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Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by bollu » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:45 AM UTC

hzay wrote: post #163

pizza234 wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The legality is addressed in the article: > You can in fact get issued an escort license in some cities (e.g., San Francisco or Grand Chute, or Jefferson County, WA). I don’t know if this is a good idea, neither I nor anybody I know has applied for this, though I seriously considered. It’s possible it might grant you some legal protection, but also possible it might give you some legal issues, as it puts a lot of inf…

> Ultimately, in the context of the country/culture, legal protection is a progressive position, but it's not sufficient, unless complemented by a degree of anonymity. Not sure how that could work, though! Legal, non-anonymous and socially respectable escort services used to exist, you know. It existed in south india as a practice for hundreds of years before the british came.

What was it called, the practice in south india? I live there and I've never heard of this!

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by qPM9l3XJrF » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:47 AM UTC

I wonder what her motivation is in writing these guides. Also why does she still work as an escort if she's already made so much money? (Also from camming and OnlyFans)

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by qPM9l3XJrF » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:48 AM UTC

JaggerFoo wrote: post #135

She forgot to follow up on the buttcrack hair comment as promised. "(more on buttcrack hairs later)." I imagined a graph of number of missed buttcrack hairs to the amount of light allowed in a session.

Lol I was wondering if flaunting buttcrack hairs was gonna be a way to get rid of troublesome clients

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by qPM9l3XJrF » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:50 AM UTC

humpday69 wrote: post #6

"You operate a little bit like a therapist and confidante, most men do not want to f*k just a body, they want to f*k a soul."

That part was weird given that women on dating subreddits complain about how guys only want them for sex.

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by amcsi » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:51 AM UTC

bananamerica wrote: post #36

amcsi wrote: post #24

Although as a male I highly support that sex work be legal, and acknowledge it as legitimate work, I do not tend to honestly respect this type of work (besides the courage to do it and such). I find it quite unfair be able to make so much money for relatively low effort (at least it feels that way despite the downsides/dangers). But I must say that this escort is super smart and has a really good sense of business. T…

Did you read the article? There's absolutely nothing low effort about it...

I read the entire article. By making a lot of relatively low effort I mean selling something for a lot that's not a expensive items or valueable experienced labor. And like I said, before I thought this was all low effort work, and through this article I got to see the high effort business side.

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by bluecalm » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:52 AM UTC

spoonjim wrote: post #84

akudha wrote: post #15

1,200 an hour! Jeez, that is insane! good for them. Once in a while, I come across something like this and wonder, what is it like to be that rich to casually drop 1,200 an hour , for anything, let alone on escorts.

Well many people spend $12,000 a year on a hobby like travel, skiing, whatever. One escort a month is similar. Very few consume it hourly at the same volume as say Netflix.

Well, you get hundreds of hours of skiing or travelling for that 12k. Not fair to compare to once a month an hour long date.

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by hzay » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:56 AM UTC

bollu wrote: post #201

hzay wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Ultimately, in the context of the country/culture, legal protection is a progressive position, but it's not sufficient, unless complemented by a degree of anonymity. Not sure how that could work, though! Legal, non-anonymous and socially respectable escort services used to exist, you know. It existed in south india as a practice for hundreds of years before the british came.

What was it called, the practice in south india? I live there and I've never heard of this!

Devadasi system :) but it's erased history at this point and I also didn't know about it growing up. For historical sources I'd recommend Domingo Paes's book on Vijayanagara empire and Chola inscriptions in the Tanjore temple.

You can also look up Bangalore Nagarathnamma, Veena Dhanammal, Mylapore Gowri ammal, Coimbatore Thayi, Balasaraswathi, Muddupalani. Some of them have books written on them.

If you'd like more sources, plz let me know -- I'll send some book titles your way.

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by bluecalm » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 8:56 AM UTC

ArtWomb wrote: post #3

Almost none of the digital issues seem to be around transacting of cash. That part seems solved (via Cashapp or BTC). All pain points stem around one party wanting to hide their identity. While simultaneously verifying their clients' identify in great detail, down to a psych profile! An interesting non-zero sum game ;)

Yeah, I am amazed johns are ok with it. Not only paying multiple hundreds of dollars but also disclosing your identity and personal information to someone who won't? I can imagine myself taking many strange deals but this one just sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by amcsi » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:00 AM UTC

hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #32

amcsi wrote: post #24

Although as a male I highly support that sex work be legal, and acknowledge it as legitimate work, I do not tend to honestly respect this type of work (besides the courage to do it and such). I find it quite unfair be able to make so much money for relatively low effort (at least it feels that way despite the downsides/dangers). But I must say that this escort is super smart and has a really good sense of business. T…

> I find it quite unfair be able to make so much money for relatively low effort I hope you hate capitalism then. It's all about supply and demand. As a gay man with some friends who escort, their rates are much lower, both for obvious reasons (it is ridiculously easy for most gay men to find other men to have sex with) and less obvious ones (IMO there is much less of a stigma among gay men for escorting, and at leas…

It is absolutely supply and demand. I meant girl escorts when I wrote what I wrote. I find it unfair that it you're born a girl and are pretty, you have this option.

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Post by devoutsalsa » Wed, Oct 20, 2021, 9:00 AM UTC

kfprt wrote: post #188

devoutsalsa wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We all do stuff we'd rather not do for money.

Is there no limit to what you would do for money?

Of course there's a limit, but...

> If a woman is poor, struggling to survive or trying to give a child a decent life in a society and economic system that is very sink or swim, do you consider it "consent" if she agrees to have sex with you so she can pay the rent, or have a decent meal, or buy the drugs she got hooked on dealing with depression and alienation, sold to her by a predatory drug dealer?

I give my boss consent to ask me to do stuff I'd rather not do. That's why they pay me. If I didn't get paid, I certainly wouldn't be doing things like attending Scrum meetings and fixing CSS bugs.

People tend to treat sex work like it's some sort of demeaning thing that no one should have to endure. If I had to choose between 1 hour of entertaining sexually entertaining someone for $1200 or 100 hours @ $12/hour of dealing with a shit boss in a demeaning dead-end job, I choose the former. And I choose neither if I don't need the money at all.