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That was an excellent dipiction of reality. When reading this story, i was very intune, and totally agree with every point behind it. The story was written very well on top of that, with excellent imagery. I could agree any more.........
--MJS
02/09
I thought you would like this... Love, Checka
--FMH
01/29
Very illucidating, Geoff. Your Burning Man neighbor, "fiend" (Carson)
--fie
01/05
Loved it.
--A
12/30
Loved this article.This completely captures the feeling of being in a luxury hotel,anonymous,bland and totally liberating.I have often dreamed of living in a hotel, and I thank Mr Dyer for articulating the reasons why that dream is so appealing.
--AR
12/18
The expectations are high from all walks of life. Some views are different then others, here is a unique perspective. Enjoy
---svp
12/18
A Four Star hotel is one of my vices. Once experienced, it's very difficult to go back. It's a slippery slope: Motel 6 to Holiday Inn to Hilton to Four Seasons. As one ages, travel becomes less adventurous, more stressful. If you are fortunate enough to have the resources, great hotels skillfully provide protection while stroking one's ego. The doorman is like a trusted friend. Room service is addictive. If you plan to travel on the cheap, which can be great fun, do it while you're young. You can't go back and I wouldn't even try.
--VV
12/07
I enjoyed your description of a hotel room, because unlike the cheaper places vomit, urine, dark body waste, and comments of pleasure from indulgence from encasement in the unsanitary; is not heard from the neighbors in an expensive place. Also the scrubdown and disipline of the submissive does not need to be percieved with clarity, when payment for the privacy of a hotel is made which is why I enjoyed your article abut this needed expense. Morning disipline of neighbors causes a screaming which cuts a hangover while allowing loss of the stomach and other waste products in a heavy drinker, which is why I stay sober. Please continue writing about the benefits of tasteful social interactions, because I know from cheap places how things can become tasteless. Also the liability level being changed by increased privicy is a statement which I agree with.
--B.EP
12/06
This is an issue I have not understood for years and it is great to hear this in a more open forum. I really do not understand why I feel compelled to look at porn when I travel, as I do not do this very much outside of hotel rooms. Suspect it has comething to do with the loneliness and open space quality of it. Problem is that the porn does not help - it perpetuates a speedy state of mind and increases isolation.
--HR
12/04
I was thoroughly delighted by Four Stars. I lost my virginity in a Four Star hotel to a man I had just met, and who had a girlfriend. In the night when I discovered the ruby red blood in the ultra-white bathroom, hotel rooms took on a powerful eroticism. Recently I was in Amsterdam for my 25th birthday. I got stoned, which brought my arousal to the point of agony, and found in the phone book an agency that would rent me a boy. Since I was travelling with my family, I rented a room in the Swisshotel, the ultimate in clean, erotic meeting places. The combination of the luxury room, the plush bed, the softly pulsating music from Dam Square, and the extraordinary skills of Half-Dutch Half-Swedish Oleg gave me an experience no cheap hotel could ever dream of provding.
--VP
12/04
is it hot in here? :)
--wm
12/04
I don't have to travel much, and when I do, I am usually with both my wife and kids...which does rob hotel rooms of a certain quality. Recently, I had trips alone to nicer hotels in both Denver and Anaheim and felt some of the feelings that the author describes (no big fluffy robes though...they weren't quite that expensive). I always find that masturbation is inevitable in hotel rooms and on these trips, there was a strong desire to pay the seven bucks and watch porn...but I didn't give in. I do find that sex with my wife in hotel rooms is usually great, the isolating quality is a turn-on. Go figure. Good article.
--JES
12/03
What a unique and interesting way of looking at hotels! I may never be able to look at them in the same way! Admittedly, I see many of these qualities and hadn't really thought about it until now.
--nch
12/03
Clearly the utter sexiness of the fine hotel cannot be denied. It's too perfect, too luxurious, too out of the normal bounds to be anything but an enabler to our more pronounced sexual fantasies. The fine hotel, it's impeccable bedding, the soft carpet, the couch, the cozy bedroom are definately affrodisiacs. I think though our author may be a bit of fop. The flip side is the undeniable sexiness of the cheap motel. Not all great sex is operatic in nature. There is much pleasure to be had in the grittier, dirtier couplings which take place in the cheap motel.
--MM
12/03


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