The show 'Escorts' on Netflix is eye opening

[Francais223]

£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?

@Handsoffreturns its a very common rumour. I was assuming that was what you were referring to as you said it was the most degrading “shit” (bolded) you’d ever heard of. You know exactly what you were implying.

The programme is old - it first aired in 2015 and discussed here

Pure click bait tv, and the girls most certainly aren’t high class, although to be fair, now that term is largely used to denote a fee over a certain amount of money, when originally, it was used by those women who wanted to differentiate themselves from street workers. The notion of only two types of sex worker - high class and street workers is outdated, yet still the media persists on focusing these types of prostitutes.

I can see a world where it makes sense for high earned to hire a "professional" date for business events.

My friend is very much part of her DH's business deals. He does all the technical stuff and she talks about their family etc to warm them up. Not everyone can do it and it would make sense to me to hire someone who can do it well.

Whether that's what actually happens, I've no idea.

In the spirit of ‘every day’s a school day’ can you please spell out for us exactly what you were implying by the bold shit because I also understood it as what @ChangedMyNamrButStillMe said.

Ooh I wana watch this clearly in the wrong job

M’kay, shit on chest is still in the vile category and makes this ‘how dare you’ post of yours seem even wierder.

Is this not the same kind of rumour that a certain red headed former child actress who took too many drugs and fell from grace has?

I saw Escorts when it first aired a few years ago. There are some great Channel 4 (I think) documentaries available on YouTube which are much more realistic (and heartbreaking) about the realities of prostitution, drug addiction, pimps etc.

I considered watching this but decided against because I knew it would be that happy hooker propaganda shite.

The documentary series about the red light district in Leeds was very good (and very sad).

Funny how the documentaries always seem to cover the 5 star end of theindustry, and not the 1/2 star end ..... the McDonald's end, the part that you can read ad nauseum about on UK punting ..... non English, non English speaking young women trying to get out of sex acts their gang member pimps (jokingly called serghei by punters) have set up, on makeshift beds placed in kitchens in apartments (because the bedrooms are already in use by other young women in the same position).

Yes, I think that was the one I watched on YouTube.

Oh and the punters always complain about being kept waiting, cause they're not finished with their previous drive through/back to back punters.

But no, its cocktails at the Dorchester

An old friend of mine was an escort/prostitute for a while and made a shit ton.
I certainly wasn't jealous of the job but sure as hell was of the money.

Surely not all escorts are the same! You can't generalize. I have no doubt that some enjoy it. I've heard several women say it's "just a job," and better than working in Tesco. And not all men are the same. Some are creepy or ugly, others average, and some probably charming and handsome. Also, the reasons men visit sex workers vary. Some are predators, some get a kick out of degrading women, etc, but others are caring for a disabled wife or just shy and in need or guidance.

If life has taught me one lesson, it's that you shouldn't be too quick to judge. You have to understand people and the context in which they did X or Y, and so on.

Plenty of men do worse things than visit a sex worker. Men pretend to care about a vulnerable woman so they can get her into bed, for example. Or they pretend to want a relationship, again so they can have sex. To me, that seems just as bad, if not worse, than visiting a sex worker.

@Kris02

I've made you a tray of 24 muffins.

There's ground up glass in 23 of them, but one's OK.

You happy to crack on and eat the muffins?

Personally, I don't believe the 'happy hooker' myth but I'm prepared to believe other people do. So are you willing to take the chance that the sex worker you pay to have sex with you is the one 'happy hooker' in the muffin tray? Or is it more likely that the muffin you choose will have been trafficked, addicted, forced into prostitution by a pimp/partner, desperate to feed her kids? If you're happy to play those odds then fine, but you're not someone I want in my life.

Gotcha, didn’t read it properly.

@Kris02 would you be happy to have sex with "nice" men for money? Remember your job is to give them what they want, not to have mutual enjoyment.

I was an escort in my early 20's, some serious money to made and I quite enjoyed it.

I've actually thought about this work and was involved in the scene when young. The problem with the "easy money" is every time you are alone with a man who uses prostitutes you risk your life. It's all very well someone knows where you are etc. but all the time you are alone with them they have ample opportunity to murder you and it happens all the time.

I just couldn't risk it. Believe me I'm giving up actual wealth here but I would literally rather not put my life in such danger regularly, or ever. Shame.