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Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Her experience is not a good indicator or whether it should be legal or not . She is an exception even as an escort, and also high end escort work she describes here is very very different from the run on the mill prostitution. Her strategy of avoiding trouble by keeping price higher even if lower frequency engagements may not be feasible for many, they may be unable to get clients at higher price points and like any…

The question of whether it's good and wholesome is orthogonal to the question of whether society should punish those who do it. Scenario A: Resourceful, successful, happy. Should she be forced to accept dangerous working conditions and live under the constant threat of eviction, imprisonment, harassment and stigma? Why? What's the argument in favor of making her life difficult? Scenario B: Physical or mental disabili…

Scenario B workers under legalization will lose their jobs/income.

Marginalized workers in the cannabis industry got pushed out when Canada legalized cannabis.

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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> You might carry away feelings of disgust, shame, or hatred. Not everyone feels like this, but if you do, I would not recommend escorting Just like mental fatigue (term meant as a catch all) is an integral and non separable part of IT work, the feelings described in the quote are not optional for sex workers! You WILL get burned by all the downsides of escorting, it WILL change how you perceive yourself, it WILL aff…

Yes and no.

Sex work usually is tied to more Cluster B personality disorders, from my experience. But then, plenty of people I've dated (who hadn't ever done sex work) have the same issues.

I'm aware that the demographics that I have experience dating tend to skew high towards mental issues (I'm interested in more drug positive people, among other confounding factors which tend to attract people with preexisting mental issues). A lot of the factors aren't exclusive towards sex work, though- simply having an instagram account with 10K+ followers tend to signal a big difference in behavior, for example.

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It strikes me somewhat oddly that one might pay so much for something that literally half the people on this planet is equipped to provide You're paying for looks, ease, simplicity, no strings, and so on... I get it. But idunno, that is a lot of money for one nut. Also suprised the San Diego price is so high, when there is a red light district literally on the border in Tijuana, and those girls charge $60-$100/hr US…

Equipped to provide does not imply willing to provide.

Indeed, everyone has a kidney, very few are will to provide it.

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I posted a similar article by the same author a couple of years ago called "An Overly Analytical Guide to Camgirling" but it got flagged to death https://knowingless.com/2018/11/19/maximizing-your-slut-impa...

HN is a fickle beast. My guess is that this post was marked by moderators manually to ignore flags.

That's a pretty big assumption, what makes you think that?

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92/415 is a lot!

Wow you should just plan to be robbed

It is probably a similar rate to what happens at a las vegas strip club. They get you drunk then ask for your credit card and put 5k on it.

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It would be nice if we could just regulate this industry to protect the people in it and start the work of reducing the stigma. Similar to abortion, people are going to do it whether or not it's legal. It will never have an "end". It's one of the oldest professions in human history. I do not understand why people fight this battle. The number of hoops these people jump through only to be eventually assaulted and robb…

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That's quite impressing with its sophistication. I'm from post-Communist country and talking with my former (female, heterosexual) dates from the same country, guys from Anglosphere countries get sex with them relatively easy and free of charge - because of curiosity and cultural inferiority well preserved by your show business. These are regular attractive girls and women which later on have families, children, and…

> you guys just want an absolute monopoly on sex because your fellow (female) nationals choose to have sex with Americans? Is America responsible for these choices? Are "unaware partners" getting just porn? Should women not get to choose who they have sex with before marriage?

There exist dominating languages in western culture - English, Spanish, French, German, and native speakers are getting comparatively easy pass. English has the magnifying factor of mostly American movie and music industries. I mean more the ruthless evolutional and statistical factors - no American, Spanish, French, German lady comes over here looking for romance, marriage, or sex. I might relocate there but starting my life from scratch, I will not be attractive in comparison with more established guys. For a lady starting from the scratch is not much a hinderance, she will find a patron of some kind. So there is natural migration of people and people are free to make their romantic choices, but this migration is very unidirectional and causing significant frustrations among a spectrum of demographics.

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I actually read the entire thing. It was worth it imo. Some stand outs were her kind words about her clients (almost strange to see men as a class described with such positive words). She is clearly a very rational and intelligent person and this is a business to her like any other. Yeah I really don’t get why this stuff is illegal, even though I have no interest myself.

Her experience is not a good indicator or whether it should be legal or not . She is an exception even as an escort, and also high end escort work she describes here is very very different from the run on the mill prostitution. Her strategy of avoiding trouble by keeping price higher even if lower frequency engagements may not be feasible for many, they may be unable to get clients at higher price points and like any…

> like any biz pressure to generate revenue is immense.

Whenever I think about consumer electronics, I think they are turning into status symbols more than tools providing utility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

Re: Overly analytical guide to escorting

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you guys just want an absolute monopoly on sex because your fellow (female) nationals choose to have sex with Americans? Is America responsible for these choices? Are "unaware partners" getting just porn? Should women not get to choose who they have sex with before marriage?

There exist dominating languages in western culture - English, Spanish, French, German, and native speakers are getting comparatively easy pass. English has the magnifying factor of mostly American movie and music industries. I mean more the ruthless evolutional and statistical factors - no American, Spanish, French, German lady comes over here looking for romance, marriage, or sex. I might relocate there but startin…

And why are native women choosing foreign men over native men? Purely the result of "American movie and music industries"?
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