I initially didn't read this topic cause i wasn't interested in the whole "too expensive" discussion but we went from this to generation gap and back with a short stop at the COVID.... so, entertaining indeed
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The Rising Cost of the Hobby and Rate Increases
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When young people are complaining on this board of high SP prices, they perceive that previous generations lived in a golden age and boomers had it easy. Not at all. SP service was not in the realm of my youth not because I did not need it or did not know about it. The back pages of the local press were full of tantalizing SP advertising. I was simply too poor barely having money for food and lodging (and not always) to afford it. It does not mean that I did not have sex, but it required effort and inventiveness to get girl into bed. So go for free hunting when still young. It is good for you.
Young man is pissed at the cloud because it rains on his parade and it isn’t gold that he can spend without having to do shit for it.
Folks,
Please get back to the original topic or the thread will get locked. There is already one for random musings.
Thanks for your collaboration.
Please get back to the original topic or the thread will get locked. There is already one for random musings.
Thanks for your collaboration.
I didn't miss any point. My comment had nothing to do with the cost of a SP. Read the posts she was replying to for clarity
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False. They absolutely had it easy. I started hobbying a while ago when I was very very young. Even my broke ass could afford it. I make 5x what I used to make and it's harder to afford it now.
This is objectively false. Cost of living has gone up and wages have stagnated. Nothing you wrote is true.
I think the young members on the board should heed this comment. Economic pain and suffering while young is a good thing. It builds character and work ethic. There is too much a sense of entitlement - that they are owed something. Work hard and save. Whining and complaining that you should get something for nothing isn't going to change the market. It's not even going to move the needle. So go out there and make more money.
Damn Millenials, all walking around and mouthing off like they rent the place.
I can’t even afford my rent. At the end of every month I make a hard choice between seeing an SP and living on the street or keeping my room in the shared home with my millennial friends.Damn Millenials, all walking around and mouthing off like they rent the place.
You have room in a shared home with friends? LUXURY. Woulda’ been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woken up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! Room!? Hmph
Actually, not kidding, I've got a good friend who, when he was a teenager south of the US border, collected bottles and scrap metal to pay for his SPs. They don't make an app for that!
Indeed. I got the old outhouse on the farm with a good old copy of Larry Flint's Hustler (scratch and sniff edition) from the mid-70s to entertain me in my formative years, acapella, of course.
I later graduated to get friendly with the ladies of the night on the Lower Main in Montreal, that was a real eye-opener and a great learning experience about rates and the fine art of negotiating. Man, I learned a lot, not only about the art of the deal but about the perfidiousness involved in dealing with these ladies. Tough as nails and the company they kept always kept you looking over your shoulder for what was coming next.
Then as you have stated the back pages of the Indy newspapers arrived and that was the beginning of the move towards the end of the street walker era and shortly thereafter the advent of the computer sealed the street deal.
I can honestly say that I learned a lot and would not change a thing. With the rising rates of SPs, perhaps another great option would be to have another mint condition scratch and sniff Hustler, that would be a godsend. Does anyone have one for sale?
Lived in refugee camps in Yugoslavia with 5 hundred other families in the same tin barn with bunk beds, rats lice etc…
Place was surrounded by machine gun toting guards. Men still managed to sneak out during the night through cornfields to sell watches jewelry to buy food that you could actually eat.
Not much need for SP at the time for anybody nobody worried about rising costs just having something in your belly and not getting shot.
Canada and the rising cost of whatever is a godsend and a piece of cake.
Place was surrounded by machine gun toting guards. Men still managed to sneak out during the night through cornfields to sell watches jewelry to buy food that you could actually eat.
Not much need for SP at the time for anybody nobody worried about rising costs just having something in your belly and not getting shot.
Canada and the rising cost of whatever is a godsend and a piece of cake.
So, you say “they”. Thus, you definitely do not belong to the boomers’ generation. Then I agree, after us you had an easier life.
But you were set before the cost increase. 6 years ago the economy was much better, one could get a house at a reasonable price, the banks handed out mortgages easier, lower house costs equals more fun money. A majority of the younger generation will not have the disposable income for SP's.
My son is 34, can't see him getting escorts and not due to the cost, he goes out and actually meets people, many ladies out there looking for a dude to be with. Helps that he has my charm and sense of humor
It was way easier 6 years ago compared to now, did not need to be a boomer to enjoy life on the cheap.
It's like I always say you make your own luck in life. You need to work harder and stop slacking off. Stop blaming the world for all your problems and earn your way like the boomers before you.
The point is still there bright as day, but you can't see it. No biggie.
Do not forget all those so called social programs is costing money. Trudope put the country in so much debt that the younger generation will be paying that for decades. I do not see a reduction in the cost of living for several years. Shutting down immigration will take some time to have an effect because Trudope brought in an enormous amount of people plus it will take decades of austerity to balance the budget somewhat. People will be on tight budgets for many things including escorts.But you were set before the cost increase. 6 years ago the economy was much better, one could get a house at a reasonable price, the banks handed out mortgages easier, lower house costs equals more fun money. A majority of the younger generation will not have the disposable income for SP's.
My son is 34, can't see him getting escorts and not due to the cost, he goes out and actually meets people, many ladies out there looking for a dude to be with. Helps that he has my charm and sense of humor
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