OK kiddies.  What age was your first provider/hobbyist experience and how many years have you been doing it?  Try to be honest.  Ladies, I know will want to gloss over current ages, but whatever, this is all in fun.

Was when I was 27.  I'm currently 27.  Luckily I found TER early.

I lost my P4P virginity in a whorehouse in TJ at the ripe old age of 15, which was in 1974, which puts me at 40 years and still going strong, and like you I have gone through the entire gamut of various different P4P as it has evolved with technology, including exploring a couple of dozen different countries.

I do take occasional breaks from P4P when involved in a committed relationship, the longest being a five year break while married.

I don't know if I will ever catch up to you, but if I don't it won't be through lack of trying. 60 years is quite a feat, even if you stop today I've still got twenty to go, and I hope you keep setting the bar higher and higher. by the time I reach 60 years in the hobby, I hope you have set the bar at 80.

My first time was to a street walker, bar girl on W. Madison in Chicago when I was 18, that was 60 years ago (yeah I'm old, LOL).  Since them I've gone thru the whore house scene, streetwalkers,yellow page girls, jack shax girls and since 2002 the internet, mostly on TER. My first reviews were under screen name denverdon2757 in 2002 and lately under the don.concord name.

Actual first time charging for the ladies, first time buying for the guys.  Civilian life is a whole 'nother mess.  Though you are right.  My wife makes me pay more in time, attention and heartache, for way less sex, than I ever paid when "paying for it".

So I'll just say I've played this game during two separate periods, for a total of ten years.
First experience was with a street girl in Manhattan, followed by many visits to Upper East Side cat-houses.  This was pre-Internet.
Fast forward to a few years ago, when I joined TER and started to learn about how the game is played in the Internet Age.  It's even more fun.  Started posting here in late 2010, made numerous mistakes but ended up meeting great people who've become good friends, both men and women. That's the big difference between then and now.  There can actually be a community, if you know how to find one

Actually I was just curious, not trying to invade anyone's space.  As I replied to her thread, don't want to know about civvie life or actual first times.  Just kinda how long people have been doing this.  (I know, I know! oldest profession, so forever... Lol). In way way, just wondering if other people like me are other there and what they think about all this.  I in NO WAY want to blow up anyone's info.  I guess, I'm just trying to fit in as a poster without flaming people the way I see is prevalent on most message boards, including this one so I'm just trying to make conversation.

just trying to point something out, after which I seriously answered your question.  To clarify, your OP was basically asking that people divulge info that would let others figure out their age, among other things, and I simply suggested you would not get that kind of info.  Nothing more.  And I found a way to answer your question without doing so.  It's all good.

Glad to see I'm not pissing people off... Yet. LOL

When I was in the service I went into a X rated movie theater, when there still was such a thing, and on the way in a girl propositioned me into a blow job for X amount of dollars, can't remember how much.  

Had a one week wait between the wedding and the honeymoon 23 years ago and saw 2 Providers during that week.  Marriage is strong and happy with frequent sex.  

Oh, now I've read the rest:

I was 24, almost forty years ago to a massage gal just off Harvard Sq. in Cambridge, Mass.

It was so much fun, I decided to repeat....a lot.

You chimed in on my thread too about two yrs ago.

Long winded this time though.  LOL

Only time I won't post on the board is when I am away from physical computer. I hate the touchscreen thing. Too much prone to typos and just plain wrong words that change the meaning of the sentence.

By default, not that there is anything wrong with that. Given the narrative all guys are pay for it anyway.

East 14th St in Manhattan. This was in the 80s. Made my way to cat houses and thanks to the internet TER. Way better now but back then could be good too. There was one cat house I liked quite a bit. Nothing like relaxing with a drink and oggling a pack of prostitutes. One time on the way out I passed a redhead who was hot as hell. As soon as I got home I called and asked who it was. Tried booking an appt but she disappeared.

My first was in 1967 I was seventeen, one of my buddies said his brother saw this girl and she was hot, I think she did all three of us for a hundred. This year forty six years later my hobby will exceed 18K.

Based simply on the transactions you describe.

But I do understand why you have the balls to say such a ridiculous thing, because you're hiding behind the security of a computer screen. I suspect you wouldn't have the balls to say that to any of us in person. My Mother has passed, but I'll still defend her anyway.

First P4P was in Hong Kong, when in the Navy, and with a cute Suzie Wong bar girl type whose name was Annie.  I liked it so much I returned the next night and she greeted me like an old friend and off we went, and along the way gave me some pointers, which I also enjoyed.

...so this thread looked innocuous, nothing to flame, no whining about what to do, what to do, oh whatever can one do when the woman paid to suck us off up and moves away.

This is a great platform for guys at are divorced/ going through a divorce and want no strings attached or someone that is not looking for love.  I have been hobbying for about 3 years.  started when I broke up with a girl that caused me a lot of drama.  After that I didn't want a relationship or the strings attached and a buddy said "hire an escort"  I laughed and thought no way.  I did and it has been a fun and exciting ride.  I've met some fun, interesting women that want to get paid to have a good time.  Once I leave their door, there is no communication until I call or text them for our next appointment.  I've tuned my rich buddies onto it as well, because they can have any women they want but with the drama and fear of loosing money (i.e, divorce and vagina-moany).  With an escort, you pay, have a great time and leave.  It should be legalized but that's a whole other topic of conversation.

Was about 4 years ago while on a business trip.  I knew nothing, and used Craiglist.  Needless to say, it was a 'bait and switch'.  Still went though with it, and turned out to be really quick as I ended up blowing my load in about 2mins of BBBJ, then got yelled at because CIM was not on her menu, and despite paying for an hour, being told 'you cum, you done.'  I guess it could have been worse.  Took me almost another year to work up my nerve to try again, and a while longer till I found my way via TER.

i was 19 and needed to lose virginity.   read about an incall place and got what was called a half and half at the time.   blowjob and fuck.    it took me 30 min to get hard as i was a nervous wreck.  after  i calmed down, i came after about 3 pumps of doggie.   i was a 2 Pump Chump at the time.    i've been fucking hookers off and on for 20 yrs since.  i've had girlfriends and i am married but there is nothing like fucking a hot hooker or cumming in their mouth.   civvie sex is ok but far better with a pro.  i can be selfish and the bj's are better.    i also love to fuck a different type when i'm in the mood for something different.  last month it was skinny blond stripper type and yesterday i wanted and got a latina with a nice big ass.  you have to love the hobby.   a lot of times, i will see a hot girl on the street that i want to fuck and then i will search for that same type of girl on TER.

When my band quit touring and broke up in 2004 my free for the asking PYT groupies no longer desired my affection .
So Here I am spending my meager royalties ,  paying for sex with their  Moms .  
   

Those transactions were the norm for the day, they were the only out let for P4P in those days.  A lot of the streetwalker scene was pretty good before the AIDs outbreak came on the scene.

...Back when you had to call an escort service phone # out of the yellow pages, and hope for the best.  That's what I did!  

Well, I was a freshman in university when I was 20 and an upperclassman ask a couple of us young punks if we wanted to visit a whorehouse. Sure why not. The only things I can remember about it was the red light on the porch (honest), I was undressed except for my socks and lasted for about 3 strokes. She said, "My, aren't you the little rabbit?" That was in 1951. The Korean War was heating up and I joined the Navy and visited many Ladies of the night in Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok. The Philippines, Mexico, Formosa and some places I have forgotten.
When my 4 year hitch was up and went to college on the GI bill and after dating a few girls I met my future wife. We married had a couple of kids. We were married for 52 years and although I was tempted (here comes the part no one believes) but I never strayed. We had a great sex life. She died about 5 years ago and I started the hobby a little over 2 years ago. I'm almost 82 and have limitations but I also have 4 great companions. I'm planning another duo for my birthday.

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The consensus is "Men always pay, in one way or the other" That means your father payed your mother in one way or the other. Thus your mothers is a whore. ... did I say that in a derogatory fashion? No.

a Don should be compensated for his time.

Considering that no one understood your incredible diatribe on the prior thread that has now vanished...wonder why  LOL
 

a pick-up bar, met a provider, negotiated the price and went off to a cheap hotel.  No such thing as GFE. This lasted for about 3 or 4 years

I would have liked it to stay up. Once you say rape is bad(I've never witnessed or participated in a rape), and there is no rape being committed in a location immediate to your person, what more can you do about it?  

The phrase itself does not bother me. You do not see me using that phrase either. I wouldn't tell anyone to stop using that phrase. Although when one uses that phrase, all women are included in that phrase. You will also notice, I didn't say there was anything wrong with being a whore or what ever PC term you decide to use.

With a provider from Florida almost ten years ago that I'm still friends with.  My last time...last night, with another of the nine lady friends I love most.  It's good to be me...

I have gone several months to several years (I think 4 years was the longest spell) without p4p. Like some others replying here I have gone through the gamut of streetwalkers, massage parlors, "bath houses," bar/casino girls, yellow page ads, personal ads, and finally internet ads and review sites. Discovered TER in 1999, shortly after it was created.

Do you not want people to understand what the fuck it is that you're trying to say? or are you just simply a puttz that lacks common sense and totally incapable of communicating clearly?  

four years ago, just into my 60s, after a year of browsing TER and nervously considering taking the plunge!  
Opened up a door to four of the most wonderful and fulfilling years of my life thanks to the amazing ladies who have let me in to their lives. I have learned so much about me, my sexuality, and my capacity as a  good lover

Your older than me, but you took a long hiatus, LOL

Dear Melissa:
Considering what you mentioned in your post, when did you acknowledge that you had acquired an equal concomitant of game and entrepreneurial  savvy?  Also how often did the thought occur to you while you were in a different marital status to delve into the world of compensated companionship?