TER General Board
This is going to be a wide ranging post, somewhat broader than the immediate scope of this discussion board.
I'm a 31 year old guy, pretty successful professionally, and pretty attractive or so I've been told - tall, slim, personable etc - and not just by my mother 
I've had a steady girlfriend for the past 7 years. She is pretty, and she and I are very similar, in terms of political views, interests, and so on (there aren't many attractive computer geek girls out there, she is one of them).
That being said, over the years we've been together sex has played less and less of a part in our relationship, and I don't see any likely reversal in that trend.
I can't imagine ever finding someone that is better suited to me than her, yet I feel like a big part of my life is missing. I live in a college town and when I see attractive younger women and it kills me to think that the part of my life where I could have the excitement of pursuing and sleeping with women like that could be over. It just feels wrong in my gut, like I'm not biologically built for that. Maybe in 10 years, but not now.
Yet I don't want to go out and pursue other women, that game of cat and mouse would make my life *way* too complicated.
So, here is my question: Are escorts the solution to this quandary? Are they maybe even the ethical solution?
Yes, I'm new, both to these forums and to hobbying - I've yet to have my first actual experience, perhaps this week I will, I'm currently mulling it over. I've reached out to a provider who I think is very attractive based on her website, and is well reviewed, although we haven't connected by phone yet. I have butterflies in my stomach about the whole thing, a combination of excitement and dread. I guess that probably isn't unusual 
Really I'm trying to get a sense for whether what I'm feeling is unusual, or of a lot of guys feel this way in long-term relationships, and whether hobbying has been a good outlet for these feelings, ultimately safeguarding their relationship with their SO.