With regard to issues of safety, cost, convenience and pressure to perform (both socially and sexually), a quiet evening with an old issue of Black Beauties or Barely Legal obviously has this hobby of ours beat--hands down.
Is there really any justification for that peculiar pride I felt, so long ago, when I first got up the guts to pay for a real live woman?
Originally Posted by roaringfork
an opinion stated and a question posed. didnt seen anyone comment on or answer it until elisabeth.
I know that after my first appointment, and I remember it well (I was personally awful and knew it. I was so nervous!!) ... there was a sense of accomplishment. It was like, "I did it!".
As far as justifying what you felt well, doesn't it just feel good when you finally do something that is scary and just out of the norm for you? When I've tried different things, traveling alone ... going to a class that is a bit overwhelming ... finally getting the nerve to do "X,Y and/or Z" with a particular friend ... there is always a sense of accomplishment.
Sounds very normal to me!
Originally Posted by ElisabethWhispers
my thoughts...
1. i'd agree w/ your 1st statement - it is safer, less costly, more convenient and has less pressure.
and if that is your criteria, then i think you have justified it to yourself.
2. "Is there really any justification for that peculiar pride I felt, so long ago, when I first got up the guts to pay for a real live woman?"
only you can decide whether any justification is appropriate or worth it.
one justification is, as elisabeth said, that you planned and completed a task you wanted to do.
and i would say that is not much different from the pride in getting up the guts to be w/ a real live woman w/out directly paying for her time [you know the old adage - men pay for pussy, either by time or by agreement. in my opinion, it's cos many of them have the goods that many men want!]
of course, pumping your fist and saying "hot fucking stuff!" afterwards wouldnt necessarily be a justification, more a comment.
Thanks everyone: the tone of my original post was influenced by a vicious case of the flu, and I can see where it might have been taken as an expression of discouragement, or as a criticism of the hobby. No way would I retire before achieving my goal of A Swaller From Every Color--and yes, probably not even then. What I really had in mind was a more abstract issue, related to a joke which I once saw posted by that truly despicable breed of stripper--the kind who wants all the financial benefits of being a sex worker, with none of the responsibility which comes with that identity:
Q: Why do men go to prostitutes?
A: Because they're too lazy to jerk themselves off.
I deeply sense and want to believe that this prissy hypocrite was somehow wrong; I guess I was just looking for some help in making the argument.
Originally Posted by roaringfork
in addition to having the opportunity and financial resources required to visit such a woman [not every man can do so]...
there are a gazillion reasons why men pay for intimate, sensual, sexual, erotic, kinky, you name it times and activities with women, whether they call them prostitutes, escorts, whores, companions, consultants, etc.
they may want...
a woman's soft touch
to be fellated
to be tied up and teased until they come
to tie up and tease the woman until she comes
to perform russian
to be pleasured by two or more women
to perform anal sex or have anal sex performed on them...
like i said gazillion.
just figure out why you want to be w/ an escort and figure out if that's reasonable, appropriate, and affordable for you. if you're ok with that, then go have fun!!! if not, re-examine all of this and your needs/wants/desires.
in any case, as best as you can, just be good to/for others and do little or no harm.