Prostitute checked into our hotel!

[GrumpyL]

Ok, so away in London for a couple of days with DH and DD (10). We were staying in a 4* Hotel which is part of a large chain of hotels, not a small independent. We went to reception about 10.30 on the 2nd morning and was met with a lady (who was very obviously a prostitute) being told her room would be ready in 5 mins and her handing over £100 in cash to the receptionist. The hotel is £250+ a night and check in is 3pm!

AIBU to this this made the hotel feel a bit icky and sleazy after I saw that? Husband and I spoke briefly when DD wasn’t listening and he said “well they have to work somewhere!”. Not sure if I’m turning into a prude in my old age, but I really didn’t feel comfortable in the hotel after I saw that. I’m sure for her, it was a safe and comfortable place to work and I know this goes on in hotels, I suppose just seeing it in broad daylight shocked me a bit. We knew what she was there for, the receptionist knew what she was there for, the man behind us in the queue knew what she was there for, maybe I thought she and the hotel should have been a bit more discreet if they allow this to go on in their hotel, especially when it’s a family friendly hotel and there were a lot of children around?

I thought the school holidays were last week... Shouldn't you be in lessons, OP?

It's Saturday.

Here is a conclusion. Please feel free to jump to it.

Bloody hell. I you really this Naive?

What a load of crap you talk OP

I reckon your husband was fuming she was already booked up.

Must remember to never pay in ten pounds notes....

It does, and I've posted this already. Sex workers also use the term themselves (as well as having no complaints about 'prostitute'), but what would they know, obviously?

Since I see the Nordic nutters have arrived, I'll be off.

There's loads of legitimate daytime uses for hotel rooms. The crews on the overnight trains from London to Scotland use them to sleep during the day.

Bit judgy that.

Bye

Cash? Just be an affair then. Doesn't want their partner knowing about it.

I'm only aware of meeting two or three prostitutes in my life, in each case, their job was their choice and I can only assume that their income trounced the other livelihoods that I felt they could have comfortably earned six-figure salaries for.
It maybe ugly, degrading and dehumanising, but so are many heavy, physically demanding jobs that leave you with a broken body, long before any state pension is payable.

Clutching pearls or being paid to pull them out of a middle-aged businessman’s arse?

You are the prostitute and I claim
my five shillings!

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.

*Lady of the morning.

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.

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

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?

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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?

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

Does "prostitution" not cover those?

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

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.

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.

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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!

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?