What do you want to see here? Funny stories? Informative anecdotes? Warnings of possible dangers? Spirited and respectable debate? Name calling? Rudeness?  

I think my favorite regional board is the Atlanta board. It has a mix of advice, ISO, and an occasional warning for both sides, but it also has fun topics like movies, strange requests, pick-up lines, age of ladies men see (but in a way that's interesting, not nasty), sexual dynamics, kissing, and fantasies. It's also a board where most of the guys seem to actually LIKE us. Someone is occasionally cranky, but that isn't the norm.

guys like providers on the atlanta board?

First of all, anybody that knows Peter knew he was joking around.  Second, don't be so thin-skinned.  After all, you are operating in an (illegal) business that has a long and rich tradition of slang usage to describe you (I think both hooker and provider are common usage slang terms, as the correct term would be prostitute), your body parts (VJ, pussy, boobs, tits, etc.), the things you do with your customers (BJ, HJ, CG, mish, doggy, Greek, etc.), and even the customers (am I offended being called a "john"?  Absolutely not!).  So I think you need to get down off of your high horse and not take yourself so seriously.  Most of us that make up your customer base are just doing this to have a good time.  If you want to start making it so that if we say something, you are going to bash us for not being PC, then you take the fun out of it, so why should we want to see someone so dour

like it was supposed to.  Do you have another one we could try?  You're pretty good at coming up with topics.

Ok, Kerri has observed the Atlanta board is better for the various reasons she stated. Isn't that we all want this board to be?

don't really need emotional drama here, just lively discussion.  Since you used your alias, I assume you realized before you responded the first time that you were wrong to jump on the previous poster, BPJ, for his simple use of a common slang term IN A HUMOROUS WAY that is used in the industry YOU have chosen to work in.  Its cowardly, but because you are a woman, I will let it slide

a collective?  I thought you were all independent.  Isn't "collective" kind of a slang term for an agency, in this context?  

Its not about whether I think I'm making you look bad.  Its whether you think it.  You will keep wanting to have the last word until you don't think you look bad anymore.  Its not about what you say, just like on this latest post, where you come across as desperate, its what you do next.  The problem is that if you stop, you may still look bad to everyone else.   Sometimes you don't need my help to look bad, so sometimes I don't have to say anything.  If I stop first, then you can't be sure whether I stopped because I put you in a position from which there is no recovery, so there is no point for me to beat a dead horse.  It can be a little complicated, so try to keep up.  But isn't this fun?  This is what I call a lively discussion.  Welcome to San Diego, baby!

I think that all prostitutes and hookers are providers, but not all providers are prostitutes and hookers. Anyway, it seems that on other boards people are able to laugh,  joke and tease each other without getting offended or upset. But not here for some reason. And it's too bad.

I actually didn't think BPJ meant to be mean; over on the general board some trolls regularly post very derogatory questions to stir the pot, and some of those guys regularly use prostitute or hooker to help increase the offensiveness of their posts.

And by the way, the ATL board isn't perfect, but it doesn't devolve as often as ours does. I think it may take a while before people don't have their hackles up on ours, unfortunately.

it is a reasoned argument containing facts.  Your argument is emotional.  Emotional will never win a debate over facts.  That's why I messed with your head a little bit.  If you are going to be in this game (which you chose, nobody forced you into it), you can't get all worked up when someone uses slang in a post that has been around for a hundred years.  Are there better words to use sometimes than slang? Yes.  But slamming a guy on a humorous post is only going to make you look bad.  If you don't see that, then you are in for a disappointing career.   Do you want your customers to say, "You have lovely labia that shows no signs of wear and tear, I like the way your clitoris peeks out from its hood, and your skene's gland is really secreting fluid today."  Or would you rather hear, "You have a cute pussy that gets really wet."  Which is sexier?  Sometimes slang is.  If a guy gets aroused by the term "hooker" rather than "upscale elite companion," you should let him.  When you try to be the PC Nazi here, I, for one, will give you a little grief.

I think that the terms hooker and prostitute have a much more negative connotation in our society than hobbyist or even john. (most people think a hobbyist is someone who builds model airplanes, for example) That's why many providers have such a reflexive negative reaction upon hearing it. Kind of like to a racial slur. Personally, I prefer to use the term working girls. But I have no idea how ladies feel about that one.

I have had many providers use to describe themselves in conversations with me about their work, so it is one I use often in their presence, and no one ever seemed to get bent out of shape over it.

. Guys ask what the ladies want.  

Thank you for your perspective. I am a guy and I agree with you 100%. I hope to see you post more here. Your opinion was heartfelt and well stated, you didn't single anyone out and so, nobody should be offended.  

CDL, if you call her a PC Nazi then you should include me, too. Dude, we agree on most things but you admitted to trying to get under her skin on purpose. Her opinion is valid and so is yours but, why try to purposely piss her off?  

but all y'all can suck her balls!

If she had come here and similarly attacked you for making a joke (BPJ actually put "lol" at the end so that even the "slow" ones like this piece of work would understand that he was just joking around), I would have done the same thing.  She obviously takes herself way too seriously, acusing the posters here of being mean when she is the one going on the attack.  Peter is a friend of mine and there is not a malicous bone in his body, but he loves to say funny stuff, like many of the rest of us.  If she's going to attack him for making a joke, then we ALL should be attacking her, not just me.  This is an example of why many of the most humorous posters on TER have abandoned San Diego, because there is always some retarded idiot here that doesn't get the humor, even if they put "lol" after their post, just in case its too subtle for the mentally challeged.  There are some really clever and funny guys on the General and some of the other regional boards, but they don't come here because nobody here can seem to take a joke or understand sarcasm when used for humor.  Ironically, I have found myself putting "lol" after some of my own posts on various boards lately because I thought certain members wouldn't get the joke and would instead be offended.   So I ask you, how much do we want to dumb things down to the lowest common denominator here?  I do this to have some fun, and it has been a lot more fun since you have been sheparding some good topics, but if there's not humor involved, then its not fun.  I try to be tolerant with the misinformed and uneducated, but she was out line to attack and I called her on it.  That's all.

her head is up her ass.  Another one that wants to attack from an alias.  Sigh.  Why do all of the cowards seem to be on this board?  If you want to challenge someone on their opinion, that is what legitimate debate is all about, but stand behind what you say with your real handle.  Otherwise, you make yourself irrelevant.  

is too many members coming here and using their alias' for cheap shots on other members.  Notice the providers on this thread that have not used an alias?  Classy ladies one and all and are willing to stand behind what they have to say.  That's the difference between mature, confident, established providers and the wannabe's that don't have many regulars.

.... My bad that I left a point out. I don't disagree with you about anything in your reply to me. And calling her out was fine. You just took it too far. You both did. Thats all.  

As another poster recently noted before the thread was removed : women talk to men who pay them.  So I guess it's back to plan B.