Prostitute checked into our hotel!

What we're you doing at the reception OP? At 10.30am in the morning? Other than nosing round at others facial expression at the "prostitute" 😂😂😂😂 I find it hard to believe.

YANBU.

All this bollocks about sex work is work etc etc. and how could you tell. I wouldn’t want to stay in a building where staff allowed vulnerable women to be exploited. It would give me the ick too.

The very vast majority of sex workers are trafficked and or are drug users. It’s very naive to think the contrary. Living in Leeds with the countries first “managed” red light district it’s painfully obvious who is a prostitute.

I don’t blame the women, but i would not feel
safe sleeping somewhere where there is the type of men who use prostitutes close by, they are rapists and not to be trusted anywhere near women, especially the OPs daughter.

Obviously the OP is able to identify a prostitute.
Pay no attention to people on here OP.
Decent people go to 4 star hotels hoping to be among others of the same class.
Disgraceful.

Unless she was having sex in reception YABU. And you, the receptionist and the man behind you absolutely didn't know why she was there.
So judgemental and if that was why she was there you could try feeling so empathy. I doubt being a sex worker was her first career choice.
And so what if it's family friendly, does that mean no one can have sex in their own room?

I think you are being unreasonable. Whatever she is doing it's got nothing to do with you. It's not happening in your room. Mind your own business and get on with your life.

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She is minding the business that pays her, might be useful for you to do the same.

One of my friends at university got kerb crawled and asked how much she charged by a bloke one afternoon - she was wearing a duffle coat and carrying a bag of food shopping.

(Wave to EW if you're on here!)

You saw a woman check into a hotel. I'm sure the kids are going to be scarred for life.

I think the implication was that it was a backhander.

Thinking about it I knew an ‘escort.’
She wore pretty normal clothes and was quite ordinary looking. She did look like she fake tanned and she had bleached hair but that accounts for many, many women the same age as she was.
When I say ordinary I mean you would not do a double take and think that woman is a prostitute.
I also know if 3 women who work on OF as sex workers ( or whatever the correct term is.)
2 are quite young. One was doing it from at least age 18 possibly before.
Again she is ‘ordinary’ in the fact that you would not think she is a sex worker. She is very thin and has the typical long hair and fake boobs.
The other 2 are quite individual looking. Think heavy make up and jet black hair.

When I have been in very dodgy red light areas the prostituted women do have a very stereotypical look. Bare legs, short skirt, high heels, low cut top, smoking.
It’s all very sad and the punters make me sick.

They are unlikely to be paying in cash.

But day use hotel rooms is a thing. It’s a good way for hotels to make more revenue on rooms where lots of people check out pre 9am and check in post 6pm. Plenty of legitimate reasons for it.

More likely to be someone having an affair than a sex worker. Wanting to avoid the hotel appearing on their bank statement.

What exactly made you feel 'icky', a cash paying customer paying for the use of a room and a receptionist checking her in? You have no idea of what she wanted to use the room for, nor what any of the other residents staying were using their rooms for. Why did this affect your 10 year old child?

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So what if shes a sex worker how exactly is that impacting you and your family. It happens everywhere in all manner of hotels 4 star or otherwise!

A job or work is something you can do in front of others and all and anyone can be told what you do. The fact that you cannot, is the difference. Same with clients, why don’t they announce their visits to their family? it’s normally shameful and a secret.

This is so ridiculous. How very dare a scantily clad woman be present in the same vicinity as-shock horror- a family!

You sound like an absolute prude, prostitution occurs everywhere and you have no real evidence that this woman even was anything of the sort! Your husband didn't care and said they have to work somewhere, there is every chance he is a secret prostitute user himself, how else do you think it's the oldest profession?

If this poor woman is in fact a sex worker, would you rather she stood on a street corner and got into anonymous cars? If she is a sex worker, working in a public place is so much safer and it's great she is doing so.

Pearl clutching does come to mind, I bet you are a joy to go on holiday with.

Does "prostitution" not cover those?

By the way, almost all buyers of sex/sex-adjacent services (cams, stripping, porn) are male.

Guess what - I’ve had sex in a hotel room before!!! And it was a family friendly one!

Get a grip!

You DO NOT know why she was at the hotel and why has it got anything to do with you.

Everyone in those rooms are strangers so what is the difference?

And with regards to ‘Family friendly’
What has that got to do with anything?
It is no different to two people meeting in a bar and going back to the room for sex

Or are you just annoyed because she paid a cheaper price for the room?

And ‘icky’ ? Really?

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I'm pretty sure I dressed like I was 'obviously a prostitute' in my twenties. She could have been doing a photoshoot? Meeting an affair partner as a pp said? Doing webcam work and can't do it at home because of distractions/children? Sleeping after a long flight?

She had a mattress strapped to her back and wore a crash helmet with a till on top. Obvious really !!

Only by some people. I never say sex worker as it sanitises the reality that for most women there is an element of coercion and in very many cases the women have been forced into various forms of modern slavery & are controlled by pimps. Its not the 'normal' job that 'sex worker' cosily implies. Many women, & the people who work with them call them prostituted women.

*Lady of the morning.

I agree. Its being made pretty by calling it an industry. I was struck by posters saying that there were queues of men outside the door. Some of those men are someone’s dh. It should all be banned and enforced . Let men have affairs if they want to cheat. At least they need to have some kind of good features about them to find someone to do it with, instead of paying for access with a click. Why should a trafficked or even non traffic young woman have to go with some sleazy old or young guy.? For money? Come on it’s not a century ago. There is other work, it’s not sell sex or starve anymore in this country.