How did you discover escorts at age 23? How old are you? The idea of prostitution (ie guy paying a woman for sex) is a very old idea.
In 1997, I remember the internet speed fast enough where you had various escort agencies populating the online world. You also had allot of classified adult ads in some seedy magazines. When I went to University in the 90s, I was bombarded by classified ads and yes, it was tempting to fvck an escort a day or so before an exam to relieve the stress. I'm like 19-20 years old around that time and I'm a gen-Xer.
May I ask, how did you find out about this? In my case its an off-shoot of a porn issue that was introduced by my dad. I would look at porn, and the idea would flash in my head, suppose I was able to pay someone like that to give themselves to me? That primed me for looking at escort ads when I started looking at classifies. I had $ 40 K access to credit cards at the time, and the thought must have crossed my mind, lets me try an escort. Since 1997 I had always been obsessed with the idea of visiting an escort. I ended up visiting one ventually in December, 2014 on the heels of a divorce and change of Canada law against buying sex the following day. But it took some extreme circumstances like that which are rather extremely one-off events to get to that position.
I'm just surprized you did discover them sooner. Do you regret discovering them in hindsight considering they may have spoiled your chances after discovering this with civvies?
When I say I "discovered" escorts at 23, I suppose I make it sound like I wasn't aware they existed before then (so I see why you're surprised).
I was well-aware they existed (even as a kid). When I say I discovered escorts at 23, what I mean is that's when I first bought an escort.
I'm currently in my early 30s.
To answer your question of why my 23 year old self made the decision to hire my first escort, here's the story: At 23, I was coming off a long dry spell. I hadn't been laid since I was 21.
I finally met a girl (we met through a friend of hers) I thought was a sure thing. I ended up driving her away by escalating too quickly (Which is why I ended up developing a hesitation to escalate too quickly).
So I finally said to myself "The hell with it. I'm tired of having to wonder whether a civvie will give me sex. I'm going to buy some guaranteed sex." I then went online, found escorts galore, and ended up calling one.
One reason I never thought to hire an escort sooner: I wasn't exactly in a financial position to hire an escort until I was 23.
I don't regret discovering escorts. Do escorts make me lose some of my motivation to pursue civvies? Totally.
Have there been civvies I could have gotten something with, but ultimately ended up ignoring because I knew I could fall back on escorts? Possibly.
However, escorts come with many benefits.
-I know for a fact I'm getting laid.
-The sex happens when it's convenient for me. I contact an escort on my own schedule.
-I can pick my escort. Whereas with civvies, I have to take whichever civvie throws me a bone.
-The escort won't try to start a romantic relationship with me.
Then perhaps the biggest benefit: The amount of time I save. I think I've mentioned on this forum that when I used hookup websites during college, for every successful lay, there were many hours wasted on failures. Many civvies on the hookup websites either rejected me or ignored me.
I don't have as much free time as I did during college. I don't have time to spend hours every day on hookup websites.