[Tsuwabuki]

My gripe was with your "no self-respecting man" comment. I found it not a bit sexist, and uncalled for.

As I said, if it were me, I would have asked a lot more questions. Online personal ads or not (which are not always, but frequently are, dating ads), this woman clearly broadcast that she wanted something. I would have treated it like a business relationship until explicitly told otherwise.

In the case I mentioned in Korea, it took me to clarify that this was business, not pleasure, and that we were looking for legal ways to recompense me for my services. From an outside standpoint it may have looked like we were dating. We weren't.

OP should have made it clear which one it was.