I'm not so sure about Phnine's suggestion about genuine relationships being more likely with SPs than with MPAs. Though a lurker on the board, I've been a hobbist in DC and Toronto for the past 8 years. In DC I started with MPs and then moved on to SPs then migrated back to MPs. I've kept in touch via e-mail with 3 MPAs I was once saw often as a regular client, 2 of whom have since left the business. They chat about their travels, current BFs, jobs, what they are doing for fun, etc (one e-mail every three or four weeks on average). They're not soliciting business - 2 of them have left MP work for good and moved on, so I have to assume here that I was a bit more than a client who they didn't think of outside the session and made fun of to other MPAs. I never kept up with any of the SPs I saw, nor did I even get contact info from them to do so. I think Sps can view clients just as clients - or not - the same as MPAs can. At the end of the day, it depends on if the MPA (or SP) clicks with you and enjoys talking to you. I'm not saying they want to date us (though I did go out a couple of times with one MPA - another topic getting off point and that is discussed a lot on massageplanet.net) as 'romantic material', but some of the MPAs do enjoy talking with us and do remember what we say to them weeks/months later. Yes, it is a fantasy business MPAs are in, and yes, a lot of them I'm sure are thinking of something else during the session, or building client relations for desired future visits, but I guess once they leave the biz and don't want business, if they still keep up the 'aquaintanceship' then we aren't always losers in their eyes. Often, yes, always, no.
Some MPAs I visit I don't click with or talk to - it is just a fun fantasy - so the conversation and humanizing of the 'business relationship' takes two to tango. In Sales in my DC job some work clients (men and women) I was business only with and didn't like at all, some I talked to casually but didn't keep up with, and some I exchanged info with and we get together for a meal when I'm in town (or vice versa) and we e-mail each other about work, news of the world, etc. This can happen with MPAs too (or SPs, though not in my case), if you want it and she wants it.
Some guys want to be on friendly terms with theit MPAs; some guys don't. Some MPAs only chat with some clients because its a job, some enjoy talking to them. Each MPA is different just like every girl you might meet in a bar is different.
My two cents worth...