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OK guys! We are down to a few more logos that I really like. Just for me, as a favor, can you go to this link and vote for any you like or don't like. Your input would be most appreciated.

All my friends say Dorothy. I like to think I am Rose. But, everyone that knows me says Dorothy for sure.

I totally agree Lurker. Welcome to everyone here. We will try our best to throw out the welcome mat for you! If there are things that you would like to see from us, please let us know. We are open and we listen to our members.

LOL Did we ever even question he was the quintessential boytoy?

I am here because I met a man many years ago that introduced me to male escort reviews. His name was Hooboy. We became great friends. When I met him I really didn't know much of the community that he had created and he asked me to join and participate and I did. From that site, I met many great guys in person that have become dear friends. I travel with some. I meet up with some around the world and I still engage with many of them. When Hooboy's site closed, we started this one and moved the conversations here. I participate here because I truly value the men on this forum and I respect their opinions. I love learning new things about the escort world and I have to say I have learned more from this site than any other. Everything from tips on Brazil to where to go in Thailand to what clubs are the best in NYC, LA and Montreal. I am not the frequent traveler I once was and I tend to keep going back to the same places. But, I do so with a greater knowledge thanks to the participants of this site. I also love to hear other people's views on politics and current events. Some posters have really opened my eyes when they make a comment in the Political forum that I had not thought of. There are also many of the current news and entertainment topics that are discussed here that I would have missed by hitting the front page of the New York Times each day. All in all, I have to say that the friendships I have developed on this site will be ones that I hope to be involved with when I get to my "Golden Girls" years. Between that and the knowledge I gain everyday from the intelligent and funny men that post here, my life is better for visiting here each day!

It is easy to call and get a sales person. I want to talk to someone in Thailand that actually uses the service.

Thailand is always open to good talent. The best place is to post photos on this site, gay romeo and other sites where people can see you. Do it in advance so that everyone can make plans. I have hired many foreigners over the years in LOS and love it. There is a market for that with some farang as well as some Thai men. Many of the guys in Pattaya are "rice queens" but that is not true for all.

Sorry, I was talking about the gogo bars and not the other bars. I went to every gogo bar on that Soi at least one time and I hit Dream Boys 2 times and Xboys 3 times. All were a ghost town of customers when I went. I am an early person and usually home by midnight. I am not a late night guy.

I learned that security guards are highly underpaid or undereducated. At 2AM I got a knock at my door asking if I had heard a disturbance from neighbors. I looked at him and said, "are you fucking kidding me? The only disturbance I heard was the fucking doorbell when I was asleep." He said, "oh sorry, I thought you MIGHT be awake."

Love her!

I am not closing the thread at this point in time. We are all adults here. We don't close threads just because we as management think it is time to move on. And, that does not mean I am any less sincere in my desire for you and EVERYONE else to move on.

Does anyone actively use Netflix in Thailand? I am thinking of subscribing and want to know if it will allow me to watch movies from a Thai IP address. Thanks.

PLEASE, move on. His site is closed for vacation. Can we not worry about Daddy's site? What holiday spot he is in. How many margaritas he is having poolside. What Daddy does for business. Who works for him. Who Moderates for him. We don't need any of that information HERE! It is not relevant here. Welcome to DaddysOnVacation.com! or as more commonly know as MER!

No, there is not. I love vacations and probably travel way too much. Luckily, I have someone I trust totally to take care of the site when I am not around. TY is fantastic and I am so happy we have been working together harmoniously for so long. I know every message board needs such a close group of guys they can trust. Thanks TY for always having my back and letting me vacation over and over and over again!

Yes, she had been open about her relationship for many years. Everyone that knew her knew this and no issues were ever made of it. Just like Anderson Cooper. I don't see the need to announce to the world "I'm Gay." Although I did and think I told everyone I met for at least 10 years. I'd say, "Hello, I'm Oz and I'm Gay" and they would say, No SHIT. Sally lived her life happily and with her partner. I think it is a beautiful thing.

I was in Bangkok recently and the bars that I went to were dead. I don't mean dead of boys as there seem to be many of them around but dead of clients. I sat in 2 of the soi bars and there were only 2-3 customers the entire time I sat there. It was like a ghost town compared to what I once saw. I didn't really post a great deal about about Bangkok on my last trip as the only thing I found great was the massage places. They were crowded as usual on the weekends and even though the week when I went, they had many customers and tons of guys. I did speak to several guys from the bars on the Soi Twilight and all said it was horrible for them. I spent time at my hotel with 2 of them and they were very happy and said I was the first customer to take them in weeks. I am not sue if I believe this or not but judging from the lack of customers I saw, it was possible.

No better place for a crazy woman to live than in Poughkeepsie. The mountains and the breeze is supposed to be very healthy. (thanks for being a sport)

You are from Poughkeepsie? I didn't know that. I have friends that have a house there. Lets meet up!

No, there is one more winner that will be drawn from the group. Townie said he would plan this and we will get together in LA for drinks and have a drawing.

I am surprised they haven't found her yet.

What happened? Is he redeveloping it?

I appreciate all the ideas and suggestions. The site has never made me money. It is a passion for me. Every penny I have made from it I put back into the site for advertising, contests, etc. The change is not for making more money (though that would be nice) it is for getting a bigger audience and more participation. Participation needs to come from escorts, clients, forum posters and other readers. You can’t run a successful site from some great forum members or just with some great escorts or just with good reviews. As we have seen, the reviews are not what they were years ago. Few come in and I refuse to go the route of writing 3 or 4 bullshit reviews of a few sentences myself every day just to make the escorts happy they got a review or to trick members into thinking a review was submitted. Yes, I know other sites do this but it has not happened here and it never will. Instead, we have tried to concentrate on high quality real reviews from real clients. We have been loosing that battle over the years. The site needs a shot of participants not just in the forums but also from escorts posting profiles and reviewers posting reviews. To do this, it will take more than just a rebuild of the site. I can do that and TY and I had talked about this for a while. But, we have also had ads on LA and NYC magazines, which a great deal of money was spent with limited if any results. If I thought that advertising would solve the problem, I would happily dip into my retirement fund to do this. It might work for a short time but at the rates the magazines charge; it won’t last long if the site doesn’t bring in revenue to pay for them. I can’t keep dipping into my own pocket for this site. Years ago, I wanted to change the name to Hooboy.com and one long time poster go very upset and thought I was defaming Daddy by doing this. (Something I thought was comical, as the two have nothing to do with each other.) Since then, we just tried to make some contests and we did advertise for a while in order to get more participation and it did not work. Very recently, I got an offer to buy boytoy.com and this was while TY and I were still discussing the direction for the site. Before that, we were going to name the site CList.com and make its primary focus on listing places and escorts. Ex. Top 10 bars in Rio or Top 10 Bottom Escorts in USA. When boytoy came open for purchase (not a cheap amount). I jumped at it. I will use the name to make money. It is easy to do with a name like boytoy and I honestly believed that everyone would love the name. The fact they don’t has really thrown me for a loop that I was not expecting. Does that mean I have abandoned the idea? No, it doesn’t. I will use the name for a site and it is such an amazing name that it will be successful. There is another site called houseboy.com that has tons of houseboys that I thought would be perfect to combine with this site. My thought was to make profiles for: escorts, houseboys, boytoys, clients and just forum users. So, yes, I wanted to greatly expand the base and make it a much more interactive site with many more users and posters and admirers of men. We had worked on incorporating a major addition to the forums, which would have listings for all cities around the world and let all gay owned or gay friendly business post their information. We also wanted to do reviews of other gay websites and have talked to professional writers and porn people that were willing to help us get started in this. So, basically I wanted to create a massive site that everyone on this forum would love, as the major complaint I get is that the forums are slow or not enough people are posting. Yet, whenever I try to do something to improve this, like the recent contest, I get people upset and threating to leave, quite posting, etc. It seems to be a cycle that is consistent every time I try to make some changes, which I think, will improve the site. I do not blame anyone for this. It is just the way it seems to be. Names are not as easy as many of you may think. I pay great amounts of money for good names and often times upwards of 100k for most great names. I do believe that this site really needs a good name. I am just not sure that Male Escort Review is a name that will bring in escorts (esp. those that don’t want to be reviewed) or escorts who don’t want to be associated with a site that has escort in its name. Yes, escorts have told me that both of the above are reasons they don’t want to be on the site. Suggestions like workingboys.com are great. But, it has been taken since 2003 as most domain names that have any meaning are. I know this as I buy names every day of the week. I have bought literally thousands of these names over the years and it is VERY rare to ever find a name that is a common term that is available. So, trying to use boytoy was simply for me a way to put more of my money into a site that I love and I want to be successful. It really saddens me that many think that the name brings up connotations of pedophilia. I just don’t understand and perhaps part of that is my belief in the sexual revolution of gay men being able to do what they want with other consenting adults without judgments. I do not judge a drag queen as less than an escort or a person that calls himself a twink less than someone that likes to get pissed on. I guess I am just too liberal and open-minded. I also guess part of my background in calling the boys that live with me in Thailand boyfriends and “boys” also makes some wonder why I use that term. Both of them are over 27 and some on this board don’t understand why I call them boys. As I met Lucky’s boyfriend a few times, I would also describe him as a boy and he is close to my age. The term for me is just something I use for someone younger than me or even sometimes someone older than me. I even use the term for my friend Firecat on occasion and he is a bit older than me. I guess I just don't relate the term "boy" in the way some of you do. I am not upset at all with this discussion and I do truly value and appreciate all comments and suggestions. I assure you, we will try our best not to hurt or offend anyone with anything we do and I am glad many of you are participating in this discussion. With that said, it seems like many do not want a change at all. If that is the case, please tell me a way that I can get the site to the next level without me spending more money that I won’t recover. I do not mind spending money if I think that somewhere down the line there is a possibility of recovery. We value each and every one of you! We appreciate all you do for the site and for this community! And, we appreciate your comments about this or anything else we do on the site. We are a community and we do not just willy-nilly make changes that will offend people and alienate the community. That is one of the main reasons I said in my first post, we are considering a name change but nothing has been decided. Please continue to give your input and advice.

Actually, I remember when the site first started and it was controversial. I went to one of their opening parties at an old bar called Stella's and the comments from the people there as well as the newsgroups back there was very negative and the same terms of pedophile was thrown out for that name as well.

Jim, if you think we are not listening, you don't know us very well. However, we must get more traffic to the site. It needs a chance to move to the next level. A name like boytoy is fabulous and will open the site up to a bigger audience. IMHO, for those that are offended by the use of boy, I wonder if they use rentboy? Or, do they avoid that site? What about a site called son's guys? If one would go to a site called Daddy's Review, why not Son's? Then, if you ok with Son's, why not boy? Just curious. Seriously, I am trying to understand the issue with the word boy. It is a pretty common term in the gay community from rentboys to boytoys to boysnextdoor etc.

Some new ones guys. Can you look at these?