I think we need a way to identify ourselves to other hobbyists.  Perhaps a hand sign or something, where nothing is ever said, just an acknowledgement.

Recently, I visited a provider who shares an “F-Pad” with another provider.  When we were done, we walked out of the bedroom, and in the kitchen area was another guy, apparently waiting either for my provider or the other one.  When he saw me, dressed in a white shirt and tie, he turned white.  He must have thought it was a sting or something and that I was LE.

Well, since I had just splooged convincingly with the lady, I knew this wasn’t a sting.  So to reassure him, I gave him a left handed salute and said, “How’s it goin” and left.  I think he was OK after that.

The other day I had a client in my office who announced he was going to Rio for the fifth time this year.  I said, “I hear the women are incredible there.”  He said that’s why he goes.  We left it there, but I’ll bet a one hour session with Felicia Foxx that he is a hobbyist who visits TER regularly.

If we had a hand sign, we could acknowledge each other without ever saying anything.  Nothing would need to be said.  Staff, how about it?

We're the guys with the sweat on our brow, scurrying out of a faceless apartment building at 1am.

I like the one the Thugs had in the 80's movie "The Deceivers" with Pierce Brosnan.  They would make a motion to the face and throat saying, "greetings, Ali my brother."

I think it's the same one used now in Al Qaeda...  

Maybe we should raise the middle finger--we can then pretend the guy we just cut off on the road is a just a fellow hobbyist.

I like the index finger slide down the side of the nose from the movie "The Sting".  Sedagive.

I was thinking something along the same lines!
LOL
LM

How about having the middle finger placed horizontally directly underneath the nose? Sniff sniff.

As soon as I read the first post, I immediately thought of the Sting.  I guess great minds think alike!  

and the empty wallets (JK)
LM

We're all hobbyists. The guy who goes to Thailand once in his life, pays for sex, feels like the woman is his girlfriend, and then leaves, never hobbying again, has the same motivations as the guy who would go to Nevada brothels every night if he could afford it, but because he always plays craps in Vegas he loses his hobbying money first. If he ever hits a big one, he promises himself he'll go to Thailand ...

Men who go to Brazil for the women, might actually have a moral compunction AGAINST hobbying in the USA, perhaps because they think it should only be done where "society approves of it" more, or something. So, the question begs a different question or two:

Who ARE NOT the hobbyists? Do they have a hand-sign?
Which former-hobbyists are CURRENT-hobbyists?
More germane, which ones of them WANT to be identified?

Etc. etc.

Personally, I try to keep myself of the frame of mind, that hobbying is NOT some strange bizarre secret cult affair, but rather is mainstream and normal. I try to remind myself that we're all passing among different phases of "paying for it" and that many women, as well as men, live with those sorts of trade-offs in their lives. By looking for the "secret hobbyists" who are out there, we're taking a different frame of mind, the frame that suggests that we are few, far-between, furtive, secretive, desperate, all that. I don't like that frame.

I do get your point about a hand-sign, though. If you ever see me in public, I'll be the guy with his hands on some chick's tits. If not, she'll be begging me to put my hands back on her tits.

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XXXOOO Ashley

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