Finding the male escort behind the Prince Charming

It's different though.
Those guys weren't being marketed as "wholesome" or "family oriented." Unless they were referring to his 2 for 1 family discount package.

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A lot of people end up in the sex trade for so many reasons and you're coming off very judgemental.

Unless they're homeless, abused or in a situation where they've very few funds, some of the people who go into that business do so because of the money. It doesn't sound like he was forced to go into it.

And how is questioning someone who used to be a former (and possibly still current) rent-boy, someone who never admitted that he was a rent boy to the producers of a show who are looking for their 'Prince Charming' -- how does that come off as being very judgemental? 

Count me in with the thousands of others who feel the same way. Had he admitted his past to the producers from the get-go then maybe it wouldn't be such an issue.
At least the other contestants would have known what they're getting into.

I feel bad for those guys on the show who may be interested in him without previous knowledge of his past. Most probably wouldn't give a damn anyway but the fact that he kept that information a secret isn't sitting well with a lot of people.

If he didn't admit that crucial piece of information what else could he be hiding?

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He is perfection I guess; to look at anyway! 

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While the show is somewhat enjoyable it's an embarrassment all around.

We've taken two steps forward and this show has taken us four steps backwards...

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Yeah, like I just said below, the guys even flat out say how much background checks werer done on them and they even told producers they knew him from the Sex Tape.

(Yeah... No way they didn't talk about it in the house either)

Production had to have known and frankly it wouldn't surprise me if that was why he was picked in the first place.


As for the Chad thing, I'm calling BS. My guess is, assuming everything else he says is true like his boss knowing about the show - is that he was likely fired because how he was portrayed on the show.

He seemed like a guy who throws constant hissy fits when he gets called on. And tweeting like that fits the bill.

That is assuming he is even telling the truth and there is a relation. Maybe he was fired cause he sucks at his job and lying (we don't have his boss's reaction).

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As hard as it is to believe, I think it's possible they didn't know...and here's why.

Picture the casting department at LOGO, guys who would never be able to "date" this guy in a million years.

Also, not only was he incredibly handsome, supposedly successful and community oriented, he checked another important box, in fact THE important box. He is Puerto Rican which counts for their box checking off purposes as of Hispanic origin. That way they didn't have to vet any other Hispanics and since hot "Latin Boys" are a big deal in the gay world, he was just the perfect "Prince Charming".

In other words, they were not thinking with their brains. He was just too good to be true.

Of course I don't know what's really going on in their minds at LOGO, but I think they really, truly did want to push the "family values" angle. They really want to push the narrative about how gays are hetero-normal and hetero-acceptable and hetero-adorable and most of all harmless. We don't want to **** your **** or your husband's ****. We're just cuddly animated squeaky fun Marys who drink wine and get dramatic with each other. That's what LOCO (ha ha typo and it stays) is pushing.

In fact, now that this show is such a train-wreck, I'm looking forward to it, and especially the reunion show! So maybe they did know what they were doing lol.

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Maybe he did the sexwork to pay the bills, maybe he was good at having sex with other people and said, Why not get paid for it?

I don't think anyone is saying that he can't or shouldn't do the type of work that he does. He can do whatever wags his tail and get paid for it - behind the scenes.

But the guy is appearing on a NATIONAL tv show as a Prince Charming!!

The sheer audacity is simply mind-boggling!! He's already a laughing stock and not sure where his 'career' will go after the show.

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Calm down, you're building up straw men here.

Nobody is saying the problem is that he is working as rent boy because of how it makes the community.
If he is in a relationship and is open about it, that's fine for him as a human being.

There are however, several other problems here:

1) He lies about it. That's not a thing in any relationship - real life or reality tv.

2) The tv show is clearly fake as the guys in the house pretend not to know (as well as production) and we know that's complete BS. Again, the issue here is the lies.

3) While talking about a lifestyle that isn't what "normal" life style is just fine because screw the people who tell us what "normal" is -

The entire show is marketed and had the phrase being said repeatedly : "Family Values".

If you want to market your show as such, why did they intentionally pick a rent boy?

4) And here's one that's nasty but I'm sorry it's true -
While working as a rentboy is fine as a job, it does disqualify you from being Prince Charming since as even one of the guys said it - Why would I bother going through all this trouble if they could have just thrown a couple of bucks at him?


Again, I don't have an issue with his job. But this is a game show. Game shows should have valuable prizes for people who put up with them for weeks on end.

If you tell me the prize on reality tv is a trip to somewhere amazing overseas that I can never afford to go to myself that's fine.

If you tell me the prize on reality tv is just a single ride in a cab somewhere locally I can easily just get myself then what's the point?


I don't have a problem with cab drivers or their profession but they cannot be a prize for such a show.


The entire point of "Prince Charming" is to have a fairy tale romance of giving you this amazing, charming, man that you are likely never meet in real life and have a shot with him (as someone called it - the Matt Bomer type)

However, if said guy is someone that literally anyone can have for a couple of bucks, that makes him about as exciting as a prize as the cab fair.



So this isn't a moral issue, but a practical one.




Although as I said before, even regardless of him being a rent boy I still don't get why he is worth it as a prize... But that's another story.

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It really amazes me a man as physically perfect as Robert had to resort to the low of being a rent boy.

But having a "physically perfect" body is precisely why many guys do get into escorting. They know they're hot and they know people will pay top dollar for an hour or evening with them. Needing money might be a "valid" reason to become a gigolo but there's also an ego factor as well. Of course, I don't know Robert personally, but it's been my experience that guys like him get off on people thinking that they are hot and many of them are not against finding ways to monetize people's lust for them.

Personally, I don't think a physically perfect body exists. No one person fits the bill for everyone. For someone who doesn't like washboard abs and super defined muscles, Robert's body is not perfect.

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He probably would have aced any regular job interview

With his complete lack of Charisma? I doubt it.

But regardless, do you know how many good looking models are there?
There's plenty of them and most of them are dead broke. Modeling is a job with a lot of competition and unless you make it big, you have no job security at all - same as acting or anything in the entertainment industry.

Rent Boys aren't guaranteed anything either, but they make a lot more money in the short run. Heck even porn stars go into escort to make the big bucks.

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