The show 'Escorts' on Netflix is eye opening

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£500 for an hour
£500 for one of the escorts to go to a pub lunch with a client, no intercourse involved.
2 young women in their 20s, who can make 6 grand a week.
I would never do it, but when you work full time hours and they make in 1 week what I make in 3 months. Or what some people would make in 6.
Still, they claim to love it on the show but who knows what it's really like. They may get taken advantage of a lot.

Has anybody watched the show? Or know anybody that's done this?

@Vampirethriller I'm so sorry. I hope life is better for you now.

I think this kind of experience is not representative at all. What percentage of women across the world do you think have that experience? I'd guess less than 1%, and I'd guess a lot of the other experiences are filled with true heartbreak and things worse than we can imagine.

The thing is, think about it logically, women are going to have to pretend they enjoy it to be able to get clients. The same with camming, phone sex. They can't sit there and say I fucking hate this and need to do it to pay my bills. It just doesn't work like that.

For every 1 'happy hooker' 🤢, there are 1000 trafficked, pimped, vulnerable, addicted, women, taken advantage of.

The 1 happy hooker spiel, legitimises the abuse of 1000s of women.

It makes me sick.

I work in marketing and the commercial sex industry should get a fucking BAFTA for the way they've pulled the wool over the world's eyes. Da fuck is this empowering.

Patriarchy propaganda indeed.

It’s absolute bollocks that men pay for “just” dinner. I escorted myself before working on the books for an agency for several years. There are occasionally situations where men would “trial” a girl with what was called a girlfriend experience (GFE) and a couple of dates would be paid for before sex. After that it would only be sexual meets. There were a few girls that were on a retainer, I guess it would be a sugar daddy now (this was back in 2005-8) and a man would pay X per month based on X meets and the girl was to see no one else.

It’s incredibly misleading and makes me so angry whenever the whole “time and companionship only” bullshit is repeated as there are girls that actually believe it, get involved on that basis and either get an enormous shock or end up being physically hurt by a client who is expecting sex.

My ex tried to force me into adultwork as well. Just because we were skint. Was plenty of other options but I think he wanted to see himself as a mega pimp.

I’m reading Paid For by Rachel Moran who says that both the high class escort trope and the happy hooker concept are bullshit. And that there’s never anything classy about exchanging sex for money.

She writes as well that the worst, most violent and degrading sex acts happened in hotel rooms and apartments rather than the street. And that women in prostitution become astute at avoiding men with “that look” of violence but that if you’re in a room and a door closes you’re stuck.

In the chapter The Myth of the High Class Hooker she writes “I’ve walked into more hotels more times than I could count wearing sharp suits, high heels and every shade of lipstick. None of that changed what was going on in my heart or my mind and none of it made any difference to the bodily experience involved here; none of it was any practical benefit to my mouth, breasts or vagina. What was going on was the very same thing that was going on when I was lifting my skirt in a backstreet alley. The nature of prostitution does not change with its surrounds. It does not morph into something else because your arse is rubbing against white linen as opposed to roughened concrete”.

Total propaganda.

Yes if it’s so empowering, why don’t we see those in actual power doing it?

It’s like when that WAP video came out with Cardi B and people on here we’re starting threads about how empowering it was. Yes, that’s why it’s sung by two black ex strippers and not Boris Johnson and Nadine Dorries.

@Henerlo it is, thank you

This, absolutely.
And pole dancing is just a fitness activity that's also empowering.

Thank you for sharing @Vampirethriller

There's so much invested in this myth of happy, well-paid, free choice sex work. When the reality is if you removed all the women who are forced, pimped, addicted, survivors of CSA, survival sex workers, you would have to pay the remaining women a million pounds an hour because there would be so few of them. I've worked with sex workers for decades and my experience is I've never met any woman doing it who is happy. I have known one that ODed after crying on my shoulder about going out to work. I also knew one who worked while heavily pregnant to support her 'boyfriend's' habit. And the constant stories of rapes, robberies, kidnapping... The only woman who was even vaguely 'empowered' was a dominatrix who didn't have sex.

Programs like this are recruitment videos for naive young women. And you have to wonder why the fuck the MSM is so keen on them. And on employing sex offenders actually. Two sides of the same coin?

I would not watch such a show. I hope OP that the comments posted so far have made you aware of the reality of the women's lives where men pay for sex with them.

The hourly going rate for an escort is approx £130. You only need to look on adult work site to learn this. Even an ex porn star can only charge £200. Those types of programmes totally distort the facts.

A bit like all those channel five programmes about those living on benefits.

I haven't seen it but what an absolute load of bullshit.

I'm an escort and I used to work in London. I never met a single other working girl who wasn't having sex with her clients. I actually did know a woman who charged £500 an hour and of course she was shagging her clients.

You might get clients with whom the actual sex makes up a small part of the date but that's about it. I think I've had maybe two bookings in all my time working that didn't involve sex.

It's just propaganda for the sex industry. In no way does what it's saying reflect the reality of sex work.

I was an escort in 2008-2012 on and off. I made £350/hr in London and I thought I was on the higher end of the pay scale due to being British, well spoken and very young.

Never heard of anyone just paying for dinner. Sounds like bollocks. I am now in a senior corporate role and live in fear of being recognised. What is empowering is being paid to run a team and use your brain, not lying on your back whilst a sweaty married man works away.

Handsoff I’ve previously heard rumours about certain sisters working in Dubai and Yacht parties in Cannes etc. never seen any actual evidence though. Oy just seen/heard what goes kn in Dubai thanks to TikTok 🤢

Is this an advert ffs

young women get lured into escorting with the promise you are just going out to dinner then it’s who he will only want a hand job until boundaries are broken

do we glamorise make escorts as much no we do not (and shouldn’t)