Never thought I would be posting on a seeking thread.
To be brutally honest, I had previously considered SA a mug's game (not that punting by the hour necessarily isn't - but that's another conversation). (Still) paying for a shag, but with lots of (expensive) bells and whistles on top, and calling it dating did not, in my book, look like the hugely fulfilling experience some had described.
I guess the pandemic forced a change of outlook as I have become single (yes, I'm inadvertently blaming that on covid), have more time on my hands, cannot otherwise socialise for the mostpart and can scarcely think of a riskier activity than visiting a WG.
Everyone has their view, but in truth I haven't found it much like dating. I have found it quite a lot like escorting, except the women are picky (let's not get into the semantics of whether that's possibly not an unfair description of dating

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It is not the easy option in the way punting is. I got into punting precisely because it's the easy option. From that point of view, perhaps I will end up back there. But I've enjoyed peering into the world of seeking and increasing my understanding of you guys. Thanks to all contributors here.