How would you classify hobbyists in terms of personality?
Type A people who have a strong need to disperse their genetic material? Or are we just sexual perverts?  Given a post a few days ago, it seems that only a small % of men actually hobby.
which certain professions most represented? Lawyers & doctors I presume?

It would be a mistake to generalize, especially based on anything posted on this board.  And why would you assume "we" are all just perverts?  As for the "small % of men actually hobby," I don't believe that either.  Based on a very recent trip to Costa Rica, there are a ton of young men (and slightly older men) who play this game.  Guys who are young and attractive enough to get pussy for free, but they just like filling up at a rotating Latina buffet.  So I think many more men see hookers than are willing to admit it.
And none of the guys I talked to had ever heard of TER or other such sites.  Thus, "our way" of using this site and places like P411 is only "one way" (and not the majority way) of playing this game. And don't presume anything about the professions most represented or any other characteristic.  You only know what people are telling you.  And they, like providers, are telling you only what they want you to hear.
Don't you know all reviews here are fiction?
PS:  Did I mention I'm a 32-year-old, 6'2" guy who looks like George Clooney, and is an independently wealthy investor/playboy who spends his time racing Ferraris and sky-diving?  I am also known as The World's Greatest Lover.  My penis is a nice, thick 7" long.  My many girlfriends simply call me "The Tongue."

too many variables overall I'd say. There are more 'types' of hobbyists than flavors of ice cream I think lol.  

any degree, I take back what I said...you better hit me up LOL.  

Hobbyists are just like any other guys you know, with maybe a couple of more differences -- perhaps a slightly higher tolerance for risk, and a more acute perception of their needs and what it takes to have them met. A bit more experimental. Communicative in that respect, more so than the average Joe.

the truth is even better.

If the egomaniacal, arrogant, superior personalities of this board were indicative of men I visit, I'd hang it up for good.

but I do play a lot, an awful lot come to think of it, and despite that I still have to agree that most of my mongering comes down to the very reason you state. "I simply want some sex from someone I could like" that fits the description of 90% of the providers i see. The fact that I have the money and the time to do this a lot more often than the average guy doesn't change this.

I will admit I don't do this to have sex with "average"women, I am a visual creature, or as others might put it "a shallow pig" I don't get much, if any satisfaction out of having sex with someone I don't find attractive. Others may disagree on this subject, and that is their right, I speak only for myself, I have no interest in fuglies.

I think some individuals assume way to much. ASS U ME

'heads' just can't help but do the walkin' sometimes lol.

Very true. TER is just like any other community, after it forms cliques and leaders evolve and unfortunately a lot of those are the ones whose comments you mostly see. Men who are "hobbyists" or "play" as though this were a game are actually not a majority. There are married men who are very cautious and are what I call sex camels. They've not had it for so long so they just need it once and they're ok for months. There are single men with issues, again they don't take it as a game, they just hope to get better with each time. I view a hobbyist as someone who does this with regularity and the fact is most don't due to money and time. Most people I see I wouldn't consider to be hobbyists. They simply wanted some sex from someone they could like.

Nor have I ever felt the slightest guilt doing "this". Of course the first time I ever did this, I was a fifteen year old with a full bottle of mescal in his gut, so guilt or apprehension were the last things going through my mind.

As for consequences for my participation in admittedly an illegal activity, I am only a customer and getting arrested for a charge of solicitation would only be a minor inconvenience, and LE is free to post my picture as a whore monger on national TV if they wish, I was already "outed" and the effect on my "real" life was zilch. That's one of the beauties about being open and honest about the "hobby" it makes me blackmail proof. lol

PS, I have been married in my life, but I never did this, or ever saw another woman while I was with my wife. Of course the minute her ass hit the curb.......lmao

same here

I understand and am glad the term hobbyist isn't to the liking of men either, as I never liked it when I first heard it earlier this year. But even playing isn't what most men consider this, they are pretty afraid of the consequences of it, and of course the guilt the first time crossing that line, so "play" isn't really what the majority who have done this would consider calling it.

If women were more honest, they like a variety of dick and other skills as much as the next man likes a variety of pussy.

Hardly. And no hooker can survive without reviews. No hooker can possibly survive without TER. TER is the be and end all. And how dare you say all of this under the guise of a brown envelop and not tell us all who you are so you can be bashed and crossed off the "to do" lists.

majority of people I see. Guilt, I meant that first time, they're unfaithful. I know it's bad, but LE never really comes into my mind, yikes, it probably should maybe.

I am just as likely to use the words "provdider" and "hooker" interchangeably, most of my hooker friends get it, sometimes the PC police get called. Oh well, you can't please everyone, so I don't even try.

As for guilt, I don't "cheat" so no guilt here. To be clear on "cheating" it's not cheating unless you make a promise to be faithful, I don't have any intentions of being monogamous, so I don't make promises I can't or won't keep, but that's just me.

It's the crowd you expose yourself to.  I know plenty of men and women who are comfortable in their monogamy.  And just 'cause you look doesn't mean you touch.  I like to look at the dessert tray, but I never eat one.

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LIke others.. No guilt here.. I have only been pursuing this activity for about 3 months.. When I started I was seeing two different girls a week.. Then I started thinking about the financial impact..so now I have cut back to about every two weeks with high quality girls.. I hate the term "provider".. I find it de-humanizing.. I prefer girl, woman, person.. just me I guess..  
If my wife found out.. oh well.. marriage is a 2 way street and mine was going one way for a long long time.. I'll pay the bilss, take out the trash and be pleasant.. but I know what I want..

at least to hear some people tell it, you would think that was the case.

The worst I have heard was from guys who had met a woman "in the flesh" and then actually said out loud that they wouldn't fuck her without having read her reviews. I mean WTF???!!!

your last sentence rings very true. Nature or choice, it does seem difficult to find a monogamous man. Now monogamous women are easier to find. If they are bored or turned off, they simply refuse sexual contact with the spouse and put their energies into other more satisfying pursuits.

It's a free for all testosterone gorilla fest here.  I use the CE because I don't need to openly advertise my thoughts or opinions because I'm a freaky monster in the sack.... precisecly why I'm at the top of the food chain and looking at an earlier retirement than you who most likely eats up your families savings and childrens college funds on hookers.... btw, thank you for that!.

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fold it in half!!!

Except maybe this: they are horny.

You know not what sex I am, whether I am a john or a hooker. I can tell you that I am human and let's leave it at that. I think you missed the sarcasm in my post BTW.

My eye is always roving... It's been roving since I was a toddler. I like it, because I like women. I'm still in love with my wife. I got lots of love, just very little money-lol!

impress me now, are ya? lol I'm sure there are lots of ladies who adore being with the sweetness you offer. I should be the last on the block lol, awww hell this Jenny shouldn't even be on the block with you LOL.  

In my experience, neither. Gents come in all personality types, and I would never say they were in it to "disperse their genetic material", or because they are "sexual perverts". Some just want a variety, some do not have the time for the dating game, some don't want the extras that come along with the dating game, some have SO/wives who haven't touched them in years…none of these by any means puts these gents into the two classifications you mentioned.  

It's more about the approach to seeing escorts, like stamp collecting, backchannel gossip, high school behavior approach, and seeing ladies just to check them off a "list". There are tons of men who see ladies frequently who don't partake in these activities, and I wouldn't call them hobbyists, so frequency isn't an issue. They just like to have sex often...good ol' fashion sexy fun! There's no real ulterior motive behind that and they're not constantly checking off a list of acronyms to report back to their online buddies or just to feel like they've made a conquest (not that anything is wrong w/ hobbyists like this). They truly just like to enjoy fucking escorts. No games. Just good times. Period.