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  1. Having worked through the internet bubble in 1999 and the 2008 bank crisis in neither one was there a blip. I receive around 3000 dollars a month from a chick-fil-a Land lease. Yes I donate 15 percent to PFLAG. So no my standards won’t lower a bit. I won’t starve and I will not take abuse from anyone. But I feel seriously bad for your providers that you feel the need to be abusive or have them “lower their standards” due to the economy. You sound like one noted Gospel Singer who I know of who sent a love letter to his female provider for a 25 percent discount post FOSTA/SESTA. And yes I am well aware that there will eventually be a time to retire and I will grow old and tired. But I will be dammed if it is sped up by negative Nancies.
  2. Precisely and in my 24 years of working I have never had want for more clients than I have. So I have fired clients some I have had for over a decade for being annoying. So it’s a two way street. I find that all I need to live is about 30 regulars. So unless you can unionize consumers in a grey market you won’t get to do or behave any way you want if you want to work with the the great providers. It comes down to treating people well from both sides.
  3. Always keep in mind irritating clients can ALWAYS be replaced or fired. Turns out our touch phobic culture makes the demand greater than the supply.
  4. The hippies are dying off. One of the positive things they did for out ultra Puritan country is relax our “standards” about nudity. Also in this age (happens on this site unfortunately too) people feel no compunction about posting people’s pictures without asking permission (were providers by the way so some of y’all think we’re open season.) And after they are posted they are available to anyone on earth. There is quite a bit to lose because people don’t practice basic respect of privacy.
  5. As for the paucity of reviews MF did a major purge over the past 18 months. I personally went from 45 reviews to 2 when the purge was done. Jake Deckard in NYC/LA had many more than that and also ended up with two when it was through. Now every 3 months we are allowed to post one review provided by email from our clients if MF doesn’t think it is on the up and up they will ask for the email details. There is no real rhyme or reason to which reviews went down but as a long time provider it is frustrating to lose legit reviews from over a decade ago until now. It is also funny to see hobbyists sneer at therapists for being therapeutic based on their reviews and copy. Because they (MF) won’t let anything that hints at sensual or the varied code words that imply it. Still us guys don’t have it near as bad as women providers who have lost virtually every advertising option and their much needed ability to screen and be safe. So it could be worse.
  6. Top hotels in SF have had issues with bed bugs. So money won’t necessarily save you. About 12 years ago I had a studio that I sublet in SF. I sublet the sublet to another Masseur and in the intervening time the studio became infested with bed bugs. One guys studio had become infested and management moved him to another room but the poor guy dragged his infested rugs to the new studio and some hopped off and found new residences. It was hell to clean what I had left in the sublet.
  7. This. And it is a great site from the Masseur point of view. Management is very responsive to queries.
  8. Have someone else smell your sheets and use water dispersable oil. Rancid oil baked into old sheets tends to spoil the mood.
  9. Precisely. Dems are just as likely to push the scarlet letter as much as Republicans. I would not vote for Kamala Harris for dog catcher after what she did to Backpage. On an ironc note most vice officers were against shuttering the site. Now the worst of the worst have gone to the dark web. Well at least Kamala got votes. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2018/07/09/indianapolis-vice-cop-says-sesta-fosta-closure-of-backpage-has-blinded-investigators/amp/
  10. I always respond promptly to reasonable requests and ones that indicate the ad has been read. I am always surprised to hear, “Thanks so much for responding”. I thought that was the point-you reach out I respond. Also due to the pg-13ifcation of the remaining sites there definitely had been an uptick in bold questions. Not entirely sure how to feel about this because by entering a masseurs phone number into google you can probably figure out how he works. Also a lot of the work performed is directly related to the clients energy so it is a dificult question to answer. If I believe you’re coming in bad faith or I don’t feel safe you’re not going to get the same massage as an open kind hearted person. Masseurs are people too.
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    Not strict anything;). Life is not black and white. Even if the strict crowd thinks and/or pretends it is. I will always remember my “ethics” teacher in massage school without noticing the rank irony talking about the time her future husband and her met when he walked into her massage studio.
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    I always have two sheets on the table and I say before the massage “drape for your level of comfort.” Makes for more laundry duty I know. However, as provider it is impingent to give the option. I have found that clients sometimes get on top or underneath depending on their mood. When therapists assume things about client preferences is when you open yourself to trouble. I just do outcalls so the warmth or not is largely dependent on the client. But as a courtesy when I get a hotel call and I see the temp set at 70 I encourage the client to let me turn the heat up because in two decades experience I have found that 70 is the point at which people get cold with a massage. Also just because someone says they are warm with their clothes on does not meant that they will be warm wince the take them off and get moist oil on them.
  13. For who? The senate voted 99-1 in favor of SESTA-FOSTA. Now they have quietly stripped out money for “rehabilitation”. The Bible beaters have struck solid gold with the “sex trafficking” red herring.
  14. Drew you were probably on early morning. They block contact at what could reasonably considered non Massage hours. I have advertised with Masseurfinder since the beginning. It is still a wonderful site and a great tool for masseurs.
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