I think assholes come in all shapes and sizes and wallets
Within every bunch of gorgeous Roses 🌹 there is always a little prick or two

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Mariposa, you don't have to explain your prices, that's your business love. My prices start from 30 for a quickie so I get lots of blue collar types and most are squeaky clean. Some of the dirtiest people I've met have been the rich set, city boy tpes etc so pricing has no bearing on this. I used to put up with a lot when I started as I needed the money but I just got to a point where enough is enough. That tipping point. I insist on showers, proper ones, before the booking.
Oh the worst was them refusing a shower before but having one after. Oh you have to wash my smell off?!

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I think in this line of work, you do need to be assertive full stop to protect yourself not only from smelly clients but from boundary pushers.
Of course we try and avoid confrontation, however, this shouldn't be a green light for people to take the piss out of us. There are ways of being assertive without putting yourself at risk. I would suggest to anyone who finds this difficult to look locally and see if there are any assertiveness courses.

OP you are definitely not alone! And it’s good you came on here to discuss it, at least it’s out of your mind! I also had a similar story, it was a lovely regular client, he is old (70 if not more!) and during blowjob he asked me to pull his toy so the skin was down...after I saw some sort of “crisps” around his dick that smelt like forgotten cheese...and looked like parmesan cheese omg, good thing I retain from throwing up!  I don’t know about you but even the smell of these dirty men are still in my memory/nose?  what a life

To the OP: How would I have handled the situation?

I would have stared the guy in the eyes and tell him that I just got a call from the landlord two minutes ago, it seems the neighbours downstairs has a water leak steaming from a broken pipe in my apartment. Landlord is coming with the plumber in 5 minutes and unfortunately I need to cancel the booking and he (the client) needs to leave inmediately. As in right away. Be firm, convincing, explain how "upset" you are to not be able to see him, very apologetic and get the guy out a.s.a.p.

Sorted.

Never tell them the truth ("you're too fat", "too smelly" or "I don't fancy redheads from Limerick)" because that will hurt his ego and there's the potential for a confontation (worst case scenario: the guy can get violent). You want him OUT with zero drama and his ego intact.

Nice one

Telling them they stink is a horrible thing to have to do if they are being nice.
A regular of mine did shower every time but the stink of never washing inbetween meetings meant he stunk to badly for the smell to go.
I stopped answering his calls I could never tell him to his face.

Ladies maybe dont read on.....

I once did a showered shower, rubbed my hand up his arse crack, never do it ladies, my hand came out brown.

To the OP: How would I have handled the situation?

I would have stared the guy in the eyes and tell him that I just got a call from the landlord two minutes ago, it seems the neighbours downstairs has a water leak steaming from a broken pipe in my apartment. Landlord is coming with the plumber in 5 minutes and unfortunately I need to cancel the booking and he (the client) needs to leave inmediately. As in right away. Be firm, convincing, explain how "upset" you are to not be able to see him, very apologetic and get the guy out a.s.a.p.

Sorted.

Never tell them the truth ("you're too fat", "too smelly" or "I don't fancy redheads from Limerick)" because that will hurt his ego and there's the potential for a confontation (worst case scenario: the guy can get violent). You want him OUT with zero drama and his ego intact.

This is brilliant advice. I'm not sure I'd have the wherewithal to pull it off without obviously coming across as lying but its a good idea.

I too haven't notice prices affect whether someone is clean or not, but I do notice advance bookings are more likely to be v.clean. You know, they treat it a bit like a date, get showered and powdered up before they come. That's not to say last minute bookings are stinky because by and large they have had a shower that morning, but if its an impulse purchase if they turn down the shower at the beginning they may have a slight whiff here and there, but nothing at all intolerable. I find office guys who've worked all day in cheap fabric suits that don't breathe well can be a little less than fresh, so I always try and negotiate them into the shower. Work men like builders etc work outside away from the stink inducing central heating and in more practical clothes so they actually tend to be fresher I find, despite having a more physical job.

If someone really pongs, and has a dirty, cheesy penis getting them in the shower might not help, as they clearly don't know how to wash themselves and/or have very low self respect and they'll probably just splash about haplessly/lazily. If the stench is overall and 'ingrained' the half wash they'll have might even make them worse (think wet dog). My modus operandi is to keep as much distance from them as possible, pointedly wet wipe the shit off their cocks, go no-where near them with my mouth, anywhere on their body, keep a distance and use my hands mostly, then let them leave feeling sorry for themselves wondering why they've had another shit service> Which is their too fucking bad.