For my story, I sure wish that I had known about websites and other aspects of this life a lot sooner than I did. When I look back on the time and aggravation and especially the money I wasted trying to woo women into a relationship with me when all I've ever really wanted was sex, I realize the answers were right at my fingertips. I tried the girlfriend route, the affair route, the sexual tourism route, the casual encounter route, the solicit a complete stranger route, the white knight route, all of them. I could have been getting laid left and right, and could have been getting tailor-made sex at that. What a dumb dork I have been. That's ok, I'm going to make up for lost time . . .

and said the same things to myself as you are saying now.

It wasn't until my mid forties that I found the hobby and it truly saved me.  I'm with you....making up for lost time!

It took some maturity to get comfortable with it, recognize it for what it was, nurture it ......and put it to a satisfying use for myself and others.  No turning back now!

a little over a year after my wife of 16 years had passed away when I was 48.  I spend that year discovering that seducing 30-year-olds was not as easy as I remembered when I was also 30.  Lol  After having little success using my old nightclub pickup techniques and fending off my late wife's MILF friends looking for a little action from a guy who is physically fit, I started with indies I found on That Mall in LA.  After a year of that, a friend who found out I was seeing hookers suggested I try the Kgirl agencies, and the ensuing 12 years is documented in my many posts on TER.  

Then explain this shot of you I just obtained.

I enjoy this world very much, especially as an older, independent woman. Had I dipped my toes in the pool 20, even 30 years ago, I most certainly would've never gone the marriage route. That didn't suit me personally too well. I enjoy my freedom a little too much lol

I was in college, and thought I started late. Wish I had learned even sooner. As you noted, would have saved a lot of aggravation and hesitation.

Agreed, the option of p4p came at the right time in my life at age 38.

No complaints. Started when I was 45. I have to say growing up in the 70's and 80's the sex was very easy to come by. Guys went to a club, pick up a chick took her home, made chorizo and eggs in the morning and she was gone.

"hunch"  that it was a bad hair day for me when you took this.  

And if I knew then what I know now, I would have tried being a male escort in my 20s. I might have been able to corner that market back then.

BUT, i was horny 24 hours a day, seven days a week and I couldn't imagine passing up pussy, even paid for pussy.  

I found TER one month after my wife stopped giving BJs.  I had not touched any other woman for 25 years, because I was getting what I needed at home.  25 years of great BJs until she stopped cold turkey.

Started at 27. Still going strong 8 years later. I picked the perfect time to start.

but I am seven years younger than you. lol

I have thought about this a long time.  Wow, what a question, and how best to answer without telling my life story, which is a bore compared to some on this board.

Two things ... wish I had been motivated to make more money and also start earlier in the hobby.  Money for the hobby.  Need both.

If I had started early I probably would not be able to retire.  When I started at age 36 I would do at least a 2 hour appointments (spend $500), or over nights ($800 to $1500).  I would spend up to $3000/month when I started. Cut back down the $800/month.  It was not until many later did I do 1/2 hour appointments.

I started at 19 years old in 1986 while I was home for summer break from college. I had a great run with various ladies over the last 34 years. I hope we can get back to normal and I can continue this great hobby journey.

But I sure as hell wasn't 19!

No. No regrets. I was right on time.

I have mixed feelings about the hobby since I grew up in church I didn’t look at women as a piece of  meat but now even the ladies I work with in the office I am always thinking how nice it would be if she was available for the right price I sometimes I wish I had a normal life when I was in my 20’s I never thought I be buying pussy because it came so easy for me but after getting my heart broken a second time it push me into the hobby at first it was a lot of fun fucking a total stranger within minutes after we meet(even before the hobby I wouldn’t be fucking a gorgeous lady within minutes after we meet) and I also think about if I would have took ever penny I spent on the hobby and put it unto my investments I would be a multimillionaire but I am addicted so it’s been a lot of fun!

You can never get enough pussy.   Lust - It is an insatiable thirst.    

I picked probably one of the worst times in history to start ( during a pandemic) and I always hear women refer to the good old days aka the BP era. That being said I haven't had a bad year so maybe my timing was just right.

I was pretty shy about women most of my life, but in the 70's it was pretty easy to get laid even, for me. After my marriage ended at age 45, and I got custody of my kid, it was very difficult to find time to date.  I discovered a local agency, young gals who would come to my house late at night and I was hooked.  Like a kid in a candy store, it was great.    That was about 25  years ago, then along came TER, etc and made it much easier.  Only the advent of covid and age have slowed me down.  

I'm a 50-something newbie.  I like my life.  So, I don't have any regrets over the choices that I've made up to this point.  But, I do wish that I had had a lot more sex earlier in my life.  Joining the hobby would have made that easier (girls are scary).  I have an addictive personality (I used to spend hundreds a weekend at strip clubs).  So, if I had let myself do this years ago, I'd be destitute.  I'm getting in at the right time for me.

You get much more BANG for the buck in the hobby.   Once I discovered it, have never been to a club since.

We were together for about two years when I felt I needed that itch finally scratched. I had never hobbied before, but my GF at the time despised receiving and giving oral. I thought I had scored because I was with a chick who wasn’t much into foreplay, but I ended up craving mouths over punani. We spoke many times about it, and I decided to give it one last try. Long short, we broke up over the absence of oral.

Just remember, before the Internet ... had to actually know someone, who knows someone, who's played in the game.

Before the internet, there were ads in the Underground/Alternative newspapers for callgirls, and street action if you knew where the strolls were.

was to open the Yellow pages and look under "escorts" or just find the local "track" which EVERY city had back then where the SW's would work in order to find a hooker.  

You're very right about the trail of Mongering/ P4P being a lonely one.  
Unless you were in the Military, chances are you'd never run across a 'working girl'.  
As other posters have mentioned, even though the '70's were a pretty carefree time, there was a strong stigma about paying for p*ssy, especially if you were under 40.

I was never "ashamed" about paying for pussy, not in the seventies, not before I was forty and most certainly not now.  AND I never put any effort into hiding the fact that besides having a very healthy "normal" sex life, I did just fine with civvy girls both then and now, but I am a fucking horn dog and I will take all the pussy I can get and I never saw any stigma in paying a hooker for sex, often on the very same day that I fucked some other non hooker for free.  

Why would you even consider going to a bar to try to have sex with older businessmen?    If they were initiating, why would THEY presume that you might have sex with THEM?  Is there something you want to tell us about yourself?  Lol

Ah, I can see how that reads.  To clarify, I'd hang in dive bars in my blue-collar hometown, that weren't fussy about serving underage customers.  The usual clientele were lunch-bucket Joes who would drink after their shift (and sometimes before).  When you saw a guy in a Suit walk in the door,  they were slumming it, looking for something  away from the eyes of people who knew them.

As a wild young teenager growing up in early ‘60’s Hollywood, Los Angeles and points east, south and the west side, not WLA,  I was well aware of working girls, on the stroll or bars in and around Down Town! We would cruise to all the spots at that time, Western Av, Figueroa, Sunset Bl. Just checking out the talent, but I had a couple of older pussy hound friends that I would go with to use the services of the L.A. working girls, plenty of wild young girls in the crowd, but meeting and hanging out with working girls was a special adventure! These same friends would take me to TJ with them. I was around 14 at that time!

here that you had a pragmatic approach to this biz, you proved me right.  The only thing I disagree with you on is when I'm dating a hooker as a RL girlfriend, I consider her customers to be the "guys on the side," not me.  Their fucking is on a C.O.D. basis and they have no ongoing responsibilities to their provider.  Lol

I had a customer that was big on both gambling and working girls. One of the funniest stories he told me was hanging out with Vegas working girls at their homes.  The girls would order everything for delivery .. then try to "trade" with the delivery guy.    
He was there the day when an expensive big-screen TV showed up, his account of watching the back and forth of the negotiations both had me rolling on the floor, and drove home that EVERYTHING is a commodity and has a price.

it seems like once I got laid, it was relatively easy to get laid. The last year of HS and through my early to mid 20's in college, I didn't lack for women to spend time with.  

Have enjoyed it mostly.  No regrets.

Ten Four on the sexless marriage.  

My only regret is wasting years on indies and AMP's, and taking so long to make the push to get into K-agencies.

Was it really "wasted" though?

You do have a point and perhaps they weren’t a total waste since it makes me appreciate my current Kgirl situation that much more but 1. I hear the kgirl scene was better before fosta/sesta so there’s that and 2. The ratio of good to meh/bad sessions with indies was like 1:2 with kgirls its more like 5:1...

In this modern era of seeing hookers, "modern era" being defined as since I discovered TER and the other online review sites not long after the turn of the century, my batting average with indies has been pretty darned close to my success rate with K-Girls, and I have found not only "GFE" at AMPS, but I have found myself a handful of actual GF's at AMPs as well.  

You're right of course GaG, but I have a thing for Korean women anyways. That said I recently went with a 300/pop agency Latina and she blew my brains out in a different way that was nice. Variety is the spice of life, after all. All in all though, I probably go months at a time only seeing Kgirls. Once in a blue moon I'll switch it up just to keep things fresh, but to be honest, I see little reason to drop 500 or more on a hot white girl that tend to be YMMV, or 350-400 on a hot Latina (that are usually in their 30's/MILFs, when I have a total Kgirl fetish anyways. A 35 year old Kgirl looks wayyyyy better than a 35 year old Latina. Just the truth of the matter. Lol.

I spent just less than a year with indies until I joined TER in 2008, and that is where I first learned of Kgirl orgs, and it turned out there was two within 20 minutes of where I lived.  Lol    

I don't consider the time I spend on these boards "wasted" either.  Most of the time its intellectual entertainment in one of its highest forms.  However, there are exceptions to both the term "intellectual" and "entertainment", but lets not spoil the high by naming who they are.  

We already know who they are, let's see how many come out of the woodwork on their own. lol

lol

Have you been to tj?

long answer...becoming an adult in the '70s and living in rural SC really didn't give me much opportunity.  While all I wanted early in life was the picket fence life, I do believe had the internet been around that wouldn't have happened.  I never saw my first provider ad/website until the mid-2000s.

By starting later can afford to retire  $$$

I started when I was 18, met a sugar daddy that same year, and stopped because he was paying me well and wanted exclusivity. So, I started dancing instead. I had all my reviews, advertisements, and websites taken down. That sugar daddy started driving me crazy so I ended it, and rather than try to escort again I just kept dancing and was never as happy even though I was making similar money.  

Early 1980's: I was in Vegas with my Dad and brother for a three-day weekend.  I'd been in and out of several casinos playing blackjack and drinking at the bars.  In those days, as long as you were well-groomed and wore pressed slacks with a clean button-down shirt, nobody gave a shit if you were a 19 year old gambling or drinking, as long as you lost money at the tables and paid cash for your booze. Around 12:30 am on the second day I was walking along the strip in front of the Tropicana when an honest-to-god white El Dorado pulls up by the curb next to me. The window rolls down and there is a flamboyantly dressed black guy driving with a pretty, slim black girl in the passenger seat. She turns to me and says "Say, Honey, ya'll want a date?"  I was a bit stunned and quietly declined... but that was the moment I realized that I could pay a sexy woman for sex. Astonishing! Incredible! And most importantly, Affordable!  

Ironically I saw my first hooker in Vegas at age 19 as well, only she was hardly my first hooker "ever" lol

Those were also the grand days of strip clubs extras in Vegas. Especially OG (not "original gangsters," Olympic Gardens). It was nothing less than an all out brothel hiding in plain sight.  Virtually every stripper working was available for in-the-club extras and for takeout to your hotel as well. It was almost common to select one or more dancers for a VIP dance and get anything you wanted in a private booth.