Vin Marco

As far as traveling the world with conspicuous consumers, I think what is of  greater importance is ones ability to hold their own in any social circle(s) be able to keep up, know what fork to use and not embarrass anybody. When well-dressed,  the hint of a tattoo isn't so bad compared to walking through the lobby of  Ritz Carlton in a stringer....   

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@nycman this one is for you: 

@myophile this is a  comparison of my bicep over the course of 19 years... we went the first time in 2005, we went back in 2006 and then again in 2007 and I believe this photo was from that first trip in 2005... we left for Cabo San Lucas immediately after the 2005 Mr. Olympia. The photo was taken at a place called Las Ventanas ( two Palm Springs gatherings ago a very kind board member introduced himself and told me he was there while the three of us were visiting the same resort  ) i'm not gonna name drop because I think it's kind of tacky and gross but there was a Russian female tennis player with her, then very famous Spanish singer boyfriend staying in the villa next to us who asked if they could squeeze our muscles 😜
We remember our friend who took us there telling us that first time, "you boys better enjoy this because this is luxury we will probably never see again" and we ended up going back two more times 😂🙏🏽 for a week all three times.
I always thought and hoped I would age well but the kind of progress I have made over the years even I can't believe. I know it's highly unusual, but I firmly believe that good habits make time an ally. I am not the biggest guy in the world nor am not the most genetically gifted guy in the world, but I am very disciplined and stubborn when it comes to meeting my goals and improving myself. I've said it before I'll say it again none of us escape the aging process, at some point I'll reach that fulcrum and begin the decline, but until that day comes, I'm gonna keep enjoying improving myself year after year. I know  cynics would love to ask how much longer do I plan to do this and the answer is as long as my body keeps responding to the stimulus and besides for me, it's never been better. I no longer have to grit my teeth. I don't have to see people I don't truly enjoy so it remains a win-win situation. I still absolutely love what I do and I enjoy the people I get to spend time with more than I have the words to articulate it. What more could I ask for?

@nate_sf
Years ago in San Francisco, in Pacific Heights ( was one of my first appointments ) I met a really wonderful guy that I still see  currently that prepared a fabulous multi course dinner... Beluga caviar from the Caspian Sea, many wonderful appetizers,  entrées and loads of all kinds of  spectacular courses  including dessert, but because it was my first time meeting him I told him I had just eaten, and I was completely full. I was completely full of shit, I was starving, but I was mortified and certain I was going to be drugged, chopped up and put in a crawl space... a few visits later I confessed, and he laughed, but ultimately he completely understood where I was coming from.  Needless to say, I never again turned down anything he prepared and I still do not turn down anything he prepares. I adore him and I trust him implicitly. 🥰

I have a Larry Scott story! You just reminded me that when I was like 18 or 19 I worked with one of his ex-wives... she was much older, but you can tell she was probably a firecracker in her day and especially if she was married to that muscle hunk!  She wasn't a fan of arguably, the most famous bodybuilder of time.... this is all hearsay and conjecture, but I'm going to relay it anyway. According to her that very well-known bodybuilder who ended up making movies later would give guys downers telling them that they were uppers before bodybuilding shows.... again this is all hearsay and something she told me and I never forgot. 
 
As for Larry Scott's biceps, they remind me of Sergio Olivas, my friend Tommy, who is a retired professor of anatomy at the University of Texas at San Antonio who is a complete muscle freak and fan described both Larry Scott and Sergio Olivas biceps as having "football biceps". 💪🏽 Massive but without that peak and split that the  famous bodybuilder turned movie star and flex Wheeler have. In my opinion both types of biceps are great,  they are just very different..

@myophile this is a  comparison of my bicep over the course of 19 years... we went the first time in 2005, we went back in 2006 and then again in 2007 and I believe this photo was from that first trip in 2005... we left for Cabo San Lucas immediately after the 2005 Mr. Olympia. The photo was taken at a place called Las Ventanas ( two Palm Springs gatherings ago a very kind board member introduced himself and told me he was there while the three of us were visiting the same resort  ) i'm not gonna name drop because I think it's kind of tacky and gross but there was a Russian female tennis player with her, then very famous Spanish singer boyfriend staying in the villa next to us who asked if they could squeeze our muscles 😜
We remember our friend who took us there telling us that first time, "you boys better enjoy this because this is luxury we will probably never see again" and we ended up going back two more times 😂🙏🏽 for a week all three times.
I always thought and hoped I would age well but the kind of progress I have made over the years even I can't believe. I know it's highly unusual, but I firmly believe that good habits make time an ally. I am not the biggest guy in the world nor am not the most genetically gifted guy in the world, but I am very disciplined and stubborn when it comes to meeting my goals and improving myself. I've said it before I'll say it again none of us escape the aging process, at some point I'll reach that fulcrum and begin the decline, but until that day comes, I'm gonna keep enjoying improving myself year after year. I know  cynics would love to ask how much longer do I plan to do this and the answer is as long as my body keeps responding to the stimulus and besides for me, it's never been better. I no longer have to grit my teeth. I don't have to see people I don't truly enjoy so it remains a win-win situation. I still absolutely love what I do and I enjoy the people I get to spend time with more than I have the words to articulate it. What more could I ask for?

I was so hoping and crossing my fingers that you would read what I wrote, and I have to say what I just read just about choked me up and put a huge lump in my throat. What an incredibly sweet thing to say.  I remember it like it was yesterday when you tapped me on my shoulder when I was sitting at Trio... those trips were so special to me and when you came up to me and talked to me about it, it brought back a lot of wonderful memories. 
 
As for the lessons you referenced and mentioned, I think about those almost every single day of my life.. thank you for making a pleasant quiet, peaceful evening, even that much better. I can only hope that I bump into you again so that I can give you a big strong warm hug. 🫂 😘

What a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing that. Honor among... And faith in whatever you wanna call it restored 🙂 again what a wonderfully sweet story to have shared. 🥰

@nycman this one is for you: 

Since the topic of this thread is trust, I must have an honest face. It helps beyond that in acting in a way that is true to yourself and not being phoney in any way in managing a relationship with a provider. 
I had an afternoon session with a new provider at his hotel in a city 1 hour away from my home on Labour Day weekend. We were having such a great time that I extended from 1 to 2 hours. I had the cash on me for that. Even so he wasn’t watching the clock and we went almost for another 45 minutes.
At that point we cleaned up and I invited him to a good restaurant I know as it was dinner time by now. I took him in my car and the service turned out to be very slow as it was the holiday weekend and Sunday night so the restaurant was packed. 
I don’t like driving at night and when we finished it was getting dark. So I asked if I could stay overnight with him and I would pay him extra in the morning by going to an ATM. 
The next morning we went for breakfast in his hotel and on going back to the room he invited me into the bed again. 
We had another delightful 3 hours and it was noon. 
By this point I knew a lot about him including his real name and his work history and family life etc. I told him I could e-transfer him the overnight fee he was now owed and he agreed and so I left town owing him that and as soon as I got home I sent him the money. He was happy and I left him a good review on RM. We had established a trusting provider client relationship as easy as that. 
He lives in Toronto so I may see him again. 

Grin
As they say…and now for the rest of the story….
I was barely 30 years old. I had just broken up with what I had erroneously assumed was "the love of my life". We were two Alpha males who just couldn’t make it work. I was heart broken and lost. So I flew down to Las Ventanas in Cabo from NYC for a week. I needed to escape and try to piece my shattered life back together.
Now imagine you’re lying alone on a lounge chair at the nicest resort you’ve ever been to (before or since). And as you’re wallowing in self pity, out of nowhere appear three stunningly beautiful men walking around the pool. Over the course of the week I watched all 3 of them intently. They were incredibly masculine but also unfailingly kind, loving, and caring towards one another. I was in awe. I slowly came to the realization that you can be an Alpha male and still show love and respect towards other men. 
Later through the miracle of the internet, I would learn who these amazing men were. Luckily over the ensuing years I have had the opportunity to meet all three of them on separate occasions. On all 3 occasions I was terrified yet somehow managed to find the courage to walk up to each one of them and share my story. The last one was Danny 2 years ago at the Palm Springs gathering. I always say, "never meet your heroes". In this case, I was wrong. All 3 were gracious and every bit the gentlemen I dreamed they’d be.
A few lessons…
You never know who’s watching and whose life your actions are impacting. 
Never be afraid to tell a stranger the positive impact they’ve had on your life.
Work hard at patterning yourself after men you admire. 

Thank you for saying that! 🙏🏽  In my business if you're gonna make it, survive, thrive, and flourish you have to be able to have an exceptional intuition and I've honed mine as good as I possibly can. I treat peoples homes as if they were my own. I ALWAYS these peoples homes in cleaner and better condition than when I arrived . If there is a car that's left for me, I make sure it's washed and left with a full tank of gas. .There's a  reason I do not and have never listed  my phone number in my ad... I force enough written communication and I can decipher just by the way someone writes, utilizes social graces, communicates, punctuates, etc... at which point I always require a phone call before I meet somebody for the first time and by that time I have a pretty good sense if it's somebody that I want to be meeting or not... it's one hell of a filtration/sifting system. By the time it's time for me to knock on a  door or have my door knocked on, I have a pretty good sense of what type of person I'm going to encounter. 

@Vin Marco That's a cool story about your regular client. But I'm surprised that anyone would be okay with strangers unknown even to their guest in their home. Probably a good call on your part to limit it to people you know... which makes you seem more trustworthy.

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Not in the slightest pal.  That's a pretty gross generalization, not to say some people don't see clients that way, but to say a reputable escort looks down upon his clients and views them as ATM's is overstepping the mark. Trust works both ways and that's coming from someone who has earned the trust and respect of a lot of people over the course of time.  
Let me tell you a little story about trust.... I have the keys of multiple peoples homes.( Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, NYC, Dallas... )  I have clients who when they travel allow me to stay at their places and see clients... nobody in their right mind would do that without really trusting somebody... for years I used house sit and stay at a clients house that split his time between the desert and Indonesia... many years into doing this, he had me come over to show me how some new electronics worked, and before I left, I told him, "I hope you know I never bring people here" and he looked at me with a bewildered look on his face and asked me, "what do you mean you don't see people here? and I told him, "I would never bring anyone into your house. not with all these valuables.."  all those years he assumed I was seeing people, but I didn't want to take the risk of something going missing....  that day he convinced me that it was totally fine and it was his hope that I could enjoy his place and make money to which I replied by saying, "well how about I never bring a total stranger here? " And he said while tapping me on the back,  "it's totally up to you, but I trust you implicitly"  I'm sure a lot of people don't see it this way, but for me, to be trusted is as good or better than to be loved.  The friend I speak of that lived in the desert is just one of a few people who I have that same arrangement with. That kind of trust isn't built and earned over the course of a few visits...these are people that I have been seeing for well over 10 and 15 years.
I can't speak for everyone but I view and  treat  no one like an ATM and I'm  positive I'm not the only one. 

No one can be anything forever 😊

This particular sentence is interesting in that it says more about the op than the question he posed.
Self-loathing and negativity will kill the enjoyment you get from this hobby.

Not in the slightest pal.  That's a pretty gross generalization, not to say some people don't see clients that way, but to say a reputable escort looks down upon his clients and views them as ATM's is overstepping the mark. Trust works both ways and that's coming from someone who has earned the trust and respect of a lot of people over the course of time.  
Let me tell you a little story about trust.... I have the keys of multiple peoples homes.( Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, NYC, Dallas... )  I have clients who when they travel allow me to stay at their places and see clients... nobody in their right mind would do that without really trusting somebody... for years I used house sit and stay at a clients house that split his time between the desert and Indonesia... many years into doing this, he had me come over to show me how some new electronics worked, and before I left, I told him, "I hope you know I never bring people here" and he looked at me with a bewildered look on his face and asked me, "what do you mean you don't see people here? and I told him, "I would never bring anyone into your house. not with all these valuables.."  all those years he assumed I was seeing people, but I didn't want to take the risk of something going missing....  that day he convinced me that it was totally fine and it was his hope that I could enjoy his place and make money to which I replied by saying, "well how about I never bring a total stranger here? " And he said while tapping me on the back,  "it's totally up to you, but I trust you implicitly"  I'm sure a lot of people don't see it this way, but for me, to be trusted is as good or better than to be loved.  The friend I speak of that lived in the desert is just one of a few people who I have that same arrangement with. That kind of trust isn't built and earned over the course of a few visits...these are people that I have been seeing for well over 10 and 15 years.
I can't speak for everyone but I view and  treat  no one like an ATM and I'm  positive I'm not the only one. 

I went back and looked at photos of Larry Scott in his prime — major masturbatory fodder for this adolescent muscle-hound — and fuck me running if Danny’s guns aren’t significantly bigger, and harder, too!
 

@myophile this is a  comparison of my bicep over the course of 19 years... we went the first time in 2005, we went back in 2006 and then again in 2007 and I believe this photo was from that first trip in 2005... we left for Cabo San Lucas immediately after the 2005 Mr. Olympia. The photo was taken at a place called Las Ventanas ( two Palm Springs gatherings ago a very kind board member introduced himself and told me he was there while the three of us were visiting the same resort  ) i'm not gonna name drop because I think it's kind of tacky and gross but there was a Russian female tennis player with her, then very famous Spanish singer boyfriend staying in the villa next to us who asked if they could squeeze our muscles 😜
We remember our friend who took us there telling us that first time, "you boys better enjoy this because this is luxury we will probably never see again" and we ended up going back two more times 😂🙏🏽 for a week all three times.
I always thought and hoped I would age well but the kind of progress I have made over the years even I can't believe. I know it's highly unusual, but I firmly believe that good habits make time an ally. I am not the biggest guy in the world nor am not the most genetically gifted guy in the world, but I am very disciplined and stubborn when it comes to meeting my goals and improving myself. I've said it before I'll say it again none of us escape the aging process, at some point I'll reach that fulcrum and begin the decline, but until that day comes, I'm gonna keep enjoying improving myself year after year. I know  cynics would love to ask how much longer do I plan to do this and the answer is as long as my body keeps responding to the stimulus and besides for me, it's never been better. I no longer have to grit my teeth. I don't have to see people I don't truly enjoy so it remains a win-win situation. I still absolutely love what I do and I enjoy the people I get to spend time with more than I have the words to articulate it. What more could I ask for?

I'm not quite where I want to be with respect to my conditioning but in 6 weeks ( exactly from today ) I'll have given it my all once again to keep elevating and pushing my own bar. Again, I'm pleased with where I am today but I'm even more excited about where I'll be physically speaking at the end of this diet prep. These diet preps and target 🎯 dates ( sometimes there's a photo shoot connected to them ) help to keep me improving year after year and help keep me in my youth ( as much as one can to fend off the inevitable 🤣😉😎 )  
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This photo was taken this morning... for the sake of shock and awe, I will probably hold off for some weeks on  posting photos of myself. It's interesting how many many years ago I would have been quite satisfied with this level of conditioning but now I just see a photo that does please me but also a photo that indicates and reminds me that I still have 8 weeks to grow some and definitely "fine down" My body will change drastically between today and 8 weeks. Southern California here I come. There's no bodybuilding show attached to this target 🎯 date in October ( but it does please me to no end when people ask me if I'm getting ready to compete , which I always reply kindly  and graciously that the only person I'm competing with is me, myself and I but most importantly, my former self )  but there is a photoshoot scheduled 📅 in my native San Diego at Blacks Beach 🏖️ 
 

Good morning 🌞 I've posted in the Traveling 🧳 Providers forum. I've posted a link to my hidden ad as well. My ad is marked unavailable because I won't  start to travel until mid October as staying close to home and the food I need + training allows me to reach my goals without distractions however I do check my messages on RM. Even with a hidden ad I still get quite a bit of messages. 
I  hope others will start to utilize the traveling providers forum more and more. I'll be posting there as I make my trips known. I'll also be posting on this thread as well.  I enjoy posting on the men's legs and muscle threads in the fetish forum ( photos of me usually taken by me ) 
Cheers! 
 
Danny Aka Vin Marco 
 

And or those that have made a career and built a life consistent with their dreams and desires... those that have built a good reputation and intend on keeping it.