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It can and does happen. Not usually to cause a scene, but sometimes a photo or a video snippet. Just writing to the boss is enough though for a lot of places. As you say, even if there's no photo and you can explain it away as a malicious prank or whatever it's still pretty fucking awkward...

The short answer is yes, but the real answer requires nuance. People have been lumping everything together into an overriding theme of risk of personal assault, but we've really been talking about 3 things: 1) security of your person 2) security of your money 3) security of your identity and...

anytime. There's lots of discussion of different places in the international section and if any area in particular is of interest to you then I'd be happy to go deeper into it with you. I don't use LL so can't help you there but there's no shortage of experience on MERB lol

I'll refer you to post #29. I already covered all that. The hyperbole also wasn't necessary because I've clearly delineated over multiple posts that different situations require different things, or nothing at all, and pretending that all of these things is necessary all the time is a gross...

Political discussion these days doesn't revolve around a thoughtful examination of party platforms or in the benefits of particular party issues, their implementation or the long term benefits/consequences of such, to the extent that they ever did in times past. In current times political...

subtlety is a lost art. People think to themselves that they're being subtle when to me it feels like they're hitting me over the head with a mallet.

Nothing sucks harder (not even an elite SP!) than the flimsy-ass one-ply toilet paper in the public bathrooms of big box stores and restaurants. :)

actually, I wasn't as much thinking about women beating their clients (although that happens too) as about the women's pimps/accomplices doing it. I'm also not just talking about it from a local perspective, but from a global perspective. In a great many places men who beat women get a trip to...

OK. but intention is the key here. There is space for both parties to misrepresent, even for benign purposes that are also simultaneously security precautions. Let's pick something simple. A client has a burner phone that he uses to hobby because his SO regularly goes through his normal phone...

It wasn't rhetorical. You also don't need to re-interpret my question. Regardless of the fact that the reasons for the anonymity might be different both clients and SPs have a need for anonymity, and anonymity is today's society takes many of the same forms for everyone. I'm not sure why you'd...

I'm not sure why your tone is so angry here, since I'm having a civil discussion here, but let's unpack this: 1) I never said that there weren't dangers to SPs. In fact I understand completely why SPs operate anonymously and as you said I clearly understand the dangers. I encourage the SPs to...

So... to recap, no you don't use your actual name, no you don't use your personal email, and you don't use a separate phone because you have for all intents and purposes no personal use for it, only a business use? If you grant that most people use their phone pretty religiously for personal...

Yeah, I think it almost has to come into play at some point for most mongers, because the world of MERB indies and agencies is so limited in scope and so restrictive in practice that almost everyone is going to want to take off the training wheels and experiment a bit outside of the safe zone...

I'm not talking about MERB. Say whatever shit you want on the website. I'm talking about during the session with the client, or on your personal website.

Why does any of this shit need to come up at all? With all the things in the world to talk about is it really necessary to bring up things like politics, religion and PC views during a session? I know this is a bit abstract because either the client or the SP could bring anything up at any...

It might not be necessary. As I said, it depends in large part on how you source the companions. If I was going to see @Rebaynia or @Julia Sky I probably wouldn't worry about it (except for the screening. nobody gets that). If I was seeing someone new from LL or an indy MP then I definitely...

when you get around a little more you might look at it a bit differently, depending on how you source your companions. The laws actually have absolutely nothing to do with it. It's not even necessarily that it's something that happened to you, but word gets around about all the potential scams...

Do you use your regular name, home phone number and email for work?

Most of these things are common sense (with some experience) and very quick to do. It takes longer to describe them than actually do them, except for the license plate thing, which I agree is a little extreme. It takes no effort at all to leave a wallet in the car and take cash only in your...