That's great. You Took One for the Team for purposes of this discussion.
I was with a Black hb1 fattie a while back who was a Schizo on meds and yeah. When faced with a choice to drive 1-2 hour away vs visit an Latina hb 7 escort for $ 60 that's 5 min from my house, guess which option I choose on December 4/5, 2014? Notice I don't write anything much about her (ie mainly reserved to the old Luke Skywalker profile before that former alias got banned as even people on the old board were digusted with me that I went so low in my standards as to date someone like her), but the escort thing, as a discussion point simply sounds more interesting and exciting. It's like you can remember/feel great about being with a hb7+ escort, but a civvie that's low on the hb scale, not so much. Do you even see anyone even talking about going with hb 1-4s on here and being taken seriously, or anyone saying, "well done, at least you didn't go with an hb8+ escort?", because we both know that is totally NOTHING to write home about.
People who say something like that (ie dating down to an hb1, etc...) are just talking about of their a$$ sometimes. Like both of us have been there before, and like why would we want to go there again? It's not like we are 20 years old horn-dogs that hit a dry spell and now we will go with anybody like some rabid animal. Then the chadsplainers wonder why people do not listen to advice on here and get pissed off.