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Funny these days to have people without a clue as to what's going on pontificate. The must carry crew wasn't going to Louisville on holiday, since the FAA only allows crew to work a certain number of hours they were needed to relieve a crew or an entire flight would have been cancelled stranding those passengers. I assume you all read about the fiasco with Delta in Atlanta when they couldn't get crew in last week. This never happened when I was young, but airfares were a lot higher. People keep going for the lowest rate possible, well this is what you get. Welcome to Walmart. By the way maybe this wasn't handled well but if United lowers their fares by 5 dollars all the outraged folks will be at the trough going for the cheapest fare.

So no one has responded to the elephant in the room. Next time I see a client asking for a twink, a Black guy, an Asian, a hairy guy or one of the many other wants they have I'll be sure to post that they're racist and should hang their heads in shame - cause guess what - all of these are attributes that a person can't change. I've known enough escorts who have been hurt badly by clients calling them fat, ugly and other mean spirited names. Most of the times their opinion wasn't even asked for, it's more like a person posting if anyone knows anything about a specific escort and having to endure a bunch of posts about why that escort is too inked, old, young, whatever. By the way Dakota, welcome to the board. You've certainly entered with a bang.

I rarely post but I'm intrigued by this topic. Regardless of how one feels about racism, there are tons of postings by forum members saying that they only want to see Black, Latin, White, Young, Asian - fill in the blank - escorts and I don't think that I've ever heard these people being called names. It's true that they're paying for a service and an escort is charging for it, but the escort is selling time - not his soul. So why is it acceptable for a client to have these preferences (which often include racial preferences) but not an escort?

I'm fascinated by the way everyone sees this as a sexual thing. When bikinis first started being used they were seen as scandalous. Now just about every woman uses them. I kind of see wearing speedos as just whatever makes one feel comfortable, it doesn't mean a person is trying to entice anyone. Just like mixed saunas in Finland aren't about sex. It really must have something to do with puritanism in the States. Oh my God, that woman took off her top while sunbathing, obviously she must be trying to come on to every guy anywhere near her!

Not so much judgmental as provincial. Most of the guys in the world use speedos, and women often take their tops off. It's not a sexual thing, it's a comfort thing. You can always spot Americans at the beach abroad, they're the ones blushing like kids when women are topless or acting embarrassed at mixed sex spas. Nudity is not always about sex.

I'm not sure if this is serious, but as a Jew who wasn't born in the US I was always taught that being Jewish was determined solely by your mother being Jewish. Whether you were circumcised or went to Temple just made you observant or non-observant, but it had nothing to do with being Jewish, that's your race and ethnicity, it's not at all like being a Christian which is accomplished by baptism. Of course, this may just be an American Jewish thing, I have been amazed at how many American Jews assume that all Jews are Ashkenazim and totally forget about the Sephardim. I may be wrong, but the Right Of Return in Israel agrees with me. People also need to keep in mind that although being Jewish in the States isn't a big deal, many of us in other parts of the world aren't so lucky. In many places such as the former communist countries practicing our religion including observing the Days of Awe or things such as circumcising sons was asking for a death sentence or, if you were lucky, horrific discrimination.

Great thread. Although I agree that the escort's looks and so forth are important, I'd be a bit hesitant to get into sub specialties of bondage, etc. As a total newbie my biggest concern was trying to figure out all the jargon, the need for the clock and dagger stuff (reminded me of Boris and Natasha), and mainly how to make the first step without being a total goof ball. Obviously I would vote for Chris Eisenhower not because he's super nice and hot, which he is, but because he can take control (in a good way) and get a nervous newcomer to actually actualize what needs to happen. That's really a skill that can make all the difference whereas too many clinical details could actually scare away some newbies by making them even more nervous?