How much do we spend a year

[Slinky Bender]

From kromrider:

I recently figured that I could possibly spend 5,200.00 on escorts this year. 26 sessions at 200 per session (once every other week). If you increase your sessions to once a week we are up to 10,400.00. What does everyone else pay?

[jasonbuju]

why oh why did you have to ask this question.

I am a newbie to this hobby but I am scared to even think about how much I spend a year.

[candie]

I spent way more than that on SS..... Thanks to those that helped!

[paulus]

Originally posted by candie
I spent way more than that on SS..... Thanks to those that helped!

SS?

Social Security?, Waffen SS? Secret Service? V(S)ictoria Secret?

[BigMadM]

I think slinky should add some more figures at the bottom of that list.
In case I die, at this keyboard, right now, I dont want my wife to see an honest response.
Shell castrate me post-mortem.

[Wwanderer]

It was not clear to me whether the figure in question was to include only direct fees to providers or if it should include all hobbying expenses, such as gifts, hotel rooms (used for no other purpose), paying for meal and/or travel costs and so forth. I assumed the former at the time I "voted", but maybe the latter is really more interesting. It would push my number up by a couple of thousand most years, I guess.

-Ww

[candie]

none you said yet paulus. Its special services.

[pjorourke]

Assuming each respondent spends about the middle of the reported bracket (e.g. $3,000 to $5,000 spends $4,000), the 37 respondents (at this time) spend an average of $7,500.

If this is typical for the 8,845 members of UG, that represents annual expenditures of $66 million -- a number that is greater than the Gross Domestic Product of Nauru (http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107816.html) and Tulavu (http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0108062.html) combined.

Something to think about.

[daengman]

yes, most of us know we shouldn"t

but,

yes


it feels sooooooooo good!!!!!!

[kromrider]

Originally posted by pjorourke
Assuming each respondent spends about the middle of the reported bracket (e.g. $3,000 to $5,000 spends $4,000), the 37 respondents (at this time) spend an average of $7,500.

If this is typical for the 8,845 members of UG, that represents annual expenditures of $66 million -- a number that is greater than the Gross Domestic Product of Nauru (http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0107816.html) and Tulavu (http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0108062.html) combined.

Something to think about.

We should be getting some kind of group discount

[slfairbanks]

last year, my first full year of hobbying w/ indy's [visited amp's for 2.5 years prior to that], i spent at least $18K - more than my car payment & 401k contribution [but made those payments/contributions]. i visited w/ about 13 women, 1 for 8 months and another for 5 months [still visited w/ her until may ; i temporarily moved up here in early june].

so far this year, about $10k. in jan-mar, it was about every other week. in arp-may, every week. since i've been up here, only 6 times, 2x w/ visiting women, and 2 more at an amp.

and to think i worried when i spent $$$$$/yr on sex-lines.

whatever, it's been fun, pleasurable, enjoyable and sensual.

i posted a similar poll on aspd in oct & dec of last year. another poster submitted a poll earlier this year, wherein i ref'd my polls.
http://www.aspd.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=122750#post122750

have fun out there...
s.l.

[occasionalhobbyist]

Originally posted by BigMadM
I think slinky should add some more figures at the bottom of that list.
In case I die, at this keyboard, right now, I dont want my wife to see an honest response.
Shell castrate me post-mortem.

So, I'm guessing we know who the 1 respondent in the $30K plus category was...

Any chance I could be your bitch?

[teeduke]

And here I've successfully avoided thinking about the cost all these years ... then you go and do this.

More than my luxury car payments. More than my NNJ property taxes.
About equal to a semester at that private liberal arts college my daughter is attending.

Like most guys, I've never though of myself as much of a shopper.
Guess I'll have to re-think that.

And the funny thing is a great deal of it is spent on impulse!
When the urge strikes, I guess I go for it. A lot.

[Gladiator]

My accountant has been telling me to get some expenses to offset my hefty gains for years, but I think that I went a little beyond what he was meaning since I can't even deduct these expenses. LOL!!!

Much more that I would like to admit but worth every penny. I have met some of the nicest people in the hobby and I just want to keep on meeting more. And the hobby parties are so much fun. It is difficult to keep viewing my "relationships" as strictly business. I may be addicted but at least I can afford it.

Glad

[Wwanderer]

Calling it "the hobby" is basically euphamistic of course, but it strikes me that the level of spending reported in this survey is in the general ballpark of what many guys spend on major hobbies (guys with incomes in the same general range that I would guess applies for UG gents). For example, among my neighbors I know guys whose hobbies are golf, boating (owns a big looking, to me, boat) and collecting antique swords. I suspect that if they entered their annual expenditures on those hobbies into the survey, their numbers would fall in amongst the distribution of all the rest.

-Ww

[pjorourke]

Actually, I think I spend more per year on Golf.

[jseah]

pj, that's probably cause with this hobby, you don't replace your equipment everytime something new comes out promising to reduce the number of your strokes.

[pjorourke]

Maybe that and the fact that I don't loose my balls as often.

[Slinky Bender]

Last time I played golf I lost 2 balls in a sand trap.


I stepped on a rake.

[Shoreguy]

But at least in golf I can lick my own balls.

[BigMadM]

Originally posted by Shoreguy
But at least in golf I can lick my own balls.

My hobby is better than golf.
Getting my balls licked from some 19y/o hottie is quite an experience.
Actually, even a 36 y/o hottie feels quite good.

[Wwanderer]

Yeah, I keep hoping that my golfer, boater or sword collecting neighbor will someday say to me, "Hey Ww, you oughta get yourself a hobby!", and then I can give them a sly, self-satisfied smile and a shrug and think to myself that they (perhaps) have no idea what they are missing.

-Ww

[paulus]

There may be two sides to the expenditures and how you feel about it. Surely there is the financial impact of thousands of dollars, but as mentioned, it is not that much beyond spending on other hobbies (take for example, owning/flying air planes, golf club membership etc).

What really worries me more is when the individual financial decisions with a provider become a reflection of the degree of the addiction (which we all have at least to some extent). I simply am horrified by the idea that an individual provider may get so much power over me that she can "force" me to acquiesce to unreasonable financial propositions. Hence I go to silly extremes not ever to be "taken" in the main business transaction. Yes, I do belong to those who believe that "no provider is worth $ x". Afterwards I most likely will CHOOSE to give her a present or other blessings that far exceeds in value what I saved in the main transaction. Not very logical but it does the job for me emotionally. Perhaps I am weird in that respect. Perhaps that is why I mostly get involved with girls who are limited distribution or private stock - those denominations used for clarity not to be in any way derogatory towards anybody.

Vive la France.

[wurkbytes]

its better than paying taxes on the money and I can't get up to Foxwoods often enough to gamble it away. Put me in the 10-20 bracket.

[celtic knight]

As far as golf is concerned, I often have trouble finding the hole!

[JackT]

Originally posted by wurkbytes
its better than paying taxes on the money

You hobby with PRE-TAX money? How do you pull that off?

[jseah]

Originally posted by JackT


You hobby with PRE-TAX money? How do you pull that off?

He issues 1099's to all of the providers he sees and deducts them as professional services??????

[kromrider]

why not? Most good services should be issuing 1099's to their girls. No one wants a tax evation charge.

[pjorourke]

Originally posted by jseah
He issues 1099's to all of the providers he sees and deducts them as professional services??????

He can issue all the 1099's he wants. I don't think that does anything for his tax situation. The mystery here is how does he get their services classified as an "ordinary and necessary business expense"? I really want to know. Tax experts please?

[pswope]

Originally posted by pjorourke


He can issue all the 1099's he wants. I don't think that does anything for his tax situation. The mystery here is how does he get their services classified as an "ordinary and necessary business expense"? I really want to know. Tax experts please?

He must be an acolyte of the ipse dixit school of tax interpretation.


(or maybe he received a private letter ruling)

[Shoreguy]

Originally posted by JackT


You hobby with PRE-TAX money? How do you pull that off?

If the money is never deposited and never treated as income then it is never taxed. Blow it at the tables or get a BJ on a table.

[pswope]

maybe he puts them on the payroll of his sub chapter S corp.



(would anyone be that crazY?)

[Kimmie]

I just wanna know who are the two men who spend 30,000 plus.

Make me your bitch pleeeeeeeeeeeease! ;)

[Wwanderer]

Originally posted by Kimmie
I just wanna know who are the two men who spend 30,000 plus.


Anne Marie's clients?

-Ww

[ODB]

To keep what little sanity I have left, I stopped counting last year.

[donquixote04]

Lately (since February or March or so), I've been cultivating my latest atf. Gradually been moving into utr, ps territory. Almost feeling like a sugar daddy. Is there any such thing as a "semi sugar daddy"? It's been running me about $1,000 a month, which is 2-4 times my previous expenditures. But my frequency is way up, and my session length is way up, and the quality of my sessions is way up. Only thing that's down is variety. But I am having a ball.

[moneyshotsnj]

Lately (since February or March or so), I've been cultivating my latest atf. Gradually been moving into utr, ps territory. Almost feeling like a sugar daddy. Is there any such thing as a "semi sugar daddy"? It's been running me about $1,000 a month, which is 2-4 times my previous expenditures. But my frequency is way up, and my session length is way up, and the quality of my sessions is way up. Only thing that's down is variety. But I am having a ball.

As much as I would love to read it, I hope your not researching your next stroy.

[donquixote04]

As much as I would love to read it, I hope your not researching your next stroy.
Time will tell. Meanwhile, what a ride.

[donquixote04]

Time will tell. Meanwhile, what a ride.
The ride is now done. Went around for about 6 months. Lotsa fun.

[moneyshotsnj]

The ride is now done. Went around for about 6 months. Lotsa fun.


That's what I call a short story!

Glad that this one seems to have had a happy ending.

[yamaha]

me i spend too dam much and i can't stop if i wanted to

[donquixote04]

That's what I call a short story!

Glad that this one seems to have had a happy ending.
Yeah. Well, happy, but bittersweet. I had a lot of fun. But now it's done.

[LushWet]

I spend less than a golf membership. I spent 4 times as much on legal fees last year, and about the same on the CPA. The lady's are a ton more fun than the CPA.