All: I really seriously, genuinely appreciate everyone's feedback. This has helped me a lot. Especially JAMESCORK, dave028, BillyGreenbush, LetsDoThis, LuckyLu, zilch, Amindimood55, MidlifeCrisis and a few others (as you can probably tell, I'm so green that I haven't figured out where the 'thank you' button is yet lol)
I think I've realised I do want to do this (again, I respect everyone's advice, even when it's telling me to not do this, we're all on different paths, in different situations here) but I just don't think I have the bottle to do it the normal way on the first time out.
I'm thinking that I'll stay in a hotel some night and ring someone to do an outcall to my room and this will be my way of easing myself into it/dipping my toe in, in a way that's less nerve wrecking for me (I am actually a bag of nerves just reading the (helpful!) feedback from the guys saying they were nervous trying to find the places on their first time.
Would anyone be so kind as to private message me what they think would be a good option for a hotel in the city centre of Dublin? (I'm guessing it's not so appropriate to name hotels right here in this thread). I'm sure you're way ahead of me on this but I'm obviously thinking of hotels which are the type where there's going to be plenty of girls nearby who will be happy to do an outcall there AND a place where there won't be much drama for her getting from the street up to the door of my room (e.g. not a place where you need a keycard to use the lift and that type of thing).
I'll stop annoying you guys with questions after this I promise
but again I really thank you all, you guys are amazingly friendly and welcoming. Hopefully I'll be reporting back soon, saying that I was getting worked up over nothing