My response to question about "Retired Escorts" in the Deli 2 days ago.

[healthguy]

First: Thanks to those that replied. Always gives a bit on insight.

Next: I want to take issue with part of response that stated your profession "commands no prestige or respectability." I disagree. I have been part of the many service professions for decades. I have spent a great deal of time meeting the needs and wants of my clients. I have also spent a great deal of time "adjusting" how I feel about a client in order to accommodate their needs and wishes. So if you work at the counter at Mickey D's or being the President, we work at meeting the wants of others.

Next: So it is one of my life's philosophies that we need to work at being more kind, understanding of each others differences, and tolerant. And, do you know what word really turns me on Rentboy type adds? The word NICE. People have forgotten to be civil to each other. Go figure. AND, if we can learn to just simply learn to laugh at the human condition. Not each other, but simply at life in general, and how seriously we take things, we can have a lot of fun with each other!!!

Finally: I do respect your profession. Also, respect and prestige of each other comes from how we treat each other and our professions. Take care everyone, and have a fun and safe week. Rand

Rand.

[Steven_Draker]

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[wayout]

Very well said and from you lips to everyone else's ears.

[bigvalboy]

Ok..now Steven that is very funny. Love a good laugh before I start my day!!!! L O L

[seeker630]

Very well said and from you lips to everyone else's ears.

 

Amen!

[leigh.bess.toad]

Amen!

 

+1

[Steven_Draker]

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Ok..now Steven that is very funny. Love a good laugh before I start my day!!!! L O L

 

I'm glad that you liked it, BVB. Just look at that intensity on that face ... priceless

[adriano46]

When I think of the half-dozen or so of escorts who truely had an impact on my life, I would never, ever say that their life as an escort "commanded no respect or prestige".

 

Respect and prestige can be both subjective and objective, and for me, inasmuch as I go into any encounter wth a guy with the utmost respect, if that is met and matched, he already has my undivided attention, and is now working on the prestige aspect.

 

Those who know me (or who have followed my posts for over a decade here) know that I prefer European escorts for a definite urbanity, savoir-faire, Oh, je ne sais pas que that many bring to encounters that include an enjoyable dinner, evening at the theatre, long walks along historic city centres, something that is both romantic and a bit edgy without getting banal. Although I have never met Steven Draker, it is that type of man of which I speak (mine in Europe are mostly now retired gracefully, two in Amsterdam, 1 in Spain, 2 Italians, 2 Greeks, 3 or 4 extraordinary Hungarians, and 1 special Romanian, and then of course there are the Russians, especially those who were/are in the military.

 

Each has maintained utmost discretion with regard to me and my work; each has been an absolute delight to meet and to come to know, and about 50% are still acquaintances who I see in travels for a drink or dinner. They have all matured gracefully, some are successful businessmen or in the arts fields and doing quite well.

 

For them, escorting was a bridge to fulfilling some very big dreams, and most have achieved that. To them (and they know "who" they are) I say THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.

[Pegasus]

Well said "Healthguy." Just my two cents here, but anyone who disrespects escorts or considers the escorting profession to be a demeaning career choice, should get the hell off this forum. I greatly admire many of the fine, professional men I've hired through the years and am grateful they give of themselves so generously and intimately.

[nate_sf]

Thank you sirs! It's nice to read the words of appreciation from you all.

[+ purplekow]

First: Thanks to those that replied. Always gives a bit on insight.

Next: I want to take issue with part of response that stated your profession "commands no prestige or respectability." I disagree. I have been part of the many service professions for decades. I have spent a great deal of time meeting the needs and wants of my clients. I have also spent a great deal of time "adjusting" how I feel about a client in order to accommodate their needs and wishes. So if you work at the counter at Mickey D's or being the President, we work at meeting the wants of others.

Next: So it is one of my life's philosophies that we need to work at being more kind, understanding of each others differences, and tolerant. And, do you know what word really turns me on Rentboy type adds? The word NICE. People have forgotten to be civil to each other. Go figure. AND, if we can learn to just simply learn to laugh at the human condition. Not each other, but simply at life in general, and how seriously we take things, we can have a lot of fun with each other!!!

Finally: I do respect your profession. Also, respect and prestige of each other comes from how we treat each other and our professions. Take care everyone, and have a fun and safe week. Rand

Rand.

Healthguy, i enjoyed your post and felt you were quite empathetic. Then I put together, healthguy, adjusting and catering to others and deduced that you are a chiropractor and as a result perhaps have some similar professional experience in regards to acceptance and the like. That being the case or not, i agree with you that no matter where we are in the pecking order, ultimately it is how we treat our clients and the manner in which we perform our professional responsibilities which determines the quality of our professional life.

My father once overheard me tell a new kid in the neighborhood that he was "just a barber". He later called me over and said: Your friend's dad is a fireman and that is exciting and important. But I want you to know that I am not "just a barber" but I am an excellent barber and whatever you become I want you to be excellent at that. I never said he was just a barber again.

[Dave]

hey Rand, i love what you wrote. hope you like this!

 

 

 

 

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[healthguy]

Hi Dave,

Don't like it, love it! Will have to get one. Rand

[rvwnsd]

... I want to take issue with part of response that stated your profession "commands no prestige or respectability."...

 

I completely agree with you. The presence of a financial transaction does not absolve the client of a responsibility to be civil, respectful, and nice. The presence of a sexual component does not make an escort less respectable or less deserving of respect or kindness, nor does it absolve the escort from behaving in a similar fashion toward the client. If both sides would simply treat one another as they would be treated themselves, everyone would be better off.