I think the reviews could be a lot better if the reviewer included his own profile as well as the providers.

I don’t like the “inflation factor” (discussed many times previously)in reviews. It makes it tough for me to truly assess the ladies. I once saw a provider who had large purple blotches over her leathery wrinkled skin and nowhere in her many reviews was there any mention of this.  I saw another with major crooked teeth that were a terrible distraction for me but apparently not for anyone else. Is it that 35 year old men don’t wish to report they had sex with a 65 year old woman or are they just kidding themselves too and/or thinking with the wrong head.

The problem with the reviews seems to be that I don’t know much about who’s writing it such as how old he is. Sure maybe a provider got really enthused if the gentleman was a Brad Pitt clone but is not thrilled by an older gentleman such as myself. If I had my way the reviewers would need to add their own age grouping to their review in addition to the lady’s.  I really like to see a reviewer’s profile to include 1) age grouping  2) area of prime interest: breast vs. leg vs. butt 3) secondary turn on i.e. skin, long hair, etc.

Personally, I no longer write reviews because I do not wish to go into the level of graphic detail required and feel it’s too dehumanizing to the both of us.  I don’t use the reviews to obtain a free membership and I imagine if reviews were only from paid members it would bring up the lowest common denominator but that's not an option here really.

Thanks for your thoughts.

So... you want everyone else to tell more, but you no longer write reviews yourself.  You want us to write about bad teeth and purple splotches but you think too much detail is dehumanizing.  Uh, sure.

Asking for personal information from reviewers is a bad idea, because many reviewers want to remain anonymous and they will lie about that more so than they fudge their reviews.  If only paid members submitted reviews, we'd have the motivation problem and fewer reviews (more people like you with paid VIP membership but choose not to review because it takes some effort and you don't want to be that specific).

Reviews provide a lot of good information.  Some guys expect them to be way too perfect, IMHO.

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Sure, in many cases we can read btwn the lines to get the context: who the reviewer is, his age, his preferences, his honesty. We can read other reviews (if existing) to get a fuller picture.

We don't need to point out the lady's every foible. But overall I think reviews should be OBJECTIVE, not SUBJECTIVE, as much as possible.

I try to make my views OBJECTIVE. Someone even complemented me for giving Courtney an 8 in looks even tho the bitch had just maced me right in the face for no good reason. I was being OBJECTIVE.

TER, a great resource, can even be better if we focus on sharing accurate information. We pay the ladies good money, and good complements (in person). This site should largely be for the sake of the hobbyist COMMUNITY. It's called the erotic REVIEW.

I pretty much agree with what Keanu posted.  I believe that if a reviewer is fudging his reviews, chances are he would fudge his own profile for whatever reasons.  I have heard from providers that men have tried to negotiate better pricing, or a free session, in return for a sparkling TER review.  These same providers told me they have universally refused such offers.

Be that as it may, I find TER reviews to be an invaluable resource.  There are some tests that I apply to help me in the process.  I generally discount a provider with only one review.  I also discount reviewers with only one post.  I look at the reviews a client has posted to see if he'd been with a provider that I know, for comparison purposes.  This is probably, for me, the best test.  If a client has numerous posts, all or most predominently bad (like performance of 6 or less), I tend to discount that reviewer  as either, stupid, disingenuous, or masochistic, given the availability of tools like TER.  

I hope this helps you.

Many TER members have said they no longer submit reviews because of the "required explicitness". Some of these same members also have complained about the subjective nature of the reviews.

Have you ever considered that by requiring explicit reviews, that adds to the objectiveness of the reviews. Consider the passe' "We had a wonderful two hours" type of review vs. the "She spent 20 minutes doing X and I then did Y, then we did Z, etc...."

Sure, you can make up details, but at least with the details you can compare to other reviews and see if there's a consistency and then decide if that's what you are looking for.

Also, the reviewers history has to be considered.

Bottom line is, yeah- it's not perfect, but its better than the alternatives (nothing).

Shocking!  

Do you really think the men that give explicit reviews won't identify themselves as 1) under 35, 2) 35 to 50, or 3) over 50? Is that too much personal information such that they can be traced back somehow and no longer be anonymous?

I bet the numbers wouldn't be accurate if it asked for size but general age range?

BTW, I don't expect reviews to be accurate. I'm just wishing out loud that they were even more useful than they already are.

You should write reviews too and set a good example for the rest of the guys. It doesn't seem fair to complain about the bad job other guys do on reviews when you don't write them yourself

Interesting idea about the reviewer profile, it might work if it wasn't too many invasive questions. I don't think guys would be too excited about rating themselves, just about rating the ladies.

MM

Point taken but I'm not complaining about bad reviews -seriously- I'm just wishing for improvement. The reviews serve a good purpose but it's not enough for my purpose apparently. That's all I'm lamenting.

Reading about how big guys are or how many times they "popped" in half an hour doesn't do anything for me. I like the reviews (and there are plenty of 'em) that talk about the tone and attitude of the lady but that's only useful with some context or reference points. Yes, I can infer reference points from reading the reviewers' other reviews but only if there are several of them and often only if I've seen the same lady. That's quite limiting and needn't be.

They generate business for the ladies who are good at what they do and enjoy it. (unless they aren't)

They protect gentlemen who read them from getting ripped-off.(unless you don't read them)

They paint a complete picture of exactly what to expect when you prepare to see a provider. (unless you don't prepare)

Nothing is perfect, naturally, but you just have to know how to read the reviews, to get exactly what you need out of them.

Know which reviewer's judgment can be trusted. Compare the reviews on one provider to the reviews written by each of the reviewers for each of the providers they've reviewed. (read it again, and follow along) Collectively, it's a volume of information that becomes as clear as if you were there yourself.

Does that sound like too much work? One review will give you a vague idea, so go spend your money with a vague idea.

The reviews have never let me down.

riker

Your 5th paragraph says all that really needs to be said.  Anyone who is prudent already does this & if not should consider making that a practice.  There are of course no guarantees, but that should save most guys too many disappointments.

I think you must have had some disappointing experiences. I, on the other hand, have been using TER as my guide for about a year and a half, without a single bad experience. Lucky? I don't think so; Riker has hit the nail on the head- do your homework. You know what you like, so look for those ladies who will fulfill your needs. I am over 60 YO , and I am sure some of the ladies I have been with are not thrilled with me, but always very adept at making me believe I'm a stud. I do not do reviews simply because I don't like to parade my sexual escapades before the World, even anonymously. But, I think that a requirement to tell the World that I am a wrinkled old man would simply be a further disincentive.

that might make it possible to identify them, given all that is going on these days?  That data would be so full of error that it would be meaningless.

I'm tired of all the bitching about the reviews being subjective. PEOPLE ARE SUBJECTIVE. THE HOBBY IS SUBJECTIVE. If you haven't figured out how to use the reviews,(thanks for the primer, riker!)then don't use them. They are a valuable tool and nothing else.

Man, do I have an attitude problem or what!!?

I'm tired of the bitching too.

Thanks OCSIR.

i guess there's merit in the overall sentiment of your post, pat mcgroin, but the problem is in the assumptions that drive your solutions.

the reviews are free, legal and nonincriminating marketing literature for the ladies.

explicit detail about the encounter, far from "demeaning" the ladies, helps to clarify what she is about, and often signal limits in advance to the john. i gotta believe that two consenting adults have a better experience together when they both go into it with similar expectations.

i usually get a pretty clear view of a reviewer by reading all his reviews. not as a person, but as a point of view. i can filter that point of view through my own, and make my own judgments. most are blunt about their preferences in style and service.

it is probably true that most providers get hotter with some clients than others, but there's no way to get the useful information from the reviewer himself. do you really think any minx cares whether you are bald, or stinking rich, or have a graduate degree? and that a reviewer will say if he's an asshole, or has a disease, or never tips?

this whole endeavor is often about layers of judgment. i think many guys actually play it mostly for the judgment angle, not the sex. you have to judge the finances, the excuses, the evidence you leave lying around the house and the numbers written on scraps or programmed into your cellphone; you have to judge the ads, the voice on the phone, the questions that do or don't come up; you have to judge the photos and the description, the exact choice of words and the kind of come on used; you have to judge the reviews; you pick your shot, and then you have to judge the situation itself -- for entrapments, risks, cons, rules and time hussles.

my guess is you're hung up on the fact you're an old guy and you're looking for older providers as a result. well, i'm 53 and my attitude with the minx is that she and i can have a great time if we treat each other right.

if i've done my homework, we often do. but that's not rating inflation.

There's nothing quite so ingnorant as using a word like eloquent, and misspelling it.

Except maybe using the word ignorant, and misspelling that.

i don't understand the search for a silver bullet here.

to my mind, many posters on this thread have grossly overstated the value of TER reviews. easily half the reviews i've read are three lines or less in the juicy part, and many are three lines or less, total ... an inarticulate, confused, ungrammatical total at that.

but it's really up to the *editors* at TER to make explicit, simple reviewing rules, determine if a review is useful or not, and if not kick it back to the reviewer for more work. (they're screening it for libel and lying, aren't they?)

if i click on a minx's page i haven't seen, and most of the performance ratings are 6's or lower, i'm done. i don't need to read the sadness, the ratings alone separate the good from the bad.

but i don't understand why you guys don't look at the photos, and for pete's sake *talk to her* when you call for info, and for pete's sake *walk away* if whatever answers the door doesn't look like your species.

does anybody really just read reviews, pick a date, and then fly on autopilot?

the main value of the reviews for me is in prospecting. look at the two reviews for gemma in san francisco (sacto), for example. whatever is going on with that minx, it is going on pretty intense. i'm going to sacto later this month, and i may find out what it is.

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