I must admit that when I first discovered CL, I had a blast and met a lot of great young attractive woman. But there are certainly some downsides I've discovered. One woman threatened to tell my wife about my activities (although I was more annoyed than worried because she didn't know enough about me to carry this threat out), and the general spam is absolutely rediculous. Regarding the escorts I've mostly seen non pro's but one had to find away to filter out the good from the bad. Also there are a few posters who absolutely hate perb (probably with good reason, they were exposed) and basically whoever they want cause they are anonymous. This is very annoying.
Overall, it I'm up on my reading, Julia and many others are generally satisfied with the business they get on CL so I guess this is the price to be paid. As for me personally, I think I'm going to stop going there for awhile as I basically found what I wanted and I don't enjoy it anymore.