Info on Chicago Escorts

[Guest asntp]

There are several escorts in Chicago whose ads have appeared in Gay Chicago magazine for a long time. However, there are no reviews on this site. I wonder if anyone has experience with them:

 

1. David - "Rugged and Handsome"

2. Lukas - "hot polish meat'

3. Jairo - "hung Brasilian"

 

Thanks!

[+ deej]

Chicago is a bit of an odd market. Gay Chicago Magazine has succeeded in keeping most escort advertising locked in the print magazine, where so much of it has gone online in other cities.

 

For that reason, I suspect a larger than normal percentage of guys who hire are not accustomed to using the internet (and this site).

 

Several working guys in Chicago have told me that internet advertising brings them very little local business, so they need to keep the ad in the paper. Internet advertising tends to only get interest from out-of-towners.

 

If the locals aren't using the internet for hiring, it follows that they also won't be reviewing. The internet simply isn't part of the equation for them.

[acuna]

A most interesting perspective. I wonder why Gays in Chicago forgo the internet when seeking escorts?

[+ Cock Eyed Optimist]

Good question asntp. I've often wondered that myself. Deej's explanation sounds reasonable. In addition to the escorts you listed above, there are scores of others whose ads appear weekly in the magazine, but have never been reviewed here. None of those ads ever make reference to a website for a picture either. Maybe Deej could come back to Chicago and do some detailed research!

[Guest asntp]

Deej's observation sounds consistent with the extent of internet reviews. It is still puzzling to me how Gay Chicago Magazine can possibly lock the escorts in print ads format. Why don't they advertise online? It stands to argue that online ads are cheaper and reach a larger audience.

 

If it is true that online ads don't yield clients for the escorts, does this mean that Chicagoans are computer illerate? This would surprise me, as other indicators suggest otherwise. So, it is still a mystery.

[+ deej]

>It is still puzzling to me how Gay Chicago

>Magazine can possibly lock the escorts in print ads format.

 

Simple formula and vicious cycle: if that's where the majority of ads are, that's where clients will look and hire from, so that's where the majority of ads get placed and where the majority of ads are.

 

Unlike gay bar rags in other cities, Gay Chicago has steadfastly resisted the move to the internet because advertising revenue is in the print ads in the magazine. They've had a lock on that market for close to 30 years. (Plus, any hooker worth his ad can usually get a free ad if he's willing to have sex with someone on the staff. ;-))

 

Eschewing the internet is a dangerous and precarious perch for ANY print magazine these days, but they somehow pull it off year after year.

[Nvr2Thick]

> deej-

>Unlike gay bar rags in other cities, Gay Chicago has

>steadfastly resisted the move to the internet because

>advertising revenue is in the print ads in the magazine...

 

>Eschewing the internet is a dangerous and precarious perch for

>ANY print magazine these days, but they somehow pull it off

>year after year.

 

When it comes to escort ads I don't think that the Chicago gay bar rags are much different than other cities. In NYC Next Mag has long since abandoned their online escort ad format for a primitive scan of the ad pages from their print version. HX dropped their online ads. In San Francisco BAR has dropped the entire online version of their paper.

 

These local bar magazines don't usually have the staff to maintain web content. I think that online ads from local mags like Hotspots and Frontiers are the exception, not the rule.

[+ deej]

>These local bar magazines don't usually have the staff to

>maintain web content. I think that online ads from local mags

>like Hotspots and Frontiers are the exception, not the rule.

 

True enough, although Gay Chicago outsources their website.

 

There's also a "small newspaper" dynamic involved. Many use less-than-advanced publishing techniques because they're less expensive than more modern techniques. (Not just gay bar rags ... supermarket rags do this too.)

 

For example, last I heard Gay Chicago was still mostly manually pasted up in the traditional manner each week. The content may not exist in an easily manipulatable format for online publising.