex-Trafficking Sting That Culminated On Super Bowl Sunday

Posted: 02/02/2015 6:53 pm EST Updated: 02/03/2015 11:59 am EST

Huffington Post

 

 

As the New England Patriots were celebrating their thrilling Super Bowl XLIX win Sunday night, law enforcement around the nation were observing a more somber victory.

 

At least 570 would-be sex buyers (or johns) and 23 so-called sex traffickers -- men taken into custody on charges of pimping, trafficking or promoting prostitution -- were taken off the streets in the "National Day Of Johns Arrests" effort, Illinois' Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart announced Monday.

 

The nationwide sex-trafficking sting operation, led by the Cook County Sheriff's Department, ran from Jan. 15 to Feb. 1.

 

“Sex trafficking continues to destroy countless lives, and this broad national movement should send a strong message to prospective johns that their ‘hobby’ is much more than a ‘victimless’ crime,” Dart said in a statement. “It‟s particularly meaningful that this sting culminated on the day of the Super Bowl, which unfortunately has emerged as a prominent haven for sex trafficking."

 

Experts like Bradley Myles, CEO of the anti-trafficking organization Polaris Project, have noted "there isn't much evidence linking the Super Bowl to a major rise in trafficking," while others point out that sex trafficking is a problem that persists not only during the Super Bowl, but year-round in communities of all sizes.

 

"We're trying to raise awareness best we can," Cook County Sheriff spokesman Ben Breit told The Huffington Post, explaining that the timing of the sting is largely symbolic. "Tying it to the Super Bowl is a helpful way to accomplish that."

 

Dart's office started the first such operation in 2011. The 2015 installment is the largest yet, comprising roughly 70 jurisdictions in 17 states, including Nevada, Arizona and Massachusetts.

 

On Monday, the Cook County Sheriff's office said 54 women and 14 juveniles nationwide were "rescued" (taken into custody but connected with mental health, drug abuse, domestic abuse and other services).

 

Other highlights of the operation included Phoenix police recovering several women who said they had been trafficked in for the Super Bowl. Cincinnati police also arrested a pair of sex traffickers who had been using public computers at a local library to post prostitution ads online, according to a release. Las Vegas Police, meanwhile, took a man into custody who was facing federal human trafficking charges in Ohio; they also arrested a john on probation for rape.

 

The majority of the busts were made through "dates" arranged on the classified ad site, Backpage.com (and to a lesser extent, Craigslist).

 

more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/02/national-day-of-johns-2015_n_6595358.html

[Steven_Draker]

Interesting you read a lot of sting operations about female escorts but very little to none about male escorts hmmm

 

Little to none??

 

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2012/02/23/d-c-police-target-gay-men-in-online-sting/

 

http://www.projectq.us/atlanta/homo_hookers_busted_in_atlanta_police_sting?gid=8206

 

http://patch.com/georgia/midtown/undercover-prostitution-sting-arrests-79-in-midtown (The operation arrested 50 male prostitutes, 11 female prostitutes and 8 johns)

 

http://gbmnews.com/wp/archives/7345

 

...

 

Google is your friend.

[+ Gar1eth]

Has anyone looked at Backpage male escorts lately -especially New York City? These guys look like street hustlers, thugs and prison parolees including the infamous "tear drop" tattoos on a few. You only see them on Backpage ...not on Rentboy, Rentmen, M4Rnow. No I'm not being racial I'm a Latino and even I wouldn't hire some of my own people there!

 

I've noticed this for the last three or four years at least. The majority of the escorts are African American, seem to talk about how they are 'dominate' instead of 'dominant', the ads often list that they smoke, and the majority seem to like to 'party.'

 

JC- Great new avatar!

 

~ Boomer ~

 

Thanks I found that recently I love it ! kind of breaks preconceptions of gay men

 

When I see your new avatar, I'm put in mind of when Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear off.

 

Gman

[RSully94]

One thread says too many twinks, now too many thugs...Backpage is not for everyone....If you have issues with it, then it's best to just stay away.

No, my thread was not about too many twinks. It's just that that's usually who DOESN'T post on there. And so you know something is up.

[+ dutchmuch]

It has been scary!

 

http://www.companyofmen.org/threads/dutchmuch-has-problems-with-backpage.102947/

[bostonman]

I've noticed this for the last three or four years at least. The majority of the escorts are African American, seem to talk about how they are 'dominate' instead of 'dominant', the ads often list that they smoke, and the majority seem to like to 'party.'

 

I see a lot of them that also lump "fantasies/fetishes" together as if they're typically always paired. Some also use the metric unit of the "reason" - as in "I have 9 reasons for you to see me" etc. They also tend to like to guck up their ads with lots of symbol characters and other "designs" instead of simply typing an ad.

 

In general, they seem to deliberately copy each other's ads, both in the wording and in the style of pics, etc. All those odd "composite" pics (or whatever they call it when one shot is a combination of 2 or 3 shots - sometimes that look precisely the same - and I have to ask why they do that?), all the mugging for the camera...I mean, I'm not about to try to say that all black men look alike lol - but it seems that they're almost trying to do that - to make themselves all look one specific way. And it's really offputting. (Though I guess it has to be appealing to someone, lol.)

[MiamiLooker]

Clients should use common sense and precautions no matter which sites they hire from. Luckily, this guy currently posting on BP in Miami is only looking for female clients. But for the right price and some sweet talking I’m sure I could make him mine for an hour.

 

http://images3.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172448287/IMG_0380.jpg

[+ dutchmuch]

Heck, I love thug party boys with Santa hats!

 

http://newyork.backpage.com/MaleEscorts/thug-party-boy-hosting-3479166875/55710414

 

http://images2.backpage.com/imager/u/large/158576720/image-4.jpg

[tampajohn]

Be careful guys!

[jcmiami1]

Yep he really likes Christmas parTy's hahaha

 

Heck, I love thug party boys with Santa hats!

 

http://newyork.backpage.com/MaleEscorts/thug-party-boy-hosting-3479166875/55710414

 

http://images2.backpage.com/imager/u/large/158576720/image-4.jpg

[thickornotatall]

[jcmiami1]

Make an offer, throw in some "parTy favors" and he's yours...I hope you have some distinctive birth marks when you're beat up to a pulp and you need to be identified LOL

 

Clients should use common sense and precautions no matter which sites they hire from. Luckily, this guy currently posting on BP in Miami is only looking for female clients. But for the right price and some sweet talking I’m sure I could make him mine for an hour.

 

http://images3.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172448287/IMG_0380.jpg

[+ Gar1eth]

Clients should use common sense and precautions no matter which sites they hire from. Luckily, this guy currently posting on BP in Miami is only looking for female clients. But for the right price and some sweet talking I’m sure I could make him mine for an hour.

 

http://images3.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172448287/IMG_0380.jpg

 

As Brooklyn Guy used to always say

'de gustibus non est disputandum'!!!

 

 

Gman

[jcmiami1]

I know for money people will sell their soul to the devil but I seriously cannot even imagine these thuggish guys will get 100 feet near a gay man let alone have sex with one unless they're addicts and need the money for drugs or their intentions were to rob them in the first place.

[+ augustus]

Just asking because I don't know, but what's the significance of a "teardrop" tattoo? Is it gang related?

 

 

 

Supposedly it means you have killed someone.

[AdamSmith]

Some other NYC backpage guys...

 

http://images3.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172531661/image.jpg

http://images2.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172531663/image.jpg

 

http://images1.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172455842/image.jpg

 

http://images2.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172450713/image.jpg

 

http://images2.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172450731/image.jpg

http://images2.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172430461/image.jpg

http://images3.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172430462/image.jpg

http://images1.backpage.com/imager/u/large/172430466/image.jpg

 

Some field data: I have had numerous gratifying hires from backpage over the past few years, with no trouble or disappointment. Within the escort/masseur industry, there is a whole cohort of attractive young guys working full- or part-time for whom backpage is their regular, primary means of advertising. One such I know who lives in Boston and travels around New England has, over the past couple of years, made enough this way for a house down payment. These guys are not all flakes and crooks, contrary to the warnings of (among others) a small but vociferous number of their colleagues from the paid advertising sites.

[bigvalboy]

Well Adam Smith, #2 looks black, so he's most likely a "Thug"...a thief, and probably shot 4 or 5 people already, and most likely has done some time, because you know how "they" are. I'm actually a little surprised that Mr. Kessler and JD haven't weighed in here, on this appalling display of racial profiling, especially after that last march they went on in the name of civil rights, attacking the OP over his preference. If you want to be outraged about something, be outraged over the racial profiling in this thread, instead of some convoluted argument that made absolute zero sense, and dragged on for days, but then again, what do I know, I'm just another man of color, a tattooed thug, a thief, and yes a bit of a whore. http://www.boytoy.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/default/yes.gif