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Reasons never to go into prostitution, the horrors of it and UKpunting Rant.

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Snowdust · 21/09/2022 16:14

I have seen many posts talking about working as a escort or sex worker and some of them being in a positive light and some women doing this while married or having a partner.

Well i wanted to write this not just as a rant for myself and to get it off my chest but to let other's know who might consider doing it that there is not that many positives to it. Quite a long detailed post but a necessary one.

I first started doing it 12 years ago and since i have come back the last 2 years i dont want to go into details of exact reasons of why i did it but i had my reasons. I want to give a honest account and hope not to be judged. People in my private life would never guess i do this i am not a typical stereotype nor do i have any addictions or have a husband or partner leeching off me. It was my decision and not taken lightly but there was reasons why i needed money this way.


When i first started it there was more money to earn and yes i earnt a good living for a while and put money away but it did come with it's problems and dealing with some nasty men is one of them. I am a private person and do this in secret only a few trusted people know the rest do not.

Since being back on a short term basis it has definately become much much tougher to bare. I work independently from adultwork website and work from hotels or apartments. Some days you earn ok other days not so good. The market is over run with many sex workers and you are played against each other by the men.

The men that book us there is probably only around 10 to 15% of what i would call decent men. When i say decent i mean ones that do not smell like a sewer or demand to do anything they want and get as much in the time as there minutes give them.

There is so many women now offering unprotected services not just oral but even bareback, some of these women will do anything like Rimming, letting men film them, letting men face choke them and swallowing lots of mens fluids and so on and this seems to be popular and what a lot of men want. Some prices are so cheap at 40 or 50 pounds for these 15 minute quickies, it's just awful. So much desperation out there.

I try to make my profile look not as sexually graphic and i do not offer a lot of these things required but even then you still get men trying it on and getting pissed off if you do not do exactly what they want. They seem to have this mind set if one woman has done something more full throttle or hardcore that we all should otherwise we are ripping them off.

Before you even get a client in the door you have to screen the many phone calls and texts. So many of these calls are not even paying clients, probably only about 40% of men calling are actual clients that visit women and pay the rest they are men that just get off on pretending they will book and want to talk dirty. You even have the nutters with anger issues that phone up wanting to start a argument so they can call you nasty names and threaten you. A lot of women will use safety apps to screen men who have many reports against them for either time wasting, no show bookings and pretending to be outside your road but there not even there they just get off on wasting your time. Then you have the dangerous reports where they have robbed women and attacked them, the ones that paid and tried to blackmail you after for a refund saying they will inform hotel after they had what they had off you, men that try removing the condom when having sex with you, men paying with a banking scam app where you do not even get paid, men that walk out on many women and insult you or pretend they left money in there car (a sick fetish where they have no intention to pay but get off on seeing a sex worker) and the horrible men from UK punting who use that site to harrass and blackmail for a better service. ( more about them at the end)

Then when you do get a client you hope he will be pleasant and at least not smell like the local sewer and pay up.


Now lets do percentages on clients.

Clean men who do not smell from there mouth, penis, bum, body. (After a shower)
20% i would say if that. Some men have no understanding that heavy breathing halitosis all over you is not in with the price or leaving skid marks on your towels and bedding then down below smelling of dried urine. There is not much embarrassment when you pull them up on it. A sorry that is not very genuine is what you get or just a Oh never realised.

Nice pleasant men who just want a nice time and respect that although they have paid they are not there to use you like a blow up doll and take advantage. I would say 15% possibly. I cannot say all men that visit are horrible vile people there is a few nice ones in there that treat you like a human but they are rare which is the sad point about this.

Married men that have zero respect for you and there wife. 80%. Yes you heard right. I don't like to see married men especially the type that boast about seeing lots of sex workers even hundreds and expect oral without a condom and even try to rub there bare penis on your lady bits and when you tell them not to they think you are ruining there fun and pull faces or keep asking. These are some of the married men that openly tell you they get regular sex with there wife but they want variety all the time some of these men have over 200 feedbacks on adultwork. They have no shame telling me all this as they must think i am just fine with this because what i do. No i take your money but think you are pond life for your lack of respect for your wife and women in general.

Horrible men that want to treat you like a submissive porn star even though that is not your advert. 50% i would say. Many when turned on change personality can even become spiteful gripping very hard, shoving your head down as hard as possible, pulling you around like a rag doll leaving finger bruises. When you tell some they might stop but you have killed the moment as they start going soft. What does that tell you? You also need to be on your guard that they will not try to stealth you because that does happen and when finished make sure you do not leave the client to get dressed while you are in bathroom as some will search for the money to take back.


Health risks. Well what can i say the more men you see the more risk some will have of catching STI's. Luckily i have not caught anything so far but i do not do so many of the risky sex acts but i know many women that have caught infections.

Now the dreaded UKpunting men. These lot are the worst of the worst not only no respect for sex workers but there whole intention is mostly abusing women and writing detailed reviews of a very private session all to make them feel good about themselves and the alpha male in charge. Lets make it clear this is not just any review site. It really is set up to take a lot from women and pay as little as possible. Normal review sites do not call women Cs or greedy bitches or low life whores because we dare charge them or put our prices up by £10, these lot do.

The men on there know exactly why most women do not want men from there booking them because a lot are dangerous they have form for blackmailing, harassing, stalking women and writing lies because a sex worker does not want to get face choked or have to french kiss them because they smell so bad and are so repulsive. They have also wrote personal details on the forum that has outed womens true identity. The previous owner used to have a thread aimed at getting verification photos taken from adultwork by accident of womens faces that were supposed to be hidden from the public but Adultwork had leaked that info by accident and UKpunting had software ready to grab these photos. Some women had contacted the owner at UK punting telling him to please remove my face photo as it was outed by accident on Adultwork and his response was no take me to court.

Ukpunting even had a thread on our safety app tools and telling dangerous clients how to get away with not showing up on it putting us in extra danger and so many on there have bad reports.


The website is really just there to fuel these mens ego's and fantasies by writing detailed reviews of what they do to us. They purposely try to disguise themselves by chaging times and dates because deep down they know they are predators. The most hypocritical thing is they expect discretion when it comes to them but they have no problem discussing every detail of what was said in the booking giving away personal info on general chit chst and discussing the slight bit of cellulite they might have seen or your body parts were not perfect enough.

If any man that stays on that site long enough it becomes obvious the majority of reviews and discussions are men that clearly are there to take advantage of us as much as possible. Decent men do not stay on that site and post reviews that cause us harm and danger they would leave. So these men are all guilty and as far as i am concerened they are happy to make our job harder and put us in bad situations. There is thousands of men on there and a lot married. They even come up with posts on how to get away with hiding it from there wives. I had one client once that told me his wife caught him and he swore on kids lives he would never do it again he told me he was back doing it again 6 weeks after this time using secretive sim and punting phone and planning his time visiting a lady by pretending to be working late and taken up a gym membership. These men have become too entitled and are only satisfied if the woman is literally selling her soul and giving the best performance of her life. Women are marked down if they have not taken enough inches down there throat or there eyes are not watering or there not gagging, this is how sick the website is and the men reviewing a lot of the time are some of the most repulsive to look at but there the least grateful, how does that even happen?

More alarming is the UKP men that do find a little young " hottie" age 18, 19, 0r 20 years of age that takes a great face f
**g and throat pie as they call it the sad old men queue up to punt and review her, she gets quite busy all comparing notes and then she gives a few a STI infection there is hints mentioned it is her but within a few days that is old gossip they are all still all back there booking her and knowing she has a drug problem too, she is very unreliable keeps men waiting ages and her house is a dump but as long as they get there needs met they don't care and a lot of these are married. They knowingly take advantage of the fact she has a drug problem. This is the great UKpunting at there very best. They do not care if young girls have drug problems or are being pimped as long as what they pay gets them a dirty session that is all they care about. So many are just out right perverts 60 and 70 year old men booking 18 to 20 year old young women and never satisfied unless she delivers a oscar worthy performance.

With new laws data/right to be forgotten the online bill i have a feeling UKPunting could be in trouble at some point as there abuse of women is causing harm to so many.


I am making plans to leave the business and i cannot recommend this to anybody thinking of doing it. The only women it might suit are women that already like swinging, dogging and enjoy risky sex with strangers and will enjoy getting paid for something they already do.

The positives side of it that i will add are working when you want to and the hours you want, making more then minimum wage and coming across the small percentage of men that smell nice, behave nice and maybe that bring you a nice gift like chocolates, flowers, perfume or even tip you but this is rare i might add.

What i might add some sex workers do not do themselves or women any favours by writing such degrading filth on there advertising details of how graphic they will get on a booking and posting photos of there whole naked body parts fully exposed and photos and short clips of them taking a throat f Some of these older women have teenage kids and all there faces on show for the world to see. I feel deeply sorry for there kids as a parent exposing themselves in such a degrading way. If these women suddenly cannot do sex work anymore they have there face and body parts out there forever. Who would want to give these women a job in the real world if they know or find out about what they have done. Do they care if there kids get bullied or everybody finds out what there mum does? Obviously not.

There is women that work and there hubby is very cool with it, they say he is just open minded and knows it is only a job and he lets me make my own choices and very supportive. What they do not tell you some of these men do not work or only work part time and are sitting on there arses waiting for the money roll in while they play Russian roulette on what stranger might attack you or catching infections.


I Hope this post will help some women to decide if they really need or want to do this for money this is the reality of it.

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LuckyLil · 21/09/2022 16:16

Pardon?

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vodkaredbullgirl · 21/09/2022 16:18
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VladmirsPoutine · 21/09/2022 16:21

I didn't make it through the whole post but are you leaving the industry? Is this thread for women considering it? Whatever someone thinks of sex work my view is it's always better to have access to as much information about it as possible. That men are exploiting women who do this kind of work is a given.

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REP22 · 21/09/2022 16:21

Thanks for that.

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TakeMeToYourLiar · 21/09/2022 16:23

I’m sorry you’ve had such horrible experiences. I hope you find a better way to make money for you

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EverydayMusing · 21/09/2022 16:24

Thank you for sharing this. I always worry about how sex work is made to look simple & with the cost of living problems in this country, I worth about how it is sometimes glamourised. It was very brave of you to share this information, and I hope it helps to inform women who might be thinking of doing this work.

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Maëlys · 21/09/2022 16:27

My heart goes out to you. It’s over a decade since I stopped ‘working’ and I shuddered reading your descriptions as it’s all exactly as i remember. The only thing I didn’t experience was men wanting to choke me, that must be a new development. I hope you manage to get out soon and to heal xx

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HickoryDickoryNoCock · 21/09/2022 16:47

I’ve NC for this one.

Firstly thank you for being so honest. I wanted to add in my two pence about webcam work.

Whilst not on the same scale as escorting, it has its dangers and although I’ve not been in that line of “work” for 5-6 years now, I know people who still are and I was doing it myself for many years, so feel there are some things I know about that some others may not, those considering it or those concerned their partners may be using sites like adultwork.

Firstly, the amount of men asking for illegal, sick or perverted experiences is shocking. If I was online for 6-7 hours, there would be at least 5+ men I’d have to kick out and block. Asking for child / teen related role play, rape, violence or degrading acts.

These men are sneaky, going massively out of their way to get their kicks. Using pre paid top up cards to buy services, using their phones and ipad, hiding away in the bathroom whilst their wives and children are in the house.

There was also a huge demand for something called home wrecking fantasies. They would get a kick out of talking awfully about their wives, wanting to discuss ways to humiliate her, how they would slowly destroy their marriage until she left. Psychologically gaslighting them into believing they were mad for accusing them of cheating or using webcams. One man said he gave his wife her birthday present wrapped in Christmas paper from the year before so subtly let her know he didn’t give a shit about her. You get the idea…

Another is Findom, or financial domination. I’ve seen men hand over thousands of pounds, deplete their savings, blow the kids uni fund, take money out the joint account whilst telling their partner they are broke and she needs to reign in her spending, making her live on a pittance whilst some 19 year old self-branded “brat” is calling him a useless little prick as he hands over £1000.


From a perspective of a cam girl there comes a point where you are so disillusioned and can no longer be part of it. There WILL be a breaking point, you will read and see things you will never forget, some things will haunt you. Men who use these sites are all absolutely vile, they’re all broken and they will mostly never be able to give up their addiction. You’re part of a vicious cycle of abuse against women, there’s no way around it and it’s taken me a lot of years and a lot of therapy to come to terms with that. When you’re 21 and earning £2000 a week, it’s hard to make yourself care enough to quit. And if you dont, you end up like a certain cam girl I won’t name (very famous) who is mentally very unwell, has appeared in the most hardcore degrading pornography films, who has joseph fritzl tattooed inside her mouth, and had a pretty serious addiction problem. It will break you one way or another.

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Flangelasashes · 21/09/2022 16:53

Thank you for posting this. So many young girls think that sex work is glamourous, exciting and it will make you rich.

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Snowdust · 21/09/2022 16:54

Exactly, it is not so much about opinions on selling your body it is about the truth of what the reality is and i hope this post will help some women who might be thinking of doing this as quick and easy money especially with the cost of living crisis.

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Flangelasashes · 21/09/2022 16:55

And if you dont, you end up like a certain cam girl I won’t name (very famous) who is mentally very unwell, has appeared in the most hardcore degrading pornography films, who has joseph fritzl tattooed inside her mouth, and had a pretty serious addiction problem. It will break you one way or another

Christ that is so sad.

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Snowdust · 21/09/2022 17:07

Flangelasashes · 21/09/2022 16:53

Thank you for posting this. So many young girls think that sex work is glamourous, exciting and it will make you rich.

It is anything but glamourous. I feel sorry for the women who have no idea what there husbands are getting up to. There will be plenty of womem on here that there husbands are cheating on them as i write this.

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HickoryDickoryNoCock · 21/09/2022 17:08

Flangelasashes · 21/09/2022 16:55

And if you dont, you end up like a certain cam girl I won’t name (very famous) who is mentally very unwell, has appeared in the most hardcore degrading pornography films, who has joseph fritzl tattooed inside her mouth, and had a pretty serious addiction problem. It will break you one way or another

Christ that is so sad.

Honestly I’ve seen her (from a distance, online social media) over the past 10 years sink to the lowest low. She’s gone from being on a channel 4 tv show about how glamorous it is to be a cam girl, buying her own house and looking like she’s living her best life… to posting graphic videos of herself being abused on Twitter, looks like she’s aged 20 years and has an obsession with being captured and tortured, idolising Fritzl of all people.

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HickoryDickoryNoCock · 21/09/2022 17:10

Snowdust · 21/09/2022 17:07

It is anything but glamourous. I feel sorry for the women who have no idea what there husbands are getting up to. There will be plenty of womem on here that there husbands are cheating on them as i write this.

100%

I wish I could give more examples of what to look out for but these men are so so sneaky. Doctors, lawyers, financial industry guys, tech guys, teachers, so many men from what should be professional backgrounds with morals. I’d say the first port of fall is look at accounts, money being taken out they can’t explain, or PayPal amounts that make no sense or have strange excuses like they bought some random thing online (that never appears) that’s often a findom thing. The money has to come from somewhere, follow the trail x

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BlusteryLake · 21/09/2022 17:16

Oh goodness OP, I am sorry you have had to experience these men. Paid sex brings up the dregs of society who can't get "ordinary" women to like them because of their repugnant behaviour and attitudes. Only an absolutely tiny percentage of sex work is glamourous, most of it is shitty.

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Flangelasashes · 21/09/2022 17:20

HickoryDickoryNoCock · 21/09/2022 17:08

Honestly I’ve seen her (from a distance, online social media) over the past 10 years sink to the lowest low. She’s gone from being on a channel 4 tv show about how glamorous it is to be a cam girl, buying her own house and looking like she’s living her best life… to posting graphic videos of herself being abused on Twitter, looks like she’s aged 20 years and has an obsession with being captured and tortured, idolising Fritzl of all people.

I am trying to google to find out who she is. I just want to show my daughter. One of her friends set up an only fans and is doing all sorts on it but making a lot of money. I want to show her how it can go tragically wrong.

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Snowdust · 21/09/2022 17:20

HickoryDickoryNoCock · 21/09/2022 17:10

100%

I wish I could give more examples of what to look out for but these men are so so sneaky. Doctors, lawyers, financial industry guys, tech guys, teachers, so many men from what should be professional backgrounds with morals. I’d say the first port of fall is look at accounts, money being taken out they can’t explain, or PayPal amounts that make no sense or have strange excuses like they bought some random thing online (that never appears) that’s often a findom thing. The money has to come from somewhere, follow the trail x

Hickory there is so many bad men out there that use our services. It has got worse since UKpunting was formed. The men on there bully and demand so much they do not care what they do to our mental health. It is like they have addictions to push each barrier down as much as possible. It is basically the dark web for all the sadistic men to gather.

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User135644 · 21/09/2022 17:20

Why do women still do this when they can just use OF?

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Megifer · 21/09/2022 17:21

I find this tough on a number of levels.

On one hand I'm sorry that some women feel they are driven to this.

On the other I find it a bit rich that you're lamenting the fact that men cheat on their other halves with prostitutes.....you....

However, no one should be treated as you describe and no one should feel its the only choice they have.

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Mamette · 21/09/2022 17:31

I hope you get out of it sooner rather than later OP Flowers

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Ididthedriving · 21/09/2022 17:35

Nc for this.

Many years ago I used to drive for a friend who was an escorts. From memory standard rates were £120. £30 for the agency, £20 for the driver and the rest for the escorts for around an hour.

I spent a lot of time waiting in my car between 12 midnight and 4am being very cold. Usually in very affluent areas. On the odd occasion I was invited in to the house, did coke with clients friends, offered money to 'watch' or just was grateful for somewhere warm.

The image that sticks in my mind the most is being in a very modest family home sat at a kitchen table. The clients wife was at her mums with the kids and I was surrounded by toddler art up all over the kitchen and piles of family washing all neatly folded. I didn't trust men for a long time after that.

The guy running the escorts agency lived in a very affluent house in a subbarb of Manchester. He wasn't daft.. I look back on my neighbour and think how vulnerable she was but she was earning around 30k and on benefits... It was a no brainer for her.

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PorpoiseWithPurpose · 21/09/2022 17:35

Thank you for sharing your honest and brutal account of sex work.

I will always link back to this post whenever anyone on MN tries the whole, “happy hooker” narrative.

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2bazookas · 21/09/2022 17:37

sex workers do not do themselves or women any favours

Well, you said it.
I don't have any sympathy for you whatever.

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FKATondelayo · 21/09/2022 17:41

Thanks for sharing this. I hope you get out soon.

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Snowdust · 21/09/2022 17:42

Megifer · 21/09/2022 17:21

I find this tough on a number of levels.

On one hand I'm sorry that some women feel they are driven to this.

On the other I find it a bit rich that you're lamenting the fact that men cheat on their other halves with prostitutes.....you....

However, no one should be treated as you describe and no one should feel its the only choice they have.

A bit rich it might be but i am just trying to survive and if i could pick single amazing men to book in and pay i would.
Unfortunately it's none of my business to ask them when they phone are you married? Even if i did most are liars. Just because i do this job i can still disagree with the behaviour of these men on a personal level. I do not force them to book me. They are already looking.

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