I've "almost" gotten involved a couple times. There was one time in particular that stands out though. I met this girl at an agency totally randomly (this was before I discovered any of the review boards). In addition to being one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen, I was struck by how well we connected on a personal level. We had lots in common in terms of our life experiences, views, passions and so forth and I found myself completely enchanted by her overall magnetism and presence. Of course, I left after "the hour" reminding myself that I should't kid myself into thinking that the elation and attraction I was feeling was mutual. After all, I thought, it's part of her job to make me feel like that, isn't it? Suffice to say for the next couple days I couldn't get her out of my mind and, having heard somewhere that her agency had a website I, eager to see more of her, decided to look for it on the internet. It was while doing this that I came across PERB (the west coast equivalent of MERB, for those not in the know). Of course, the first thing I did was search for reviews of this girl and lo! I was not surprised to find that she was one of the most popular and well reviewed women on the Island. Reading her reviews I was not surprised to find that there were quite a few fellows out there who left her glowing presence in the exact same frame of mind that I did. Knowing this, I became even more convinced that the elation I was feeling was more due to her overall magnetism and lovliness than any reciprocal feelings she had for me. Nonetheless, I felt like sharing my amazing experience with this girl and from that came my first ever review of an escort. To my great surprise, some time after posting it I received a PM from the lady in question telling me that it was not all in my head and that she had felt a tremendous personal connection to me, more than with any of her other clients. She had a boyfriend at this point (who knew about her work, though he didn't like it) so the two of us just agreed to be friends (she even started signing her PMs with her real name, which I thought was significant). Some time later I was back in the city in question and when I randomly called her agency (this was before I discovered the wonders of prebooking). Uncharacteristically, the lady in question here was available immediately and, without hesitation, I agreed to see her. I didn't think anything of it at first, but after I was in her presence I felt a conflict within me-- on the one hand here was this woman who I had recently started to become friends with, and on the other I had just given her a stack of 20s with the idea that she take her clothes off and let me ravage her beautiful body (sidenote: this woman had the most wonderful breasts I have ever beheld, and given that I have seen both Eva of Eleganza and Helene de Lasalle, that's no small praise). What's the problem, you ask? Well, I was having trouble getting over this certain mental hurtle-- if she was truly my friend, could I continue to do this? While I knew that she would have gone through with it had I persisted-- we were both laying there very semi-clothed-- I could see in her eyes, through to the person behind, that she was craving some sort of vindication of my professed friendship. She wanted to know that I really liked her as a person, and not just a mind-blowingly beautiful body. To make a long story short, my conscience won the day and we spent the full hour just talking, with nothing sexual beyond some spooning and mutual caresses taking place. In the time since, we attempted to meet up a few times socially but, alas, due to things popping up from both of our ends, it never ended up working out. I became quite busy with my job and we basically stopped communicating (she since left "the business"). The point I guess I would like to get across in this somewhat long winded exposition is that, even though it's sage advice much of the time, people are still people and there is no reason in principle that a mutual, loving relationship or friendship cannot be had between an SP and a client-- there just has to be a lot of communication and mutual understanding for it to work, I think. We have no real say who we fall for-- we just fall, that's the whole idea.