Would you....

[Guest laboheme]

I was just wondering whether folks out there would patronize the services of an escort who acquires an STD, and repeatedly makes a public joke out of it? Assuming that you would, would you wait until he recovered, or would you rush in for limited service with clothes on, presumably at full price?

[+ Lucky]

If it were chlamydia or syphlis, no. But for herpes or gonnohrea, yes. And for anal warts I would pay double.

[Funseeker 22]

That`s a low blow posting.

At least the escort was upfront about his condition and no doubt lost many $$$ by volunteering this information.

[Guest DevonSFescort]

What a coincidence that this hypothetical scenario should come up. I happen to have gonorrhea at the moment and have been writing about it in my diary. Like the escort you're thinking of, I have joked about it repeatedly. I've also linked to articles about the rise of drug-resistant strains of gonorrhea (which mine has turned out not to be), posted an email from a physician recommending the use of flavored condoms for blowjobs from strangers, linked to information about the STD clinic at Mass General, posted information about what antibiotics I was given, and accepted full responsibility for my sexual choices. I've already gotten emails from people I've never met who told me my posts prompted them to stop procrastinating and go get tested, and from escorts who thanked me for showing that you can be honest about your STD status and be respected rather than punished for doing so. My intention is for some good to come out of this rather than just the bad that obviously already has.

 

Unlike whomever you have in mind, however, I have NOT charged my clients the full fee for the limited, ultra-safe service, but rather, as I said in my diary, offered a "damaged-goods discount." I have no problem with people who prefer to wait until I'm whistle-clean again and just pay full price then, but I had a great time with the guys who decided to try the limited. I was also grateful to them for helping me to at least break even.

 

I hope you'll keep reading as I continue with what is basically an attempt to give readers a window on an experience most of them, quite sensibly, would rather read about than go through themselves. Hopefully some of the information they find in my entries will help stave off that possibility. I am feeling my way through this. This is the first STD I've contracted since having crabs and scabies at 20-22 years of age, and certainly the first thing I've gotten as an escort. Being a writer, I'm trying to deal with it honestly, but I'm improvising. If you have any suggestions as to something these entries should be covering that they aren't, I'd love to hear them.

[VaHawk]

Well, I personally could not see anyone not waiting for a sexual encounter with anyone, escort or otherwise, who is actively infected with an STD that is curable until he "recovers". Of course that excludes HIV infection of which there is no "recovery". I, personally, would have no problem hiring an HIV+ escort who is honest enough to state that fact and who subsequently engages in safe sexual practices.

 

Maybe the escort made a "public joke out of it", as sometimes humor is the only shield one has to protect himself from dealing with the ugliness of harsh reality and, as such, is all that will keep him from going "insane". To "rush into a fully clothed" encounter with someone who is in that state of mind, is imo, cruel and heartless and would only denigrate that person's self-defined worth as a human being. Offer a hand of kindness and understanding, as one human being to another, rather than thinking of the other guy as a "sexual object with flaws". Don't you have any human compassion?

[Guest Tampa Yankee]

>I was just wondering whether folks out there would patronize

>the services of an escort who acquires an STD, and repeatedly

>makes a public joke out of it?

 

I think humor is a wonderful attribute that helps one cope with life and I respect honesty and openness. Admirable for an escort that puts it on the line with the potential for naive or narrow minded clients that may adversely react. All in all, great character attributes. More people should possess them IMO. I guess others disagree or are unsure at the least.

[Luv2play]

Not up to your usual standards, Lucky. Comes across like a prissy, holier-than-thou attitude.x(

[Guest Tristan]

Devon, good reply. I should read your Diaries more. I'm glad you have a strain that is not drug resistant. Thank you for bringing up the issue of safer oral sex. Flavored condoms are better than they used to be and really mask the taste of latex. I recommend banana. Hmmm. Interesting that banana is the best one. And the person receiving oral sex still can have nice sensations if his partner is good at being active. ID and other companies have bottles of flavorings that you can put on a plain condom.

 

When it comes to oral sex, alot of people only think HIV. They don't think about all the STDs you can still contract from oral sex. I commend the doctor for presenting the option of using flavored condoms.

 

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[giovoni]

I would much rather hire an escort that lies about his STD status and lets me catch it from him while sucking his dick. Then I could pass it to my BF and any other partners that I have sex with while the infection is latent. So enlightened of you to imply that's what you'd rather do as well.

[Bilbo]

One thing which I don't think that Devon has mentioned in his diary about this, and so I could be wrong since I'm just guessing, but if so I'm sure he'll catch it and correct me:

 

Devon is a perfectly chiseled specimen of a certain muscle type. And I would suppose that most of his semiclothed appearances have had something to do with muscle worship. Now, I don't totally understand muscle worship. Heck, I don't think that I would totally understand bear worship, were there such a thing, though I would personally benefit from it. And it has been shown on these pages many times that most of the people who post here don't understand muscle worship much better than I do. But it does seem to me that whenever people have tried to explain it to me, Lord love their little peapickin' hearts, it doesn't have much to do with dicks. In fact, I think that in most muscle worship, dicks tend to get ignored. So that, except for the gluteus maximus, perhaps, if I were a muscle worshipper and Devon were playing with me in low rise undies, then I would probably feel that I had gotten my money's worth, particularly if I were getting a discount.

 

Of course, I would also love to meet and talk with him, take him to dinner and then hug him goodnight, and have that be it. But I'm afraid that my Scots side probably wouldn't let me do more than pick up the dinner bill at a fairly good spot. but everybody knows I'm a Scrooge McDuck at times.