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How do you approach a pay to play offer with fellow gym members? I've done it, with some success with random cruising cuties in the mall and other cruisy areas by handing them a (blank) business card where I'd handwritten my # and something like "Intere$ted in activitie$$$ with you, please call..." Don't know if I would have the balls to make the offer verbally though. Would love to hear about guys who have success with this method!

Sounds pretty awesome especially the always kissing part, thanks for the details! Kind of like a rentboy utopia. Do the guys generally speak English or do you need a translator/guide? So January is mid-summer there, is that a good time to go or what do you consider the best time of year to visit? You always go for saunas rather than "sex motels" just because it's more economical or for other reasons? Are the rooms tiny and are they decent enough for an overnight? The lap dancing habit gets pretty expensive in Canada (& most other places), I'd rather we quickly retire to my room and get on to the good stuff.

Not boring at all, very interesting topic! I don't travel nearly enough and I'm likewise fascinated by regional rates. Legality, availability, competition and cost of living all factor in but there doesn't seem to be any direct correlation (or predictability...) Damn, so only $50/hour? Do you get full service in the saunas? Any BFE? How about taking a rentboy to one of those "sex motels", similar price / activities? I'm not so sure I'm a good fit for Brazil, I totally prefer a "full spectrum" encounter, I don't much like those "blow and go" sauna sessions I've found elsewhere. Europe worked out quite well for me, Canada has been my favorite rentboy country though, maybe I was just lucky but the selection was incredible, the guys reasonably priced and completely accommodating. That's what legality and competition will do for you. What's your favorite rentboy country, if you don't mind me asking? I'm still considering travel options for next year.

Damn that 15 minute edit limit.... I was going more for "catty and oversensitive"... The phrase "pissy drama queens" is overly harsh for all but a few, and is certainly not representative. We gay men tend to be more like women in our emotional texture, which necessitates some eggshell walking. One thing I love about my straight male friends is their emotional thick skinnedness. We can be refreshingly blunt and nary a fuck is given. Yea I know, already in the ditch and digging in deeper, where's that "shit can" again?

I use Twitter for news, inspirational quotes, professional updates, escorts posting an "I'm in your town tonite... let's get it on", etc. Rentboy and Rentmen have taken up the medium quite nicely, although they tend to get a bit spammy, I like to forward the most interesting "tweet" subjects to my cellphone SMS. Wouldn't sending a tweet about each and every site update be rather massive? I'd love to have the info, but I tried subscribing to the forum e-mail notifier and was lost in the deluge of update messages so I had to turn it off rather quickly. I do like that I can get an e-mail update message to a thread in which I posted. If there were just some filters so I could just see new reviews and profiles for my state (CA) or selected cities I'm interested in, this would be an awesome feature. But I can't envision following an "all updates" feed - just too much to sort through. Couldn't these updates be added as an RSS feed as well? That way I can use my RSS reader filters to suss out the things I'm interested and just catch up with the rest when I visit the site. The only RSS content is Community Calendar - content nonexistent and MaleEscortReview Blogs - last content posted Sep '09 by Seattlebottom. Congrats though, it's a great idea and I always love to see creative new ways to receive great content.

A "shit can" (aka "throw out the trash") is certainly not an idea that's going to encourage controversial (colorful?) topics or points of view. Seems like a bit of a targeted "fuck you" statement conceived in a fit of pique. Unfortunately we escort clients can tend to be pissy drama queens, so perhaps a lighthanded approach might be advised, otherwise you wind up with the authoritarian heavy-handedness that is the other forum in our little niche, and colorful charismatic posters with sensitive sensibilities will run for the hills. Not good...

I use the Last Pass browser plugin. The basic version is free, keeps site passwords in sync across all main browser types and will even auto-submit the login forms. The premium version ($1/month) will also sync to smartphones and allow use from any browser without a plugin. I admin several sites, have over 200 active userid/passwords and this has been a lifesaver. They also have a forum here.

Clients who lie in their recommendations to keep the escorts to themselves are despicable, no question about it, and that's what this thread was originally about. The rich guy thing was a diversion, every guy I've found it worth going back to after some time has generously either offered me the old rate, or their rate for regular clients, usually a more than fair deal. I've felt so guilty about some of their discounts that I gave them a large tip, so I really have nothing to complain about. I guess I was indirectly whining about rate inflation and the unaffordability of many of the pros here in the US. But you're totally right, it's a competitive marketplace in this recession, there are hundreds of hot guys at good prices, vastly more if you outsource. The ad sites offer supermodel guys at high rates to wealthy sponsors. The budget conscious have to work a bit harder, that's always been the case.

Thanks lookin, message received, equilibrium restored. I sometimes get my forums mixed up, especially when the 420's involved (wild weekend...).Creative writing forum's that way ->

That is awesome that you're dedicated to making it work despite being not profitable. I'm kind of surprised that f4f and some of the other advertisers haven't paid off over the years, but colo and traffic costs are high, especially with all the graphics. I would love to do it myself as well if I could only break about even, but I doubt that the target audience would warrant any more dilution. I know it's a labor of love, and doing it for the guys in the industry is a wonderful thing! There are simply not enough resources as good as yours around. Yea, cynicism abounds with this lot . I could playfully beg, but I don't want to hit them upside the head with a surprise review and strangers burning up their iPhones... unless they give me a sign.

I am not a rich guy... (in Christine O'Donnell's voice) I'm you. Don't keep a roster... it just works out that way - with qualifiers and rotating top slot and everything LA is a good place for hiring! I love regulars and my fetish suits their interests...besides I'm a pushover and too easy to please. Top dude is unmatchably generous with his time - 6 hr sessions @ $200. How better to spend a Saturday afternoon? (as he snickers over my shoulder while I type this). I tip well though. Plus dinner and a movie...

Some of the guys over at JustUsBoys.com are having a conniption, but I think it's good cheeky fun. Preaching to the choir though (unless they can get a promo spot on faux news)

It's quite the mixed blessing isn't it? I would certainly wish the best for those guys I see regularly, but after having lost a treasured favorite to the "bidding wars" (actually he moved across country and I can't visit as often as I'd like), I redirect my newer pursuits to those guys who have something else going on in their lives... being a student and suffering those insane tuition bills, a single dad trying to make ends meet with a low-wage job, a struggling actor/artist, any number of un(der)employed guys that are willing to enter into a win-win arrangement to ease the pain in this recession. Bottom line, I can't really afford the "sugar daddy" role so I'm happy with "generous friend with benefits". I admire your selfless purity of heart in wanting the best for your guys, even though their success takes them out of the range of your affordability, but my cynical side observes that you do stand to gain a tad from an inrush of new rentboy reviews. Nevertheless, I thank you from the bottom of my heart because you are performing an awesome service here, and I have offered to all my current guys to give them a review if they wish. My most frequent regular is a bit paranoid and only wants personal referrals, the others are "meh" (Tony: "the reviews are all written by the escorts themselves anyway")... so I'm not going to twist their arms or anything. But I'll keep taking their temperature on the matter. I'm traveling to Texas for the holidays so if I see Jason or any visiting out-of-towners, I will enscribe my fetish fueled experiences for the prurient enjoyment of all concerned.

Defending yourself? Really?! Did you even read the thread before you snarked in? I was just using you as an example of why some people don't post reviews. No one is bitter... No one says you're a bad guy. Take a deep breath.... Exhale.... Ahhhhhhh All better? Now back to that ol blog....

I've discussed this with other clients and I can definitely see both sides. On the one hand, we want the rentboys to do well, be successful and keep offering their services, as well as having other clients share in the bounty, maybe encourage other rentboys to come into the business and increase the offerings for everybody. On the other hand, once a guy gets publicized with glowing reviews, the rich daddies swoop in, encourage him to raise his rates, shower him with money for overnights, weekends, week-long trips overseas, and we office-class schlubs can kiss that guy goodbye - unavailable for the foreseeable future until the gentry get tired of his aging ass. Witness Benjamin Nichols and his rate inflation and general unavailability ,or several local Los Angeles guys I could name. I'm glad to review the traveling escorts and the $200+ guys who are already too expensive to see on a regular basis, but I'm pretty hesitant to review my local non-pros, who don't really advertise on the high profile rentboy sites anyway, and who I really hope don't quit their day jobs for drifting about the Caribbean on daddy's yachts.

I really prefer the images in the main board, they're easy to spot thanks to the title, and provide a nice little fantasy respite here and there from the glaring reality of the newsy threads. If they were sectioned off and heavily censored as on the other site, I'd seldom visit.

I'll take the plunge... Is this about the Mini Driver fracas or the foreclosure? I lurk on both sites.

They're not the only ones: Texas GOP = US + Uganda I'm from Texas and I became ill when I read this...Welcome back to the 19th century.

Google Reader - simply sublime. I'm up to 377 feeds, all nicely sorted by category.Tried several others but I've never found its equal.

In my fevered search for new male escort sites after the demise of Craigslist, I've hit upon what seems like a real gem: The UK based Connect2men which as of 9/6 has 528 US gay escort listings, 124 ads in LA many of which I've never seen. Free escort ads, dudes, what are you waiting for! Seems like a perfect fit. A company in another country where prostitution is legal providing service to the US where we suffer under a repressive moralistic regime, it's a good deed they're doing, kind of like us providing uncensored Internet access to Saudi Arabian and Chinese citizens. I know about GayRomeo which has few US ads, but are there any other overseas sites like this that I'm missing? Just in case the combined might of the nationwide Attorneys General manage to stamp out the last vestige of gay escort classifieds in the name of "save the women and children from the hideous adult escort ad industry". (I guess it shows I'm just a little bitter about this shit....).

I'll confess that I watched this show for the first time yesterday while cuddling after sex. One of my regular escorts is apparently obsessed with Jersey Shore and saw fit to bring me up to speed. His hilarious running commentary was much better than the show itself and he had me in stitches, but there's definitely a male eye candy factor there that will have me peeking in from time to time, now that I'm familiar with the "characters". Besides, NYC studs with a heavy Brooklyn accent just get me creaming all over myself with lust.

I do like the m4rn wanted list, it's gotten me a couple of nice reasonably priced dates from new guys to town, and helped me a few times when traveling. I've mostly been relying on good ol' CL though, both with query filters that restrict searches to guys looking for "gen/roses/..." (let me know if you have any good search terms to add...) and placing well worded "generous daddy..." type ads. Last ad I placed received 52 responses, way more than I expected. The recession has hit people hard here in LA, there are lots of sexy everyday guys seeking to rent it out to make ends meet. These are really men I enjoy meeting, the non-pros who are happy to entertain, share some fun, make some bucks and pay the bills. Students, wannabe actors, single dads, the underemployed... these guys are worth seeking out, I only wish there were alternatives to CL and its fearsome flaggers for them though!

That just means no porn apps to be distributed via the App Store. Porn and sex related web sites are still fully accessible. Can you imagine the outrage if Steve were to try and censor porn websites altogether? Googling iphone porn comes back with 43,700,000 results. Iphone gay porn, 1,220,000 - not too shabby.

That just means no porn apps to be distributed via the App Store. Porn and sex related web sites are still fully accessible. Can you imagine the outrage if Steve were to cut off porn websites altogether? Googling iphone porn comes back with 43,700,000 results