Gents,
Good point, I would rather live a little and have fun while I'm at it rather than masturbate all of the time...
Yes, everything has risk and life is about taking risk without which nothing can be achieved or enjoyed, as long as one is mature enough to deal with the many downsides and keep going.
...or have a monogamous relationship with a woman that I'm not attracted too...
Are we talking about a long time girlfriend or a bad marriage one is clinging after the attraction has died? One would have to be quite desperate and hopeless for that, or he's dealing with other factors like children. In any case I would doubt monogamy enters into it when things have reached this point.
...I will play the percentages and have fun while I'm at it.
Playing the percentages is necessary no matter what you do. However, where it relates to the sex industry where is the point of playing the percentages and just being irresponsibly excessive. We see here from many members the acknowledgement that no sex is really safe no matter what you do to protect yourself, as devices such as condoms only cover a certain limited area and the relative "vigor" with which a person approaches sex can overcome that protection, or it can be ineffective just by chance. We become a little dismissive of that risk by saying life is about risk and also asserting, very conveniently, that seeing escorts is safer than sex outside the business in so-called "normal" life even though the obvious vast differences in sexual activity with different persons would be many times lower in the normal world versus the hobby and the number possible risk contacts in the hobby (your hobby numbers multiplied by all of her clients and their hobby numbers, etc.) makes nonsense out of the idea that the hobby is less risky and no matter how much you are into it it's still just an acceptable risk.
I've been doing in this hobby since 2001 and have averaged around 10 encounters per year, approximately. Those numbers are almost certainly very well below average for risk among long time members here. Where is the rate that goes beyond acceptable risk in this hobby? What do you suggest? Is anything acceptable? Is it just a matter of the individual choice and there's no such thing as excess? Sure driving at any time is a risk, but does that mean being drunk or going 100 mph (161 kph) can be dismissed simply the normal need to take risks in life?
This is not about slowing anyone or knocking anyone, it's just about what is really happening...especially when there are no required safeguards except personal judgment up to the same types of guys willing to engage escorts as much as they wish.
Frankly I wish there was some kind of data base identifying which escorts were connected to which clients and the level of risk frequency and risky option behavior involved with them to help make my choices. Yeah, it's impossible pie in the sky stuff, but though I accept risk I would rather not get into bed with those who think acceptable risk is having no limits at all.
The problem is, other weasels have been popping in the same place.
Yup, it's what you've been doing plus what everyone else has been doing, which amounts to a huge pile eventually.
Best of luck all,
Merlot