Not trying to get into the politics of it just want to hear others opinions on this.  I like to carry a gun any time that I can it helps me to feel more secure.  However I know that there are going to be providers that are likely fine with it and those that are likely against it.  So I don't take it with me to dates but personally would rather.  I'd like to bring it up during email exchanges to see if they are fine with me bringing it but have a fear that it might intimidate or just rub a provider the wrong way and make her not want to get together so I just avoid the issue altogether.

and it's the one that does not go into a holster

Yea, this is pretty much how I'd react:

If you've done your research on a particular provider and reviews indicate that no issues are associated with her, why would you feel the need to carry? Just curious.

Oh I can think of a fine holster for it.  

What provider who isn't on drug is going to let a new client bring a gun to rob or pistol whip her or anything else that you can physically think of? These girls don't know us we don't know them for an hour anybody can be on their best behavior you really need to know somebody before guns are entered in the equation. You have just as good a shot as her stealing the gun while blowing you and claiming it was self-defense when something goes wrong.  Think Plaxico Burress.  

Personally, I agree with Escalade: you only need "una pistola"... But that is just my dos centavos....

When you visit ladies, are you engaging in activity that could be considered a crime?  If so, how would the fact that you are carrying impact LE interaction with you?  If you were arrested for criminal activity (i.e., Solicitation) could possession of a firearm be used to possibly expand/increase charges?  

Evidently you don't have a CCW (or whatever the concealed weapon permit acronym is in your State), either that or you are careless with it. Carry during the commission of a crime and you're sure to lose that right. Unfortunately, our sport is considered criminal.  

Escalade, actually the one you bring does go into a holster, the providers.

You go through the trouble of searching for an attractive provider; a lady with an impeccable reputation to provide your once in a lifetime experience and you pack a gun???  WHY??  Don't you think it is very likely the lady will feel threatened?  It's funny to me that a MAN would feel threatened by any well reviewed lady here to the point where he feels he needs a gun.  I really can't comprehend your thinking

Carrying  a firearm during the commission of a crime can really be used against you depending on how big of a prick your DA is Plus you can expect the cops to take your weapon and you may have a really tough time getting it back. They "destroy" firearms frequently. Especially nice, expensive ones. Lastly, you can expect to lose that CCW permit  

Playing devil's advocate here since you brought up the point of "safety". Exactly what it is you would feel safe from? If a provider is well reviewed and you are meeting in a safe neighborhood, then what is there to be afraid of? I'm not trying to be flippant, just legitimately curious.

I don't care how much screening I've done or how much we have chatted beforehand, I'm not going to allow someone I don't know to bring something that could very easily kill me. At least bare handed I might have a fighting chance haha. Beyond that depending on the location there could be concerns of an overly nervous guy pulling a gun on a neighbor that came to borrow a cup of sugar or something.
It's kind of a catch 22, bringing it in the beginning isn't a good idea but chances are by the time it is appropriate you will already be feeling pretty safe with her.

But started by a provider...

before a session. She loved it. She had never fired a gun in her life. But I don't think I would ever show up  CC to a provider.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79u-zSIrwS

Just make sure you tell the provider you're gonna carry a concealed weapon with you upon arrival. And then tell us how many providers were willing to see you after disclosing that info.  

We were causally talking after the session and I asked are you not afraid to go places? She said "Raj, I can judge people from the way they approach me in email, I thoroughly research them, ask their white-lists / references read their reviews before i go to them. Even after that you might have noticed i keep my purse very close to me. Not because I have condom and a bottle of lotion I have, but for this" and she opened it and showed her Smith and Wesson.
Wow.

You could search for previous threads.

Here are my thoughts on this subject. And I won't be keeping "politics out of it".  

...pretty much 24/7...I would never carry it into a session...but I usually have a legal (3.5") folding knife in my pocket everywhere I go...

and not upset the lady, make sure it is a large shot gun, not concealed, fully loaded.  
That would certainly relax me if I were a provider.

I would too, especially if you don't mention it before we meet (and then I'd politely ask you to leave it at home). I would need to see you at least once before feeling comfortable with you bringing it. My suggestion would be to not bring nor mention it until you've had at least one meeting with a lady. Please remember that safety is paramount to us, and even with the best screening we are still risking our physical safety by seeing you. A gun does not help calm those anxieties. Leave it at home please.

Not to mention all the other comments about signaling mistrust and adversity to the provider.

Yup. It's not like the movies. IRL when a cop yells, GUN! The other cops start shooting.  

dictates that you don't just show-up to a session with a gun. And, I can only imagine that not too many ladies are going to be comfortable with that convo before having met you, in person, at least once (and even then...?).  

I'm already a little nervous meeting a new client, but if I felt or saw a gun on him, OMG. I would freak out.

It's called a concealed weapon license for a reason, it is to be concealed. No one should know you have it. In this hobby, kind of hard to do, lol. I forgot I had it with me once on a spur of the moment deal. I was able to get it off and wrapped up in my pants before the provider saw it. But I knew full well it doesn't belong on a date and I would normally never of brought it. You can't even say it is for safety, there is no way you can keep control of it during a date. It will be away from your body and unsafe. If things are that shady that you need a gun you are doing it wrong. Besides you basically put a loose gun in a room with someone you didn't trust, you just made the situation worse not safer for you. Leave the weapon at home, see well reviewed providers you can trust not to kill you and relax.

And see how that ends up. But on less serious note, guy brings his gun. You serving drinks???

Guys:  Would you see a gal knowing she's packing?

Well if you ever came to my town, I'd make darn sure I did NOTHING to jeapordize having that session.  

with a provider that felt compelled to show me which drawer in the nightstand held her pistol. Maybe she felt that if there was a b&e and I was on that side of the bed I could get to it sooner than she could, quien sabe ?

For me it wouldn't be a matter of feeling safe from the provider.  Granted anything could happen I don't really think anything would especially if they are a well reviewed person.  My point of safety was more so when I leave the location say on the way to and from the incall to home or wherever.  And it's more so I just wouldn't want to leave it unattended in the car but then again I guess it could always be locked up inside a safe box in my car.

I know a provider who was in the Israeli Defense Force. Very hot.

I've never had to take it out of the holster (except to fire it at the range or clean it), and I hope that remains the case until I die.  

Is if she and I have seen each other and somehow the conversation goes around to guns and she asks me to see it at our next appointment. Some ladies are gun officianados/enthusiasts and would be interested, not many but some.

and it doesn't bother me a bit. If it makes her feel safer, why should it bother me? It's not like she is going to shoot me for no good reason anymore than I am going to go nuts someday and start shooting people after carrying a weapon for over forty years without ever having hurt or even scared an innocent person.

I don't blame them if that lamp over there is really a doberman with a shade on his head, just don't tell me unless I try to switch him on. The relative risks to the men and to the ladies do not seem equivalent.

I was commenting on bringing a gun to a session to feel more secure (per the OP). If someone feels like they need to carry a gun to a session with a provider, to feel more secure, there seems little point in not having it loaded. Unless they plan on throwing it at someone....lol...

Do tell!!