Internet Escorts Are All That's Left!

[+ Lucky]

Those of us who like to meet an escort in person before making any hiring decision are finding that increasingly difficult as the "modern" era brings change. With the Gaiety and Stella's now closed, New York will never be the same for me. You could make a whole night out of the search alone. No More.

 

In the Street Forum there are reports from everywhere about the demise of street hustling, which used to entertain me greatly.

 

I guess change is good, but the old days are looking better.

 

At least I know how to us the internet and where to find the Hooboy Reviews. It doesn't replace the personal interview, but I wouldn't hire an escort who wasn't reviewed.

[Guest alanm]

I would include the closing of Rounds a decade ago. On its best nights, Rounds drew hustlers who today would be (are) Internet escorts. I agree that meeting guys in person and making a decision about whom you might want to go home with (for how much) is more enjoyable, at least for me, than the Internet alternative. I am lucky the we have Premier in Philadelphia, which is not a House of Boys or the equivalent of Rounds, but does allow you to check out the other guys in passing before and after your in-house "date."

[Retired Fly Boy]

Amen brothers, the internet kind of takes all the fun out of it. Nothing like hitting Third Avenue and East 53 Street in Manhattan. The old Cowboy on East 53 St was my favorite. You could walk down that bar and see ten cute guys. The only problem was picking one for the night. The thrill of the hunt, not knowing what you would find was the best part. Boys in the bars, in doorways on the street and at Bickford's Coffee Shop. A never ending supply of hot stuff all for a $20 bill in 1970. Once I gave a real cute guy $40 just to get him before someone else spotted him. My friends told me to stop spoiling the boys. Now I have to know I must be in the mood, next Thursday at 8:00 PM because I have just made an appointment over the internet. Ah those hot Italian boys from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn with the opened shirts. Butch on the streets and gay under the sheets. Anyone remember John's Joynt on Second Avenue and The New Camp Bar on East 60 Street? I often think of those by gone days.:9

[+ Lucky]

There was the Ninth Circle as well. Some of the cutest guys went there. A friend and I naively ordered food and were surprised that no one else was having dinner. (I had steak, not chicken!)

 

The Haymarket made me nervous, but I loved Rounds. Was that the same location as Cowboys and Cowgirls? And then there was the Adonis and Eros and the infamous Show Palace. I don't think we'll see another place like these or the Gaiety in New York.

 

But hopefully it is the nature of things that ultimately another bar will come nigh to meet the need.

[trilingual]

It isn't just New York that's suffering. Across the country, places where you could meet and talk with guys you might be interested in person have either vanished or faded into pale reflections of their former selves. The area around the bus stations in D.C. (including the fabled Venetian) have been urban-renewed out of existence. Numbers in Hollywood and Selma and Santa Monica Blvd. are barely hanging on. There was a time when most large American cities had a "meat rack" where you could pick up horny guys who wanted to make a fast buck. Not any more.

 

Not to despair, though. Just save your change and head "South of the U.S.A" to Brazil, where virtually every big Brazilian city has escort saunas where you can meet, greet and get to know (biblically-speaking) a staggering array of drop-dead hunks. Although there aren't any escort saunas there, Buenos Aires offers some bars (like Titanic) where you can meet working boys, and there are still sex cinemas and a street cruising scene. (However, street cruising in Brazil or Argentina is as risky as anywhere else, and made more so by the inability of most visitors to speak Spanish and Portuguese fluently. That can lead to very dangerous misunderstandings, or worse, and most visitors should NOT, repeat NOT, mess with the street scene. Especially when there are much safer venues where visitors can go.)

[HotdadENYC]

Lucky, don't make me cry.....

 

I am the first to admit that New York City is a safer and more pleasureable place to be, thanks in large part to Rudy's war on small crime, but I have to say that the demise of cruising spots, street hustling venues and even XXX arenas has left me with a perpetual hardon more often than I care to admit.

 

SO, I take to the subways and the buses. I've met a few guys on there who are "interested." There are, thankfully, a few public subway bathrooms that really rock. Barnes & Nobles and Home Depot are also good places to browse, peruse and cruise. No guarantees, but the selection is quite nice. And they have some nice stuff for the home as well <SMILE>

 

I came out, many years ago, in the subway bathrooms, on my way home from high school (AT AGE 17). Shortly thereafter, I discovered the street scene in and around New York. It was awesome in the late 70's and early 80's and back then, we didn't have to worry too much about safe sex, because, after all, how much could YOU REALLY do in a public bathroom?

 

But now, I am thinking.....its pretty amazing that a computer phenomenon, like the Internet, can do MORE to destroy casual sex than any threat of disease or law enforcement retaliation.

 

I know that as time goes on, life gets better.....but I'm sitting here wondering if that's really an improvement ! ! !

 

Thanks for the blast.

 

hd NYC

[JT Brooklyn]

IMHO. Looking at it from the other side..Most if not all, guys feel much Safer in dealing with Clients over the Internet, at least in U.S. Other countries the attitude is definitely different.. In my Young Gay days, living and cruising in NYC was great! Even my "Bklyn Neighborhood" had Four Gay Bars... Most of the Bars I hungout in were Cruise Bars, but there were guys who would Hustle in all. The Tool Box, Julius's , Ninth Circle,International Stud, Limelight,Rounds, EverHard, Man's Country.. "Bathouses" always had working guys hanging out! a Couple of Bookstores... there were tons of places to get laid..After hours, Hades,Barn,Anvil,Jays..The "working guys" would spend mucho time on the Street in front of these places. IF they didn't "go inside" these places.. they told themselves they were not GAY! lol