Escorts & prostitutes losing business

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Posting for traffic as I have a weird sense of curiosity. Has anyone wondered what is happening to people who have made the above, er, career choice? Does this mean the market will dry up?

I guess people will have to make do with whatever they can get without the international supply chains. So prescription drugs and weed mostly? Be more expensive though as even then supplies will be limited and risks/stakes higher. I hope someone's looking after the Holbeck women. They've had all of this positive sex worker shit thrown at them for years while they struggled to survive at all and now suddenly they're not even being nominally "managed". It's an utter shambles.

If the men who use these services aren't worried about contracting HIV etc then why on earth would they be worried about Covid? They're risking their lives every time they use escorts etc regardless of if there's a pandemic or not!

And her life

It's much more dangerous for the women selling than the men paying

I may be being a tad, ahem judgemental, but I have a feeling that the predatory lowlifes who visit prostitutes don't care about social distancing.

@WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo

Surely a lack of drugs on the street is a good thing overall??

They are all closed in Australia

@PolPotNoodle how £500k. Is she charging £1k an hour?

@Butterfly98 why would they have HIV?

My heart breaks for them. I've been thinking a lot about the vulnerable, under the current circumstances. Prostitutes, women and children stuck at home with abusive men, the homeless.
It's desperately sad.

@ManchesterChidless sorry but isn't it obvious why someone who works as a prostitute has a high risk of being HIV positive as well as carrying other dangerous diseases?

Not really. The idea that prostitutes are diseased (and ignoring the men in the equation who will be seeing multiple women) feels s bit out of line!

(Surely a lack of drugs on the street is a good thing overall??)
Not for people who are addicted to drugs...

I should think so.

The brothel in the flat below me is doing a roaring trade at the moment.

Given that vulnerable women continued in prostitution when Peter Sutcliffe was killing women, I doubt the virus will make any difference at all to the most vulnerable. And it won't make any difference to the men who use these women either.

@BeetrootRocks It is not having sex with men for money that makes you "diseased". But anyone at the moment having physical contact with lots of people does have a high chance of both contracting and passing on corona.

Here in Australia a massage parlour that remained open was fined $5000 for it. It’s not an essential service so should be closed.

I know there has been a project set up to support vulnerable woman selling sex in Scotland providing practical support. I don't know if there are similar projects around the rest of the UK.

The women I worry the most for are those who are trafficked and basically held prisoner. I doubt whether the men controlling them will be looking after their welfare.

Butterfly98:

@ManchesterChidless sorry but isn't it obvious why someone who works as a prostitute has a high risk of being HIV positive as well as carrying other dangerous diseases?
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Not nowadays. Prostitutes are far safer than other people who may have chance encounters - their livelihood depends on them being free from disease and they are generally very careful.

My accountancy practice specialise in finances for adult industry trades including a lot of escorts. They are all self employed and so do qualify for the support packages. We are unaware of any who are working currently as we have understandably been inundated with enquiries. Contrary to pp there is huge demand for cam work through american based sites which are undoubtedly the biggest platforms and most lucrative. With people staying at home these are popular!
Fortunately the majority of our clients have now managed to put good planning and saving strategies in place, of course many others wont have done, especially the many operating under HMRCs radar. These will be the ones who struggle now

@Oaksandashes
I didnt RTFT. But would like to add my support.

Also working in the adult industry from a financial perspective I am ery shocked and actually quite disgusted by the outdated, narrow minded views of many of the poster on here. Thry have no actual insight into how escorting works in the current world or why the majority of people, male and female, choose to do it, instead sticking to a small number of publicised as the result of a few terrible events out of the billions of transactions which take place daily.

To the pearl clothing posters, the chances of meeting a Peter sutcliffe are minuscule compared to catching covid/19. Covid is everywhere.hiw many people are dying every day from the disease in the UK? How many prostitutes been murdered over the past year for they will most certainly have been publicised? Compare the chances not all escortsxare young girls. We encounter a surprising number of ladies over the age of 60.
Every one of our clients pays for private STD checks, we see it in their receipts.we have very close relationships,and through general conversations I know so many point blank refuse bookings for clients demand ending bareback sex as they dont take risks.people arent stupid.

Facts not fantasty are perhaps more relevant.

@Butterfly98 no tell me.
Also let’s be frank, the only way they are getting diseases is because married men or those in relationships want bareback sex

Another poster determined to tell women who are concerned about the really vulnerable women out there that everything is fine, don't worry, don't even think about it, don't talk about it.

Oh, and uses pearl clutches too. Right.

@Burnbabyburn1

Also let’s be frank, the only way they are getting diseases is because married men or those in relationships want bareback sex

Not single men, or widowed men?
Why only men in relationships?

@Imcneil003 but women don’t care about those meh as they aren’t ducking them

@ Santaclauswhosthat there isn't always a clear distinction between indoor and outdoor prostitutes, with lots of women drifting between the two categories.

Not true I am afraid. While there is occasional movement between street work and indoors here pgs 15,35 it is rare-most of the movement is within a sector (so sauna or brothel or agency to independent-so the movement is indoor to indoors) pg 85 &
table12 & p3 & here table1

women working indoors use illegal narcotics although mostly benzos and weed rather than the expensive ones but those cited papers show-as do many others that overwhelmingly hard (and injectable) drug use is more of a problem in the street sector.

What needs to be appreciated is that prostitution is not homogeneous there are a wide spectrum of experiences-but the clearest distinction is between working the streets and indoors.

I don't think it's helpful to try and make out that there's loads of safe happy non using prostitutes willingly choosing to do what they do in brothels while the only women having a hard time are street prostitutes, in the absence of a truly representative sampling of those in prostitution (which is probably impossible) one cannot say what proportion are safe and happy or what proportion are having a shit time. If not loads there are certainly many who are reasonably content see here, here , here.

The frequently made claim that no prostitute or only a “tiny minority” are content is patently untrue