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Hi Everyone, Here is an interesting article that some might want to read. http://blogs.usatoday.com/betterlife/2009/04/researchers-suspect-oral-sex-to-blame-for-rise-in-tonsil-cancer.html

Very true. Some SPs like to chat about more personal things, especially once they get to know you. So I'll follow her lead in that case, and if I ask questions, they're appropriate to the level she's already established. If the conversation stays at the level of how's the weather, I'm fine with that too. The goal is for her to feel comfortable with you within the limits she's set for her own comfort zone. Because when's she's comfortable with you, you will definitely enjoy your time together more. ;-)

Seems its a tempest in a teapot. The public eye is turned on the business of sex, doesn't mean it an epidemic, just good marketing from the networks to pull viewers. Heck, the balanced portrayal below published by one of Canada's prestigious papers could also be taken as a sign of societal maturity, while the Canadian legal system hangs back in antiquity. Doc shocks with startling Canadian facts On the Globeand mail March 27, 2009 Like everyone else, we are feeling the pain of living in an economic dustbowl. Canadians are buying fewer big-ticket items such as cars and big-screen TVs, and pinching pennies on essentials such as groceries. In fact, the only recession-proof businesses appear to be drive-through coffee shops and prostitution. Somehow Canadians can always find money for donuts - and sex. But is paying for sex breaking the law? The Business of Sex (tonight at 10, CTV) provides a primer on the current state of the sex trade in this country. Written and directed by veteran journalist Robert Duncan, the new documentary will likely shock some viewers, though not with scenes of gratuitous nudity or graphic sex talk - there's neither. Instead, The Business of Sex shocks with startling but true Canadian facts. Did you know, for example, that prostitution is not actually against the law in Canada? As explained patiently in the film by attorney Clayton Ruby, Canadian bawdy house laws prohibit prostitutes from having a regular place to conduct business, among other astounding vagaries; the act of money exchanging hands for making whoopee is not illegal. Our government does not condone prostitution, though it does acknowledge its existence: the film points out that sex-trade workers have their own category on the Canadian tax form. "Isn't that amazing?" says Duncan, who previously took the Canadian health-care system to task in the documentary Medicare Schmedicare. "That might be one of the most staggering pieces of information in the entire program. On one hand the government is castigating the sex business, on the other hand sex workers are getting a tax number. It's pretty remarkable." A fast flip through the back pages of some free newspapers is evidence the sex trade is booming here. The Business of Sex focuses on the biggest markets in B.C. and Ontario, which combined provide gainful employment for an estimated 20,000 sex workers, almost all women. Less than 15 per cent are street hookers, which leaves the rest to work the safer, and more lucrative, field of private escorting. The escorts interviewed in the film instantly dispel any pre-existing notion of the trashy streetwalker. "There are no stereotypes in the sex business today," Duncan says. "We expected to meet these bimbos with serious psychological issues, but the women we talked to were very reasonable. Just nice, intelligent women, getting through life their own way." Women like Ironica Lamour (not her real name), who works as a private escort in Vancouver: The very normal-looking Lamour has been in the sex game five years and seems to enjoy it. Like most escorts today, she books the majority of her clients through her website. "The Internet is the new version of the pimp," says Duncan. In a reenactment, Lamour details the accepted transaction ritual that takes place between escort and clients; the money is discreetly left in an envelope and then counted in the bathroom. A little chit-chat, and on with the deed. The Web has also boosted the client list for Belle, who works as a private escort in the Niagara region (the single mother of four wears a gaudy mask to shield her face in the interview). Belle charges $180 an hour and estimates she pulls in $180,000 a year turning tricks. Last year, mom's part-time job took the family to Disney World for 10 days. Belle says she went into the business as a personal experiment, and specializes in middle-aged and elderly men. "Belle was quite emotional about what she does for a living," says Duncan. "She really believes she's providing an important service." The program interviews one of Belle's regular customers, called Simon (not his real name). Simon also wears a mask, and alters his voice, very likely because he's an ordained minister. Known in the trade as a hobbyist, Simon is also married and estimates he spends around $10,000 a year on sex. And if the missus found out? "She would lynch me," he says. For a different perspective on all this, the film visits Germany, where brothels are legal and apparently pull in more than 40 billion Euros each year. The cameras go inside Berlin's infamous Artemis brothel, a newly built sex palace where men pay 70 Euros to enter and walk around in bathrobes, then work out private deals with prostitutes. Mondays and Tuesdays are half-price days for cabbies and seniors. A tacky business, to be sure, but prostitution presumably fills some sort of public need, and are casinos any classier? The film goes into the ongoing efforts of Canadian sex workers to establish legal brothels in this country. The arguments remain the same: Government-run brothels would provide a cleaner, safer environment for sex workers, and nobody would be standing under streetlights. The film's most spirited pro-brothel proponent is Toronto lawyer and law professor Alan Young, who is mounting a challenge to the law prohibiting legal brothels. Young decries the current law as arbitrary, and says it does more harm to society than good. "He makes a very good argument," says Duncan, whose production offices are situated in the middle of downtown Vancouver's notorious Eastside, where street hookers roam day and night. "In making the film I've become a supporter of legalized brothels, just on the basis of safety. I wouldn't want any of my daughters to become hookers, but if they did, I'd want them to be safe."

Well I personally have always used Norton and this year it changed quite a bit again. I did like several features it offered but after installing it my system was extremely slow and I was having a lot of problems getting into my hotmail. A computer tech uninstalled my Norton and installed something else and my machine is running happy and fast again. Some people swear by Norton and others hate it. 2 techs told me that Norton was good when it first came out, a DR. named Norton designed it but then every year after they changed it a bit as technology changed and then many stopped using it. I paid cant recall think something like 80$ or 90$ for it and used it for 1 month and now it is sitting here useless. Perhaps I could have just changed some settings and made it better but several people told me not to use it anymore and also said there was lots of tracking devices in it too. So time will tell I will wait a month or two and see if things remain good, then I will know whether or not to go back to Norton.

1. "is that picture really you that you have on your website/ad?" 2. "I know you said this fell into your 'restrictions" but what would it cost ME extra to do that...since we seem to be getting along so well?" 3. So where do you usually hang out when you go out on the town? 4. "why is a pretty and intelligent girl doing what you're doing...you're so much better than this" (seriously you think we're victims to your demands and the industry....NEVER ask this while thinking its a compliment, guys. NEVER!) 5. " i want to be your ONLY call tonight for 'obvious reasons'...and I'd only like to book you for only an hour... I hope thats ok?" 6. "how is 'business'?...you must be busy these days eh?"/ "how many more calls do you have tonight"/ "how many have you had before me?" 7. on a lighter note: ......"can I have MSOG and can I book you for 15 mins?" hehe as for the subject on clients providing a name...I ask for a name, why? to know who I'm addressing. I tell my clients who dont want to give a name (at all) that its for their own benefit..... should knock on the wrong apartment door, it would be terrible if someone else got the call they were supposed to get ;-) usually I have a name provided pretty easily that way...real or not, my driver knows where I'm going and I never service motels or any other hotels that dont take credit card or valid ID

I never go off on a rant - but this one might be worthy - perhaps I've been inspired by Antlerman Sample of what not to ask: What's your real name, age, postal code, social insurance number and inmate id. Have you filed a tax return for all this cash you're raking in? Are you looking for a male bodyguard? Sample of what not to do: Do not tell her you work for Revenue Canada and can help process her tax return. Do not ask her to play cops and robbers and suggest she be the robber. Do not ask, request or demand she cut you a deal otherwise you'll give her a bad rep on a review/recommendation board. Do not show up under influence of any substance. Do not discuss other provider nor clients, after all, she is your girl and no one elses. ;-) Do: Show on time, be respectful, hygienic, courteous, bring the appropriate donation, respect her policy of business before pleasure. Be yourself and let the event unfold. And Finally: If you strike the right cord and the lady wishes to share any personal info about ANY topic please, please, please be discrete about what you share and post on any public forum. I did say it was a rant, but I decided part way to use sarcasm, humor and the direct approach to convey this message. I guess I need to work on my ranting skills.