It looks like Thursday might be my first time with a provider. And I would just like to thank everybody in this forum and/or who have posted reviews. It has been enormously helpful to a "babe in the woods" like me.

I am planning to see April. If it does come true I will post a review and general comments

Oh, and bonus points to anyone who can figure out what my name refers to.

Thanks again for all of your help

Sorry I'm late in posting my results. I did indeed see April in NYC. Link on bottom for her ad page.

I called to make same day appointment, had some problems with accent, strange because it sounded Slavic to me which I don't have a problem with. This was my first time employing these services so I was a little nervous.

It was the standard go to avenue XX and street XX. call from there go to XXX address and then when you get to XXX address actually go across the street where I was buzzed in. BTW Not a bad location at all. Near some excellent resturants but this isn't Zagats (Well it is, sort of, but for different appetites.)

I don't know how much detail I can go into about the session on the forum. So I will play coy and say that my itch was safely scrached. She was a nice lady. We talked for a while after as well. Which I enjoyed.

Of course the question is: would I do this again? I might. I am married, so there is the moral/ethical/legal questions to consider. Interestly, my provider said that most of her clients are married. Also I just took myself out of the blood donation pool. Which does bother me somewhat, believe it or not.

There is the financial aspect. The money I spent was a completely unexpected cash bonus from my job. The price is fairly reasonable considering that someone at my job once dropped $600 at a strip club on lap dances. Who got more bang for his buck?

And finally, my response to the recurring question of "I like TSes am I gay?" is this: NO, NOT NECESSARILY!

Let me explain:

I might be in complete denial but when I see two guys kissing I get a little nauseous. same sex (male) porn does nothing for me or the Hebrew National between my legs (no, not a foot long, sigh).

Someone once said that sexuality is on a continuum between totally straight and totally gay, and it is a bell curve as well? Maybe the transgendered providers are a way of people who crowd the middle of that spectrum to act out their fantasies and desires. Modern science has made this blurring of the sexes more possible than ever before. Dan Savage once commented on this by saying some guys want dick but not guys. Maybe some gay guys want a woman but not a vagina. Previously these desires could not be acted on before, now they can. I guess it is a new form of sexuality and we are surfing the crest of wave and, hopefully, having a blast as well.

Sorry for the long post. It is just that all these thoughts have been flowing through my head. And I had to get them out.

GL!

Google has all the answers...including the secret of your name

http://www.odd-sex.com/info/gloss368.htm

Ooh someone did research!

Good explaination of what the word means at the bottom of the post.

I don't want a GFE. I want a HE (Hetaera Experience!)
Remember "talk" is also a four letter word for intercourse.

Congratulations,Luvhetaerae! I'm glad you had a great time. She's gorgeous! I too will post about my first time in here also. The only palpitations I have at this point is not only which girl to choose, but also whether that girl will take advantage of my naivete and inexperience that comes with being a beginner. Maybe all the fantasizing can actually be a detriment to one, huh ? That is, it can set one's expectations too high.

...Ooooh, the latest girl on my radar screen is Camile(sp?) from the LA Eros ads. She's currently got a gallery in Trannyisland.net which is mouth watering. What a smile and figure!

Maybe the reason so many of us in here are so transfixed (I just couldn't resist utilizing that term [Hee-hee!]), or enthralled by beautiful transgendered women, is that we are simply following nature's route while damning the social customs of the "nuture" route that is imposed upon us from day one. That is, that we are biologically tethered to our feminine side more than we'd like to believe. After all, the reason we men have nipples is because at one time we were of the opposite sex, remember ? Some of us eventually grew dicks and into this world we were christened males. The TS world simply provides a conduit to our hardwired past, so one can just as well say that our attraction to these beautiful women is just as natural or normal as anything that is biologically rooted. Make sense ? Well, that's my layman view and explanation of the whole thing at this point at least.

From what I've heard some providers are better with beginners than others.

The best thing about forums like this and SER is the reviews and the forum searches provided. The hard road paved by our forerunners in this forum who have paid dearly guide our way an smooth our path. And don't be afraid to ask questions! There is no such thing as a stupid question, there are just stupid people asking questions, and you don't seem stupid

Before you consider ANY provider check every review you can find. This will let you know whether she's provides service as expected or not. A picture can be worth a thousand lies.

I have always thought that sexuality is a continuum. And TS's help in expressing it. There is the whole anima/animus idea. but it really late so I will finish with this quote from Jung  
"If a man cannot project his anima (his female aspect of his psyche), then he is cut off from women"